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The Dr. Alain Faure Collection We are delighted to offer in this sale a private collection of just over two hundred items belonging to Dr. Alain Faure. An art historian and European language teacher, the collection represents over thirty years of active buying, upgrading, learning and enjoyment. He was greatly inspired by the world renowned collections of Sir Percival David and Joseph Hutong Gallery (both on display in the British Museum). London Asian Art and Portobello market equally helped further develop his interest and passion for collecting, turning his home into his own private museum and cultural oasis. In his own words: ÊCollecting can be inspirational; it is my wish that the artefacts offered in this auction will give as much pleasure and provide as many rewards to their new custodians, as they gave to me who gathered them.Ë Items from this collection are marked `AFC` A Neolithic Pot, AFC Neolithic, the pear body with two low loop handles and painted in iron-o
A rare set of four iron Seasonal Panels, late 19th/early 20th century, each with a different bird on the stems of an appropriate flower and all worked in forged and hammered metal, against a cream silk ground, minor damage, 116.8 x 24.8cm overall, black wood frames (4) See `Chinese Art, The Minor Arts`, R Soame Jenyns and William Watson, 1963, no. 72. In the 17th century, an iron worker, Tang Tien-chih vied with Hsiao Yun-tsung, a painter, to see who could best represent a landscape. ??????/????? ??????? ????, Backing mnaterial on all is discoloured. All panels with some metal work loose and small parts missing.
A bronze standing Buddha, Chola Period, 12th/13th century, from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, modelled with a flaming ushnisha on tightly curled hair, urna on his forehead, the right hand in abhayamudra (gesture of reassurance/protection), the left hand in varadamudra (gesture of giving), each palm incised with auspicious markings, wearing a close fitting sanghati with incised folds, a serene face with downcast eyes and gentle smile, standing on a round double-lotus base above a stepped rectangular plinth incised with lotus petals around the base, the reverse inscribed in Tamil, some small traces of red pigment, 21.5cm Portable bronze Buddhas such as this served to perpetuate artistic and religious connections between India and South East Asia. The Buddhist Monastic complex in Negapattinam was the largest in Medieval South India. For a similar, but 11th/12th century example, see the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago display unit 409, Samuel M. Nickerson Fund 1940.83., Two smal
Waley, Arthur, trans., five volumes of poems, 1940s and 50s, Octavo, dust jackets, and `Madly Singing in the Mountains`, an appreciation of Arthur Waley Mai-mai Sze, `The Tao of Painting`, two volumes, 1957, dust jackets, faded and torn, Van Gulik, R H, `Chinese Pictorial Art`, Serie Orientale Roma, xix, 1958 (9)

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