67th Fine Art Auction | 20. March 2021

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846   Guan (wine vessel). Cizhou kiln, North China. Late Yuan-Dynasty - Early Ming Dynasty. Around 1380.

Ceramic, light stoneware with creme-coloured slip, dark brown decoration and translucent glaze. The inside completely ...
covered in dark brown iron oxide. Baluster-shaped body with short neck and thickened mouth rim. The outside of the body with a phoenix design and stylized ruyi clouds with scratched interiour decoration. Surrounding rudimentary mountain contours. Below a painted rudimentary leaf fries between double rings. Bottom side with a painted (later?) numbering "133" and a symbol (eye?).

Provenance: Saxonian private collection, since 1952 evidenced, entry into the collection probably in the 1920s.

Report of Thermoluminiscence analysis no. 01R310120 of the laboratory Kotalla from the 04.02.2020 is available (640 years + / – 18%).

Lit.:
Yutaka Mino: Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares 960 – 1600 A.D, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, p. 10, 13 and p. 206 with image no. 254.

Thormann, O. / Gaetti, S.: Frühchinesische Keramik – Bestandskatalog Sammlung Heribert Meurer, GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig. Leipzig, 2017, p. 30. > Read more

Cream coloured slip with characteristic burst bubbles, flakes, crenation from the manufacturing process, the inside adequate. Overall with superficial traces of use and age. Rim with two hairline cracks (approx. 4,5 cm and 8,5 cm). In the area of the mountain contours with a horizontal slip crack (approx. 6,5 cm) and one slip crack in near the bottom (approx. 7,5 cm). Slip of corpus and bottom part with occasional rub-off and loss as well as two larger burst bubbles (without slip) in the area of a ruyi-cloud and a stripe. Bottom with a crenation with loss of material and a nearly horizontal slip crack running into the body of the vessel.

66th Fine Art Auction | 05. December 2020

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949   Plate with dragons. Qianlong six character mark, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), 19. Jh./ 20th cent.

Porcelain, glazed. Plate with dragons. Qing Dynastie (1644-1911), 19. Jh./ 20th cent.
Porcelain, glazed. Décor with ...
two five-clawed dragons with a fiery pearl and surrounded by cloud formations. Bottom side with six character mark "Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi". > Read more

Overall fine scratches and the centre with two more distinct scratches. Rim and centre with blister from the firing process. Rim with five chips (1- 13 mm) and a clearly defined hairline crack (approx. 9 mm). The unglazed bottom stand with a fine crack from the firing process (approx. 4 mm).

63rd Fine Art Auction | 28. March 2020

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1060   Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva mit elf Köpfen und acht Armen. Sino-tibetisch. 18th cent.

Bronze, hohl gearbeitet, dunkelbraun patiniert und mit Resten einer braunen Lackierung sowie einer Lackvergoldung. ...
Perlenbesatz in Form kleiner Türkiscabochons. In Padmasana auf einem Lotossockel sitzender Bodhisattva mit indischem Fürstenschmuck. Vor der Brust in Anjali Mudra zusammengelegte Arme. In den nach außen gehaltenen rechten Händen eine Gebetsschnur, ein Buch sowie eine Sonne, die linken Hände Lotosblüten sowie einen Mond haltend. > Read more

Verso am Gesäß des Bodhisattva ein kleines Loch, wohl bereits im Herstellungsprozess hinterlegt. Der Sockel rückseitig ebenfalls mit alter Restaurierung (innenseitiger Hinterlegung), wohl aus dem Herstellungsprozess. Dort am Stand ein Materialriss. Steinbesatz zum Teil fehlend sowie partiell verfärbt. Gebetskette nur fragmentarisch erhalten. Vergoldung größtenteils berieben, Lackierung teils berieben. Partiell Korrosionsspuren.

60th Fine Art Auction | 15. June 2019

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1100   Utagawa Hiroshige "Rokujuyoshu meisho zue" (Pictures of famous places in the sixty-odd provinces).1853- 1856.

Utagawa Hiroshige 1797 Edo (Tokio) – 1858 ebenda

Wood cuts in colours on washi. The complete set comprising 69 prints and table of contents.
Each print top right ...
with the title of the series in a red cartouche next to the subtitle cartouche with the province and the depicted place. Below a red cartouche with the signature “Hiroshige ga” in many cases next to the smaller block-cutter’s seal. For the most part with two censors’ seals as well as the date and the publisher’s seals "Koshimuraya Heisuke". Contents page with the title cartouche.

Furthermore seven cartouches with different layout and calligraphy, including the classification of the provinces into routes: the Gokinai, the Tokaido, the Tosando, the Hokurikudo, the Sanindo and the San’yodo in one cartouche, the Nankaido and the Saikaido.
Mounted in an album in Japanese stab binding. Each print entirely mounted on front and back of a double-layer washi. Cover of the album printed in grey and in parts with gold-coloured metal leaf and stamped with silver-coloured leaf motifs. Front cover with the title in Japanese characters on a paper label.

After the great success of Hiroshige‘s set of the „Tokaido and Kisokaido
roads“ in the 1830s the publisher Koshimuraya Heisuke engaged
Hiroshige for the ambitious project of designing „Sixty-odd
Views of the Provinces“, showing pictures from the 68 Japanese
provinces and the capital Edo, released between 1853 and 1856. It
was the first of a number of series from the highly productive years
of his later life.

The details of printing conditions of the following lots refer to the publication "Hiroshige's journey in the 60 odd-provinces" (2004) by Marije Jansen where the “Pulverer set” which was named after his owner, is depicted in full - the majority of those prints are from the first edition and in best printing quality.

