Asian Art Guide 27
Lucknow Nautch. a senior officer from the East India Company, seated smoking a hookah, is being shown a chobdar and soontar-burdar (a silver stick and mace), both signs of a man of great importance, Murshidabad (1795-1807), watercolour on paper,
45.8 x 57.4 cm, Parlby Album, Francesca Galloway
Chinese, Indian, Islamic &
Japanese Art
25th & 26th October 2017
Chinese cream and dark brown glazed stoneware melon-form jar, Cizhou kilns, Jin dynasty, 12th century, height 20 cm, Nicholas Pitcher
century that open a window onto the lives and tastes of the British in India at that time. One particular highlight depicts a nautch, or Indian dance performance, presented to a senior officer from the East India Company, who is portrayed seated and smoking a hookah, whilst another shows two caparisoned elephants, set in a hilly landscape. Also on view are various Maidapur grand houses, occupied by the British, and set in their own gardens, which have a calm and dream-like quality about them. Set in the lush Bengal scenery, they stand nevertheless as exemplars of the English ‘gentleman’s seat’. Te men for whom these houses were built would have all been neighbours, ranging in status from a baronet to the grandson of a stone mason, but who would nonetheless have visited each others’ houses, borrowed each others’ horses, and attended dinners and balls together. Te Parlby Album provides the viwer with an enchanting glimpse of how the English made themselves so thoroughly at home in a foreign country at the close of the 18th century.
Te Han Collection, which specialises in Korean ceramics – Goryo celadons and Joseon porcelain – has created an exhibition entitled Cross the Timeline: Korean Ceramics, on show at 33 Museum Street in Bloomsbury.
At Ben Janssens
Oriental Art the theme of the show is Animals and Flowers, including a range of early Chinese sculpture, bronzes, ceramics and later Chinese and Japanese works of art – on show at M&L Fine Art, 15 Old Bond Street, 1/F (closed 11 November). Roger Keverne is showing classic Chinese ceramics and works of art at 16 Clifford Street (closed 11 November). All Creatures Medium- Sized and Tiny is the exhibition this year at Syndey L Moss, the gallery specialises in Japanese netsuke, inro and pipecases, as well as classical Chinese paintings (closed 11 November).
Calligrapher prince’s copy of his poetical verses Diwan of Hassan Ibn Hussain Khan Shamlu Safavid Empire, probably Herat and the margins probably Bijapur, Central India, circa 1600-1625, Sam Fogg
DESIGN CENTRE Artchina’s exhibition is called Between Being – installation, ceramics and contemporary works by Chinese artist, a fellow exhibitor is Kamal Bakhshi, who is showing limited edition prints by modern Japanese artists – both at the Design Centre in Chelsea Harbour, London SW10.
CHELSEA
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
John Eskenazi this year presents a showcase of recent acquisitions, including Indian,
Gandharan, Southeast Asian and Himalayan art.
For auctions houses that are part of Asian Art in London and are having previews in London at this time, please refer to page 28.
One of a pair of Chinese trade paintings, early 19th century £3000 – 4000 included in the sale
For more information please contact Robin Fisher on 01242 235712 or
robin.fisher@
mallams.co.uk
Mallams Auctioneers, Grosvenor Galleries, 26 Grosvenor Street, Cheltenham GL52 2SG
www.mallams.co.uk
Mallams 1788
Naga Buddha, Cambodia, Angkor period, Bayon style, late 12th/early 13th century, bronze with traces of gilding, height 29cm, John Eskenazi
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