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Lot 1116
A CHINESE LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF AN OFFICIALProbably Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century Cast standing wearing a hat and long robes, clutching a tablet to his chest, raised on an integral rectangular base with shaped apron and bracket feet, 23cm high PROVENANCE:Property from the art critic, Terence MullalyConditionSome wear to the gilding. Loss to tip of his hat an the right side. Some wear to the base.
Lot 598
A Chinese camphor wood chest, 20th century. With rectangular panels carved with figures in a garden setting, height 58cm, width 101cm, depth 51cm.From the personal collection of the late Graham Pedley who owned an antique shop in Truro, Cornwall from 1964-1983.This beautiful chest still retains its attractive camphor-wood scent. The decorative panels and interior is in excellent order and the trunk itself is in very good order overall. There is a slight scratch to the top from a previous owner. Please view added image.
Lot 2008
A CHINESE CAMPHORWOOD BLANKET CHEST Extensively carved with dragons and clouds, a hinged lid, carved wooden lifting handles and decorative brass hasp, raised on a shallow base with a frieze drawer, upon ball and claw feet. 88cm high x 110cm long x 52cm deep Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 576
A CHINESE CARVED HARDWOOD BUDDAH, seated wearing a long bead necklace and with three children in attendance, on a rope carved shaped base, 9 1/2" high (Est. plus 24% premium inc. VAT)Condition Report: Splits through left top chest, left knee drape, base between boy's legs, one crack through right bottom drape, and other smaller cracks to front. Cracks to back right shoulder and base
Lot 5
~ A Chinese Celadon Jade Inscribed “Luohan” Boulder, Qianlong, carved with Ańgaja in a grotto, seated cross-legged in loose flowing robes, his left hand holding a sutra and walking stick, the right counting prayer beads, flanked by the Imperial eulogy and seal marks 20cm highWith original receipt from Trollope & Sons (London) Ltd, West Halkin Street, London dated 25 November 1955 for £85, as well as a transcription of the eulogy The inscription can be translated as “Wearing a hundred-patch robe and leaning on a proper bamboo staff, his Vedic ritual texts in a bookcase, he stares at his akshamalika straight across his chest. What he has remembered is not nothing, although there are no words for it.”The iconography of this depiction of Ańgaja is derived from the portrait series of the sixteen Luohans painted in 891 by the Tang dynasty painter-poet-monk, Guanxiu for the Shengyinsi or 'Temple of Sage Reason'; the temple was later destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion. In this series the artist depicted the enlightened disciples with grotesque bodies, hunched backs, bushy eyebrows, and pronounced foreheads, as they had allegedly appeared to him in a dream.In 1757, the Qianlong Emperor visited the Shengyin Temple during his Southern inspection tour to study these images of the Luohan as an act of religious devotion. He recorded that, having seen the masterpieces, he was inspired to personally write a eulogy comprising two colophons for each painting. The Emperor believed the paintings to be the same set that had been recorded in the Xuanhe Huapu [The Xuande catalogue of paintings], the inventory of the Song dynasty emperor Huizong.Subsequently, Qianlong commanded the palace painting master, Ding Guanpeng (act.1708-ca.1771) to copy the paintings and to include new inscriptions of the eulogies. Ding’s copies are now in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei and were widely copied in various media.In 1764, the abbot at Shengyin Temple, Master Mingshui, instructed local stone engravers to copy Guanxiu’s paintings and the Emperor’s colophons and seals. The sixteen engraved stone panels were installed on the sixteen sides of the Miaoxiang Pagoda in Hangzhou. Almost immediately rubbings of the panels were being produced. Knowing the Emperor’s fondness for them, in 1778, the military governor of Shandong province, Guotai (d.ca.1782), presented the Qianlong Emperor with a magnificent zitan folding screen set with black lacquer panels inlaid with white jade in imitation of the rubbings.A similar jade boulder, depicting the second Luohan, Kanakavasta, was recorded in the collection of the Wou Lien-Pai Museum as published in Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection, Surrey, 2011, pl. 177 (fig. 2).Another example depicting Kanaka is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 02.18.640 and a further example as Cudapanthaka is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.A sixteen-fold screen with inlaid jade plaques portraying the sixteen luohans, including a depiction of Angaja derived from the same source as the present jade, dated to the forty-second year of the Qianlong reign (1777) is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (22 June 2012 - 14 October 2012), and illustrated in A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2012, pp.216-233, no.53.A Qianlong Imperial jade screen with the same image of Ańgaja and inscribed with the same script and seals as the present examples was offered by Bonhams Hong Kong, 24 November 2012, lot 307 and Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 November 2022, lot 3049.Please note that there will be no internet bidding on this lot. All bidders on lots 1-10 will be required to provide identification and a deposit of £1,000. Registration for commission and telephone bidding on these lots will close on Wednesday 13th March at 12 noon. To register please email enquiry@tennants-ltd.co.uk A natural internal small crack towards the top section of the staff. Sutra with tiny corner flakes. Other minimal small imperfections to the stone, none detrimental. Slight wear to the gilt inscrpitions.
