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Asian Art — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:313
Sale Title:Asian ArtLots with images:290
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:185
Date:6-Nov-2012
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Chinese celadon jade archaistic disc Carved and pierced with archaistic scrolling design of stylised birds. Diameter 7.5 cm
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A Chinese celadon jade axe head Carved in archaistic style with dragons and taotie masks. Height 28.5 cm
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Chinese spinach jade bowl. Diameter 10 cm
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Large Chinese grey celadon jade seal. The top carved and pierced with a chilong dragon emerging from a bi disc, surrounded by a further four chilong, the sides with archaistic bird scrolls Four-character mark to the base. Length 6.5 cm
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Chinese shoushan soapstone boulder depicting pine and prunus branches issuing from rockwork Width 8 cm
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Chinese 'chicken blood' soapstone figure of Budai. The smiling Buddha seated wrapped in a long robe with only face and hands visible. Certificate of Identification of the Chinese National Gold & Diamond Testing Center no. A110610557. Height 4 cm
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Chinese shoushan soapstone boulder. representing a sage before a fenced pine and bamboo garden. Height 7 cm
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Chinese soapstone toggle of an immortal holding a peach. Height 7 cm
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Chinese shoushan soapstone boulder depicting a mountain landscape with various buildings amongst pines and rocks. Height 7 cm
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Chinese grey agate carving depicting Buddha entering a grotto and an orange soapstone mountain group. The first, height 6 cm
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Chinese russet jade stamp and two pierced finials. The first, height 3 cm
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Four Chinese seals. Two of orange soapstone, the first carved with a mythical beast (qilin) to the top, the second carved as an hollowed cube with seals to four sides and two smaller hardstone seals. The first, height 5.3 cm
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Chinese pale celadon carved jade plaque, with immortals to the front and lines of calligraphy to the rear. Height 5.5 cm
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Chinese white jadeite bangle. Diameter 8 cm
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Two Chinese green jadeite bangles. Diameter 7 cm max
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Two Chinese green and grey jadeite bangles. Diameter 7.5 cm max
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Pair of Chinese green jadeite dragon and phoenix plaques. Height 12 cm max
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Chinese modern white jade plaque and a circular finial Both carved with dragon and phoenix design. Height 6 cm max
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Chinese stone figure of an Arhat. Height 17 cm
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Chinese soapstone figure carving of a young monk holding an oversize peach in his hands. Height 9 cm
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Chinese buffalo horn cup Carved in archaistic style with chilong dragons coiled around the rim and the exterior. Length 11 cm
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19th century African rhinoceros horn in natural unmounted condition. Provenance: From the Estate Collection of the Osbourne family, Ireland. Height 29 cm, base circumference 41 cm, weight 1.15 kilograms approximately
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Fossil oak wood log section 145 x 9 cm
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Fossilized Dinosaur egg 150 x 12.5 cm
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Large Chinese Neolithic Majiayao painted pottery jar. Height 37 cm
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Chinese Neolithic painted pottery footed bowl decorated with cowrie shell design. Diameter 13.5 cm
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Thai Ban Chiang red painted Pottery vase Circa 600BC. The results of the Faculty of Science of the Department of Physics of the Australian National University thermoluminescence test No. G047 dated 18th March 1981 are consistent with the dating of this lot. Height 18 cm
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Chinese bronze belt hook, possibly Warring States period (475 - 221 BC) Cast with a dragon head, the long body inlaid with gilt and silver 'dots and scrolls' design. Length 17 cm
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Miniature Chinese bronze bell, Han Dynasty (206BC - 220AD). Height 6 cm
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Large and impressive Chinese pottery model of a horse, Han Dynasty (206 BC – AD 220) Modelled in a pose of alert attention, the head poised with the mouth open, the slender legs supporting a muscular body of stylised proportions with short plaited taiLength. The results of Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art thermoluminescence test no. C199k36 are consistent with the dating of this lot. Height 104.5 cm
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Chinese pottery model of a pig, Han Dynasty (206BC - 220AD). Length 23 cm
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Chinese glazed pottery ear cup, Han Dynasty (206BC – 220AD). Length 14.5 cm
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Yunnan province painted pottery jar and cover, Five Dynasties (907 – 960). Similar jars illustrated in Anthony J. Allen, Allen's Authentication of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Auckland, 2006, p. 98, p. 201 and p. 202. Height 29 cm
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Small Chinese pottery horse standing on a rectangular base, Tang Dynasty (618 – 907). Height 32 cm
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Matched pair of small Chinese sancai jars, Tang Dynasty (618-907). The buff body covered with a splashed amber, green and colourless glaze layer. Height 10.5 cm
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Chinese Han-style painted pottery hu jar, with loose ring animal shaped handles. Height 40 cm
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Two Chinese Tang-style sancai pottery figures of court ladies. Height 34.5 cm
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Chinese Tang-style sancai pottery model of a rider on horse. Height 40 cm
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Chinese Tang-style sancai libation cup. The lobed sides moulded with dancer figures Width 21.5 cm
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Chinese Tang-style sancai Buddhist lion. Height 24.5 cm
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Chinese qingbai funerary jar, Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) Applied dragon and Bodhisattva figures to the shoulder. Height 56 cm
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Small Chinese Jianyao 'Hare's Fur' bowl, song Dynasty (960 - 1279). Diameter 10 cm
