Day 1: Fine Chinese Art, Buddhism and Hinduism (lots 1-247) on Wednesday, 11 October 2023, starting at 11 AM CET - Print Catalog Available
Day 2: Fine Chinese Art, Buddhism and Hinduism (lots 248-436) on Thursday, 12 October 2023, starting at 1 PM CET - Catalog Online Only
Day 3: Fine Chinese Art, Buddhism and Hinduism (lots 437-741) on Friday, 13 October 2023, starting at 11 AM CET - Catalog Online Only
Join Zacke for a three-day live auction event featuring 741 works of art from countries as large as China, India, or Indonesia, from the Himalayan valleys and plateaus of Tibet, Nepal, Kashmir, and Pakistan, from the Southeast Asian peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as from the steppes of Central Asia to the plains of Mongolia, and from the Northern Indian basin to the island of Sri Lanka.
A pinnacle event of our autumn calendar – the flagship auction – will take place on Day 1 of the sale (lots 1-247), featuring many important pieces from renowned collections, among them an Imperial Falangcai miniature vase (lot 102), the Ming Dynasty’s largest surviving Zitan figure (lot 187), and an Imperial robe made for the Empress Dowager Cixi (lot 201).
The general auction will follow on Day 2 (lots 248-436) and on Day 3 (lots 437-748), offering items for avid art collectors and first-time buyers alike.
Notable Collector’s Provenances include the Zande Lou Collection, built by J.M. Hu, one of the world’s greatest connoisseurs of Chinese ceramics; James J. Lally, New York, a preeminent scholar of Asian art; Dr. Wou Kiuan, diplomat and founder of the Wou Lien-Pai museum; Zhang Boju, China’s celebrated art collector who was also known as one of the ‘Four Young Princes’; as well as many prestigious names such as Anton Exner, Adolphe Stoclet, Adrian Maynard, Dr. Elsa Graser, Charles Oswald Lidell, George Hathaway Taber, the Chasseloup-Laubat Family, Madame Safia Sassi, John Marsing, Leonardo Vigorelli, American tattoo artist Ed Hardy, and Academy Award winners Michael Phillips and Anthony Powell.
Historic Gallery and Dealership Provenances include Spink & Son, Galerie Jacques Barrère, Michel Beurdeley, E&J Frankel, Hugh Moss, Clare Chu, the Bernheimer Collection, Bluett & Sons, John Sparks, Marsha Vargas, Robert Kleiner, S. Bernstein & Co, Cohen & Cohen, and Michael Goedhuis.
Museum Deaccessions include the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, the Norton Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Wou Lien-Pai, the Idemitsu, and the Zelnik István Asian Gold Museum.
Lot 563 - A RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘NOMAD AND CAMEL’ PLAQUE, LATE QING DYNASTY 清末粉彩《牧人與駱駝》瓷板
Sold for €1,120
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 571 - A TURQUOISE-GROUND GILT-DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE BASIN, LATE QING DYNASTY 晚清松石綠釉地描金粉彩纏枝蓮紋折沿盆
Sold for €4,420
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 582 - A FAMILLE ROSE ‘MAGPIES AND PRUNUS’ VASE, TIANQIUPING, REPUBLIC PERIOD 民國粉彩“喜上眉梢”天球瓶
Sold for €1,690
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 583 - A FAMILLE ROSE ‘SCHOLAR’ VASE, INSCRIBED WANG QI (1884-1937), DATED 1929 粉彩《文人》賞瓶,王琦款
Sold for €1,950
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 591 - A ‘DOUBLE CICADA’ BRONZE ORNAMENT, LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG PHASE 商代安陽時期青銅蟬紋飾物
Sold for €1,170
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 593 - A FINELY INCISED BRONZE ‘BIRD’ FERRULE, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY 東周青銅鳥形鐏
Sold for €3,380
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 598 - A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE CROSSBOW FITTING, WARRING STATES PERIOD 戰國錯銀銅十字弓配件
