Lot Description Price 1 Balinese Palm-Leaf Book, Consisting of Five
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Lot Description Price Balinese palm‐leaf book, consisting of five incised leaves depicting a narrative featuring a naga (snake) king, mythical female with a snake‐form body and avenging hero, the reverse with passages of text, all within plain bamboo covers, 10.75''l; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to 1 benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 100 (Lot of 3) Two Thai bronze heads of the Buddha, 18th/19th century, the smaller of the heads with the Buddha as a king with a crown and ear ornaments, traces of pigment and gilt, 2.75''h; the second head with the usinsa surmounted by a sacred flame, 4.5''h; together with a fragment of a right hand, 4''l; Provenance: Deaccession 2 USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 275 (Lot of 5) Three Himalayan copper‐alloy/bronze purbu (ritual daggers), each with a triangular blade issuing from a makura head, the shaft surmounted by three dharmapala heads, 9.25''l; a large copper amulet box containing a sacred painting, 5''l; and the upper section of a metal and carved bone prayer wheel containing a sacred text, 3.5''h; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the 3 Acquisitions Fund $ 200 Himalayan steatite figure of a deity, 19th century or earlier, depicting Mahakala standing in dharmapala ornaments with various attributes in each of his four arms, traces of original pigments (wear), 4.75''h; 4 Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 375 Tibetan dzi/tianzhu and wooden bead necklace, consisting of ten brown and gray banded beads featuring 5 various geometric patterns, spaced with small spherical wooden beads, overall: 14'' $ 125 (Lot of 9) Chinese ivory figurines, 20th century, consisting of the 'Eight Immortals', each standing with his or her particular attribute, 5.125''h, with wooden stands; together with a slightly larger figure of Magu standing 6 with a up‐turned flower basket, 6.125''h, with wooden stand $ 375 (Lot of 5) Ivory jewelry, consisting of three ivory bangle bracelets: one of double‐ring configuration, and the other two carved as twisted rope; and two ivory bead necklaces, each with graduated size beads, longest 7 8.5''l $ 275 Chinese ivory head of Guanyin, carved with downcast eyes and a slight smile (cracks, losses), 3.75''h; 8 Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 275 Chinese jade carving, sculpted as a crane standing beside a gnarled trunk of a pine tree with an elongated 9 branch, the semi‐translucent sea‐green matrix mottled with small dark flecks, 8.25''w $ 100 (Lot of 4) Group of Asian ivory decorative items, consisting of two Japanese‐style netsuke, one of a mouse huddled beside a friend wrapped and tied with a rope, the other of three mice climbing out onto a contoured surface; one section of a tusk with pigment accents to the hairline cracks; together with a plain ivory bangle 10 bracelet, bangle: 2.9'' $ 580 (Lot of 3) Chinese ivory figures, depicting Shoulao and two of the Eight Immortals, each standing in long robes 11 and holding various attributes, 5.125''h; attached to wood stands $ 300 (Lot of 5) Chinese jade/jadeite disk carved and incised as a large cash coin suspended on a gilt metal stand, 2.3''d; together with four strands composed of carnelian beads and/or small disks; Provenance: Deaccession 13 USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 450 Chinese buff colored hardstone brush washer, the vessel fashioned as a contoured lotus leaf accented with lotus blossoms and sprigs carved to the exterior, 7.75''w; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of 16 Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 350 (Lot of 5) Chinese small jade pebbles, of natural contour and some with russet skin contrasting with the pale 17 celadon matrix, largest: 2''w $ 300 Chinese white ware figure of Guanyin, fashioned with a benevolent face framed by a cowl pulled over her chignon and draping over the shoulders, portrayed in a position of royal ease while holding a flywhisk (repair), 18 8''h $ 125 Page 1 of 83 Chinese green glazed circular ceramic tile, reputed to be Tang dynasty, molded with a recessed reserve of a scrolling dragon in pursuit of a sacred jewel, 6.75''d; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los 20 Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 225 (Lot of 2) Jade boulders, the uncarved and unpolished rocks with a textured surface, one of a dark spinach hue and the other a gray‐green color, 4.25'' and 4.75''l; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, 21 Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 200 Pair of Chinese enameled porcelain