Lot 157. A Large Chinese Celadon Glazed Porcelain 'Dragon' Charger, Yongzheng Seal Mark and of the Period (1723-1735). Diameter 19 1/2 inches. Est. $80,000-120,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc. 

NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of Asia Week New York, Doyle will hold two auctions showcasing Asian Works of Art. The sales will present the arts of China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Among the 700 lots to be offered are porcelains, bronzes, jades, snuff bottles, pottery, scholar’s objects, furniture and paintings from prominent collections and distinguished estates.

The first auction will take place on Monday, March 21 at 10am, and Session II will be presented as a timed auction closing on Friday, March 25 at 10am. The public is invited to the exhibition on view Friday, March 18 through Sunday, March 20 at Doyle, located at 175 East 87th Street in New York. View the catalogue and place bids at DOYLE.com 

A featured section of the March 21 auction will showcase property from the Collection of Steven J. Harvis. Now retired, Mr. Harvis was a Manhattan attorney for 50 years and built, as the senior partner, a national and international law firm. He has been collecting, studying and dealing in Chinese works of art from the Shang Dynasty through the Republic Period for more than 35 years. His relationship with the Chinese art departments at major New York auction houses goes back over 30 years. Mr. Harvis was involved in the cataloguing, research and authorship of the descriptions of each of the pieces of his collection being offered at Doyle. 

Doyle is proud to be an Auction House Partner of Asia Week New York.

Lot 157. A Large Chinese Celadon Glazed Porcelain 'Dragon' Charger, Yongzheng Seal Mark and of the Period (1723-1735). Diameter 19 1/2 inches. Est. $80,000-120,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Raised on a short foot and with flat everted rim; the interior decorated with a central medallion showing a dragon amongst clouds, the underside molded with overlapping lotus petals; with labeled Japanese wooden collector's box.

Provenance: From the Collection of an American Civilian Educational Coordinator stationed in Japan, 1948-1951; thence by descent.

Lot 144. A Fine Pair of Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Baluster Vases and Covers, Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Each decorated to show an assemblage of legendary figures in an idyllic garden setting between a lishui band at foot and decorative bands at shoulder and neck displaying flowers and precious objects. 

Provenance: Ralph Chait Galleries, New York; with labels.

Lot 71. A Fine and Rare Chinese Dark Spinach Jade Buffalo, Late Ming Dynasty. Length 7 1/2 inches. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The recumbent beast carved in stout proportion and bearing a pleasant expression, the stone of lightly mottled spinach green; with fitted wood stand..

Provenance: E. R. Butler Collection, New York City
E & J Frankel, Madison Avenue, New York City, 1992

Lot 321. A Large Chinese Zitan Table, 20th Century. Height 33 1/2 inches, length 78 1/2 inches, depth 31 inches.. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The stoutly-constructed waisted table with square legs and club feet intricately carved with undulating, root-like design. 

Lot 160. A Pair of Imperial Chinese Celadon Porcelain Jardinières on Zitan Stands, Incised Qianlong Sealmarks and of the Period (1736-1795). Diameter of porcelain 9 1/2 inches; height on stand 7 1/2 inches.. Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The hexagonal tapering vessels with everted rim and angled bracket feet at corners, decorated with subtly carved lotus blossom panels; with good fitted zitan stands; with silk-lined fitted Japanese collector boxes.

Provenance: Property of a Bucks County, PA Gentleman.

Note: For a similarly decorated square pair of Qianlong jardinières with stands, see Nagel Auctions' Asian Arts Sale of June 6, 2015.

Lot 10. A Fine Chinese Beijing Enamel Snuff Bottle, Four Character Qianlong Mark and likely of the Period. Height 2 1/2 inches. Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Of flattened ovoid form; delicately painted overall in the famille rose palette to show butterflies amongst an abundance of fruits and flowers.

Lot 93. A Large and Exceptionally Rare Tsuda Family-Embellished Chinese Spinach Jade Cylindrical Vase, 19th-early 20th century. Height 12 1/2 inches. Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The large cylindrical vase of variegated spinach jade is meticulously embellished in lacquer, hardstone, pearl, and composition by the Japanese Tsuda Family of Kyoto to show a scene of Chinese figures in an mythological mountainous realm.

Lot 233. A Rare Large Chinese Yaozhou Carved 'Crane' Celadon Bowl, 11th-12th Century. Diameter 10 inches.. Estimate: $25,000 - $45,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The carved bowl rising from a short foot; the exterior sides with twelve carved concentric rings rising in a soft curve to the rounded everted rim; the interior of the bowl has a large carved round cavetto in which a crane in full flight is surrounded by simple floral swirls; surrounding the cavetto is a continuous swirling band of a floral design that stops at a carved circular line just below the rounded rim, the bowl covered inside and out with a glaze of slightly olive tone. 

