Asia Art Week 2016: New York si veste d'oriente

A RARE AND IMPRESSIVE CLOISONNE-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE FIVE-PIECE ALTAR GARNITURE (WUGONG) QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 USD — A RARE AND IMPRESSIVE CLOISONNE-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE FIVE-PIECE ALTAR GARNITURE (WUGONG)
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 USD

Come ogni anno, l’arte orientale invade la Grande Mela. E’ iniziata lo 10 marzo l’Asia Week newyorkese. I collezionisti che amano l’Oriente possono intraprendere una sorta di “viaggio” attraverso l’Asia, grazie alle opere in mostra e in vendita e agli eventi proposti che sono in programma fino al 19 marzo.

Questa edizione 2016., forte del giro d’affari di 360 milioni di dollari del 2015, offre un calendario serrato con i migliori specialisti di arte asiatica, eventi che coinvolgono musei e istituzioni culturali, mostre in gallerie, letture, simposi e vendite in cinque case d’asta: Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, iGavel e Sotheby’s.

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF BEIJING ENAMEL 'PEACH AND BAT' VASES QIANLONG MARKS AND PERIOD Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD CHINESE ART FROM CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS — AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF BEIJING ENAMEL ‘PEACH AND BAT’ VASES
QIANLONG MARKS AND PERIOD
Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD
CHINESE ART FROM CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS

Inaugurano la settimana oggi le vendite di Doyle e Bonhams. Mentre le due major Christie’s e Sotheby’s aprono le danze domani. Quest’ultima propone oltre 1.200 oggetti d’arte che spaziano in 3.000 anni di storia che verranno esitati in sette aste e due selling exhibition. Si segnala in particolare la vendita del 16 marzo dedicata all’Arte Indiana, Himalaiana e del Sud-Est Asiatico, con opere e sculture Buddiste, Hindu e Jain, provenienti dalla Collezione del Dr. Claus Virch.

PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION A FINE SEDIMENTARY STONE STELE DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BUDDHAEastern India, Pala period, 11th/12th Century Estimate 100,000 — 150,000 USD — PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
A FINE SEDIMENTARY STONE STELE DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BUDDHAEastern India, Pala period, 11th/12th Century
Estimate 100,000 — 150,000 USD

Fine Sedimentary Stone Stele Depicting Scenes from the Life of Buddha è una magnifica opera risalente al XI-XII secolo (stimata $100/150,000) ed è stata precedentemente in mostra al Brooklin Museum di New York. Facente parte di un gruppo di Sculture in miniatura, l’opera serviva come pegno per i pellegrini provenienti dall’Est dell’India e diretti verso il Tibet e il Burma. Il reliquiario è una raffigurazione del trionfo di Buddha su Mara mentre siedono sotto l’albero di Bodh Gaya.

Qianlong-period è un raro bronzo raffigurante Avalokiteshvara, il bodhisattva della compassione, che racchiude le tradizioni della scultura indiana (stimato $250/350,000). I grandi bronzi come questo erano famosi durante l’impero di Qianlong, che commissionava moltissime statue rappresentative del Budda, di Bodhisattva e delle divinità del Pantheon tibetano. L’imperatore collezionava assiduamente bronzi antichi provenienti dall’India, dal Kashmir e dal Nepal e questo bronzo ne rappresenta una testimonianza importante.

PROPERTY OF A LADY A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING KHASARPANA LOKESHVARATibeto-Chinese, Qianlong period (1735-1796) Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD — PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING KHASARPANA LOKESHVARATibeto-Chinese, Qianlong period (1735-1796)
Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD

L’asta The Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art presenta anche Gilt-Bronze Figure Depicting a Dakini from Tibet, XVI-XVII secolo (stimato $250/350,000), centrato sulle figure di Chakrasamvara e della sua consorte Vajravarahi. L’attenzione ai dettagli rende questo bronzo memorabile: si osservi ad esempio, il loto al centro della tiara con le sue perle e la ghirlanda foliata, i gioielli e gli ornamenti elaborati.

ROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING A DAKINITibet, 16th/17th Century Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD — ROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING A DAKINITibet, 16th/17th Century
Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 USD

Da Christie’s dal 15 al 18 marzo saranno dispersi in otto aste oltre settecento lavori e oggetti d’arte, tra dipinti, porcellane preziose della dinastia Ming e Qing, sculture buddiste in bronzo dorato, mobili cinesi, vasi rituali, giade e pietre intagliate, snuff bottles e collezioni private. Ecco alcuni highlight:

A BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA KASHMIR OR WESTERN TIBET, CIRCA 1025 Superbly and elegantly cast standing in tribhanga on a lotus-base set on a stepped throne with an inscription at center, his right hand raised in vitarkamudra and holding a mala while grasping his water pot in his lowered left hand, clad in a diaphanous dhoti secured with a beaded double-belt, adorned with a beaded necklace, sacred thread and scarf draped over his elbows, his face with elongated almond-shaped eyes, incised eyebrows and faintly smiling lips, his hair pulled back into a high chignon fronted by a stupa and with thick locks escaping over his shoulders, backed by a beaded and flaming double-mandorla 12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high Estimate (Set Currency) $200,000 – $300,000 SAVE AS INTEREST FOLLOW PLACE BID Sale Information SALE 12255 — THE LAHIRI COLLECTION: INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN ART, ANCIENT AND MODERN 15 March 2016 New York, Rockefeller Plaza — A BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA
KASHMIR OR WESTERN TIBET, CIRCA 1025
Superbly and elegantly cast standing in tribhanga on a lotus-base set on a stepped throne with an inscription at center, his right hand raised in vitarkamudra and holding a mala while grasping his water pot in his lowered left hand, clad in a diaphanous dhoti secured with a beaded double-belt, adorned with a beaded necklace, sacred thread and scarf draped over his elbows, his face with elongated almond-shaped eyes, incised eyebrows and faintly smiling lips, his hair pulled back into a high chignon fronted by a stupa and with thick locks escaping over his shoulders, backed by a beaded and flaming double-mandorla
12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
Estimate $200,000 – $300,000
THE LAHIRI COLLECTION: INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN ART, ANCIENT AND MODERN
15 March 2016 – New York, Rockefeller Plaza

