Clars Auction Gallery Prices Realized August 6Th and 7Th, 2011 Lot
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Clars Auction Gallery Prices Realized August 6th and 7th, 2011 Lot Description Price (Lot of 2) Alaskan or First Nation marine ivory carvings, the first of a sea lion, the base signed Eddy Syngor(?), 2.125''h; the second with three dolphins suspended above rockwork, signed Felix Wono‐‐ and 1 with a handicraft label (one dolphin loose), 3.25''h $ 80 East Indian ivory figural carving, 20th century, depicting Shiva as Nataraja dancing on a recumbant figure 2 and holding various attributes, all backed by a flame‐edged nimbus and attached to a wooden base, 6''h $ 125 (Lot of 2) Asian fans with bone ribs, the first embroidered with a dragon striding through clouds; the second 3 painted with purple blossoms on a yellow silk ground, 9.75''h $ 50 Chinese boxwood figural carving, depicting a Chinese sage wearing a wide brim floral hat and resting with 4 his head resting on his arms wrapped around his knees, 5'' $ 125 Chinese wood carving of an immortal, 20th century, depicting Li Tieguai as a lame beggar seated on a 5 rootwood chair, the bearded face with inlaid eyes, 12.25''h $ 100 Chinese carved jade plaque, carved in low‐relief with a long‐tail bird amid lotus plants and bats soaring through cloud scrolls, the reverse incised with a scene of a bird in a river landscape, the sea‐green matrix 6 with apple‐green and icy‐white splashes, jade: 5''h; with wooden stand $ 150 Chinese archaistic jade with fitted wooden box, the jade carved and reticulated with a striding chilong in relief set against two horizontal jars, the reverse incised with eight seal script characters, the matrix of sea‐ green hue with russet patches, jade: 2.6''; together with a dark hardwood rectangular box with a hinged lid, 7 box: 7.25''w $ 200 (lot of 2) Chinese archaistic zoomorphic Han‐style jade plaques, the first of an S‐form dragon accented with small incised scrolls over its body, the second a similarly decorated meandering dragon of a mottled dark 8 green hue, 6.25''h $ 225 Chinese mottled orange hardstone covered urn, the tapering ovoid body deeply carved with archaistic gui‐ dragons and crested birds between bands of conjoined petals, the dome‐shaped lid with a large knob finial 9 and decorated en suite, 10.25''h $ 225 (Lot of 4) Group of Chinese hardstone bi‐form disks, the first of milky white hue carved with archaistic taotie motifs; two dark greenish brown bi, each featuring two registers of c‐form scrolls; the last, a dark 10 colored disk carved with a stylized taotie mask in low relief, largest: 4.6'' $ 200 (Lot of 3) Group of Chinese small jade carvings, the first modelled as two stalks of bamboo accented with leafy sprigs and a lingzhi spray, the stone of glassy white hue; one toggle fashioned with a pair of opposing children in kneeling and standing positions; one openwork carving featuring linked lozenges in a shaped 11 reserve, 2'' $ 550 Chinese archaistic jade disk, centered with a rope patterned bi bracketed by two huang‐form bands with one modelled with a two‐headed mythical beast with scrolls to the body, the other shaped with two birds, 12 4.6''w $ 80 Chinese cinnabar shallow bowl, the well centered with a sprig of three peaches amid an overall scene of 'hundred bats' silhouetted against a swirling cloud ground, the exterior sides featuring beautifully 13 blossoming peony sprigs on a diaper ground, 13''w $ 650 (Lot of 2) Chinese celadon jade toggles, the first carved in low relief and incised as a lotus blossom reversed by a lotus pod and lotus; the other fashioned as a large leaf framing a cluster of grapes and a squirrel, 14 reversed by a leafy sprig, 2.5''h $ 250 Chinese jade figural group of a pair of recumbent horses, the one in front turning its head back to gaze at its 15 eager partner, the stone of a celadon hue mottled with russet stations, 5.25''w $ 350 Page 1 of 81 Clars Auction Gallery Prices Realized August 6th and 7th, 2011 Lot Description Price Chinese jade medallion in the form of a European coin, either side of the coin incised with a portrait accompanied by an inscription in Roman letters, all framed with an openwork braided border, of a semi‐ 16 translucent celadon colored matrix, 2.8'' $ 2,000 Chinese archaistic jade trident‐form plaque, carved and incised with a Liangzhu inspired taotie mask, the 17 sea‐green translucent matrix with dark flecks and light inclusions, jade: 6.6'', with wooden stand $ 90 (Lot of 2) Chinese zoomorphic stone carvings, the first a covered urn in the form of a qilin, supporting a vessel on its back, together with a lid similarly carved with a zoomorph, with a wooden stand; the second 18 modelled as a ferocious fu‐lion, of pale sea‐green hue with dark patches, 9''w; with wooden stand $ 90 Chinese green soapstone brush