Lot 162
A CHINESE PROVINCIAL STORAGE CHEST Fitted with two short drawers above a pair of cupboard doors to either end, decorated with foliate black ground medallions on a red ground 87cm high x 100cm wide x 66cm deep Condition: For a condition report or further images please email hello@hotlotz.com at least 48 hours prior to the closing date of the auction. This is an auction of preowned and antique items. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and you should expect general wear and tear commensurate with age and use. We strongly advise you to examine items before you bid. Condition reports are provided as a goodwill gesture and are our general assessment of damage and restoration. Whilst care is taken in their drafting, they are for guidance only. We will not be held responsible for oversights concerning damage or restoration.
Lot 2064
Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 A.D. or later. Modelled standing with the right hand inside the sleeve, left hand held to the chest holding a trumpet; on a tiered base. See Bower, V., From Court to Caravan: Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M.Solomon in the Harvard Art Museum, Yale, 2002. 438 grams, 24.5 cm (9 7/8 in.). North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s. [No Reserve]
Lot 329
A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA, MING DYNASTYPlease note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價China, 1368-1644. Finely cast, seated in dhyanasana with his hands folded in dhyana mudra, wearing robes that elegantly drape over the shoulders and fall in graceful folds, the serene face with heavy-lidded eyes, gently arched brows, bow-shaped lips, flanked by long pendulous earlobes. His hair is arranged in tight curls that continue up over the domed ushnisha topped by a jewel.Provenance: English trade.Condition: Good condition with some wear and casting flaws, losses, minor signs of weathering and erosion, flaking and losses to lacquer. The bronze with a rich, naturally grown, dark patina.Weight: 1,136.8 gDimensions: Height 19 cmAuction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Sotheby’s New York, 22 June 2021, lot 42Price: USD 27,720 or approx. EUR 29,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A gilt-lacquer bronze figure of seated Buddha, Ming dynastyExpert remark: Compare the related manner of casting and similar elongated earlobes and gilt-lacquer technique. Note the size (25.6 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Christie’s Amsterdam, 20 June 2012, lot 200Price: EUR 18,750 or approx. EUR 25,000 adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A Chinese gilt-lacquered bronze figure of Buddha, Late Ming dynastyExpert remark: Compare the related manner of casting and similar elongated earlobes and gilt-lacquer technique. Note the similar pleats below the chest. Note the size (36.5 cm).
Lot 343
A THANGKA OF CHATURBHUJA AVALOKITESHVARA, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 西藏十八至十九世紀四臂觀音Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價Distemper on cloth. Seated on a lotus pedestal in dhyanasana with his primary hands holding a jewel at his chest while his secondary hands hold a lotus blossom and mala beads. Clothed in a blue and red dhoti and wearing a billowing green scarf. His serene face with sinuously lidded eyes below elegantly arched brows, a broad nose, and full lips forming a calm smile. His hair arranged in a high chignon topped by the red-skinned head of the Buddha Amitabha behind the five-leaf tiara, backed by a radiating mandorla and green halo.Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Wou Kiuan. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. P.46. Dr. Wou Kiuan (1910-1997) was a Chinese diplomat and noted scholar of Chinese art. His father, Wou Lien-Pai (1873-1944), was one the leading political figures of early 20th century China, remembered for his role as speaker and leader of parliament during the turbulent years of the Republican era. Dr. Wou himself embarked on an illustrious career in diplomacy until his retirement in 1952, when he settled in London and devoted the rest of his life to the study of Chinese art. It was no doubt fortuitous that Dr. Wou’s years of collecting coincided with an abundant availability of exceptional Chinese art on the London market. From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s he was able to form a collection of well over 1,000 works that together represented virtually every category of Chinese art. At the heart of Dr. Wou’s drive to collect was a burning desire to preserve the relics of China’s rich historical past scattered across Europe, and to promote Chinese art and culture. It is unclear when Dr. Wou conceived of the idea to create a place to house his collection, but in 1968 he opened the doors to the Wou Lien-Pai Museum, named in honor of his father. Over the years the Museum became a ‘must see’ destination for collectors, academics, and visiting dignitaries, and Dr. Wou would delight in leading his visitors through the galleries, recounting stories of China’s glorious history. Condition: Good condition with minor wear, minimal soiling, creasing, few small losses.Dimensions: Image size 44 x 29.5 cm, Size incl. frame 65.9 x 51.9 cm The lower register with Manjusri seated in dhyanasana on a lotus throne, wielding his sword with his right hand and holding a lotus in his left coming to full bloom at the shoulder supporting a book, and Mahakala striding in alidhasana, wearing a tiger skin, engulfed in flames. All within a verdant landscape with fruiting leafy peach branches below the sun and moon.Literature comparison:Compare a related thangka of Chaturbhuja Avalokiteshvara, dated to the 19th century, in the Tibet House Museum in New Delhi, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 72057.Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Christie’s New York, 14 September 2010, lot 154 Price: USD 6,250 or approx. EUR 8,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A thangka of Chaturbhuja Avalokiteshvara, central Tibet, Menri style, 19th century Expert remark: Compare the closely related subject and manner of painting. Note the size (65.5 x 44.5 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Christie’s New York, 18 September 2013, lot 277 Price: USD 11,875 or approx. EUR 14,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A painting of Chaturbhuja Avalokiteshvara, Tibet, 18th century Expert remark: Compare the closely related subject and manner of painting. Note the different mandorla and the size (64.1 x 43.2 cm).
