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Asian Art; Tribal Art & Taonga; Decorative Arts — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:375
Sale Title:Asian Art; Tribal Art & Taonga; Decorative ArtsLots with images:299
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:218
Date:11-Dec-2013
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Chinese Canton enamel famille rose box and cover, 19th century, Qianlong mark to the base. Diameter 5.7 cm
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Chinese Canton enamel blue and white box and cover, 19th century, Qianlong mark to the base. Diameter 5.7 cm
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Chinese green ground Canton enamel tea caddy, 20th century. Height 15.5 cm
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Chinese lacquered bronze horse, 19th/20th century. Width 28 cm
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Set of four Chinese bamboo figures, 20th century, representing a scholar, a fisherman, a wood carver and a farmer. Height 16 cm
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Large Chinese famille rose figure of an immortal and attendant, 20th century, two stamped marks to the base. Height 39 cm
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Pair of Chinese blue and white dishes, 18th century, painted with panels with the character shi [long life]. Diameter 15 cm
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Large Chinese blue and white bowl, Kangxi period, with silver handle, [restored]. Diameter 26.5 cm
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Chinese blue and white porcelain teapot, 18th century. Width 18.5 cm
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Chinese famille rose armorial dish, 18th century. Diameter 21.5 cm
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Chinese export blue and white dish, 19th century, painted in the Canton pattern. Diameter 23.5 cm
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Chinese export blue and white dish, 18th/19th century. Diameter 23 cm
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Chinese blue and white pear-shaped vase, 20th century, painted with a scene from the tales of the Eight Immortals. Height 28.5 cm
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Pair of Chinese mandarin pattern-style baluster vases, 20th century. Height 33 cm
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Chinese peachbloom glazed slender baluster vase, apocryphal Kangxi mark to the base. Height 24 cm
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Japanese blue and white dish, painted with a carp. Diameter 19.5 cm
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Small Chinese soapstone figure of a Luohan. Height 8.5 cm
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Chinese celadon jade pendant of a finger citron, carved with a bat to the top holding a lingzhi spray. Height 6.5 cm
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Chinese celadon jade peach-shaped waterpot. Width 5.5 cm
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Three Chinese celadon and russet carved jade pendants, with bamboo design. Height 5 cm max
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Chinese carved crystal rock lidded censer, 19th century. Height 9.5 cm
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Chinese celadon jade snuff bottle, 19th century. Height 7 cm
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Chinese russet jade snuff bottle. Width 7 cm
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Chinese grey celadon jade snuff bottle. Height 4.5 cm
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Chinese russet celadon jade pebble snuff bottle, circa 1900. Height 5.5 cm
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Chinese carved smoky quartz snuff bottle. Height 5.5 cm
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Chinese fossiliferous limestone carved snuff bottle. Height 6 cm
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Chinese agate carved snuff bottle, probably 18th century. Height 5 cm
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Chinese banded agate snuff bottle, with carved taotie mask handles. Height 5 cm
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Chinese glass in imitation of agate snuff bottle. Height 5.5 cm
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Chinese underglaze brown and blue porcelain snuff bottle, 19th century. Height 5.5 cm
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Chinese hornbill snuff bottle, 20th century, carved as a leaping carp. Height 8 cm
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Chinese kingfisher feather hair ornament, Qing dynasty. Length 9.5 cm
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Chinese lacquer fan box. Width 32 cm
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Tibetan gilt box, with gems to the cover. Width 8.5 cm
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A Tibetan silver tea bowl
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Chinese painting of two dignitaries, arriving at a palace, ink and colour on silk, 26 cm x 40 cm
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Two Japanese wood block prints, by Kumisada, mounted as a diptych; together with another triptych wood block print
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Japanese wood block print, by Toshusai Sharaku, ‘Sakata Hangoro III As The Villian Fujikawa Mizuemon’, reprint from the collection of Robert O. Muller (1911-2003), 38.5 cm x 25.5 cm
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Two Japanese wood block prints, by Toshusai Sharaku, ‘The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III as Onayo’ and ‘Actor Morita Kan'ya VIII as the Palanquin-bearer Uguisu no Jirôsaku’, 39 cm x 26 cm each
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Three Japanese wood block prints, of bijin and an actor
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Vintage photograph of Shoji Hamada, decorating a bowl, taken in New Zealand in 1965, 30 cm x 37.5 cm
