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Auction of Art & Antiques antiques trade gazette User: IVAN Issue No: 2169 Issue Date: 06/12/14 File Name: NE01-03 PROOFED: Issue 2169 | 6th December 2014 UK £2.25 – USA $6.50 – Europe €3.95 SYMBOLS OF GOOD FORTUNE Thangka brings Nantwich auctioneers Peter Wilson set a new house record on November 27 with this large Qianlong (1736-95) mark-and-period doucai ‘lotus and bats’ jar and cover. Auctioneer Robert Stones brought down the new HK$310m gavel at £350,000 (£420,000 including the 20% buyer’s premium) after almost nine minutes of bidding. Four phone bidders from Mainland China and London competed against a lady Asian art high sitting in the saleroom who had flown from China to attend in person. She left empty-handed when ■ After an intense bidding battle on it sold to a bidder on the Yongle textile shows ten-fold the phones which lasted 22 minutes, telephone. increase in value over 12 years the thangka (pictured on page 3) was The jar was offered for knocked down to Liu Yiqian, the well- sale by the Shropshire Gabriel Berner known Chinese collector who was bidding descendant of a reports via the phone of Jinqing Cai, president Liverpool shipping of Christie’s China. After the sale, Mr Liu merchant who had AMONG the most important said he had purchased it for his recently brought it back from opened Long Museum in Shanghai. China. Admired for Asian works of art to come The large 11ft x 7ft (3.35 x 2.13m) its 18in (46cm) body to market in the modern thangka – recently on view in London’s decorated in doucai collecting era, an Imperial King Street – was created over five enamels outlined in gilt with centuries ago during the reign of the foliate lotus scrolls and iron Ming dynasty embroidered Ming dynasty’s third ruler, the Yongle red bats in flight – respectively silk thangka sold for HK$310m emperor who was in power from symbols of enlightenment and (£27m) at a Christie’s Chinese 1402-24. Embroidered in gold and good fortune – no other closely art sale in Hong Kong on brilliantly coloured silk threads, it depicts related vase appears to have been Raktayamari, the red Conqueror of Death, published. In 2011 it had failed to sell November 26. embracing his consort, Vajravetali. at Sotheby’s in London but was offered This hammer price – HK$348.4m Yongle was a devout Buddhist who in Cheshire with a substantially lower (£30.6m) with premium added – became the devoted disciple of the fifth estimate of £150,000-200,000. effectively counts as a new auction record Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu lineage. The price was the highest realised for an for Chinese art. It also exceeds at a single The emperor is known to have Asian work of art among a raft of regional stroke the aggregate of all the Oriental bestowed many favours and gifts on the specialist sales. These, and sales in London, are works of art sold at auction during the reported in this issue. recent Asian Art in London series. continued on page 3 Koopman Rare Art Paul Storr Antiques Trade Gazette: Harlequin Building, 65 Southwark Street, London SE1 0HR. PRINTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PAGE 001-003 2169.indd 1 11/28/2014 10:00:00 AM antiques trade gazette anti User: IVAN Issue No: 2169 Issue Date: 06/12/14 File Name: NE01-03 PROOFED: Use 2 6th December 2014 contents news Yo Dealers’ Diary The seal of the JOHN SMART: A GENIUS MAGNIFIED A German collection at Philip Mould Page 32-34 cont Karm London Selection Page 14-17 Bruce returns… thang the W Auction Reports Page 18-24 IT is, say Timeline Auctions, “probably the of Sik most important medieval seal to come to Tashi Page 32-34 Auction Previews Page 28-29 market” and certainly the most important Its object the firm have ever offered for is rem Art Market Page 36-38 sale, according to CEO Brett Hammond. consi In the year of the 700th anniversary of Only Antiquarian Books Page 40-43 Bannockburn they are offering the seal of both Robert the Bruce at around 2.30pm on in Lha International Events Page 47-60 December 4 with an estimate of £80,000- Ch 100,000. an Am Subscription Form Page 62 The ‘King Robert the Bruce of Scotland witho and Dunfermline Abbey cokete seal matrix Fir Index of Auction Advertisers Page 63 pair’ was commissioned on July 10, 1322. since Cokete seals were used where certain and la Auction Calendar Page 63-68 rights had been assumed or conferred – in when this case the right of Dunfermline Abbey ($4m Page 52-57 Fairs & Markets Page 69-72 to collect and use revenues from customs textile duties or taxes. mark Classified Page 73 Follow us on Twitter Like many large and important seals, since it comprises two elements and was used Th Letters to the Editor Page 74 as a press to form the large wax seal hold impression that was then attached to a Above: the Robert the Bruce of Scotland and landm The Back Page Page 74-75 document on a strip of parchment. 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