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2003-2004 and in Goddess: Divine Energy at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 2005-2006, and published four times elsewhere (est $700/900,000).


CHRISTIE’S The Studio of the Clear Garden:


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Works of Art Thursday, 22 March, 11:30 am, 37 lots, $1,500,000-2,100,000


mainly Chinese Ceramics and


Tis is a private collection put together over a 20-year period until recently and purchased


at


auction.


Over half (23 lots) is porcelain, mainly Qianlong mark and period monochrome pieces. Some 19th- century and Republican period pieces are also included. Te most important is a blue and white reverse decorated Qianlong mark and period dragon meiping, which had been in the Walter C Koerner Collection and sold at Christie’s London in 1973 and 2006 (est $150/200,000). Two of the five Qianlong mark and period teadust glazed pieces deserve notice. One is a large faceted vase, purchased at Christie’s in London in 2006, and the other is a vase in the form of a fanghu, acquired from Sotheby’s Hong Kong the same year (est $160/180,000 and $120/180,000 respectively). Seven jade carvings and five pieces of lacquer round out the selection.


Silver-inlaid gilt bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni, Tibet, circa 1400, est $1/2 million, Christie’s


been both exhibited and published in many museums and books in both the United States and Japan. Te estimate is unpublished, but it is expected to bring over $4,000,000. A Northern-Song/Jin (960-1234), white, ding dish carved with a peony motif which had been at CT Loo in Paris and at Eskenazi Ltd in London, is another exceptional piece (est $400/600,000). A cizhou meiping painted with fish is also extremely rare as there are almost none with fish. Te painting style is very free and simple, appealing to a contemporary sensibility. With a Mayuyama and Ataka Museum provenance, this has also been exhibited and published in Japan (est $500/700,000).


SOTHEBY’S The Richard R and Magdalena Ernst Collection of


Himalayan Art Thursday, 22 March, 10am 88 lots, $7,100,000-10,100,000


Richard R Ernst and his wife Magdalena travelled to the Himalayan region in 1968 and acquired


their first thangka in


Kathmandu. From Winterthur in Switzerland, he is a Nobel Laureate (for Chemistry in 1991), who specialised in the intersection of chemistry and physics and spent many years researching and later leading the nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy research group at the Laboratorium fur Physikalische Chemie of ETH-Z. He was also a passionate collector of Himalayan art, assembling over 50 years what is arguably one of the finest collections of Himalayan art ever to appear at auction. Ranging from the 12th to 18th centuries, the collection is centred on Tibetan art, with particular emphasis on Buddhist and Bon paintings from Tibet and Nepal.


Collectors will have an


unprecedented opportunity to buy superb paintings that have been published by leading scholars and


CHRISTIE’S Fine Chinese Ceramics


and Works of Art Thursday, & Friday, 22 & 23 March, Thursday, 2pm, Friday, 10am & 2pm 288 lots, $10,600,000-15,800,000


Several of the major lots in the sale fall within the sizeable group of furniture and scholars’ objects (40 lots). Te most important are a pair of 17th/18th-century huanghuali corner cabinets (fangjiaoyi),


from Ming


furniture (est $1,000,000/1,500,000). Tere are also nine lots from the Raymond


Hung Collection,


published in One Hundred Examples of Chinese Furniture from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, including


Tangka depicting an Early Buddhist Master, Tibet, circa 1200 or 13th century 93 x 72 cm, est $800/1,200,000, Sotheby’s


exhibited worldwide. One of the larger early paintings is a thangka from Tibet, circa 1200, or 13th century, depicting an early Buddhist master. Tese paintings of Tibetan masters helped spread the Buddhist doctrine during the period approximately from 1000-1200. Stylistically they were influenced by the painting tradition of eastern India in the Pala dynasty (circa 750-1199). Tis painting has been published and discussed by scholars Amy Heller, Pratapaditya Pal and David Jackson, most recently in 2011 and was exhibited in Dr Pal’s 2003 exhibition, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC (est $800,000/1,200,000). A 15th-century thangka from is


Tibet a superb depiction of


Guhyasamaja and his consort in the classic style of the period. It is one of the most elegant and beautifully executed 15th century works. Like so many of the thangkas in this collection it has been exhibited more than once,


Buddhist Meditational Art, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art in


huanghuali, six-poster canopy bed, jiazichuang


1,500,000). Foremost among the ceramics, a


Qianlong mark and period celadon- glazed relief-decorated bottle vase from John Sparks in London will be on the cover (est $800/1,200,000). Qing porcelain is well represented and includes a group of pieces from well-known London dealer Marchant. A jade highlight is a pair of Qianlong white jade bowls with their original stands, possibly carved from the same piece of stone, which was at Y Tsuruki in Tokyo in 1960 (est $300/500,000). Te collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller will be sold over several days in May at Christie’s New York, and will include their Asian works of art and Chinese export porcelain.


Works of Art Thursday, 22 March, 2pm 67 lots, $5,400,000-7,700,000


SOTHEBY’S Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian


in Te Circle of Bliss:


Tis sale’s value and level of material considerably exceeds other recent various owner sales in this category at Sotheby’s. A monumental grey schist figure of standing Buddha, Kushan period, 2nd /3rd century,


from


Gandhara, is a superb example, carved in very high relief is the top lot. Te Continued on page 42


Portrait of A Young Collector. Detail, Oil on Linen 50x40 cm Private Collection, Hong Kong


Painting by Anna Paik


Please contact the artist directly at annahpaik@aol.co.uk | + 44 (0)7811 379694 annapaik.com


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