AN IMPORTANT AND FINE PAINTING OF CHAMSING BEGTSE CHEN TIBET, 19TH CENTURY Beautifully painted with the red-skinned deity trampling over a horse and prone figure on a sun disc over a lotus base, holding various implements in his six hands, adorned with bone ornaments, a garland of freshly severed heads, a green snake and elephant skin, each of his three faces with a skull tiara, surrounded by smoke and flames, with protector deities above and below 37 3/8 x 26 in. (95 x 66 cm.) Estimate (Set Currency) $500,000 – $700,000 SAVE AS INTEREST FOLLOW PLACE BID Sale Information SALE 12893 — THE VAN DER WEE COLLECTION OF HIMALAYAN PAINTINGS 15 March 2016 New York, Rockefeller Plaza — AN IMPORTANT AND FINE PAINTING OF CHAMSING BEGTSE CHEN
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
Beautifully painted with the red-skinned deity trampling over a horse and prone figure on a sun disc over a lotus base, holding various implements in his six hands, adorned with bone ornaments, a garland of freshly severed heads, a green snake and elephant skin, each of his three faces with a skull tiara, surrounded by smoke and flames, with protector deities above and below
37 3/8 x 26 in. (95 x 66 cm.)
Estimate $500,000 – $700,000
THE VAN DER WEE COLLECTION OF HIMALAYAN PAINTINGS
15 March 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

A Gilt Bronze Figure of an Eleven-Headed Avalokiteshvara Tibet, 15th/16th century Exquisitely modeled and standing with his two principle hands in front of his chest in anjalimudra and holding various implements in his six radiating hands, including a chakra, lotus blossom and water pot, dressed in a pleated two-tier ankle-length dhoti incised with a floral pattern, adorned with jewelry festoons and an antelope skin draped over the left shoulder, the eleven faces arranged in tiers, each surmounted by a jeweled tiara, the primary head with cascading locks of hair, the face with almond shaped eyes and bow-shaped mouth, the verso with a sealed consecration chamber, richly gilt overall with polychromy remaining 12 ½ in. (31.75 cm.) high Estimate (Set Currency) $300,000 – $500,000 SAVE AS INTEREST FOLLOW PLACE BID Sale Information SALE 12168 — INDIAN, HIMALAYAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN WORKS OF ART 15 March 2016 New York, Rockefeller Plaza — A Gilt Bronze Figure of an Eleven-Headed Avalokiteshvara
Tibet, 15th/16th century
Exquisitely modeled and standing with his two principle hands in front of his chest in anjalimudra and holding various implements in his six radiating hands, including a chakra, lotus blossom and water pot, dressed in a pleated two-tier ankle-length dhoti incised with a floral pattern, adorned with jewelry festoons and an antelope skin draped over the left shoulder, the eleven faces arranged in tiers, each surmounted by a jeweled tiara, the primary head with cascading locks of hair, the face with almond shaped eyes and bow-shaped mouth, the verso with a sealed consecration chamber, richly gilt overall with polychromy remaining
12 ½ in. (31.75 cm.) high
Estimate $300,000 – $500,000
INDIAN, HIMALAYAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN WORKS OF ART
15 March 2016
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

A RARE AND FINELY PAINTED GUANGZHOU ENAMEL 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' SNUFF BOTTLE IMPERIAL, GUANGZHOU WORKSHOPS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The bottle is decorated with a brightly colored continuous scene of two pairs of European gentleman in a European style landscape. On one side the pair attempts to catch a brown and black dog with a blanket. The reverse is decorated with another pair of European gentleman, one reclining as the other points to the distance. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high, metal stopper Estimate (Set Currency) $22,000 – $32,000 SAVE AS INTEREST FOLLOW PLACE BID Sale Information SALE 11786 — THE RUTH AND CARL BARRON COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES: PART II 16 March 2016 New York, Rockefeller Plaza — A RARE AND FINELY PAINTED GUANGZHOU ENAMEL ‘EUROPEAN-SUBJECT’ SNUFF BOTTLE
IMPERIAL, GUANGZHOU WORKSHOPS, QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bottle is decorated with a brightly colored continuous scene of two pairs of European gentleman in a European style landscape. On one side the pair attempts to catch a brown and black dog with a blanket. The reverse is decorated with another pair of European gentleman, one reclining as the other points to the distance.
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high, metal stopper
Estimate $22,000 – $32,000
THE RUTH AND CARL BARRON COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES: PART II
16 March 2016
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

Per il calendario completo degli eventi e non solo quelli delle case d’aste e per navigare nell’utile mappa interattiva che permette di trovare facilmente tutti i luoghi che celebrano l’arte asiatica in questa settimana newyorkese, questo è il sito dedicato:
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