Property from the Collection of Steven J. Harvis.

Provenance: Sotheby's Parke Bernet Label
Chicago, Illinois Estate, acquired in the 1970s.

Note: It is rare to find a Yaozhou bowl of this size; and even more rare to find one with a crane in full flight. Consider some of the representative sales of these Yaozhou examples: A Yaozhou bowl 6 3/4 inches (17 cm) with a duck in the cavetto and surrounded by florals was recently sold at Christies Hong Kong 29 November 2020, lot 3028 (Realized price HKD 400,000); An undecorated 9-inch (22.9 cm) Yaozhou dish was sold at Christies Hong Kong 3 October 2018 lot 225 (Realized Price HKD 175,000); a larger bowl 8 1/8 inches (20.6 cm) with hibiscus and leaf decoration was sold at Christies New York 21 March 2018, lot 501 (Realized price USD 372,500); and an 8 5/8 inch (21.9 cm) floral decorated bowl was sold at Christies New York 14 September 2011, lot 1467 (Realized price USD 68,500).

Lot 123. A Fine Chinese Incised White Porcelain Flask-Form Vase, Late Ming-Early Qing Dynasty. Height 12 inches. Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The rounded vase with graceful strap handles and a tulip bud-like head incised to show a round design incorporating a ruyi-head pattern. 

Lot 272. A Large Chinese Silver and Gold-Inlaid Bronze Ding Vessel, Likely Ming Dynasty. Height 16 inches. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Cast in the archaic form with tripod legs and two large everted arched handles; cast and inlaid to show stylized taotie masks to body and legs. 

Lot 81. A Pair of Fine Chinese White Jade Bowls, 18th-19th Century. Diameter 6 3/4 inches. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Of octagonal form raised on four short feet, with barbed rims and twin-carp handles supporting freely carved rings; the interior carved with a central blossom and radiating leaves surrounded by four butterflies; very delicately carved; with fitted wood stands. 

From the Estate of a Multi-Generational Family of Chicago and Montecito.

Lot 216. A Very Rare Chinese Yue Iron-Splashed Celadon Earthenware Chicken Head Ewer, Southern Dynasties. Height 10 1/4 inches. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Sturdily potted with an ovoid body rising to a waisted neck with two molded rings and then flaring to a galleried rim; there is a short spout in the form of a chicken-head, and a long-arched handle terminating in a dragon head grasping the mouth rim of the ewer; the ewer's shoulder has three equally spaced iron splashes; and circling the shoulder stopping before the spout is a detailed molded four clawed chilong with a long tail, one of the iron splashes pouring over its side. The ewer is covered all over with a grayish-celadon crackle glaze, stopping at the foot, the flat base burnt orange in the firing. 

Provenance: The Jade Dragon, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Note: While there are examples of Yue celadon ewers of this type that have small iron spots on the spout and body, this rare example displays three large iron splashes and has a fully molded, detailed chilong circling almost the entirety of its body. See Christies Hong Kong 5 October 2015, lot 73 (Realized price HKD 187,500) for a chicken head spout ewer with only several small iron spots.

Lot 212. A Rare and Large Chinese Gilt and Enameled Porcelain Figure of Avalokiteshvara, Republic Period. Height 12 inches. Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

The four armed figure modeled in dhyanasana atop a lotus base while displaying Anjali mudra and bearing two attributes. 

Lot 269. An Exceptionally Large Carved Chinese Head of Guanyin, Yuan-Ming Dynasty. Height with stand 20 3/4 inches. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000. 

The bodhisattva modeled with an unusual coiffure and headdress and bearing a downcast, serene expression.

Lot 82. A Fine Chinese Spinach Jade Ruyi Scepter, 18th-19th Century. Length 18 inches. Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000. © 2022 William Doyle Galleries, Inc.

Of organic form; deftly carved as a lingzhi stalk encircled by an openwork vine and adorned with fu bats. 

Property from a Private New York Collection

Lot 369. A Large and Fine Matched Pair of Japanese Bronze Covered Urns by Suzuki Masayoshi. With Maker's Mark in Cartouche, Meiji Period. Height 34 inches. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000. 

Each stout urn of baluster form with decorative horizontal bands, cast atop a rocky base upon which figures flank water spirit peeking from above a waterfall; the heavily cast covers surmounted by sculptural groupings of eagles perched atop rocky outcrops battling serpents.