Asian Art
This broad umbrella category comprises everything from Qianlong vases to Islamic calligraphy. Asian art has been collected in the West over many generations and inspired many famous European productions. An example is the Japanese porcelain from the Kakiemon kilns, the styles of which that became adopted by European factories such as Meissen.
Today, demand from Asian buyers has lifted the market of works in this sector across the world.
Asian art and a continental drift of sales
17 July 2017Dealers in and collectors of Asian art were spoilt for choice around the middle of June in Europe. As well as the Asian sale series in Paris (see last week’s ATG, No 2300), a vast selection of works came up for sale in Zurich, Cologne, Brussels, Salzburg and Stuttgart.
Asian art in Paris: Military scene on silk generates bidding battle
10 July 2017At the Drouot auction centre in June around 3000 items of Asian art went under the hammer in a series of 20 auctions that were either dedicated sales or featured substantial Asian sections.
Tiger displays bite as Kent tartanware checks in
10 July 2017One of the earliest examples of the lucrative tartan tourism, which dates back to George IV’s visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and was turbo-charged by Queen Victoria’s love of the Highlands, were the sycamore boxes and trinkets made in small factories in the little Ayrshire town of Mauchline.
Asian art in Paris: Jades joy in summer sales
10 July 2017Like many of the world’s major art markets these days, Paris concentrates activity in the Asian art field into series at specific times of the year in an attempt to attract those all-important buyers from Mainland China.
Stolen Chinese jades make 10 times their estimates years later
08 July 2017Four Chinese jade vessels have sold for 10 times their estimate after being stolen more than 12 years ago.
'Qing' vase sleeper emerges in Ireland and makes €740,000 hammer
19 June 2017A 'Qing period' gourd vase has sold in Ireland for €740,000, an auction record for Asian art in that country, having been estimated at €800-1200.
Serene and strong Chinese general leads in Lisbon
19 June 2017This Chinese gilt-bronze figure of Guandi is the catalogue cover lot for the next auction at Veritas in Lisbon, on June 27-28.
Asian auctions make a ‘Gexit’
12 June 2017German salerooms move series to Austria and Belgium in the wake of cultural goods law...
Emporium is added to Asian art empire
12 June 2017Asian art dealer Gerald Davison has taken a selling space in The Emporium in Berkshire, which he plans to run as well as his current space at Acreman St Antiques & Interiors.
The £13m Asian art boon for London as Silk Road begins to run dry
05 June 2017“It was one of those eureka moments,” said Rosemary Scott, Chinese ceramics specialist at Christie’s. “My colleague Jeremy Morgan was on a perfectly normal valuation visit when he walked into the drawing room and there, on the mantelpiece, he saw these vases. He couldn’t believe his eyes.”
Asian art hammer highlights at regional sales
05 June 2017A selection of stand-out results from auctions around the UK.
Asian art textiles: the uncut market for court dress
05 June 2017For the most important ceremonies and rituals, high-ranking Chinese officials along with the royal family would don the chao fu or full court dress. At the Qing court a whole range of garments and paraphernalia were associated with the chao fu – a hat, collar, necklace, girdle and boots – but the most important were the chao pao and jifu, the court robes. Their use was restricted to high-ranking officials and persons.
Christie’s restructuring: a case study
05 June 2017Christie’s Chinese art department – shorn of the experience of Jeremy Morgan and Pedram Rasti (long-standing heads of department in both South Kensington and King Street who have recently left the firm) – will be led by Marco Almeida as international senior specialist and Kate Hunt, former head of sale at Christie’s South Kensington.
Asian art Jades: any colour as long as it’s white
05 June 2017By definition ruyi sceptres are highly auspicious objects, favoured for their shape and ornamentation which together represent the propitious expression ‘as you wish’.
Asian art Japanese: Tomatada shines in Katchen collection
05 June 2017The centrepiece of Bonhams’ Japanese offering on May 11 was the second part of the extraordinary collection of netsuke formed by US concert pianist Julius Katchen (1926-69) and his wife Arlette.
Positive signs as provincial auctions deliver good results
30 May 2017Such are the positive reports coming in from the provinces that one begins to fear what the finger-crossing superstitious call the curse of the commentator and the more rational know as the reversion to the mean.
Secrets of Koh-i Noor diamond to be revealed at Hay Festival in Wales
25 May 2017The mysterious history of the Koh-i Noor diamond will be revealed during the Hay Festival by authors of a new book.
Chinese scroll painting gives Duke’s of Dorchester top regional auction price for Asian art
22 May 2017The top regional Asian art price at auction this season was reached by Duke’s of Dorchester on May 18 when Wu Guanzhong’s (1919-2010) scroll painting White Birches on Mount Chang Bai (Zhangbai) sold at £500,000 (plus buyer's premium).
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22 May 2017Duke’s of Dorchester posted the top regional Asian art price of the season on May 18 when Wu Guanzhong’s (1919-2010) scroll painting White Birches on Mount Chang Bai (Zhangbai) sold at £500,000 (plus buyer’s premium).
Butchoff Antiques teams up with fellow dealers to host evening exhibition of Indian artworks
19 May 2017Kensington Church Street dealer Butchoff Antiques hosted an exhibition of Indian artworks to celebrate the UK India Year of Culture, which was launched by The British Council and the Indian High Commission earlier this year.
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