Asian Art

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

For its 13th annual Asia Week New York exhibition, dealership Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch will offer 44 paintings reflecting the Hindu and Muslim court traditions of India

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.

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.

For Asia Week New York, Heritage will offer a collection of Japanese woodblock prints, cloisonné, Chinese textiles, Tibetan bronzes, jades and other items.

Sebastian Izzard LLC celebrates 25 years with an exhibition of 19th century Japanese paintings and prints during AWNY from March 17-24 on East 76th Street.

Paintings dominated the sale of contents of Meldon Park, Northumberland, but furniture going abroad also made a significant contribution.

During Asia Week New York, local dealer Kapoor Galleries presents Divine Gestures: Channels of Enlightenment, an exhibition of sculptural works

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

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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.

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

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.

Dr Richard Piran McClary is a senior lecturer in Islamic art and architecture in the history of art department at The University of York.

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.

Chiswick Auctions will conduct what it believes is the first ever auction devoted to Indian and Burmese silver of the Raj period on February 14.

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