Day 1: Flagship Live Auction (lots 1-279) on Thursday, 11 April 2024, starting at 11 AM CET - Print Catalog Available
Day 2: Live Auction Online Catalog (lots 280-648) on Friday, 12 April 2024, starting at 11 AM CET - Catalog Online Only
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Join Galerie Zacke for a two-day live auction event featuring 648 works of art from China, Southeast Asia, India, and beyond.
The highlight of our spring calendar – the flagship auction – will take place on Day 1 of the sale (lots 1-279), featuring many important pieces from renowned collections, among them a monumental sandstone statue of Vishnu from the Angkor period (lot 183), a rare 16th-century thangka of the seventeen-deity Tara Mandala (lot 22), and an important Song-dynasty Dingyao figure of Shoulao (lot 142).
The general auction will follow on Day 2 (lots 280-648) offering items for avid art collectors and first-time buyers alike.
Notable Collector’s Provenances include the fifth Prince Ding, Zai Quan, one of the Qianlong Emperor’s great-grandsons; Queen Maria of Yugoslavia; George Eumorfopoulos, co-founder and first president of the Oriental Ceramic Society; Dr. Wou Kiuan, diplomat and founder of the Wou Lien-Pai museum; Paul-Émile Naggiar, Ambassador of France to China from 1936 to 1938; as well as many prestigious names such as Sir Joseph Hotung, Dr. Isidore Cohn, Alan and Simone Hartman, Mary McFadden, the Chasseloup-Laubat Family, Kono Shuson, John “Moke” Mokotoff, Lionel and Danielle Fournier, and Academy Award winner Michael Phillips.
Historic Gallery and Dealership Provenances include Heather James Fine Art and Antiquities, S. Marchant & Son, Spink & Son, R&G McPherson, Sam Bernstein, Simon Ray, Jules Speelman, the Kapoor Galleries, Laurent Wannieck, Leonardo Vigorelli, and Clare Chu.
Museum Deaccessions include the Wou Lien-Pai Museum, the Speed Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum, and the Tibethaus Kulturstiftung.
Lot 62 - A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, JUE, SHANG DYNASTY
Sold for €9,100
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 63 - A MINIATURE ARCHAIC BRONZE BELL, YONG, WARRING STATES PERIOD
Sold for €6,500
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 66 - A GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID IRON FIGURE OF A PIG, WARRING STATES PERIOD TO HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €7,800
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 68 - A GILT BRONZE ‘DRAGON-HEAD’ CHARIOT TERMINAL, HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €4,160
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 70 - A MASSIVE GILT-BRONZE TAOTIE MASK FITTING WITH RING HOOK, PUSHOU, HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €13,000
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 72 - A SILVER FUNERARY MASK OF A NOBLEMAN, LIAO DYNASTY
Sold for €7,800
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 73 - A FINE SILVER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER DEPICTING BIRDS AND FLOWERS, TANG DYNASTY
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 74 - A RARE BRONZE ‘IMMORTALS’ ARROW VASE, TOUHU, YUAN TO EARLY MING DYNASTY
Sold for €7,800
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 78 - A LUDUAN-FORM BRONZE CENSER AND COVER, 17TH CENTURY
Sold for €4,160
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 79 - A PAIR OF LARGE BRONZE ‘BUDDHIST LION’ CENSERS, 17TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,380
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 82 - A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘LOTUS’ BOTTLE VASE, QIANLONG FIVE-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Sold for €15,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 84 - A GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘BIXI AND GU’ CENSER, EARLY TO MID-QING DYNASTY
Sold for €5,200
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 85 - A CINNABAR LACQUER ‘ORCHID’ BOX AND COVER, EARLY MING DYNASTY
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 86 - A LARGE RED-LACQUERED AND GILT WOOD SCREEN, DATED 1836 BY INSCRIPTION
Sold for €31,200
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 88 - AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE CINNABAR LACQUER-EMBELLISHED JADE BOWL, QIANLONG PERIOD
Sold for €39,000
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 89 - ‘DAMO CROSSING THE YANGZI ON A REED’, DATED 1797 OR 1857
Sold for €1,690
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 90 - ‘PORTRAIT OF YANG GUIFEI’, BY LU XIAOMAN, DATED 1945
Sold for €4,032
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 94 - A FINE GUAN-TYPE CRACKLE-GLAZED SCHOLAR’S ROCK, CHINA, CIRCA 1750-1850
Sold for €1,560
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 96 - A YING SCHOLAR’S ROCK, LATE MING TO MID-QING DYNASTY
Sold for €1,690
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 100 - A RARE WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A FROG, TANG DYNASTY
Sold for €2,860
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 102 - A PALE GRAY AND RUSSET JADE ‘CHILONG’ SEAL OF THE KING OF ZHONGSHAN, WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €33,800
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 104 - A RETICULATED PALE CELADON JADE ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM AND BAT’ PLAQUE, JIN TO YUAN DYNASTY
Sold for €5,460
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 105 - A RETICULATED PALE CELADON ‘PHOENIX AND PRUNUS’ PLAQUE, YUAN TO EARLY MING DYNASTY
Sold for €4,420
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 107 - A RETICULATED WHITE JADE ‘DRAGON’ PLAQUE, MING DYNASTY
Sold for €3,900
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 109 - A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED SPINACH GREEN JADE PLAQUES, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €5,200
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 110 - A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A BEAR, SONG DYNASTY
Sold for €8,450
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 111 - A LARGE BLACK AND WHITE JADE ‘LION AND ELEPHANT’ CARVING, QING DYNASTY
Sold for €15,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 113 - A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘LOTUS POND’ BRUSH WASHER, 18TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,900
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 114 - A SMALL PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF GUANYIN, QING DYNASTY
Sold for €1,690
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 115 - A WHITE JADE RITUAL ‘DRAGON’ VESSEL AND COVER, FANGDING, QING DYNASTY
Sold for €4,680
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 118 - AN IMPERIAL AQUAMARINE GLASS OCTAGONAL VASE, QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD
Sold for €3,900
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 122 - A PINK TOURMALINE ‘SANDUO’ SNUFF BOTTLE, CHINA, 1860-1930 OR EARLIER
Sold for €4,680
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 124 - AN IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE SNUFF BOTTLE, DAOGUANG MARK AND PERIOD
Sold for €1,560
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 125 - A PAINTED POTTERY ‘THREE FISH’ BOWL, NEOLITHIC PERIOD
Sold for €3,380
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 126 - A RARE GREEN-GLAZED EWER IN THE FORM OF TWO INTERTWINED DUCKS, LIAO DYNASTY
Sold for €2,080
including Buyer's Premium