Fine Chinese Works of Art from J J Lally & Co
Auction Monday, March 20 8:30am
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The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture
Auction Monday March 20 10:30am
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Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
Auction Tuesday March 21 9am
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Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
Auction Wednesday March 22 10am
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Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art
Auction Thursday March 23 10am
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Sui dynasty
Rising from the flat base to gently rounded shoulders, the vase of almost oval shape with short neck and rolled lip rim, the cover slightly domed with bud finial, the thin translucent green glaze finely crackled and pooled into an olive-green tone at the neck and edges of the cover, the underside of cover and bottom of the vase neatly pared, showing a fine white stoneware body.
9 3/4in (24.7cm) high with cover
8 5/8in (22.1cm) high of vase
Estimate: $30,000-50,000
J.J. Lally & Co. Fine Chinese Works of Art
20 March at 8:30 am EDT
Lot 10
Southern Song dynasty, 13th century
Depicting a pair of literati sitting face-to-face raising a toast to commemorate, the garden pavilion beneath a willow tree and misty clouds, the architecture enclosed by decorative railings with two jardinieres of lush lotus blossoms and lily pads leading to the entrance, a young servant holding a meiping of wine hurried towards the steps, a large planter with scholar's rock and cultivated grass in the foreground, the third scholar standing by the cliff in contemplative mood gazing at the waterfall, a school of four birds flying above, the painterly scene finely executed in 'bai miao' style, framed by the shallow octafoil bracket-lobed wall rising to a barbed rim, the underside plain and unpolished.
10 3/8in (26.5cm) diam
Estimate: $30,000-50,000
J.J. Lally & Co. Fine Chinese Works of Art
20 March at 8:30 am EDT
Lot 39
Hu Song-Ming dynasty
Following the archaic bronze hu prototype, finely carved on each side a large taotie mask below a row of three circular 'cloud' symbols, the vase flanked by a pair of small ram's-head handles below the rim, the gently domed cover with bud-finial decorated with a band of hooked scrolls on the sides, all supported by a high ring foot, the creamy translucent stone with natural russet inclusions smoothly polished, selected veins and foot rim skillfully stained in dark brown to imitate the appearance of antiquity.
4 7/8in (12.4cm) high
Estimate: $20,000-30,000
J.J. Lally & Co. Fine Chinese Works of Art
20 March at 8:30 am EDT
Lot 45
Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century
The square-sectioned top rail swept back and extending to up-turned ends supported by paired back rails running through the seat frame to form the back legs, and at the mid-point by a three-section curved back splat tenoned into the yoke and seat frame and composed of a plain, central well-figured panel flanked intricate lattice panels centered on a wan symbol at the top and taiping cartouche below enclosed by the beaded frame, the s-curved arm rests of square section and supported by c-shaped posts curved back into the side panels of the seat with beaded spandrels tongue and grooved into the posts, the wide framed seat drilled for a soft cane mat, and fashioned with a molded edge over plain aprons mitered and half-lapped to the front and back rails over boxed stretchers.
Chair: 45 3/4in (116.2cm) total high;
Seat frame: 20 x 26 x 19 1/2in (51.8 x 66 x 49.5cm)
Estimate: $250,000-400,000
The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture
20 March at 11:00 EDT
Lot 81
17th/18th century
Composed of cylindrical members exceptionally well carved to resemble sections of bamboo stalks, the, five-section scarf-joined crestrail elegantly tapered to form the armrests supported by bowed side posts and ending in truncated outturned handholds, the crestrail tenoned into the curved three-sectioned backsplat centered on a finely figured huamu panel set between a quadrilobed framed medallion of a coiled dragon above and a u-shaped apron below, the back splat framed by complementary back rails run through the seat to form the back legs and flanked by smaller bamboo-form spandrels repeated under the arm rests, all enclosing two rails tenoned into the beaded and molded seat frame of mitered, mortise and tenon construction fitted for a soft mat seat and now set with a hat mat supported by two transverse bowed stretchers on the underside, the front rails set on three sides as a tripartite bamboo frame tenoned to box stretchers accented by humpback 'bamboo' fashioned aprons.