Lot 222
A VERY LARGE ‘ROBIN’S EGG’ ENAMELED AND GILT PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AMITAYUS, QIANLONG TO JIAQING PERIOD 乾隆至嘉慶時期爐鈞釉描金無量壽佛坐蓮像Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價China, 1736-1820. Heavily potted, seated in dhyanasana on a cloth draped over a rectangular plinth with a shaped recessed gilt panel above a dragon emerging from crashing waves. His hands are lowered in dhyana mudra and holding an alms bowl. He is wearing long flowing robes opening at the chest adorned with a beaded jeweled necklace. His serene face with heavy-lidded eyes, gently arched brows, a circular urna, and bow-shaped lips. His hair elegantly falling in tresses over the shoulders and piled up into a topknot surmounted by a jewel behind the foliate tiara. The cloth, base, robe, hair, and jewels enameled in robin’s egg with details picked out in turquoise and blue. The face, torso, hands, feet, tiara, and dragon gilt. Provenance: From an old German private collection, acquired in the 1970s and 80s. Thence by descent. Condition: As expected, the tips of the tiara, topknot, fingers, earrings and dragon’s horns are restored to perfection. Further with glaze recesses, flaking and abrasions. Microscopic remnants of pigment which indicate that the figure was painted at some stage. Gilt porcelain figures of such a large size are usually restored to a much wider extent, due to their fragility, and it is therefore exceedingly rare to find one in such a well-preserved state overall.Weight: 5,156 g Dimensions: Height 43.5 cmExpert’s note: Gilt porcelain figures of bodhisattva were produced from the Qianlong period onwards. The inspiration for such figures may have come from Ming dynasty bronze prototypes, such as the Xuande period gilt-bronze figure currently in the Berti Aschmann Foundation, Museum Rietberg, illustrated in On the Path to Enlightenment, Zurich, 1995, no. 72. An unmarked example, dated to the Xuande period, is in the V&A collection, no. 275&A-1898.Literature comparison: For a related example from the Malcolm MacDonald collection, no. DUROM.1969.358, and now in the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, United Kingdom, see Ireneus Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, p. 122, no. 72. Another enameled porcelain figure of a bodhisattva is illustrated by Lou Pin-heng, Precious Treasures of My Humble House, Taipei, 1988, pg. 54, no. 12Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 17 September 2013, lot 52 Price: USD 68,750 or approx. EUR 80,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: An unusual enameled and gilt-decorated figure of a bodhisattva, Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related robin’s egg enamels, gilt decoration, and face. Note the related size (40 cm). Note the different pose and base. Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Bonhams Hong Kong, 29 May 2008, lot 578 Price: HKD 960,000 or approx. EUR 169,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A rare enameled figure of a kneeling bodhisattva, QianlongExpert remark: Compare the closely related robin’s egg enamels, gilt decoration, and face. Note the much smaller size (29 cm) as well as the different pose and base.
Lot 43
A Chinese square section wooden cooler/ ice chest and stand of brass banded flared form, C1900, the interior with zinc lining and removable boarded cover, fitted two pairs of heavy swing handles to either side and sitting upon a base with shaped bow legs united by an under stretcher, 65 cm wide x 64 cm deep x 69 cm overall height A private estate The conditon is good, worth mentioning that the base is constructed from a different timber but fits perfectly and seems in keeping with the upper section.Only one section of the planked top is carved with cash symbols but the timber used in both sections is consistent.
Lot 55
A large Chinese lacquered and painted leather dowry chest painted with gilt flowers and a pair of brass bale handles to each side. 90 cm wide x 63 cm deep x 38 cm overall height, together with a smaller embossed dowry chest with an elaborate iron lock plate. 73 cm wide x 36 cm deep x 41 cm overall height
Lot 110
Republican Period, Ca. AD 1912-1949 .A Chinese porcelain buddha. The content seated figure is wearing a robe decorated with blossoms, overlayered with an "iron-red" brick patterned coat, exposing his chest and belly. The figure is possibly the Budai monk, who is known for his joyful nature.一件中国瓷菩萨。坐像身着花纹袈裟，外罩红砖纹外衣，露出胸腹。人物可能是布袋和尚，他以开朗的性格著称。 Size: 185mm x 180mm; Weight: 1.08kg
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