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Click here to subscribeTen Japanese 18th Century Woodblock Printed Books – Various. Mostly illustrations but including some calligraphy. One volume hand-coloured.Provenance: From the collection of the late Brian Page (1938-2018), the well-known Oriental art and antiques dealer from Brighton.At least one volume purchased at Christie’s, London October 1978, another December 1984.
Six Japanese 18th Century Illustrated Woodblock Printed Books. All six volumes comprise almost entirely illustrations with minimal calligraphy, including: Ehon Kusa Nishiki (Picture Book of Brocade of Grass) by Sekkosai Kitao Tatsunobu (1764), Gashi Kaiyo (Essentials of Painting History) volume 5 by Shunboku (1753). 18cm x 27cm.Provenance: From the collection of the late Brian Page (1938-2018), the well-known Oriental art and antiques dealer from Brighton.
15TH / 16TH CENTURY KASHAN IRANIAN LUSTRE POTTERY TILE SECTIONS - In two parts forming sections of a larger piece, with a central mihrab encapsulating Quranic script, the tile with a profuse amount of calligraphy / script upon a copper lustre - AF - 58cm x 57cm approx. Note: property of a private collection since 1950
A JAPANESE RECTANGULAR WOOD FOUR- CASE INROEdo periodCarved on one side with a bonsai tree in a planter beside A signature and seal, the reverse with further calligraphy and two seals, red lacquer and gilt shishi netsuke ,two bead ojime and a pouch, inro 7.25cm high, black lacquer boxQuite a number of chips around the edges of the inro. Lacquer box with some chips to the edges
A CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGLate 19th/20th centuryPainted with a young woman seated with a zither, a censer at her side, framed by two panels of calligraphy, 39cm by 29cm, framedProvenance: Hylda and Lewis Gilbert, Sheldrake Place, London. Lewis Gilbert (d.2018), the celebrated film director, producer andscreenwriter, best known for his 007 James Bond movies and Alfie.Condition Report: Some small losses of paint
ZAO WOU KI (Beijing, 1921 - Nyon, Switzerland, 2013).Untitled, from the Suite Olympic Centennial, 1992.Lithograph on 270 gram Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 58/250.Signed and justified by hand.Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.Zao Wou Ki is the second most sought-after postwar artist in the world and is the sixth most expensive artist of all time. In the first half of 2018, his sales ranked only behind those of stars such as Picasso, Monet, Modigliani or Andy Warhol. At the end of 2018, one of his paintings was sold for 56.5 million euros at auction at Sotheby's. The work made Wou-Ki the most expensive Asian artist in history.Zao Wou Ki was born into a Franco-Chinese family and grew up in a highly cultured environment, interested in the arts and sciences. He studied calligraphy in his childhood, an aspect that would influence his mature work, and later trained in painting at the Hangzhou College of Fine Arts between 1935-1941. A few years later, in 1948, he settled in Paris, in the Montparnasse district, where he would follow the artistic courses of Émile Othon Friesz and come into contact with the contemporary artistic avant-garde. He begins to experiment with lithography, a technique that he eventually mastered, as a result of his contact with Desjobert. He holds a solo exhibition at the Creuze Gallery in May 1949, with a presentation written by Bernard Dorival, curator of the National Museum of Modern Art. In January 1951 Pierre Loeb visits Wou-Ki's studio with Henri Michaux, organizing an exhibition at the Pierre Gallery for June, thus laying the foundations for a close collaborative relationship that would last six years. Thus, he exhibits regularly at the Pierre Gallery, and meets I. M. Pei and his wife Eileen, opening his circle of exhibitions to Switzerland, London, Basel and Lausanne, as well as in New York, Washington and Chicago. His painting is eminently abstract and colorist, very influenced by the work of Paul Klee, for his expressionist and emotive abstraction. He tends to work with large masses of intense and contrasting color, often creating works of large dimensions, as well as diptychs or triptychs. They are often explosions of color, germinal "big bangs", the origin of a world in creation, as we can see in this lithograph. Delicate patches of blue and mauve intermingle with some gray tones.
FERNANDO ZÓBEL (Manila, Philippines, 1924 - Rome, Italy, 1984)."The View XXVIII", 1974.Oil and graphite on canvas.Dated in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.This work will be included in the artist's Catalogue Raisonné.We thank Mr. Alfonso de la Torre for his invaluable help in cataloguing this lot.Measurements: 80.5 x 80.5 cm; 83.5 x 83.5 cm (frame).A soft, vaporous and reticulated brushstroke defines this conceptual landscape, in which Zóbel retains a certain vibration in the stroke, which denotes the transmutation of a changing reality, immersed in a completely personal atmosphere, which stands out for its lyricism and poetic aesthetics in the manner of artistic synesthesia. This work made in 1974 reflects the artist's interest in the landscape, and that balanced tension, which generates a view where the elements of nature are adapted to a contained abstraction. However, it should be noted that this work is also close to the series he made during the 80's, in which he introduced a change in the way of applying color, providing greater chromatic activity and playing with the gradations of tones, creating more dynamic and daring compositions.Historian, patron of the arts, university professor and collector are some of the adjectives corresponding to the figure of Fernando Zóbel, one of the most outstanding painters of the 20th century in Spain. The formation and cultivation of his personality, never ceases to develop, highlighting his love for books. He studied Medicine in the Philippines and graduated in Philosophy and Arts at Harvard University in the United States, being at this time when he became interested and involved with the pictorial world influenced by the Boston School, whose palette showed almost pure colors framed by a very marked drawing. Thus, in 1951 he took up the chair of Fine Arts at the Ateneo de Manila. Zóbel's evolution and need to develop a personal artistic language led him to explore the world of abstraction influenced by Rothko, or the expressionism of Pollock or de Kooning, working on very valid non-figurative proposals. To this, it is necessary to add the great influence and interest he felt towards oriental cultures, increasing this eagerness with his participation in a Chinese archaeological excavation discovered in the Philippine peninsula of Calatagan. As it was said, Zóbel's work drinks from the East, so much so that oriental calligraphy is the one that favors the presence of sinuous lines of great elegance, which can be appreciated in the work that concerns us, in which the meticulous and thoughtful previous work can be appreciated. And there is nothing left to chance in his apparently spontaneous painting, all of them contain a period of reflection and previous execution, because, as he said: "my process is the process of sketch, drawing, sketch and painting", a planning that gives rise to perfect scenographies formed by movement, lines, speed, space and light. His work is represented in important museums such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español in Valladolid, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha (Nebraska), the Hispanic Society of America, as well as in collections such as Chase Manhattan Bank, the AENA Art Collection of Contemporary Art in Madrid, as well as the Banco Urquijo in Barcelona.
