03-18-201703-18-2017
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  • Hanging Scroll Depicting Six Poets of the Edo Period

    Hanging Scroll Depicting Six Poets of the Edo Period

    Lot: 505
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    Hanging Scroll Depicting Six Poets of the Edo Period, Japan, in the manner of Yosa Buson (1716-1784),including Shyara (dates unknown) and Morikawa Kyoriku (1656-1715),Haiga style with short more ...

  • Hanging Scroll Depicting a Zen Staff

    Hanging Scroll Depicting a Zen Staff

    Lot: 506
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    Hanging Scroll Depicting a Zen Staff, Japan, done in a few calligraphic brushstrokes, ink on paper, with four unidentified seals, painting 55 x 11 3/8 in. Provenance: Milton S. Fox. more ...

  • Hanging Scroll Depicting the Zen Circle, Enso

    Hanging Scroll Depicting the Zen Circle, Enso

    Lot: 507
    Sold for: $431$350

    Hanging Scroll Depicting the Zen Circle, Enso, Japan, with an inscription calligraphed in cursive script, holding three seals with one reading "Kakumei" (enlightened),ink on paper, painting 13 1/2 more ...

  • Hanging Scroll, Zen Calligraphy

    Hanging Scroll, Zen Calligraphy

    Lot: 508
    Sold for: $615$500

    Hanging Scroll, Zen Calligraphy, Japan, late 19th century, the central character reads ryu (dragon),with an inscription, seals, and signature, ink on paper, 49 1/2 x 23 in. Provenance: Milton more ...

  • Hanging Scroll Depicting a Landscape

    Hanging Scroll Depicting a Landscape

    Lot: 509
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    Hanging Scroll Depicting a Landscape, Japan, in the manner of Shugetsu Tokan (1440-1529),with a riverside pavilion and a boat, unsigned with a seal reading "Tokan," ink and light color on paper, more ...

  • Hanging Scroll Depicting Cotton Roses

    Hanging Scroll Depicting Cotton Roses

    Lot: 510
    Sold for: $2,091$1,700

    Hanging Scroll Depicting Cotton Roses, China, in the manner of Li Di (c. 1100-1197),with a sparrow on a branch, ink and color on silk, painting 35 3/4 x 19 in. Provenance: Milton S. Fox. more ...

  • Hanging Scroll Depicting a Qinglu Shanshui (Blue-green Landscape)

    Hanging Scroll Depicting a Qinglu Shanshui (Blue-green Landscape)

    Lot: 511
    Sold for: $1,353$1,100

    Hanging Scroll Depicting a Qinglu Shanshui(Blue-green Landscape),China, in the manner of Wang Yuan (dates unknown, fl. 14th century),after Li Sixun (651-716) and Guo Xi (1020-1090),with ink more ...

  • Painting Depicting an Old Tree with Branch

    Painting Depicting an Old Tree with Branch

    Lot: 512
    Sold for: $1,599$1,300

    Painting Depicting an Old Tree with Branch, China, Zeng Xiaojun (b. 1954),inscribed with Buddhist view of life "the future, neither going nor showing, neither substance nor emptiness," signed more ...

  • Painting Depicting a Daoist God

    Painting Depicting a Daoist God

    Lot: 513
    Sold for: $1,599$1,300

    Painting Depicting a Daoist God, China, 18th/19th century, seated on a rock in nature with peach trees, lingzhi mushrooms, and auspicious clouds surrounding a halo behind his head, accompanied with more ...

  • Bird-and-flower Painting

    Bird-and-flower Painting

    Lot: 514
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    Bird-and-flower Painting, China, in the manner of Gao Qifeng (1889-1993),depicting ducks on water below snowy branches, signed "Qifeng xie" with two seals including one reading "Qifeng," ink and more ...

  • Seven Folding Fans

    Seven Folding Fans

    Lot: 515
    Sold for: $18,450$15,000

    Seven Folding Fans, China, 20th century, each fan has 100 small shou characters on the cover, six are plain, and one has calligraphy by Li Yuying (1881-1973),dated 1947, who was founder and former more ...

  • Set of Four Rubbings from Wei Dynasty Statues

    Set of Four Rubbings from Wei Dynasty Statues

    Lot: 516
    Sold for: $492$400

    Set of Four Rubbings from Wei Dynasty Statues, China, early 20th century, a collection of the four most famous rubbings from Wei dynasty statues called "longmen si pin," all Chinese characters in more ...

  • Sixteen Rubbings from the Wei Dynasty

    Sixteen Rubbings from the Wei Dynasty

    Lot: 517
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    Sixteen Rubbings from the Wei Dynasty, China, early 20th century, a collection of rubbings from stone steles, some with Buddhist statues, ink on rice paper, various sizes. more ...

  • Fifteen Loose Rubbings from the Qing Dynasty

    Fifteen Loose Rubbings from the Qing Dynasty

    Lot: 518
    Sold for: $492$400

    Fifteen Loose Rubbings from the Qing Dynasty, China, 20th century, including two with collectors seals, four from Epitaph, two from the republic period with red ink, and some large with poems, ink more ...