washer, carved in the form of a lotus leaf with the undulating edges accented with small buds and lotus pods, the olive green stone with splashes of dark and light hues, 19 8.25''w; with wooden stand $ 100 (Lot of 2) Chinese patinated bronze figural group, Republic period, depicting a Chinese sage reading a book 20 while seated on the back of a large ox, cast in two sections and with incised details, 8.5''h $ 150 (Lot of 2) Chinese archaistic patinated metal zoomorphic vessel, fashioned as a mythical quadrupedal bird with a fierce demeanor and surmounted by an oval cup‐shaped opening, 8.75''l; together with a small censer with up‐right handles and compressed body with an archaistic shou‐medallion and gui‐dragon band reserved on a turquoise blue cloisonne enamel ground with flowering leafy tendrils, with an apocryphal 21 Xuande mark, 5/25''dia $ 70 Chinese polychrome enameled large eggshell porcelain bowl, decorated with three pairs of cranes amid blossoming bright peonies framed by blue enameled geometric bands to the rim and foot, reversed by a seven character‐couplet bearing the cyclical date 'yichou', the interior well centered by a shou medallion 22 encircled by five bats with further bats scattered on the sloping sides (hairline cracks), 9.5'' $ 350 (Lot of 3) Chinese horn figures and a snuff bottle, consisting of two figural horn carvings of two immortals; together with a Canton enameled snuff bottle decorated with reserves of goldfish amid lotus, an 23 apocryphal Qianlong mark to base, 3'' $ 90 Chinese underglaze blue decorated porcelain vase, the tapering body well painted in shades of cobalt blue with long‐tailed birds perched on rockwork or feeding in a flowering landscape extending up the waisted neck encircled by a pencilled key‐fret band, a crenelated band at the slightly flaring foot, the base with an 24 apocryphal Qianlong date, 15''h $ 350 Chinese polychrome enameled porcelain vase, the tapering square‐section vividly decorated with two of the Eight Daoist Immortals to each of the sides, the blue ground angular shoulder accented with pink blossoms below the flaring trumpet mouth with pomegranate, bamboo and prunus heightening the neck 25 (underside drilled and minor hairline crack), 12''h $ 200 (Lot of 2) Chinese rose medallion porcelain plates, each similarly decorated with a central medallion of Mandarin ducks in a lotus pond encircled by figural reserves alternating with bird‐and‐flower panels framed 27 by pink blossoms and butterflies, 7.25''w $ 80 Chinese reticulated Rose Medallion fruit bowl and underdish, late Qing/Republic period, each interior well featuring figural reserves alternating with bird‐and‐flower panels accented by flowering tendrils, with multi‐ 28 colored pierced open work to the side of the bowl and to the rim of the dish, dish: 9.5'' $ 150 Page 2 of 81 Clars Auction Gallery Prices Realized August 6th and 7th, 2011 Lot Description Price Pair of Chinese celadon glazed gu‐form porcelain vases, each central bulb with a raised pattern of stylized gui‐dragons bracketed by petal and fret‐work bands, the wide flaring mouth and pedestal base encircled by jeweled stiff‐leaves, a ruyi‐head band suspended from the flaring rim, covered overall in a pale green glaze 29 thinning at the raised portions of the design, the ring foot with an apocryphal Qianlong mark, 8.75''h $ 175 Chinese aubergine and green enameled yellow ground porcelain dish, the interior well decorated with two writhing dragons competing for a flaming jewel, all rendered in aubergine and emerald green enamels set against an egg yolk yellow ground, the exterior decorated en suite, raised on a recessed base with an 31 apocryphal Ming Hongzhi mark, 8.25'' $ 225 Chinese purple rosewood, or zitan, brush holder, retaining the original striated texture and curving form of 32 the branch now carved with a center aperture, 9''h $ 200 Chinese jade boulder, the greyish‐green matrix carved and undercut with a scholar accompanied by an attendant standing on a cliff gazing towards a distant stylized pine tree and half‐hidden pavilions in the background, the scene further heightened by prunus branches and the moon picked out from the russet 33 and dark colored skin, 6.5''h $ 400 Chinese large green and aubergine enameled yellow ground porcelain charger, the well centered by a striding dragon amid clouds and encircled by four writhing dragons to the sloping sides of the interior and 34 exterior, with an apocryphal Kangxi mark to the base, 16.75'' $ 150 Chinese carved wooden ruyi‐scepter, with ruyi lobes to either end and bracketing the shaped shaft surmounted by a pair of confronted dragons in pursuit of a flaming jewel, all supported above cascading 35 cash coins, 17.25''w $ 450 Chinese hardwood brush pot, the tapering cylinder carved with a poetic couplet followed by the cyclical 36 date 'renxu'