Chinese famille rose bowl with cover on stand, Guangxu (1875 - 1908), decorated with Chinese calligraphy and scrolls on a yellow ground, Imperial Reign marks to the underside, overall 14.5cm high; also a Chinese famille rose wine cup decorated with hand-painted figures and character marks, six Imperial character marks to the underside, 8.5cm high. (2)CONDITION REPORT: There is a small chip to the rim of the cover. There is crazing to the interior of the bowl and minor age-related fading to the glaze. There is a small chip to the wine cup.
Late 19th/early 20th century Chinese watercolour scroll painting of a magpie or jay on a pine branch, signed with calligraphy and red seal mark, 133cm x 33cm, length approximately 193cm overall (lacking top baton); also another later scroll of a mountainous landscape, 68cm x 28.5cm, length approximately 123cm overall. (2)
20th century Chinese scroll painting of a dragon chasing a flaming pearl, signed with calligraphy and red seal mark, 128cm x 62cm, 175cm overall; also another of a beach scene with fishing boats and houses, signed with calligraphy, 80cm x 49cm, 190cm approximately overall (top baton detached).
Chinese Ming Style Swatow Export Pottery and Porcelain Assortment (12) items including a bowl, a small plate having calligraphy, (2) small lidded seal paste boxes and a small jar, all having blue and white decoration; a 2-handled jar having a monochrome powder blue glaze above an unglazed foot; (3) small 2-handled molded monochrome flasks including a cobalt blue, a celadon and a white; (2) miniature baluster vases, white glazed having unglazed feet; many having tape labels bearing collector's written dates from 1964, and some having Southeast Asian locations given such as East Java and Annam; together with a wooden stand Height: 1 3/4 inches, Diameter: 5 5/8 inches (bowl) Condition: Very Good to Good, having glaze and surface flaws typical of hand potted wares; bowl having (3) glaze flaws to interior from stacking in kiln; miniscule chips to inner lips of seal paste boxes; blue jar having a glaze flaw and repair to foot; blue and celadon flasks having chips at foot and mouth Category: Decorative Arts > Asian Estimated Sale Time: 11:38 am (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1
Japanese Kutani Wedding Set Covered Cups Late 19th to early 20th century, a set of (2), decorated with dozens of figures on a gold-tone ground, the interiors of both cups being fully decorated with calligraphy; unidentified marks to underside of both cups Height: 4 inches, Diameter: 3 1/4 inches (larger, diameter at lid) Condition: Very Good, no chips or cracks noted Category: Decorative Arts > Asian Estimated Sale Time: 11:43 am (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Illinois (8%), Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1Photograph #2Photograph #3Photograph #4
Original vintage propaganda poster titled Peace and Freedom by Hassan Massoudy, featuring Arabic calligraphy writing shaped into a person with long hair and a white peace dove next to it. Hassan Massoudy (b.1944) is an Iraqi painted and calligrapher. Reprinted with the artist's permission by the Palestinian Women's Group, U.K. Horizontal. Excellent condition. Country of issue: UK, designer: Hassan Massoudy, size (cm): 45x64, year of printing: 1982.
Two Chinese Famille Rose 'Wu Shang Pu' hexagonal small jardinières and stands, Qing Dynasty, mid 19th century, well painted with figures and flowers, 12.5cm high including stand x 13.5cm diameter and 14.5cm high including stand x 16cm diameter and a Cantonese Famille Rose hexagonal jardinière and stand, mid 19th century, painted with alternating panels of figures, butterflies, flowers and precious objects, 15.5cm high including stand x 22.5cm diameter (3) Provenance: Private Family Collection 清19世纪 粉彩无双谱花盆带托两件及粉彩花盆一件拍品来源：英国私人收藏Condition Report: The two 'Wu Shang Pu' jardinières and stand in overall good condition although the larger has a some fritting to edges of stand and there is some wear to gilding and black calligraphy and the stands and bases of jardinières have water marksThe last part of the lot with damaged stand a 23m section of the rim has been broken of and now riveted and also with infilled area 1cm x 1.5cm and wear to gilding throughout Condition Report Disclaimer
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