Chair: 38 3/4in (96.6cm) total high;
Seat frame: 19 1/4 x 241/4 x 18 5/8in (48.9 x 61.6 x 47.2cm).
Estimate $250,000-350,000
The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture
20 March at 11:00 EDT
Lot 88
The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture
20 March at 11:00 EDT
Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century
The wide crest rail tapering to swept-back rounded ends and supported by curved rails of oval section tenoned to the underside of the yoke and running through the seat to become the back legs, and flanking the c-shaped backsplat divided into three floating panel sections with a central well-figured nanmu burlwood panel set between a cut-out fu-character framed by a beaded edge and a u-shaped beaded apron, all flanked by elegantly barbed and cusped flange brackets running the length of the splat and tenoned into the seat frame, the s-shaped arm rests gently flaring to the handgrips and supported by elegant posts carved as a delicate vase holding a stalk of bamboo behind 'goose neck' braces with beaded stretchers, both tenoned in the side frame of the once soft-mat seat reinforced by a hard seat supported by paired bowed transverse stretchers, the front rails tongue-and-grooved to beaded, cusped and barbed aprons, the side stretchers tenoned higher than the back and footrest, with shaped aprons on three sides.
Chair: 45 3/4in (116.2cm) total high;
Seat frame: 19 1/2 x 24 3/4 x 19 1/4in (49.5 x 62.8 x 48.9cm).
Estimate: $350,000-500,000
The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture
20 March at 11:00 EDT
Lot 98
(1525-1606)
Treading through Snow on Wufeng, 1579
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, inscribed by the artist with a title in clerical script, and dated Wanli jimao, signed Song Xu, with three artist's seals.
52 1/4 x 12 1/2in (132.8 x 31.8cm)
Estimate: $20,000-30,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 249
(1862-1957)
Cooked Crabs and Wine, 1946
Mounted for framing, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and signed Baishi Laoren, with an artist's seal Qi Huang lao hu.
21 3/4 x 13 1/4in (55.5 x 34cm)
Estimate: $40,000-60,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 240
(born 1924)
Guitar Player, 2002
Ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist, signed Huang Yongyu and dated renwu with three artist's seals Huang Yongyu, renwu and Wanhetang.
54 x 27in (137.2 x 68.5cm)
Estimate: $12,000-18,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 245
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20-21 March
circa 1860
View of the Bund, Shanghai
Oil on canvas, Chinese Chippendale-style ebonized and gilt carved wood frame.
16 1/2in x 42 1/4in (41.9cm x 107.3cm) Framed: 21 1/2in x 47 1/2in (54.6cm x 120.6cm)
Estimate: $70,000-100,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 183
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20-21 March
Kangxi period
The tall two-door cabinet of very slightly tapered form, the vertical frame extending to form tall feet with an ogival shaped apron on all four sides, the doors inset with two vertical panels with beaded edges, each door inset in various hardstones with magnificent depictions of birds amidst tree branches and above delicately carved depictions of chrysanthemum and peony and other flowers and rockwork, the two narrow sides of the cabinet are further inlaid, within circular and rectangular thinly-inlaid frames, with differing bird and floral scenes, the back and the top of the cabinet also constructed with plain huanghuali panels, four plain rectangular metal hinges and two-piece lock plates to the doors, the interior with a single shelf above two drawers, also using huanghuali panels, and with simple metal handles 50 3/4in high x 32 1/2in across feet x 32 1/16in across the top x 19 3/4in deep (129cm tall x 82.5cm across feet x 81.9cm across the top x 50.2cm)
Estimate: $40,000-60,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 175
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20-21 March
Qianlong period, mid/late century
The circular tapering jardiniere decorated with two coral-ground and gilt horizontal bands divided by raised bands of 'twisted-rope' wires, both bands with vertical panels each containing three simple flower heads, variously colored blue, yellow, and white, all on a ground of scrolling tendrils, the deep container supported by three gilt-metal kneelng male servants voluminously dressed in robes and encircled by billowing ribbons.
