ASIAN ART
AUCTION
Wednesday 15 April 2026, from 10.00 a.m. (lots 1-300)
Turin
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From Friday 10 to Wednesday 15 April 2026, Sunday included
From 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
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Lot 21
Group of two small boxes with lid
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th Century
'Blue and white' porcelain, one with floral decoration, the other with geometric ornament.
The largest 2 x 3.2 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 22
Jar
China, 17th Century
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue.
16.1 x 13 in.
The interest of this jar lies in its evidently incomplete decoration. The polychrome enamels applied in the second firing, with which it would have become an example of wucai porcelain, are missing.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 23
Tulip vase
China, early 20th Century
'Blue and white' porcelain, floral decoration, bud-shaped mouth.
9.8 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 24
Water pot, tabaizun
China, 20th Century
'Blue and white' porcelain, the body with a decoration of figures in a landscape, a chilong dragon in pronounced relief on the shoulder.
3.3 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 25
Li Bai
China, 20th Century
Partially crackled white glazed ceramic, depicting a sleeping man with his arm and head resting on a jar.
3.9 x 9.1 x 5.9 in.
Li Bai (701-762) was one of China's greatest poets, also famous for his great passion for wine.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 26
Teapot
China, 20th Century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels, the body with compositions with a female figure in the landscape and inscriptions, mark at the center of the base.
6.9 x 2.8 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 27
Buddhist lion
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamels decoration, on a wooden base.
3.3 x 3.9 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 28
Group of two objects
China, 20th Century
Celadon glazed ceramic, a brush rest mountain peaks-shaped and a water dropper boat-shaped.
The largest 3 x 6.3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 29
Group with two figures
China, 20th Century
Porcelain, depicting a standing female figure accompanied by a child, both on a pedestal.
8.5 x 4.1 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 30
Budai with children
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, the seated Buddhist deity with a rosary in his left hand and the edge of a sack in his right, five children climbing on his body.
11.8 x 10.2 x 8.5 in.
Starting price: € 200