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Large and elegant Chinese painted pottery figure of a court lady, Tang dynasty, modelled as holding a circular mirror in her left hand and re-arranging her full coiffure. Height 53 cm. Provenance: previously sold at Christie’s Amsterdam, 3 May 2005, lot 203
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Large Chinese sancai glazed pottery figure of a groom, Tang dynasty. Height 59.5 cm
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Rare large Chinese swatow slip-decorated blue ground bowl, Ming dynasty. Diameter 38 cm
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Rare large Chinese swatow blue glazed bowl, Ming dynasty. Diameter 38.5 cm
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Chinese Dehua Blanc de Chine porcelain model of a Buddhist lion, circa 1,700. Height 34.5 cm
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Rare Chinese Dehua Blanc de Chine mug, late 17th century, probably after a German model. Height 9 cm
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Chinese pottery model of a dog, Han dynasty. Length 30 cm
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Chinese pottery model of a pig, Han dynasty. Length 30 cm
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Chinese Sichuan pottery figure of an attendant, Han dynasty. Height 44 cm
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Pair of Chinese painted pottery models of drummers, Northern dynasties period. Height 22 cm
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Chinese pottery cocoon jar, Han dynasty. Width 25 cm
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Chinese pottery model of a bixie (mythological beast), Han dynasty. Width 22.5 cm
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Chinese black pottery tripod jar, Neolithic period, Xiajiadian Culture, Inner Mongolia, circa 1500 B.C. Height 25.5 cm
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Small Chinese terracotta vase, probably Warring States period, with impressed decoration. Height 10 cm
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Chinese pottery plaque of a qilin, probably Han dynasty. Width 25.5 cm
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Chinese pottery model of a camel, probably Tang dynasty. Length 30 cm
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Chinese marble ware bowl, Tang dynasty. Diameter 14.8 cm
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Small Chinese pottery jar, Song dynasty, with lug handles. Height 12 cm
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Small Chinese Cizhou enamelled figure and basket, 13th/14th century. Height 6 cm
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Chinese Cizhou ware vase, painted with peony scrolls. Height 29 cm
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Chinese Yue celadon bowl, Five Dynasties. Diameter 18 cm
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Chinese Yue celadon bowl, 9th/10th century. Diameter 14 cm
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Large Chinese qingbai glazed foliate bowl. Diameter 7.5 cm
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Chinese qingbai glazed dish, Song dynasty, with moulded phoenix and flower design. Diameter 17.5 cm
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Chinese Longquan celadon tripod censer, probably Ming dynasty. Diameter 20 cm
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Chinese Longquan celadon tea bowl, Yuan/Ming dynasty, with impressed flower head to the centre. Diameter 7.5 cm
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Chinese Ming provincial blue and white candle holder. Height 7 cm
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Ming dynasty Chinese shipwreck celadon lug-handled jar. Height 17 cm
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Two small Ming dynasty blue and white jars, and a small pear-shaped vase. Height 13.5 cm max
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Ghandaran-style Buddha stucco head. Height 100
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Chinese Tang-style pottery figure of a foreigner. Height 30 cm
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Chinese Tang-style pottery model of a rooster. Height 17 cm
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Chinese Song-style oil spot bowl. Diameter 12 cm
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Chinese Han-dynasty style lacquer figure. Height 31 cm
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Selected Woodcuts by Ku Yuan, publisher: Peking: People's Fine Arts Press, Beijing, 1952. Limited to 2,000 copies. Folio, 37*27 cm, 100pp. 43 plates. An additional 8-page pamphlet of table of contents in English, Russian and French. Good condition.
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George Kuwayama, Shippo, The Art of Enameling in Japan, Far Eastern Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 5 – April 26, 1987
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David Chibbett - The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration, Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd. Hilda Wiseman bookplate front endpaper. VG.
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W. Forman - Hokusai - Prague: Artia 1955. 48 coloured woodcuts. Bound with cord and in original red cloth folding covers with ribbon and bone clasps. Covers faded else VG. J. Hillier - Hokusai, Paintings, Drawings and Woodcuts. Ln: Phaidon Press 1955. In DJ and VG.
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Jack Hillier – Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection. Sotheby Parke Bennet 1976, No 247 of 2000 copies. 3 Volumes, in DJs and in original slip case. VG.
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Illustration in Japan. Vol.1. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd 1981, 1st ed. Ffolio, in DJ, VG; Bradley Smith – Japan. A History in Art. Japan: Gemini Inc 1964. Binding VG, DJ chips. This Is Japan 1958. Asahi Shimbun Newspaper Pub Co; Anthony Thwaite – Japan in Colour. Ln: Thames and Hudson 1967. DJ.
