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Lot 216. Cao Xi (Active ca. 1600-1635), Scholar Sleeping in a Boat, dated 1616, 19 x 55 cm. Fan mounted as album leaf, ink and light colors on gold paper. Signature by the artist: „In the third month of the bingchen year (1616) painted after full moon. Cao Xi from Wujun (Suzhou).“ Two seals of the artist: “Cao Xi”, Zi Zixu”. Sold: €11 000 (Estimate €4 000- €6 000). Photo Nagel Auction. A scholar is sleeping in a boat by a lake, a lute, books and a fishing rod besides him. Presumably he was... [Lire la suite]

Lot 206. Wu Guolun (1524-1593), Calligraphy in Regular Script, ca. 16th century, fan mounted as album leaf, ink on gold paper, 15,5 x 46 cm. Seven word poem, signature by the artist: „Man from Xiazhiyu, Wu Guolun .“ One seal of the artist: “Seal of Wu Guolun” (Wu Guolun yin). Sold: €11 000 (Estimate €2 000- €3 000). Photo Nagel Auction. Provenance: Old and important European private collection, assembled before 1930 and between 1950 and 1980. Fine Asian Art - Day... [Lire la suite]

Lot 314. A large blue and white peonies and rock porcelain charger, 15th-16th century. D. 51,5 cm. Sold: €10 000 (Estimate €6000- €10000). Photo Nagel Auction. The deep rounded sides supported on a tapering foot, the central medallion painted in varied cobalt-blue tones with four large peony blooms amid leafy bushes emerging from craggy rockwork within a classic scroll border, the well encircled with a band of camellia issuing leaves between double circles, the rim with a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 327. A blue and white dragon porcelain dish, underglaze-blue Jiajing six-character mark and of the period (1522-1566). D. 21,4 cm. Sold: €10 000 (Estimate €1500- €2500). Photo Nagel Auction. Minor glaze frits to the rim. Provenance: Former old North German private collection, acquired in the 1980s. Fine Asian Art - Day I by Nagel Auction, June 12, 2023 • Stuttgart, Germany

 Lot 338. A 'Gu'-shaped blue and white porcelain vase with figures and animals, Kangxi period (1662-1722). H. 46,8 cm. Sold: €12 000 (Estimate €900- €1500). Photo Nagel Auction. Hairline to the rim, star-shaped crack near the foot, firing blemish to the wall. Provenance: Former old German private collection, acquired prior to 2007. Fine Asian Art - Day I by Nagel Auction, June 12, 2023 • Stuttgart, Germany

Lot 163. A bronze figure of Bouddha Shakyamuni, Ming dynasty, ca. 16th century. H. 40,5 cm. Sold: €13 000 (Estimate €6000- €10000). Photo Nagel Auction. Seated in vajrasana with both hands resting in dhyanamudra on his lap, wearing monastic garment including an underskirt fastened around his waist with a ribbon knotted to the front and a mantle covering both shoulders, its border cast with a band of scrolling tendrils, his chest engraved with the swastika-emblem, his face displaying a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 27. A rare Yueyao spitoon, Tang dynasty (618-907). H. 10,4/ D. 14,7 cm. Sold: €14 000 (Estimate €1500 - €2500). Photo Nagel Auction. Yue stoneware spittoon with an inverted hemispherical base section, a narrow neck and widely flared bowl shaped upper section. The spittoon has grey-green glaze. A very similar spittoon from the Percival David Collection is preserved in the British Museum, PDF 266 with the note: In the eighth and ninth centuries there was a shift of economic power... [Lire la suite]

Twelve-panel screen depicting “Spring Morning in the Han Palace” with inscription; encomium on the reverse, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign. Black lacquer on prepared wooden core; carved recesses filled with polychrome pigments and gold (kuancai). H x W x D: 216.5 x 50.1 x 606.5 cm. National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1906.42. WASHINGTON, DC .- On display for the first time at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler... [Lire la suite]

Seated Bodhisattva with Combined Halo and Mandorla, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), 5th–6th century. Stucco. H. 13.3 cm, W. 9.5 cm, D. 6 cm. Rogers Fund, 1913, 13.96.10. © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Gandhara the appearance of a halo surrounding an entire figure occurs only in the latest phases of artistic production, in the fifth and sixth centuries. By this time in Afghanistan the halo/mandorla had become quite common and is the format that took hold at Central Asian Buddhist sites.

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas, Pakistan (Swat Valley), 7th–8th century. Marble. H. 56.5 cm, W. 57.8 cm, D. 12.7 cm. Gift of Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1995, 1995.570.2. © 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Buddha sits in a posture of meditation (dhyana mudra) with his head framed by a flaming halo. Both of the flanking bodhisattvas hold their right hands in the boon-giving varada mudra. The Buddha sits on a throne supported by two fragmentary lions similar to those found in metal images made... [Lire la suite]