Live Auction
16-17 October 2025 at 11 AM CET
Galerie Zacke is honored to present a major two-day live auction event, featuring 662 works of art from China, India, Southeast Asia, and beyond.
The highlight is our flagship live auction on Day 1 (lots 1-269), showcasing masterpieces of exceptional rarity and provenance. Among them are an absolutely perfect and thus extremely rare gilt and copper-red ‘Three Beasts’ bottle vase, Kangxi period, from the collection of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony; a highly important archaic yellow jade bi disk, on an imperially inscribed zitan stand, from the personal collection of the Qianlong Emperor (Hongli); an extraordinary sandstone figure of Lakshmi-Narayana, Chandela period, 10th–12th century, from the collection of Jeremy Knowles; as well as an exceptional 23k gold ritual helmet, Western Eurasian Steppe, possibly Hellenistic or Scythian, from the Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum.
Day 2 (lots 270-662) continues with our general auction, offering seasoned collectors and new bidders alike an opportunity to enhance their collections. Learn more.
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6 - 15 October 2025
Monday - Friday, 10 am - 6 pm
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AUCTION OVERVIEW LOTS
Lot 51 - A RICHLY INLAID GILT COPPER VAJRACHARYA PRIEST’S ORACLE CROWN, NEPAL, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Lot 52 - A GILT AND LACQUERED ‘DRAGON’ CHEST, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Lot 53 - Ɏ A RARE HUANGHUALI SIDE TABLE, QING DYNASTY
Lot 55 - A SMALL JICHIMU SCHOLAR’S DESK CABINET, 18-19TH CENTURY
Lot 56 - A BAMBOO 'PINE AND SQUIRRELS' INK-STONE BOX AND COVER, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Lot 57 - AN EMBELLISHED HUANGHUALI ‘FIVE FISH’ BOX AND COVER, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Lot 59 - AN IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER ‘TREASURE’ BOX AND COVER, QIANLONG PERIOD
Lot 60 - A MAGNIFICENT ROOTWOOD ‘SCHOLAR'S ROCK’, QING DYNASTY
Lot 61 - A FINE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE POWDER BOX AND COVER, MING DYNASTY
Lot 62 - A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER, MING DYNASTY
Lot 63 - A LARGE (46 CM) ARCHAISTIC CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE, FANGGU, KANGXI-QIANLONG PERIOD
Lot 68 - † A FRAGMENTARY LIMESTONE BUST OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, LATE NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY
Lot 69 - † A LIMESTONE FIGURE OF THE PENSIVE BODHISATTVA MAITREYA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY
Lot 70 - † A SUPERB LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY
Lot 71 - AN IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE WILLOW BRANCH GUANYIN, SUI DYNASTY
Lot 73 - † A MONUMENTAL SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA, TANG DYNASTY
Lot 74 - A RARE AND IMPORTANT WHITE MARBLE BUDDHIST TRIAD STELE OF MANJUSHRI, TANG DYNASTY
Lot 75 - † A WHITE MARBLE TORSO OF A BODHISATTVA, FIVE DYNASTIES TO EARLY NORTHERN SONG PERIOD
Lot 76 - A LARGE FRESCO DEPICTING A PAIR OF CELESTIAL MUSICIANS, YUAN-MING DYNASTY
Lot 80 - AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FORM OF BUDAI AS MAITREYA, INSCRIBED AND LACQUERED BRONZE, DATED 1513
Lot 81 - A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF WENCHANG WANG, MING DYNASTY, MID-15TH TO 16TH CENTURY
Lot 82 - † A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN, MING DYNASTY
Lot 83 - A RARE AND LARGE PARCEL-GILT FIGURE OF THE WILLOW LEAF GUANYIN, MING DYNASTY
Lot 84 - A RARE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF AMITABHA BUDDHA, LATE MING TO EARLY QING DYNASTY
Lot 86 - A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA (BHAISAJYAGURU), ZANABAZAR SCHOOL
Lot 87 - A BRONZE FOOD VESSEL, GUI, MID-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 9TH-8TH CENTURY BC
Lot 88 - A FINELY CAST, IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE BRONZE ‘TAOTIE’ HELMET, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
Lot 90 - A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE ‘BIRD’ WINE VESSEL AND COVER, WARRING STATES PERIOD
Lot 91 - A RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID GILT-BRONZE ‘BEAR’ SUPPORT FITTING, HAN DYNASTY
Lot 92 - AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED GLASS- AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE GARMENT HOOK, DAIGOU
Lot 93 - AN INCISED GILT-BRONZE ‘ANIMALS AND MYTHICAL BEASTS’ WINE VESSEL, HU, WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
Lot 94 - AN UNUSUAL GILT-COPPER OVERLAY BRONZE MIRROR, TANG DYNASTY
Lot 95 - A FINELY ENGRAVED GILT-BRONZE STEM CUP, TANG DYNASTY
Lot 96 - A PARCEL-GILT SILVER COSMETIC BOX AND COVER, TANG DYNASTY
Thursday,
16 October
11 am CET
Tibet &
Nepal
Sculptures,
Thangkas &
Buddhist Art
Lots 1-52
Lot 220
Friday,
17 October
11 am CET
Tibet &
Nepal
Sculptures,
Thangkas &
Buddhist Art
Lots
270-344
Lots 345-385
Lots
67-103