Day 1: Flagship Live Auction (lots 1-279) on Thursday, 11 April 2024, starting at 11 AM CET - Print Catalog Available
Day 2: Live Auction Online Catalog (lots 280-648) on Friday, 12 April 2024, starting at 11 AM CET - Catalog Online Only
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Join Galerie Zacke for a two-day live auction event featuring 648 works of art from China, Southeast Asia, India, and beyond.
The highlight of our spring calendar – the flagship auction – will take place on Day 1 of the sale (lots 1-279), featuring many important pieces from renowned collections, among them a monumental sandstone statue of Vishnu from the Angkor period (lot 183), a rare 16th-century thangka of the seventeen-deity Tara Mandala (lot 22), and an important Song-dynasty Dingyao figure of Shoulao (lot 142).
The general auction will follow on Day 2 (lots 280-648) offering items for avid art collectors and first-time buyers alike.
Notable Collector’s Provenances include the fifth Prince Ding, Zai Quan, one of the Qianlong Emperor’s great-grandsons; Queen Maria of Yugoslavia; George Eumorfopoulos, co-founder and first president of the Oriental Ceramic Society; Dr. Wou Kiuan, diplomat and founder of the Wou Lien-Pai museum; Paul-Émile Naggiar, Ambassador of France to China from 1936 to 1938; as well as many prestigious names such as Sir Joseph Hotung, Dr. Isidore Cohn, Alan and Simone Hartman, Mary McFadden, the Chasseloup-Laubat Family, Kono Shuson, John “Moke” Mokotoff, Lionel and Danielle Fournier, and Academy Award winner Michael Phillips.
Historic Gallery and Dealership Provenances include Heather James Fine Art and Antiquities, S. Marchant & Son, Spink & Son, R&G McPherson, Sam Bernstein, Simon Ray, Jules Speelman, the Kapoor Galleries, Laurent Wannieck, Leonardo Vigorelli, and Clare Chu.
Museum Deaccessions include the Wou Lien-Pai Museum, the Speed Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum, and the Tibethaus Kulturstiftung.
Lot 257 - A BRONZE FIGURE OF RAMA, LATER CHOLA PERIOD, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Sold for €845
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 258 - A BRONZE PROCESSIONAL MASK, MOHRA, DEPICTING LAKSHMI, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Sold for €650
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 259 - A LARGE AND MASSIVELY CAST BRONZE FIGURE OF SHIVA CHANDRASHEKHARA, VIJAYANAGAR PERIOD
Sold for €15,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 260 - Ɏ A CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF VISHNU, INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Sold for €6,500
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 262 - A RARE SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BRONZE HEAD OF GARUDA, SOUTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,640
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 263 - A BRONZE SPEAR HEAD, TANJORE, SOUTH INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 264 - A PAIR OF MASSIVE BRONZE YALI FEET, SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, 18TH CENTURY
Sold for €2,600
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 266 - A STUCCO HEAD OF A GUARDIAN LION, MON-DVARAVATI PERIOD
Sold for €1,950
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 267 - A RARE PARCEL-SILVERED BRONZE ‘YALI’ HILT, SOUTH INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Sold for €715
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 268 - A GROUP OF FOUR MARBLE BALUSTRADE COLUMNS, INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 269 - A LARGE ANF FINELY CARVED SANDALWOOD MODEL OF A TEMPLE GATE, GOPURAM, TAMIL NADU
Sold for €18,200
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 270 - A PAIR OF LARGE GANGAUR FESTIVAL SCULPTURES DEPICTING SHIVA AND PARVATI
Sold for €3,900
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 271 - A CARVED WOOD HEAD OF A BULL, KERALA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €2,340
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 272 - A LARGE WOODEN TWELVE-PANEL DOOR, GOND TRIBE, EARLY TO MID-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 280 - A BRONZE STUPA, KADAMPA STYLE, TIBET, 13TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,640
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 281 - A PARCEL-GILT AND SILVERED IRON STIRRUP, YOB CHA, 15TH-18TH CENTURY
Sold for €4,940
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 282 - A GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER DAMASCENED IRON BOX AND COVER, TIBET, 16TH - 17TH CENTURY
Sold for €1,300
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 284 - A RITUAL CONCH SHELL TRUMPET WITH SILVER, BRONZE AND COPPER MOUNTS, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €1,950
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 285 - A GILT COPPER REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE OF VAJRAYOGINI, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €1,950
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 286 - A PAIR OF GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ PLAQUES DEPICTING BARDO DEITIES, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €1,232
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 287 - A NECROMANCER’S BONE HEADDRESS, WRISTBAND AND APRON, TIBET OR NEPAL, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,380
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 289 - A CORAL AND TURQUOISE-INLAID SILVER-MOUNTED BONE FLUTE, KANGLING, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
Sold for €910
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 290 - A TURQUOISE-INLAID SILVER REPOUSSÉ BETEL NUT BOX AND COVER, BHUTAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Sold for €780
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 291 - A PAIR OF MONGOLIAN GEMSTONE-INLAID AND JADE-MOUNTED SILVER CANDLE HOLDERS
Sold for €5,850
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 292 - A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
Sold for €4,420
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 297 - A SMALL SILVERED COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF AMITAYUS, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €585
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 302 - A THANGKA OF AKSHOBHYA, TIBET, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Sold for €5,200
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 303 - AN IMPERIAL-SCHOOL BUDDHIST PAINTING OF AVALOKITESHVARA SAHASRABHUJA, CHINA, 18TH CENTURY
Sold for €4,160
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 304 - A THANGKA DEPICTING CHATURBHUJA MANJUSHRI, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €910
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 307 - † A VERY LARGE THANGKA OF A WRATHFUL PROTECTOR AND MAHASIDDHAS, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €1,716
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 308 - A FINE THANGKA DEPICTING SAMANTABHADRA WITH CONSORT, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 311 - A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF ANANDA, YUAN TO MING DYNASTY
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 315 - A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA BHAISAJYAGURU, MING DYNASTY
Sold for €8,450
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 316 - A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, MING DYNASTY
Sold for €1,170
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 317 - A GILT AND RED LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA, LATE QING DYNASTY TO REPUBLIC PERIOD
Sold for €3,640
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 322 - A RARE BRONZE MINIATURE GARLIC-HEAD VASE, SUANTOUHU, HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €520
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 324 - AN ORDOS BRONZE ‘STAG’ PLAQUE, EASTERN ZHOU TO EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €260
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 325 - A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE BIRD-FORM MAT WEIGHTS, HAN DYNASTY
Sold for €1,040
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 327 - A COPPER ALLOY ‘MANDARIN DUCKS’ BOX AND COVER, TANG DYNASTY
Sold for €1,040
including Buyer's Premium
Lot 329 - A LARGE AND MASSIVE DAOIST CAST IRON TEMPLE BELL, CHENGHUA PERIOD, DATED 1471
Sold for €4,160
including Buyer's Premium