East Indian Bronze Figures of Ganesh, 19Th/20Th
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Lot Description Price (lot of 6) East Indian bronze figures of Ganesh, 19th/20th century, featuring four in dancing poses, one 1 multi-armed and one silvered seated, 9''h; Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San Francisco $ 150 (lot of 7) East Indian bronze oil lamps, 19th/20th century, consisting of two standing beauties, hand lamp with figure of elephant, Ganesh base lamp, spoon shaped lamp, peacock lamp, Himalayan lamp, 8.5''h; 2 Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San Francisco $ 175 Asian bronze seated Hotei on dragon throne, 20th century, holding a strand of praying beads and a bag 5 with traces of gilt, 8.5''h; Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San Francisco $ 200 (lot of 2) Thai gilt bronze Buddhist figures, 19th century, figures each seated on tiered pedestals, some 7 damages, 17''h; Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San Francisco $ 125 (lot of 6) group of Himalayan silver gilt metal votive pieces, 20th century, consisting of a table top prayer 8 wheel, a bowl, three rings, and a finial, 7.5''h; Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San Francisco $ 175 (lot of 5) Assortment of Himalayan/Tibetan religious objects, consisting of a bronze bell with a vajra finial, a small bronze floral form stem cup, a copper phurba and a copper gao, 6.75''h; Provenance: The Hemphill 9 Collection of San Francisco $ 150 (lot of 6) Nepalese seated copper alloy Buddhas, 20th century, five are holding medicine jars, one with 11 hands in mudra, 5.5''h; Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San Francisco $ 125 (Lot of 3) Chinese green hardstone covered urns, the first of flattened hu form featuring a taotie motif; second of fanghu form with dragons flanking the notched flanges, 7.25''h; the last carved with a stylized 17 bat in low relief, 6.5''h; with wood stands $ 150 Chinese carved amethyst censer, the compressed body flanked by a pair of dragon handles suspending loose rings, while all raised on zoomorphic supports, together with a splayed cover surmounted by a 18 coiled dragon, with wood stand, censer: 5.5''h $ 75 (Lot of 6) Asian underglaze blue porcelain, consisting of three small dishes with stylized floral motifs, two bowls, one accented with blossoms; together with a covered urn decorated with butterflies and dragonfly 23 amid foliage bracketed within ruyi bands (repairs), 8.75''h $ 125 Chinese celadon glazed porcelain vessel, with a ridged tapering cylindrical body raised on three ruyi head 24 form supports, the exterior and interior coated with a celadon hue thinning white at the rim, 3.125''h $ 750 Pair of Chinese Dehua porcelain (blanc de chine) figures of the bodhisattva Manjusri and Samantabhadra, late Qing/early Republic, each of their elegant faces shaped with downcast eyes, below a tall chignon while fronted by a diadem and with knotted tresses draping down to the shoulders flanking the neckline adorned with jewelry, each seated in royal ease above their respective elephant and lion vehicles, the 25 back impressed 'Dehua' and 'Bojiyuren', Manjusri: 10.6''h $ 475 Chinese blanc de chine porcelain of Guanyin, the bodhisattva draped in tiers of flowing robe reclining on a lotus leaf with right elbow resting on a lotus blossom and the left hand clutching a strand of prayer beads, 26 marked He Chaozong, the back marked 'He Chaozong', 10.75''w $ 75 (Lot of 3) Group of Chinese blanc de chine decorative items, consisting of a peanut form small box molded with flowering tendrils; a small water dropper shaped as a recumbent qilin; together with a fu-lion set 27 above a tall octagonal plinth with the characters 'shou', 5.5''h $ 20 Chinese blanc de chine porcelain seated Guanyin, the long benevolent face mounted with a chignon covered by an undulating cowl, the chest centered with a blossom and with a sacred jewel supported in 28 hand, all set above a double lotus pedestal, 11.75''h $ 100 Page 1 of 87 Lot Description Price Chinese Yixing clay teapot, of inverted V-shape incised with a colophon reversed with flowers and a garden rock, fitted with green hardstone spout and handle mounted with metal fittings, the underside 29 with a four character cartouche; together with a rectangular lid, teapot: 5.6''w $ 375 Chinese Yixing clay teapot, the body tapering toward an angular shoulder and a short cylindrical neck, the side incised with a poetic line and the recessed base bearing the studio name of Gu Jingzhou 'man xi tao 30 yi'; together with a fitted lid, teapot: 6.25''w $ 150 (Lot of 3) Chinese Yixing ceramic teapots, the first of double wall construction with the exterior molded with a pair of reserves of a pavilion complex within a openwork tendril frame, the recessed base reads 