Chinese works of art to conclude Christie's Asian Art Sales
16/3/2007 16:41
Christie's Asian Art Sales will conclude with Chinese works of art
late this month, the world's largest auction house announced yesterday.
It is
planning two auctions on March 22 at the conclusion of the sale which will be
devoted to Chinese art, featuring Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art and
Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, according to the announcement.
The fourth
part of the fabulous J&J Collection continues on the high note set by the
previous three sales. The specialized Chinese art sale highlights major areas of
collecting, including sculpture, ceramics, jades, textiles and archaistic
bronzes.
The sale is expected to realize in excess of US$12 million.
The
star lot of the sale is a superb and important wood seated figure of the
"Water-Moon" Guanyin made in the Song-Jin dynasty from the 11th to 13th century.
It is estimated at 600,000-US$800,000.
The bodhisattva is seated in "royal
ease" with eyes half-closed in meditation. The broad, corpulent deity is shown
in princely guise, with an elaborate coiffure behind a crown and splendid
jewelry and scarves, all suggestive of its regal heritage.
Other highlights
include an extremely rare Beijing enamel "European subject" snuff bottle
decorated with European dandies from the Imperial Palace Workshops; Qianlong
blue enamel mark of the 1736-1780 period (estimate: 200,000- US$250,000); a rare
and fine Imperial enameled glass snuff bottle from the Imperial Palace
Workshops, Beijing; and Qianlong mark of the 1750-1795 period (estimate:
140,000-US$180,000).
Xinhua
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