Auction Catalogs & Ref Books: Asian Art/Antiques
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AUCTION CATALOG LIST AS OF 8/9/97
ASIAN ART/ANTIQUES
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ASIAN ART: GENERAL (MIXED CHINESE/JAPANESE, ETC.)
AS1. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES - New York...March 13, 1969...$6.00
Oriental Art
Jade, Rock Crystal & other Hardstone Carvings; Bronzes, Sculpture,
Paintings,
Decorations; A Collection of Korean Pottery & Porcelain
326 lots.
illus: b/w (31 lots pictured)
AS2. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES - New York...March 1, 1957...$6.00
Important Oriental Art
Early Dynastic Bronzes and Pottery; Stone Sculptures, Jades,
Porcelains
227 lots.
illus: b/w (62 lots pictured)
AS3. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES - New York...May 7, 1953...$6.00
Oriental Art
Jade and other Mineral Carvings, Ancient Bronzes, Early Dynastic
Pottery,
Porcelain, Chinese Scroll Paintings and Furniture, Chinese and
Japanese
Ivory Carvings, Japanese Prints
238 lots.
illus: b/w (47 lots pictured)
AS4. DR. ERNST HAUSWEDELL - Hamburg...December 3, 1960...$6.00
Chinese and Japanese Art
415 lots.
illus: b/w (37 lots pictured)
catalog is in German
AS5. BOISGIRARD/HEECKEREN - Paris...March 15, 1982...$6.00
Japanese Prints, Japanese and Chinese Porcelains, Archaic Chinese
Bronzes
219 lots.
illus: b/w & color (45 lots pictured)
AS6. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES...February 1 & 2, 1963...$6.00
Japanese and Chinese Art
Chinese Snuff Bottles (21 lots; 12 b/w photos)
Chinese Ivory Carvings (13 lots; 6 b/w photos)
Chinese Porcelains (90 lots; 17 b/w photos)
Siamese and Indian Sculptures (25 lots; 4 b/w photos)
Japanese Ivory Carvings (10 lots; 7 b/w photos)
Japanese Prints and Paintings (28 lots; 2 b/w photos)
Japanese Bronzes, Decorative Objects and Screens (25 lots; 3 b/w
photos)
Peking Glass (7 lots)
Chinese Cloisonne Enamels, Early Dynastic Pottery and Porcelain, Early
Dynastic Bronzes, Wood and Bronze Sculptures (32 lots; 9 b/w photos)
Chinese Jades, Coral and Other Semi-Precious Mineral Carvings (62
lots; 36
b/w photos)
Chinese Paintings (30 lots; 1 b/w photo)
Chinese Furniture, Lamps and Decorative Objects, Brocades and
Embroideries
(65 lots; 3 b/w photos)
AS7. ETUDE TAJAN - Paris...March 18 - 20, 1997...$8.00
Chinese & Japanese Works of Art
Tsuba (202 lots) - Kozuka (25 lots) - Chinese & Japanese ceramics -
Coral &
Ivory carvings - Sculptures
490 lots.
illus: mostly b/w (about 20% of items are shown)
AS8. SPINK - Singapore...April 17 - May 24, 1997...$12.00
The Path to Enlightenment: Buddhist Art Through the Ages
Sale catalog; the items are from India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan,
Tibet,
Nepal, Mongolia, Buriatia and are mostly carvings and sculptures, with
some
paintings included. Beautiful photographs.
35 items - With price list.