'da zhou fu diao', together with a lid surmounted with a rabbit; the second applied with prunus to the compressed body and lid which is further mounted with a toad, the recessed base reads 'Zhang Jian taoyi'; 31 lastly, of decagonal section with a dragon form handle, the base reads 'Zhongguo Yixing', 6.25''w $ 275 Chinese Yixing ceramic teapot, in the form of a stone mill, the short cylindrical body molded with a colophon and shaped with the head of a zoomorph along with animal form supports, the upper attached 32 with a grinding roller, the underside marked, 6''w $ 75 (Lot of 2) Japanese bronze censer, the first with a wide rim and short neck above the angular shoulder, having lappets each featuring a pair of dragons bracketing a cicada, all resting on three short feet; the second with a compressed globular body with leafy tendrils executed in mixed metal, raised on splayed slender supports and U-shaped handles flanking the rim, together with an openwork lid with a floral finial, 34 5.25''h $ 125 (Lot of 4) Japanese enameled porcelain bowls, 19th/20th century, consisting of three Imari-style with a foliate rim and mold petal form sides decorated with floral and geometric patterns encircling a chrysanthemum further embellished with flowering sprigs, the recessed base reads 'ki gyoku hou kanae no chin'; together with a shallow bowl centered with a underglaze blue floral medallion while the sides 36 enameled with double gourds on a stripe ground, the exterior accented with precious treasures, 5.75''w $ 275 Pair of Chinese enameled porcelain vases, each of rouleau form decorated with a mirror image of scholars and beauties in elegant pursuits in a garden pavilion, with a black and red enameled garland suspended by bats and stylized foliage below the dish rim, the shoulder further heightened with flowering tendrils, the 38 base and body with apocryphal Qianlong marks (drilled), 13.5''h $ 125 (Lot of 29) Assortment of Chinese glazed ceramic fruits and nuts, consisting of a large peach, pomegranate, Buddha hand citron, along with clusters of peaches, lychee and peanuts, together with a 39 cluster of rose quartz grapes and three green hardstone fruits, largest: 5''w $ 850 (Lot of 2) Vietnamese underglaze blue bowls, each of inverted bell form decorated with a band of tendrils above a lotus petal pattern encircling the lower exterior, the interior centered with a floral spray, the 40 recessed base adhered with label 'Hoi An Hoard', 6.125''w $ 100 Chinese underglaze blue porcelain charger, decorated with two meandering dragons to the well, with 41 similar writhing dragons to the interior and exterior sides amid stylized cloud scrolls, 13.5''w $ 150 (Lot of 2) Chinese prayer beads, the first consisting of 108 spherical wooden beads, the second composed 42 on thirteen large spherical beads, bead: 0.625''dia $ 225 Chinese bamboo brush pot, the exterior featuring the large characters 'guan hai ting tao' (=gazing at the 43 sea and listening to the waves), the lower incised with cyclical date 'yihai' autumn, 6.5''h $ 100 Page 2 of 87 Lot Description Price (Lot of 3) Framed Chinese embroidered textiles, consisting of a wooden tray framing a fragment couched with gilt butterflies and peonies on a deep reed ground; a pair of framed sleeve bands, featuring a beauty listening to a scholar playing the qin in a garden, executed in Peking knots, satin stitches and couching on a 44 satin silk ground, overall: 23.75''h x 7.6''w $ 150 Chinese polychrome enameled porcelain charger, the interior with three shaped floral reserves all set on a yellow ground decorated with leafy tendrils issuing pink and turquoise fruits, the rim encircled with ruyi 45 bands and key-frets, 15''w $ 50 Chinese polychrome enameled porcelain vase, the olive form body featuring the Eight Daoist Immortals travelling toward a viewing pavilion with Hehe Erxian and Three Star Immortals, the trumpet neck with a jewel garland picked out in black and coral enamels, the recessed base with apocryphal Qianlong mark, 46 17.75''h $ 325 Chinese polychrome enameled crackle glazed baluster vase, embellished with a battle scene accented with iron-oxide bands and zoomorphs to the shoulder and tapering base, the underside with an 48 apocryphal Chenghua mark, 18''h $ 150 (lot of 150) Chinese wooden plate stands, bases and other stands of various shapes, circular, rectangular, 49 oblong, include a pair of wooden sticks and two metal stands, 8.5''h x 15''d $ 700 Gandharan-style stone carving of a head, sculpted with arched brow above the almond shaped eyes flanking the sharply defined nose, above an archaic smile, 7''h. Provenance: The Hemphill Collection of San 50 Francisco $ 125 Asian/Burmese wooden carving, the head of domical form shaped with line eyes and a triangular nose above an arch smile, possibly a pole decoration, 8.5'' h.