ASIAN ART
AUCTION
Wednesday 15 April 2026, from 10.00 a.m. (lots 1-300)
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Lot 171
Tea service
Japan, Meiji period
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels and gold, the service consisting of a teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl, twelve cups and twenty-four two size saucers, decoration of figures in a landscape, "Dai Nihon Kutani sei Kitagawa ga" mark at the center of the base.
The
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Starting price: € 500
Lot 172
Plate
Korea, 19th Century
'Blue and white' porcelain, the exposed surface with a composition of a bird on flowering branches.
0.8 x 8.1 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 173
Incense burner
Korea, 14th-15th Century
Bronze, modelled as a large stem cup, with engraved thin horizontal lines on the body.
7.9 x 7.3 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 174
Vase
Korea, 18th and 20th Century
The lower half of the object consists of an 18th Century porcelain “Moon Jar” with a lightly blued glaze, on which a silver finish decorated in relief with four roundels, reproducing four ancient bronze mirrors, was mounted in the 20th Century.
Restorations.
19.7 x 14.2
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Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 175
Painting
Korea, late 19th-early 20th Century
Ink and colors on paper, in the format of a vertical hanging scroll, depicting two tigers with cubs under a pine tree with two magpies, inscription in the upper left corner, silk frame.
Defects.
60.6 x 35.4 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 176
Bowl
Korea, 15th Century
Ceramic with celadon glaze, the exterior with stylised leaves in light relief.
3.1 x 6.5 x 6.1 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 177
Jar
Korea, 20th Century
Porcelain with greyish glaze and brown enamel decoration of a tiger amidst clouds and bamboo stems.
13.4 x 11.8 in.
The model for this decoration is a jar conserved in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka, Ataka Collection, in Japan, dated to the 17th Century and
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Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 178
Monumental Moon Jar
Korea, 20th Century
Cream-glazed porcelain covered with fine craquelure.
19.7 x 19.7 in.
The vase typology known as the 'Moon Jar' best exemplifies the extraordinary technical mastery achieved by Korean ceramists starting in the 18th century.
This example is distinguished by its
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Starting price: € 5.000
Lot 179
Thangka
Tibet, 18th Century
Natural colours on fabric, depicting Vajrabhairava (Yamantaka) in the center on a lotus-shaped pedestal, recognizable by its blue color, nine bull-like faces with three eyes surmounted by skeletons, thirty-two arms and sixteen legs trampling other deities and animals
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Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 180
Reliquary, Gau
Tibet, 20th Century
Partially gilt-metal, the front side with a depiction of mythological animals in pronounced relief.
5.1 x 4.7 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 100