The Auction Block: Asia Week 2018


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

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