bowls, the interior and exterior featuring coral red prunus blossoms 22 issuing from gnarled branches, the recessed base marked 'Shende Tang zhi' (small chips), 4.125''w $ 20 Chinese copper‐red glazed porcelain apple‐form brush washer, with a short flared bottle neck above a sunken 23 shoulder and a tapering ovoid body, the recessed base with underglaze blue apocryphal Qianlong mark, 4''h $ 150 Chinese gilt and polychrome enamel decorated porcelain ovoid vase, the small slender body finely painted on the exterior in gold and bright enamels with the Eight Daoist Emblems and bats amid stylized cloud scrolls framed by gilt and floral‐patterned bands, lotus petals encircling the tapering base, with an apocryphal 24 Qianlong mark, 7.5''h $ 100 Chinese enameled yellow ground porcelain bowl, the exterior scattered overall with orange enameled bats, red shou medallions and blue wanzi emblems, the recessed base with an apocryphal red six‐character 25 Xianfeng mark, 6''w $ 225 Chinese molded white ware ceramic bowl, of conical form decorated with peony blossoms and scrolls below a keyfret band to the interior wall, the well reads 'da guan nian zhi', the recessed base with red mark 'China', (hairline cracks), 9.4''w; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to 26 benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 175 Chinese underglaze blue enameled porcelain jar, the ovoid body featuring branches of flowering prunus set against a cracked‐ice ground, the short neck encircled with a comb pattern, the recessed base with a double 27 blue ring, 525.255''h $ 75 (Lot of 2) Chinese polychrome enameled porcelain footed dish and a plate, the lobed dish decorated with a senior official on horseback arriving at a gate guarded by a general framed by a border band of magpies perched on branches with blue prunus blossoms, the exterior with peaches alternating with auspicious bats, the foot decorated with cresting waves (chips), 10.3''w; the second brightly enameled with birds and butterflies fluttering amid sprigs of peonies, lychee, and melon silhouetted aganist a celadon green ground, 28 7.6''w $ 75 Chinese polychrome enameled three‐tier porcelain container, of cylindrical shape with a domical lid and raised on a tall pedestal base, the top centered by a flower vase and scholar's objects within a roundel above further scholar's items and auspicious objects, the base with a stylized wave band and all executed in bright 30 overglaze enamels, the base with a studio mark [illegible], 6.5''h $ 150 (Lot of 3) Group of Chinese glazed porcelain snuff bottles, the first with a slender ovoid body coated with an aubergine glaze mottled with dark flecks; the second a celadon glazed small moon flask, each side molded with a blossom surrounded by ruyi‐form tendrils; last a pale blue glazed square bottle with an underglaze blue cartouche 'Guo jia xiang, Wu Ting Jin' (the second bottle with minor chips to foot, the last with hairline crack to base), third: 3.4''h; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit 31 the Acquisitions Fund $ 125 Chinese cinnabar lacquered circular box, the lid carved with an elderly scholar and friends on a river bank under a gnarled pine tree, the sides featuring blossoms and scrolling tendrils set against a geometric ground 33 (minor losses), 3.75''w $ 75 (Lot of 5) Chinese hardstone snuff bottles, two of green fluorite and carved in relief with leafy blossoms (matching stoppers); the third of amethyst, the translucent purple stone carved with a dragon; the next of honey‐colored agate with dark brown inclusions and carved with animal mask and mock loose‐ring handles; the last possibly of brown jade, largest 2.75''h; Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los 34 Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund $ 250 Page 2 of 83 Chinese polychrome enameled ceramic zhisha teapot, of hexagonal section, decorated in bright enamels with a bird perched on a leaf beside a pink blossom, the other faces with prunus and bamboo, one side inscribed 'dian ou zhong chu ju' and 'yin xiang' (=drinking fragrance), the spout and angular handle picked out with 35 turquoise, with a fitted lid, 7.25''w $ 350 Chinese inside painted glass cabinet bottle, the flattened ovoid body decorated with a group of lush trees on a hilltop above a nearby town, inscribed with a long colophon above the stylized mountains, the reverse with a gathering of scholars near a river bank and with a colophon to the upper left, bearing the cyclical date 'jiaxu' 36 and followed by name 'Sanyou', bottle: 3.3''w $ 150 (Lot of 3) Chinese Peking glass snuff bottles, one simulating realgar with a mottled red and yellow ochre coloration; 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