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Pair of small Chinese early qingbai vases, song Dynasty (960 - 1279). The body moulded with overlapping lotus petals. Height 11 cm
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Pair of Chinese early qingbai footed cups, Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) Also a Yaozhou-style celadon dish. The firsts, 5 cm
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Small provincial Chinese jar, possibly song Dynasty (960 - 1279), with four lug handles to the shoulders and a small celadon dish. The first, height 12 cm
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Impressive Chinese shipwreck jar, possibly Song Dynasty (960 – 1279). The sides heavily encrusted with barnacles. Height 27.5 cm
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Chinese shipwreck stoneware jar, possibly song Dynasty (960 - 1279), with four lug handles to the shoulders, residues of the celadon glaze to the body (cleaned). Height 19 cm
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Chinese shipwreck celadon bowl, possibly song Dynasty (960 - 1279). The sides heavily encrusted with barnacles. Width 18 cm
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Chinese shipwreck celadon bowl, possibly song Dynasty (960 - 1279). The sides heavily encrusted with barnacles. Width 16.5 cm
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Pair of Chinese blue and white shipwreck bowls, Daoguang (1821 - 1850). Salvaged from the Tek Sing which sunk in 1822 near Jakarta. Diameter 15 cm
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Chinese Swatow-style blue and white dish. Possibly 16th century shipwreck. Decorated with dense floral design (heavy degradation). Diameter 32 cm
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Chinese Swatow blue and white dish. Possibly 16th century. Painted with stylised floral design. Diameter 24.5 cm
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South-East Asian blue and white dish, painted in Swatow style with a pair of phoenix amongst flowers. Diameter 26.5 cm
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Chinese Ming-style blue and white charger, with barbed rim and lobed sides, painted to the centre with a recumbent mythical beast (qilin) amongst flames, foliage and flower heads, stylised lotus petal band around the rim with panels depicting characters. Diameter 33.5 cm
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Small Chinese Ming-style blue and white bowl Decoratively painted to the interior with stylised lotus scrolls, the exterior with lotus petals. Diameter 10 cm
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Chinese Provincial Ming crackled glaze blue and white bowl, with wood stand and a jarlet. The first, 14.5 cm
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Chinese blue and white dish, Kangxi period (1662 - 1722), with barbed rim and moulded cavetto. Dish painted in typical sapphire blue with panels of blossoming peony, prunus, lotus and chrysanthemum sprays. Lozenge symbol to the base. Diameter 37 cm
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Chinese blue and white charger, Kangxi period (1662 – 1722). Painted to the centre with butterflies amongst peony sprays issuing from rockworks, the well and the rim with dense floral design (old repair). Diameter 37 cm
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Late 19th/early 20th century Chinese Transitional-style blue and white octagonal vase decorated with figures in a mountain landscape amongst pine trees and rocks, the shoulder with a collar of lotus standards, the foot with precious objects amongst flames. Height 30 cm
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Large Chinese Transitional-style blue and white beaker vase, painted with the figure of Kui Xing, acolyte of Wenzhang, the God of Literature, standing on the head of a dragon-carp. Height 46.5 cm
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Small Chinese Transitional-style blue and white beaker vase decorated with Liu Hai taming his three-legged toad with a string of cash and another Daiost figure playing the flute in a rocky landscape. Height 32.5 cm
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Chinese Kangxi-style blue and white vase, painted with a continuous mountainous river landscape. Height 46 cm
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Chinese Kangxi-style powder blue ground vase, painted with flowers and landscape panels. Kangxi six-character mark to the base. Height 46 cm
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19th century Chinese blue glazed meiping vase covered with a deep mottled blue orange-peel glaze stopping neatly around the unglazed footrim. The interior and base covered with a pale celadon glaze. Height 35.5 cm
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19th century Chinese sang De boeuf lidded jar covered with a rich red streaked crackled glaze thinning to a mushroom tone to the rim on wood stand. Height 23 cm
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19th century Chinese sang De boeuf lidded jar covered with a rich red streaked crackled glaze thinning to a mushroom tone to the rim on wood stand. Height 21 cm
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19th/20th century Chinese blue and white bowl, painted to the exterior with dragons flying amongst scrolling clouds and flower sprays 'Fang Gu Zhen Cang', 'Precious Collection in Imitation of the Antique' mark to the base. Diameter 17.5 cm
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20th century small Chinese famille rose bottle vase, painted with a butterfly amongst peony, lotus, prunus and other flower sprays. Jingdezhen seal mark to the base. Height 13.5 cm
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Early 20th Chinese famille rose stemcup, painted with the 'one hundred beautiful ladies' pattern. Yongzhen mark to the footrim. Height 10 cm
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Early 20th century small Chinese famille rose vase, painted in Giuseppe Castiglione style with a continuous landscape with horses among trees and plants, the reverse with lines of calligraphy. Qianlong seal mark to base. Height 13.5 cm
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Early 20th century large Chinese famille rose porcelain three-panelled screen each panel depicting a scene from 'The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea' legend. Each porcelain panel: 295 x 47 cm; each wood panel: 475 x 101 cm
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Chinese baluster handled vase. The 19th century body covered to the exterior and to the rim in a later matt sky blue glaze (tianqi). Height 45 cm
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Late Cantonese famille rose vase, painted with figural panels. Height 39.5 cm
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Chinese scholar's stone (Gongshi) of Huanglashi type. probably originally sourced in Guangxi or Guangdong province. The striated and waxy orange and green stone of mountainous form set in a fitted pierced and carved stand. Provenance: This stone was part of a collection of Chinese scholar's stones and fine Chinese furniture sourced in Beijing and imported into New Zealand and sold at a specialist sale of Asian art in 2001.
