Winter 2023 auctions
December's major Asian art auctions are just around the corner, and the members of Printemps Asiatique are answering the call to bring you a rich and varied selection of works. Here's a sneak preview of what's on sale this month.
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THIERRY DE MAIGRET
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 – 13h30
Room 16, Hôtel Drouot
9 rue Drouot 75009 Paris
MILLON
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 – 10:30 AM & 1:30 PM
Thursday, December 7th, 2023 – 2 PM
Room VV
3 rue Rossini 75009 Paris
Lot 243
CHINA, Mark and Period Qianlong, 18th century
Rare and important porcelain vase
Model known as "Four Seasons Flowers," featuring a decoration in polychrome enamels of the famille rose with seasonal flowers and poems in quadrangular reserves on the belly, on a background of apple green enamels, adorned with lotus scrolls. A Qianlong mark "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in six iron-red characters beneath the base, turquoise glazed.
Total height: 38 cm (with the mount)
Provenance: Collection of the Inspector General of Colonial Troops, Edmond-Jean Bouvier (1891-1971), and then passed down through the descendants.
Estimate: € 60,000 – 80,000
TAJAN
Monday, December 11th, 2023 – 2:30 PM
37 rue des Mathurins 75008 Paris
CHRISTIE’S
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 – 10:30 AM & 2:30 PM
9 avenue Matignon 75009 Paris
November 30th, 2023 – December 14th, 2023 - 10 AM
ARTCURIAL
Tuesday, December 12th - 2 PM
7 Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées Marcel Dassault 75008 Paris
Lot 172
A very rare carved cinnabar lacquer ‘dragon” tray,
China, Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period (1522-1566)
Estimate: €12,000 – 18,000
SOTHEBY’S
Tuesday, December 12th – 12 PM
76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris
Property from a European Private Collection
A fine thangka depicting Maitreya and Manjushri
Tibet, 14th - 15th century
Estimate: €60,000 - 80,000
BONHAMS – CORNETTE DE SAINT CYR
Wedneday, December 13th - 10:30 AM
6 avenue Hoche 75008 Paris
A magnificent and very rare pair of very large moulded and enamelled famille rose “One hundred boys” baluster vases
Jiaqing period (1796-1820)
85cm (33 1/2in) and 85.5cm (33 5/8in) high.
Estimate: €300,000 - 500,000
DE BAECQUE & ASSOCIES
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 – 1:30 PM
Room 16, Hôtel Drouot
9 rue Drouot 75009 Paris
Lot 167
Wooden netsuke depicting two shishi, Japan, 19th century Playing fight, one rolling the other on its back, powerful modeling with beautiful wood patina, signed on one rear paw and by Tomoyuki, Edo/Tokyo.
H. 4.3 cm - L. 5.3 cm
A similar example (or model) by Chikuyosai Tomochika is illustrated in Neil K. Davey, Netsuke, London, 1974, p.141, no. 423.
Estimate: €2,500 - 3,000
APONEM
Selected works: Pierre, Françoise & Antoine Dumayet and various collections
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 – 11 AM
Room 10, Hôtel Drouot
9 rue Drouot 75009 Paris