Illus: color
AS9. ELDRED’S - Massachusetts...August 23 & 24, 1996...$9.00
Oriental Art
1435 lots.
illus: mostly b/w; some color
AS10. CHRISTIE’S EAST - New York...September 17, 1996...$6.00
Asian Decorative Arts
291 lots.
illus: b/w (approx. 30% of lots are shown)
AS11. SOTHEBY’S - New York...September 19, 1981...$8.00
Later Japanese & Chinese Works of Art
Chinese Ceramics (71 lots) - Japanese Ceramics (28 lots) - Chinese
Ivories
(115 lots) - Japanese Ivories (35 lots) - Chinese Works of Art (18
lots) -
Japanese Works of Art (33 lots) - Chinese Cloisonne Enamels (63 lots)
-
Chinese Textiles (37 lots) - Japanese Textiles (10 lots) - Chinese
Paintings
(15 lots) - Japanese Paintings (11 lots) - Japanese Prints (16 lots) -
Bronzes (9 lots) - Furniture and Decorations (36 lots)
illus: b/w
AS12. ELDRED’S - Massachusetts...August 23, 1996...$7.00
The Korean Art Collection of Dr. Leon Sinder
130 lots.
illus: b/w
AS13. CHRISTIE’S - South Kensington...June 13, 1996...$9.00
Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art
Mostly Chinese: jades, porcelain, pottery, earthenware. Also some
Japanese
and Tibetan items.
550 lots.
illus: color, b/w
AS14. WECHSLER’S - Washington, D.C...March 29, 1996...$8.00
Oriental Works of Art
273 lots.
illus: b/w
AS15. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN...Spring 1994...$8.00
The Arts of South and Southeast Asia
Introduction by Martin Lerner; Text by Steven Kossak
8 ½" x 11" paperback; 88 pages.
AS16. CHRISTIE’S EAST - New York...March 18, 1997...$10.00
WITH PRICES REALIZED
Asian Decorative Arts
Early Wares - Chinese Furniture - Jade, Ivory, Hardstone Carvings -
Porcelain - Snuff Bottles (no illustrations) - Netsuke - Inro -
Lacquer - Screens
301 lots.
illus: mostly b/w, about 20% of lots are shown
AS17. SOTHEBY’S - New York...April 10 & 11, 1986...$10.00
Fine Chinese Decorative Works of Art including Furniture, Paintings
and
Japanese Works of Art
Paintings (42 lots) ~ China trade paintings (30) ~ Textiles (23) ~
Japanese
Lacquer (11) ~ Bronzes (5) ~ Ceramics (39) ~ Jade (100) ~ Bronzes and
Sculpture (17) ~ Rhino Horn Carvings (15) ~ Crystal & Glass (10) ~
Ivory (14) ~
Silver, Furniture, Misc. (148)
illus: b/w & color
NEW!AS18. (MAGAZINE) ARTS OF ASIA...January-February 1991...$7.50
Classic Furniture in the Paulino Que Collection - Borobudur: Art and
Religion
Bridges of Imperial China - Islamic Swords of the Southern Philippines
-
Book Reviews: Guangdong Ceramics; Tang Ceramics - 20 years index, 1971
- 1990
NEW!AS19. (MAGAZINE) ARTS OF ASIA...January, 1997...$7.50
Painted Tibetan Furniture - Traditional Myanmar Pottery - Opium Lamps
Tobacco Pipe Curiosities of the Orient - 6 years index, 1991 - 1996
9" x 12", 146 pages, fine condition.
NEW!AS20. (MAGAZINE) ORIENTAL ART...Autumn 1993...$7.50
Art of the Tangut Empire - Handscroll Landscape Paintings of the Song
Period
and their Tightening Perspective - The Evolution of Chinese Pigeon
Painting -
Small Portable Treasures (Classic Chinese Furniture)
8 1/4" x 11 1/2", 94 pages, fine condition.
NEW!AS21. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) Asian Art: Selections from the
Collection of
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Part II...$10.00
by Sherman E. Lee; published by the Asia Society
The Art of Greater India (India, Afghanistan, Nepal - 11 items) ~ The
Art of
Southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia - 7 items) ~ Far
Eastern
Art (China, Japan, Korea - 51 items)
8 1/2" x 11" paperback, 103 pages, very good condition.
NEW!AS22. (JOURNAL)ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART...VOLUME XX, 1966 -
1967...$10.00
A Group of Chinese Lacquers with Basketry Panels - Sir Harry Garner
Three Popular Motives in the Art of the Eastern Han Period: - A.