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 601 - A SET OF BRONZE SWORDS, EASTERN ZHOU TO EARLY HAN DYNASTY 東周至漢初一組銅劍
Sold for €1,430
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 602 - A BRONZE BOWL, LATE EASTERN ZHOU TO HAN DYNASTY 東周末至漢代輔首活環銅洗
Sold for €1,690
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 603 - A BRONZE OIL LAMP, HAN DYNASTY, EX MICHAEL GOEDHUIS 漢代銅油燈
Sold for €2,340
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 604 - A BRONZE GARLIC-HEAD BOTTLE, SUANTOUHU, HAN DYNASTY 漢代銅蒜頭壺
Sold for €4,940
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 607 - A BRONZE ‘HILL’ CENSER AND COVER, BOSHANLU, HAN DYNASTY 漢代銅博山爐
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 609 - A GILT-BRONZE ‘TORTOISE’ WEIGHT, HAN DYNASTY 漢代鎏金銅烏龜鎮紙
Sold for €715
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 613 - A SILVERY BRONZE SQUARE ‘LION AND GRAPEVINE’ MIRROR, TANG DYNASTY 唐代海獸葡萄紋鎏銀銅鏡
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 615 - A BRONZE POURING VESSEL, YI, LATE SONG – EARLY MING DYNASTY 宋末至明初青銅匜
Sold for €1,950
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 616 - A PAIR OF HEAVY BRONZE FIGURES OF QILIN, MING DYNASTY 明代一對麒麟銅像
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 617 - A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE TOOL VASE BY HU WENMING, MING DYNASTY 明代胡文明款包金銅瓶
Sold for €4,420
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 618 - A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE INFANT BUDDHA, MING DYNASTY 明代銅釋迦牟尼誕生像
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 621 - A GILT-BRONZE ‘XINIU’ WEIGHT, MING DYNASTY 明代銅鎏金犀牛鎮紙
Sold for €780
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 624 - AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE ‘DUCK’ PAPERWEIGHT, EARLY QING DYNASTY 清朝初期鴛鴦銅鎮
Sold for €1,040
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 625 - A BRONZE ‘MYTHICAL HOUND’ WEIGHT, EARLY QING DYNASTY 清初神犬銅鎮紙
Sold for €780
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 629 - A LOBED BRONZE ‘CHILONG’ VASE, CHINA, 17TH CENTURY 十七世紀花口螭龍銅瓶
Sold for €3,380
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 634 - A BRONZE CENSER, YUTANG ZHENWAN MARK, EARLY QING DYNASTY 清初“玉堂珍玩”款銅爐
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 639 - Ɏ A SMALL BRONZE CENSER WITH A ZITAN COVER, QING DYNASTY 清代紫檀蓋銅香爐
Sold for €1,690
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 641 - A PAIR OF LARGE BRONZE ‘DRAGON’ CENSER AND COVERS, QING DYNASTY 清代一對龍紋蓋爐
Sold for €11,700
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 642 - A LARGE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE 'BUDDHIST LION' CENSER AND COVER, QING DYNASTY 清代銅漆金太獅蓋爐
Sold for €9,000
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 644 - A MARBLE STELE FRAGMENT OF THE BUDDHA, EASTERN WEI DYNASTY 東魏漢白玉佛頭殘片
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 647 - A CAST-IRON HEAD OF A LUOHAN, SONG DYNASTY 宋代羅漢鐵頭
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 648 - A COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI, WESTERN TIBET, 11TH-12TH CENTURY 西藏十一至十二世紀銅合金文殊立像
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 650 - A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI, TIBET, 13TH-14TH CENTURY 西藏十三至十四世紀金剛手菩薩銅像
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 656 - A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF VIJRAPUTRA, YUAN-MING DYNASTY 元至明鎏金漆伐闍羅弗多尊者
Sold for €2,340
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 658 - A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE CROWNED BUDAI, MING DYNASTY 明代布袋銅像
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium