Chinese Works of Art

A strong performer in the Anthony du Boulay (1929-2022) sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dorchester was this 10in (24.5cm) enamelled chinoisierie milchglas vase.

Items sold at auction show how Jesuit expertise helped China to gain technological skill for enamelling

Headlining Sotheby’s Asia Week New York line up is the 23-lot single-owner auction Celestial Colors. The Cadle Family Collection of Chinese Monochromes.

Three online sales make up the Asia Week New York programme presented by Lark Mason Associates via the iGavel Auctions platform.

Christie’s celebrates Asia Week New York with eight auctions: five live and three online

Bonhams will offer two single-owner collections as part of its programme for Asia Week New York.

Spotted sitting among modern pottery on the windowsill of a small cottage, a meiping porcelain vase with ‘robin’s egg’ blue glaze was the plum piece.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a Qianlong bowl returning to auction after more than 15 years.

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The Shang period (c.1600-1045BC) is the first of China’s many epochs from which written documents survive.

Auctions of Chinese export porcelain have regularly featured in the New York schedule in January for many years, running alongside the traditional string of Americana sales and the long-running Winter Show.

Two Chinese blue and white dishes, recognised by bidders as examples of the bleu de Huế porcelain, flew to £20,500 at a sale in Dorset on January 26.

The Asian art sale at John McInnis in Massachusetts on February 25 includes this pair of Qing ‘official’s hat’ type huanghuali armchairs.

The market for ‘after’ or ‘attributed to’ works is often rather unpredictable. While some works will inevitably fall flat at auction, others sometimes take off.

Strong provenance helps seated guardian figure estimated at £100-150 to stand out at Derbyshire auction

A record for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain was set at an auction in Singapore when a Guangxu kamcheng took Sin$74,000 (£46,000).

On January 24 Bonhams in New York will offer a single owner-sale of more than 150 lots of Chinese export porcelain from the renowned specialist dealer in the field, Cohen & Cohen.