Bulling
The Lifting of the Tripod
The Crossing of a Bridge
Divinities
BRIEF NOTICES:
The Portrait of Ikkyu - Donald Keene
Kleinkunst: Two Early Chinese Wood Sculptures - Sherman E. Lee
Notes on a So-called T'ang Dynasty Votive Tablet - Pratapaditya Pal
Some Remarkable Examples of I'hsing Ware - Robert Poor
A Chong-byong at Bryn Mawr College and its Twin in Honolulu - Ann
Harnwell Ashmead
Black Lacquer - Dr. Paul Singer
9" x 12", 113 pages, very good condition.
NEW!AS23. (JOURNAL)ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART...VOLUME XXI, 1967 -
1968...$10.00
The Fate of Ornament in Chinese Art - Max Loehr
Historical Plays in the Art of the Han Period - A. Bulling
The Decor Styles of Shang White Pottery - Helmut Brinker
BRIEF NOTICES:
Two Buddhist Reliefs from India - Pratapaditya Pal
A T'ien Shun Saucer - Margaret Medley
Chinese Paintings in Honolulu - James Cahill
More on the Little Black Figurines of Ancient China - Charles D.
Weber
9" x 12", 103 pages, very good condition.
NEW!AS24. (JOURNAL)ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART...VOLUME XXII, 1968 -
1969...$10.00
Notes on Chinese Sculpture from Northern Ch'i to Sui - Part I: Two
Seated
Stone Buddhas in the Cleveland Museum - Wai-kam Ho
The Sedgwick Statue of the Infant Shotoku Taishi - John Rosenfield
A Portable Buddhist Shrine from Central Asia - Phyllis Granoff
More on the Problem of the 'Imperial Kilns' - John M. Addis
BRIEF NOTICES:
A Kashmiri Bodhisattva Related to the Queen Didda Bronze - Mary
Lanius
An Unusual Square Ao-Oribe Dish in the Avery Brundage Collection -
Yoshiko Kakudo
9" x 12", 136 pages, good condition (1" missing from top of outer
spine)
NEW!AS25. (JOURNAL)ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART...VOLUME XXV, 1971 -
1972...$10.00
The Export of Chinese Lacquer to Japan in the Yuan and Early Ming
Dynasties
- Harry M. Garner
Graeco-Bactrian Art and Gandhara: Khalchayan and the Gandhara
Bodhisattvas
- Benjamin Rowland, Jr.
The Dating of Chinese Bronze Mirrors - A. Gurkind Bulling and Isabella
Drew
Three Dated Nepali Bronzes and Their Stylistic Significance -
Pratapaditya Pal
Pre-Angkor Period Bronzes from Pra Kon Chai - Emma C. Bunker
Scrollwork in Medeival Orissan Art - Anita K.G. Pearlroth
The Tartar Screens and Kano Soshu - Yoshiko Kakudo
9" X 12", 120 pages, very good condition.
NEW!AS25A. another copy of the above, with a tear on the back cover
and the
bottom of the spine...$9.00
NEW!AS26. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) MOUNTED ORIENTAL PORCELAIN...$15.00
by Sir Francis Watson; published by the International Exhibitions
Foundation,
1986
A fascinating survey of an exotic, hybrid art form which was popular
from the
16th to 19th centuries: the mounting of oriental porcelain with silver
and/or
gilt decorations.
53 items shown in black and white photos, with extensive descriptive
text.
8 color plates.
8 1/2" x 11" paperback, 136 pages, fine condition.
NEW!AS27. (JOURNAL)FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN...VOL. VII #1
(March, 1955)..$10.00
Further Notes on Tibetan Ceramics: A Preliminary Field Report - Robert
and Beatrice Miller
Toward a Classification of Chinese Glazes - Sidney M. Kaplan
Note on "Spotted Temmoku" - James Marshall Plumer
A (long!) Letter About the Temmoku Glaze - Charles M. Harder
8 1/2" x 11", stapled, 26 pages, fair condition (cover is separated at
spine
and torn at upper rear; insides are good).