  • Pair of Rubbings from Tang Dynasty Steles

    Pair of Rubbings from Tang Dynasty Steles

    Lot: 519
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    Pair of Rubbings from Tang Dynasty Steles, China, early 20th century, one titled datang sanzang shengjiao xu, inscribed by Emperor Tang Taizong, another titled Datang sanzang shengjiao xuji, by more ...

  • Pair of Cobalt Blue Peking Glass Vases

    Pair of Cobalt Blue Peking Glass Vases

    Lot: 520
    Sold for: $2,214$1,800

    Pair of Cobalt Blue Peking Glass Vases, China, 18th/19th century, bottle form with elongated cylindrical necks, thick translucent blue glass, four-character Qianlong mark on base, ht. 13 1/2 in. more ...

  • Overlaid Peking Glass Vase

    Overlaid Peking Glass Vase

    Lot: 521
    Sold for: $1,353$1,100

    Overlaid Peking Glass Vase, China, baluster form, pale blue glass with gold flecks overlaid with orange and yellow, carved to depict goldfish swimming in a lotus pond with a crescent moon above, the more ...

  • Painted Lacquer Necklace Box

    Painted Lacquer Necklace Box

    Lot: 522
    Sold for: $1,169$950

    Painted Lacquer Necklace Box, China, ring-shaped, covered with golden brown lacquer, the top and sides incised and painted with three dragons chasing pearls surrounded by bats and clouds, a stylized more ...

  • Boxwood Carving of Budai

    Boxwood Carving of Budai

    Lot: 523
    Sold for: $246$200

    Boxwood Carving of Budai, China, seated on stylized rockwork, with boy figures playing around him, depicted smiling with his white teeth showing, with a conforming wood stand, overall ht. 9 3/8, more ...

  • Cinnabar Lacquer Covered Box

    Cinnabar Lacquer Covered Box

    Lot: 524
    Sold for: $2,460$2,000

    Cinnabar Lacquer Covered Box, China, compressed round form, the cover and lid carved with scenes of ladies and attendants in a rocky garden, surrounded by a border of carved leaves and flowers at more ...

  • Five Snuff Bottles

    Five Snuff Bottles

    Lot: 525
    Sold for: $308$250

    Five Snuff Bottles, China, 20th century, four inside painted glass bottles, flattened baluster or rounded rectangular form, one decorated with scenes of figures in a village, one with the eight more ...

  • Bamboo Carving

    Bamboo Carving

    Lot: 526
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    Bamboo Carving, China, carved with two monkeys standing on the branch of a peach tree reaching for peaches, a large peach resting on the top of the tree, incised square "Xu" seal and illegible round more ...

  • Nine Snuff Bottles

    Nine Snuff Bottles

    Lot: 527
    Sold for: $984$800

    Nine Snuff Bottles, China, two interior-painted glass bottles including a Peking glass snuff with an overlaid design in red over frosted white, red glass stopper with white spoon, on an openwork more ...

  • Bamboo Carving of a Boat

    Bamboo Carving of a Boat

    Lot: 528
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    Bamboo Carving of a Boat, China, depicting two pairs of figures preparing food on either side, surrounded by natural branch and rock forms with a canopy of pine above, resting on a wave-form base, more ...

  • Carved Brush Rest

    Carved Brush Rest

    Lot: 529
    Sold for: $4,613$3,750

    Carved Brush Rest, China, possibly agarwood, depicting a family of four mythical lions climbing and playing with each other, on a fitted base of a different wood carved with stylized scroll clouds, more ...

  • Carved Wood Water Coupe

    Carved Wood Water Coupe

    Lot: 530
    Sold for: $369$300

    Carved Wood Water Coupe, China, 19th/20th century, possibly zitan, square and tapering towards the mouth, with slightly raised mouth rim, 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. more ...

  • Table Screen with Embroidered Panel

    Table Screen with Embroidered Panel

    Lot: 531
    Sold for: $3,567$2,900

    Table Screen with Embroidered Panel, China, 19th/20th century, the near square panel decorated with openwork floral and foliate scrolls, with a glazed roundel in the center embroidered with a pair more ...

  • Carved Zitan Wrist Rest

    Carved Zitan Wrist Rest

    Lot: 532
    Sold for: $15,990$13,000

    Carved Zitan Wrist Rest, China, carved in the form of a rolled and tied scroll, inlaid with silver wire in a diamond and flower pattern on the exterior of the scroll, the natural grain of the wood more ...

  • Dried Finger Citron "Buddha Hand" Brush Rest

    Dried Finger Citron "Buddha Hand" Brush Rest

    Lot: 533
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    Dried Finger Citron "Buddha Hand" Brush Rest, China, the fruit laid on one side with finger-like tendrils curling at the ends, with a carved bone stalk, lg. 6 1/2 in. more ...

  • Large Duan Stone Screen on Hardwood Stand

    Large Duan Stone Screen on Hardwood Stand

    Lot: 534
    Sold for: $15,990$13,000

    Large Duan Stone Screen on Hardwood Stand, China, carved in high relief with an idealized mountain scene with pavilions on a rocky outcrop, red to olive green stone, supported by a carved wood stand more ...