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Jan Tschichold – Early Chinese Colour Prints. Ln: George Allen & Unwin 1951. Josef Hejzlar – Chinese Watercolours. Octapus 1978. DJ. James Cahill – Chinese Painting. Treasures of Asia. Skira 1977. DJ, VG.
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Charles Pomeroy – Traditional Crafts of Japan. NY: Walker/Weatherhill 1968. DJ. Olive Statler – Modern Japanese Prints; An art Reborn. Charles Tuttle 1976 rep. Card covers. J. Hillier – Japanese Masters of the Colour Print. Phaidon 1954. DJ.
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Michael Macintyre – The Shogun Inheritance. Japan and the Legacy of the Samurai. Collins 198. DJ, VG; Batterson Boger- The Traditional Arts of Japan. Ln: W.H. Allen & Co 1964. DJ. Josiah Condor – Landscape Gardening in Japan. NY: Dover Pub. Card covers; Yukio Yashiro – 2000 Years of Japanese Art. Ln: Thames and Hudson 1958.
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Hajek Forman – Japanese Woodcuts, Early Periods. Ln: Spring Books. Bound with cord and in a folding cover with ribbon and bone clasps. VG.
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A good whale bone wahaika, the incurve carved with a manaia figure in high relief with hands placed to abdomen, the handle pierced for wrist suspension terminating in a carved wheku head. Length 32 cm
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A 19th century bronze shark hook
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A good 19th century wahaika, the blade carved with deep linear and haehae carving. The incurve carved with a Wheku head carved in relief with protruding tongue, the handle pierced for wrist suspension and terminating in a further wheku head. Length 35 cm Y number pending
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A mahe (sinker stone), of oval form with lashing grove to the centre. Width 9 cm
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Tene Waitere (attributed), finely carved hoe, with orthodox leaf shaped blade carved in deep relief with two ancestral figures and two manaia decorated with rauponga and with cut paua shell eyes. The reverse side of the blade with low relief Kowhaiwhai carving. The handle of serpentine shape with further kowhaiwhai carving intersected by a wheku head with paua shell eyes. The handle terminating with a carved manaia head. Length 183 cm Y4011. For a similar carved paddle by Tene Waitere see Carved Histories:…
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An impressive early 20th century Ngati Tarawhai, carved model Waka Taua (war canoe), the hull carved with rauponga and kowhaiwhai decoration and inset with paua shell and with muka binding. The Taurapa (stern piece) with further rauponga carving and with an ancestral figure carved in high relief. The Tahuhu (prow) carved with takarangi spirals and with a figure in high relief embellished with haehae carving. Y number pending.
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A very rare and important Pre-European Northland Maori papahou, (feather box), Stone tool carved. Robustly decorated to the underside with two female figures in opposing flexed stance, their heads protruding from each end of the box and are pierced to enable suspension. The figures carved with double spirals at the shoulders and knees; scythe shaped three fingered hands clasped to their abdomens. Each figure depicted with genitalia clearly shown. Y 6630. Length 62 cm Width 17 cm, The walls feature multiple…
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A large argillite ridge back toki. Y number pending. Width 29 cm
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A 19th century kiwi-feather and muka kete, Y14955, 17 cmmm x 22 cm
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A muka kete, (flax fibre bag), of generous proportions with double pair twining and complex cross weave patterning. , Y14598, 44 cm x 44 cm
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A pounamu and kawakawa kapeu, (ear pendant), together with a pounamu hei tiki
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Mako pendant, with attached gold ring
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A large carved kumete, supported by two standing tekoteko figures. Carved with ancestral figures and manaia and decorated with rauponga and haehae. The lid with two opposing ancestral figures carved in high relief and with further decoration conforming to the base. Width 46 cm
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A large and impressive presentation case, of twelve taxidermy New Zealand native birds, Including from left pipiwharauroa (shining cuckoo), kereru (woodpigeon), tui, kiwi, female and male huia, kakariki (red crowned parakeet), ruru (morepork owl), kea, korora (little blue penguin), pukeko and kaka. The birds arranged in a naturalistic forest setting complete with New Zealand ferns, lichens, mosses and pohutukawa blossoms, 78 cm x 140 cm x 57 cm, case on stand height 170 cm
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