NEW!AS28. (JOURNAL)FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN..VOL. IX #1-2
(March-June 1957)..$10.00
Analysis of Oriental Ceramic Wares by Non-Destructive X-Ray Methods -
- S.J. Young and F.E. Whitmore
Hajime Kato: Potter of Yokohama - Caroline Ingraham
The Chinese Village Exhibit at St. Louis - Henrietta Lubke Taylor
Two Basement Excavations, a Twelfth Century Bargain, and a Gift -
Sherman E. Lee
Chinese Cermanics in Transcaucasia: Correspondence, Notes and Notices
8 1/2" x 11", stapled, 55 pages, fair condition (cover is torn at
spine;
upper corner of front cover is torn; insides are good).
NEW!AS29. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) BRONZE DISEASE AND ITS
TREATMENT...$12.00
Bangkok Nat’l Museum, 1975
CONTENTS: Introduction ~ Conservation: Chemistry and Structure ~
Bronze Casting
in Thailand Today ~ Corrosion ~ Bronze Disease ~ Treatments for Bronze
Disease ~
Bibliography.
This is a report (in English and Thai) from a joint undertaking of the
Fine
Arts Department of Thailand, the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington,
and the
JDR 3rd Fund in New York. There are many photo examples (in color and
black
and white) of the work.
8 1/2" x 11" paperback, 77 pages, good + condition.
This also includes 2 pamphlets: "Comparative Analysis of
Archaeological Bronzes"
and "Conservation in the People’s Republic of China" by W.T. Chase
(adapted
from Chase’s report to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with
the PRC,
delivered in Detroit, 1/27/94)
NEW!AS30. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) AUSPICIOUS SPIRITS: KOREAN FOLK
PAINTINGS AND
RELATED OBJECTS...$15.00
Catalog by Robert Moes; published by the International Exhibitions
Foundation in 1983
117 items: Screens, Single Paintings, Ceramics, Sculpture, Household
Objects;
black-and-white and color photos. The text is in the form of essays on
each
group of subjects, with the exhibition items referenced within the
essay.
8 1/2" x 11 1/2" paperback, 200 pages, very good condition
NEW!AS31. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) HANDBOOK OF THE MR. AND MRS. JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER 3RD COLLECTION...$10.00
Published by the Asia Society in 1981
252 items from South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan,
shown
in good-quality black and white photos.
8 1/2" x 9 1/4" paperback, 112 pages, very good condition
NEW!AS32. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) ANCIENT INDONESIAN ART OF THE CENTRAL
AND
EASTERN JAVANESE PERIODS...$10.00
by Jan Fontein, R. Soekmono, Satyawati Suleiman, published by the Asia
Society
in 1971
Notes on the Monuments of Ancient Indonesia (Soekmono)
Ancient Indonesian Art (Fontein)
Catalogue Notes (Suleiman and Fontein)
111 black and white plates
7 1/2" x 11" paperback, 160 pages, very good condition
NEW!AS33. (EXHIBITION CATALOG) TWO FACES OF SOUTH ASIAN ART: TEXTILES
AND
PAINTING...$12.00
by Blenda Femenias and Joan A. Raducha, published by the University of
Wisconsin in 1984
TEXTILES: Temple Cloths of Srikalahasti and Ahmedabad ~ The Kashmir
Shawl:
Indian Fashion Reaches Europe ~ Ikat Fabrics ~ Embroidery, Mirrors and
Beads:
Elements of Rural Gujarati Textiles ~ The North-East Frontier Area
74 textiles shown in black and white plates
PAINTINGS: South Asian Miniature Paintings ~ Themes from Ascetic
Traditions:
Buddhism and jainism ~ Themes from the Shaivite Traditions ~ Themes
from
Vaishnavite Traditions ~ Portraiture ~ Themes from the World of Humans
101 paintings shown in black and white plates
8 1/2" x 11" paperback, 135 pages, very good condition
*AS/ORI1. CHRISTIE’S - London...November 24, 1987...$8.00
Islamic, Indian, and South-East Asian Manuscripts, Miniatures, and
Works of
Art
356 lots.
illus: b/w & color