Featuring the art collection of Peking University professor Wen Tsan Yu, Kaminski Auctions is announcing its March 30-31 Asian art and antiques sale will coincide with the last week of Asia Week 2012. Read More +
Michaan’s Auctions’ Dec. 18, 2012 auction is its third-highest grossing auction to date and is the third fine Asian works of art sale to break the $1 million mark. The market for decorative Asian furniture has remained strong as prominent collectors continue to seek extravagant, well-executed pieces of large stature. Read More +
A Chinese gilt-bronze seated Buddha statue soared to $143,000 at a multi-estate Asian auction. Bids came in from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Read More +
Second only to the stunning photography, “Symbols on Chinese Porcelain” offers valuable context on why this porcelain style matters to the fine-art world, collectors and even philosophers. The book reveals the secrets of the symbols of good luck and the visual imagery of Chinese decorative elements by means of approximately 80 masterpieces of Chinese porcelain spanning 1,000 years. Read More +
With 500-plus lots of Asian arts and antiques examples, Bonhams Nov. 15 auction of Asian Decorative Arts in San Francisco earns more than $1.1 million. One of the many surprises included a late 18th/early 19th century brush pot that sold for $17,500 against a pre-sale estimate of $1,000 to $1,500. Read More +
A Carrara marble grouping known variously as ‘Paetus et Aria,’ ‘Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife,’ and ‘The Galatian Suicide’ will be sold during New Years weekend antiques auction. Read More +
An exceedingly rare, ancient Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty solid nephrite jade bear sold for a little more than $8 million at a multi-estate antiques auction. Read More +
The Gallery at Japan Society considers this phenomenon from March 16 to June 10, 2012 in “Deco Japan: Shaping Modern Culture, 1920-1945.”
The exhibition assembles fine examples of the sophisticated craftsmanship and design one associates with Japan-in ceramics, lacquerware, glass, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, sculpture, painting, and lithography – contextualized by colorful ephemera and goods mass-produced for the modern home. Read More +
The carved jade bear is the expected top earner of the nearly 400 lots that will change hands in the Elite Decorative Arts showroom in the Quantum Town Center in Boynton Beach, Fla., during the multi-estate auction. Read More +
BEVERLY, Mass – A Dec. 8-10, 2011 Asian arts and antiques auction will offer a rare Chinese rhinoceros horn Buddhist stupa, which is expected to sell for as much as $50,000. It is widely expected to take top lot honors, followed closely by a strand of 19th century Chinese rhinoceros horn prayer beads, comprised of 108 beads interspaced with carved coral and ivory beads, with an overall length of 59 inches, which estimated at $20,000-$30,000. The two rhino horn lots are offered by Kaminski Auctions, which hopes to build on the success of its August Asian sale. Read More +