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Chinese scholar's stone of Lingbi type. The black grey stone of mountainous form set in a fitted wooden stand Width 28 cm
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Chinese bronze Gui censer, Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911). of compressed globular shape, cast with beast head handles to the shoulder, the body with a nice brown patina. Width 14 cm
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18th or 19th century pair of Chinese cloisonne enamel candlesticks each with high domed base, knopped stem and broad lower drip pan and small upper pan, decorated with scrolling lotus, other flowers and precious objects on a turquoise ground [some restoration]. Height 30 cm
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Chinese cast bronze bottle vase, with figural panels amongst scrolling flowers and foliage. Height 18.5 cm
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Chinese bronze silver inlaid rectangular ink box and cover decorated with a fisherman in a river landscape and lines of calligraphy. Length 8.5 cm
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19th century Chinese cast bronze censer cast with phoenix and dragon panels. Length 21 cm
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Chinese cast bronze figure of Buddha. standing on a double lotus stand in front of a mandorla. Height 26 cm
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Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Green Tara. the bodhisattva of enlightened activity with finely hand painted face. She is seated in the posture of royal ease with her hands in vitarka mudra holding the night blue lotus utpala blossom. Height 23 cm
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Tibetan gilt bronze offering cup. raised from a lotus form base and finely chased with flying birds. Diameter 7 cm
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Tibetan silver ring with inset seal to the top
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19th century Indian gilded bronze figure of the Hindi deity Ganesh. the Hindu figure of Ardhanarishwara and another deity figure
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A rare and important sandstone figure of Uma, Khmer, Baphuon style 11-12 century Finely carved with bare torso, the sampot (body garment) gracefully rendered and tied below the abdomen. Mounted on a fitted stand. Provenance: private collection New Zealand. Originally acquired in 1972 by a New Zealand army officer working in Cambodia as part of a peace keeping force during the civil war. Another piece from the same collection sold at auction in Sydney, Australia in April 2008 at Guy Earl Smith East…
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Indian antique bronze inkwell, Circa 1850 Also another Indian inkwell and pestle and an Indian silver on copper vase decorated with deity figures.
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Large Indian ivory female figure on a wood stand. Height 26 cm
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19th century pair of Indian miniatures on ivory depicting the third Moghul Emperor Akba the Great (1742 - 1605), and his third wife Mariam Zumani (1542-1622) 140 x 10 cm each
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Chinese hanging scroll ink on paper, depicting a swordsman drinking wine, calligraphy lines to the top 335 x 66 cm
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Chinese hanging scroll ink and colour on silk, depicting three figures on a boat in a mountainous river landscape, calligraphy lines to the top. 410 x 87 cm
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Chinese hanging scroll ink on paper, depicting a lily plant underneath lines of calligraphy. 490 x 91.5 cm
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Three Chinese rice paper woodblock prints depicting respectively the battle of Weihai, the battle for the restoration of the Korean Chosun Dynasty and a pirate attack to the Chinese fleet 595 x 35 cm
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Chinese hanging scroll ink on paper, depicting a lily plant underneath lines of calligraphy. 490 x 91.5 cm
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Chinese album of paintings from the Song Dynasty. selected and reproduced by the Palace Museum, Beijing (voLength 6)
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1980s Chinese vintage Kweichow Moutai (Maotai) grain wine 500mLength 43% (V/V), 86 PROOF. Unopened and sealed lid.
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Chinese Peking red glass octagonal bottle vase Qianlong seal mark to the base. Height 24.5 cm
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Chinese green Peking glass deep bowl and a red-overlay cup on wood stands
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Early 20th century Chinese ivory smoking tip carved with a dragon chasing a flaming pearLength. Length 18.5 cm
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19th century Chinese opium scale, with violin shaped wood case. Length 30 cm
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