The Auction Block: Asia Week 2018
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Bonhams
Gilt Copper Alloy Shakyamuni Buddha Figure
Khasa Malla, 13th–14th c.
Estimate: $1.2 million – $1.6 million
Auction Date: March 19
Part of Bonhams’ Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art sale, this Buddha is one of the largest bronzes attributed to the Khasa Malla kingdom of western Tibet and Nepal. His formidable frame is softened by the fluidity of the sheer, clinging sanghati and the delicate engraving of vines and rice-grain patterns on the double hemlines.
Gilt Copper Alloy Shakyamuni Buddha Figure, Khasa Malla, 13th–14th c. Courtesy Bonhams.
Sotheby’s
“Ville Provençale,” 1956
Sayed Haider Raza (1922–2016)
Estimate Upon Request (over $1 million)
Auction Date: March 19
In 1950, Sayed Haider Raza left for Paris to study at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts. There, he was exposed to the Post-Impressionist artists. Raza’s work is a hybridization of Parisian post-war modernism and the vibrancy and direct color treatment of a Rajput miniature. This oil is part of the Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art sale at Sotheby’s.
Doyle New York
Chinese Red Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle
Estimate: $4,000 – $6,000
Auction Date: March 19
Doyle’s Asian Works of Art auction will present porcelain, pottery, jade, snuff bottles, scholar’s objects, bronzes, screens, furniture and paintings. This snuff bottle, 2 3/8 inches high, carved through the ruby red layer to the clear bubble-suffused ground, depicts a boy and an ox at rest, with two lotus blooms and a large unfurling lotus leaf on the reverse.
Chinese Red Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle. Courtesy Doyle New York.
Christie’s
Celadon-Glazed Decorated Bottle Vase, 1736-95
Estimate: $800,000 – $1.2 million
Auction Date: March 22-23
Part of the Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale at Christie’s, this elegantly shaped, delicately colored vase features a wide band of archaistic dragon scroll, set between a petal-lappet band and, on the shoulder, a band of overlapping petals enclosing ruyi heads and a narrow key-fret-bordered band of confronted archaistic dragons.
Celadon-Glazed Decorated Bottle Vase, 1736-95. Courtesy Christie’s.
Bringing the Hammer Down
Final selling prices for last month’s featured Auction Block items
Bonhams
“A Throne for Two Kings”
Gonçalo Mabunda (b. 1975)
Auction Date: February 28
Estimate: $14,000 – $21,000
Final Selling Price: $17,260
Sotheby’s
“String of Perils,” 1991
John Chamberlain (1927–2011)
Auction Date: February 21-March 6 (online)
Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000
Final Selling Price: $170,000
Doyle New York
Perez Sanz Clip-Brooch
Auction Date: February 21
Estimate: $2,000 – $3,000
Final Selling Price: Unsold
Christie’s
Tibeto-Chinese Repoussé Figure, 18th c.
Auction Date: February 13
Estimate: $20,000 – $30,000
Final Selling Price: $43,750