Provenance: Property from a Saxon private collection; formerly from the estate of the artist Curt Hasenohr-Hoelloff (1887 Leipzig-1987 Markkleeberg).

All 69 prints and the table of contents are catalogued as alias lots 1101-1170. Please refer to our online catalogue for high resolution images as well as detailed descriptions.

Lit.: Jansen, Marije: "Hiroshige's journey in the 60 odd-provinces". Leiden, 2004. > Read more

58th Fine Art Auction | 08. December 2018

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1194   1194 Rare iron-red and underglaze-blue "dragon" vase. China. Quianlong six-character seal mark.

Porcelain, glazed. Meiping-shaped body with wide shoulders and short tubular neck. The exterior enamelled in varying ...
tones of iron-red with two five-clawed dragons and a "flaming pearl" as well as crashing waves and cloud scrolls in varying tones of underglaze-blue. The base with the Quianlong six-character seal mark. > Read more

Excellent condition.

58th Fine Art Auction | 08. December 2018

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1196   Netsuke. China. 19. Jh./ 20th cent.

Bein, geschnitzt, graviert und geschwärzt. Zwei Figuren mit einem Kilin. Unsigniert.

Verso Rissbildung, teils deutlicher vergilbt.

46th Fine Art Auction | 12. December 2015

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729   Meditierender Buddha. China. Wohl 18th cent.

Wood, geschnitzt. Massive, vollplastisch gearbeitet Figur mit Fragmenten einer roten Lackfassung sowie winzigen Resten ...
einer goldfarbenen Fassung am Gewand.
Buddha im Dhyana Asana. Die Hände verweilen in der Geste der Meditation (Dhyana Mudra). Das Gewand fällt zu beiden Seiten gleichmäßig über die Schultern und reicht bis zu den Händen. Der Kopf ohne Haare und Kopfbedeckung gearbeitet, Ohren im Langohrtypus. Verso offene rechteckige Öffnung ohne Abdeckung. Darunter kleiner Klebezettel "121", am Boden die Inventarnummer des Kunstgewerbemuseums Schloß Pillnitz "36243"..

Provenienz: Ostdeutscher Privatbesitz, 2015 restituiert; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloß Pillnitz, 1942 aus dem Nachlaß des Israel Wollf Dresden übernommen, vorher Sammlung Julius Ferdinand Wollf (1903-1933 Chefredakteur und Verleger der Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten) und Johanna Sophie Wollf, geb. Gutmann. > Read more

Holz an mehreren Stellen gerissen, am li. Bein neu angesetzt und gekittet. Farbfassung mit großflächigen Fehlstellen und Abplatzungen.

35th Fine Art Auction | 09. March 2013

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880   A filigree carved ivory basket and cover with the monogram of Maria Pawlowna, grand duchess of Russia. China, Canton, Qing Dynasty. Late 19th cent.

Ivory, carved and assembled. Curved, oval corpus on four finely carved legs. The corpus divided into six segments. The ...
cover curved and with an almond-shaped knob. The trapezoid segments of the corpus each with a cambered cartouche on star-shaped grid-cut. Inside the cartouches finely carved arabesque embelllishment with oval lockets on delicate, horiziontally chequered pattern base. Within the lockets scenes of chinese every-day life. Cover front and verso with the crowned monogram "MP" in cyrillic letters. Filigree handle.
H. 17 cm, L. 27,5 cm.
Condition:
Plugged notches of the assembled panels predominantly open on one side due to shrinking of material. There with smaller and four major surface defects. Border on the bottom with loss of material. > Read more

Die gesteckten Nutverbindungen der Füllungen zu den Rahmenteilen schwundbedingt zumeist einseitig offen. Randbereiche der Füllungen dort mit kleineren sowie vier größeren Fehlstellen. Zarge mit Materialverlust.

35th Fine Art Auction | 09. March 2013

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881   A filigree carved ivory basket with cover. China, Canton, Qing Dynasty. Late 19th cent.

Ivory, carved and assembled. Curved, oval corpus on four finely carved legs. The corpus divided into six segments. The ...
cover curved and with an almond-shaped knob. The trapezoid segments of basket and cover entirely furnished with finely carved, vivid chinese landscape, figural and architectural scenes on horiziontally chequered pattern base. Filigree, bamboo-shaped handle.
H. 17,5 cm , L. 27 cm.
Condition:
Plugged notches of the assembled panels predominantly open on one side due to shrinking of material. There with surface defects and curvature. Border on the bottom with small loss of material. One segment of the cover with major surface defect. > Read more

Die gesteckten Nutverbindungen der Füllungen zu den Rahmenstücken schwundbedingt zumeist einseitig offen. Ränder der Füllungen dort teilweise mit Ausbrüchen, Abrissen oder Verwölbungen.
Ein Strebenanschluß des Deckels einseitig ausgebrochen. Eine Füllung des Deckels mit größerer Fehlstelle. Zarge mit einer Fehlstelle.

32nd Fine Art Auction | 09. June 2012

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849   Fußschale. China. Spätes 19. / Early 20th cent.

Silber (geprüft), patiniert. Querrechteckiger, gedrückt gebauchter Korpus mit eingezogener Schulter auf zwei ...
vollplastisch ausgearbeiteten Drachenkopffüßen. Die Wandung mit reliefiert gearbeiteten Blütenzweigen. Die Mündung hochgezogen und mit durchbrochen gearbeiteten Bambuszweigen. Am Boden mit der zweifach gepunzten chinesischen Exportmarke.
Patiniert.
Gesamtgewicht 586g. > Read more