7½ in (19cm) high
Estimate: $25,000-35,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 161
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20-21 March
(1864-1957)
Yangxian Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and signed Baishi, with one artist's seal Lao Bai.
20 1/4 x 10 5/8in (51.5 x 27cm)
Estimate: $30,000-50,000
Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
20 -21 March
Lot 276
Tibet, 13th Century
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 77084
Image: 36 7/8 x 30 1/2 in. (93.7 x 77.5 cm);
With silks: 57 1/4 x 32 1/2 in. (145.3 x 82.5 cm)
Estimate Upon Request
Indian, Himalayan, & Southeast Asian Art
21 March at 6:00 pm EDT
Lot 511
Central Tibet, Tsang Province, 15th/16th Century
Each portrait's base sealed and with a dedicatory Tibetan inscription around the foot.
Himalayan Art Resources item nos. 1413, 1414, 1415, 1416 & 1417
7 in. (17.8 cm) high, each (5)
Estimate: $500,000-700,000
Indian, Himalayan, & Southeast Asian Art
21 March at 6:00 pm EDT
Lot 521
Nepal, Early Malla Period, 14th Century
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 1410
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm) high
Estimate: $600,000-800,000
Indian, Himalayan, & Southeast Asian Art
21 March at 6:00 pm EDT
Lot 513
(1947-)
Distant View II
Heisei era (1989-2019), 1992
The blade-like high-pressure slip-cast porcelain vertical sculpture made in two parts connected by a metal armature that extends into the base, in typical form with one curved and one straight side narrowing to a sharp point at both ends and a raised ridge resembling that on a samurai sword, with a gently modulated seihakuji (bluish-green celadon) glaze, signed on the reverse under the glaze 1/8 S. Fukami
Stone base; wood tomobako storage box inscribed and signed Haruka no kei II Sueharu saku (Distant View II, made by Sueharu)
65 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 1 7/8in (165.5 x 21 x 4.8cm)
Estimate: $70,000-100,000
Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
22 March at 10:00 EDT
Lot 808
Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
22 March at 10:00 EDT
Joseon dynasty (1392-1897), 19th century
Carved in wood and painted in pigments of red, green, blue, black, orange, and white, the figures dressed in monastic robes and carrying offerings of peaches and other delicacies, one of the figures with a hollow body which contained the sutra scroll accompanying the piece
20 3/8in (51.7cm); 20 3/4in (52.7cm) high
Estimate: $70,000-90,000
Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
22 March at 10:00 EDT
Lot 1053
(1797-1861)
The Monster Skeleton
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1844
An oban tate-e print triptych entitled Soma no furudairi ni Masakado himegimi Takiyasha yojutsu o motte mikata o atsumuru, Oya no Taro Mitsukuni yokai o tamesan to koko ni kitari tsui ni kore o horobosu (In the Ruined Palace of [Taira] Masakado at Soma His Daughter Princess Takiyasha Uses Sorcery to Summon Allies, Oya no Taro Mitsukuni Comes to Put the Monster to the Test and Finally Destroys It), with red cartouches identifying (right to left) Takiyasha's faithful servant Araimaru, Oya no Taro Mitsukuni, and Princess Takiyasha; each sheet signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga (the right-hand sheet with paulownia-leaf seal); publisher's marks Hachi; censor's seals Watari (3)
Estimate: $50,000-70,000
Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
22 March at 10:00 EDT
Lot 1024
Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
22 March at 10:00 EDT
(1838-1920)
A Large and Impressive Model of a Skull and Snake
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century
The braincase and the snake carved from a single block of wood and the movable jaw carved from a separate section, the skull finished with anatomically precise details such as the calcified suture joints and the inset, separately carved teeth, the snake shown exiting the skull through the eye socket and coiling across the top of the skull, its skin polished smooth and its eyes inlaid in translucent and dark horn, signed on the right temporal bone Sukeyuki ō koku (Carved by "Old Man" Sukeyuki) and inscribed in the left temporal bone Asami-kun no tame (Made for Mr. Asami)
5 3/4in (14.6cm) high, 7in (17.7cm) wide
Estimate: $8,000-12,000
Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art
22 March at 10:00 EDT
Lot 877
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