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For those of you looking for something to see and someplace to go and you happen to enjoy Asian Art and you happen to live in Indianapolis or St. Louis or within driving distance or EITHER place. Keep These Dates: Indianapolis Museum of Art (October 26–January 11, 2009); St. Louis Museum of Art (February 22–May 17, 2009).
The most important exhibition of Asian Imperial Art of the Ming Dynasty in many years will be on view. “Power & Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty” organized by Li He, Associate Curator of Chinese Art of the Palace Museum and Michael Knight, Senior Curator of Chinese Art and Deputy Director of Strategic Programs and Partnerships. The exhibition has on loan stunningly rare items from the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) in Beijing, the Nanjing Municipal Museum, and the Shanghai Museum, Chinas three most important Asian Art Museums.
If you enjoy the Arts of the Ming Dynasty or just plain love Asian Art. Do see this exhibition. If you cannot attend, get the catalog. Well illustrated and really well written.
The Asian sales in New York during September 2008 saw good results with continued strength pretty much across the board in all the Chinese categories. Despite uncertainties in world financial markets the worldwide thirst for fine Asian antiques is for now unaffected. In some areas the buying has become more selective, but the money is still clearly available for the best examples. Christies had a good selection of items covering most of the major collecting categories with several examples breaking the multi million-dollar mark.
One of the real standouts was sold on September 17 was a Ming Yongle Period (1403-25) Tianbai-glazed anhua-decorated Meiping vase. The color and form were of the best quality, which was reflected, in the $2,770,500 selling price. This particular white glaze is sometimes called “sweet white” which is very rare in tone and exists on only a few surviving examples. This 12-inch example is a gem.
Song Tinbai Meiping vase, Christies
Another interesting Ming example was a large Lonquan Celadon Porcelain Chargermeasuring 21 inches across and of good coloration. While the $50,000 price was not a record, the amount realized reflects the lack of weakness in green wares, which in my opinion are relative bargains in today’s market. In particular Song through mid Ming examples with desirable tones of green can be had at very fair prices. Despite not being in particular favor for the time being, Celadons still have a loyal following.
Ming Lonquan Celadon, Christies
In recent years as certain examples, in particular porcelains become increasingly rare the once stone wall reluctance by collectors to buy anything other than perfect examples has been eroding allowing renewed interest the rarest examples. As a case in point was the large 17 inch tall Ming Wanlijar with Shou Characters and a six-character mark brought $146,500 with a restored neck. This jar had a very nice shape and good deep cobalt decoration which overcame the negatives of the restoration.
Ming Period Wanli Jar, Christies
The intense interest in Imperial examples also continues unabated. A great case in point was a Yellow Ground with nice clear green enamel “Dragon Vase” with an incised mark and of the Qianlong period (1736-1795).This was a really pretty 12 inch example and jumped up to $1,762,500. While this is not a record price for Imperial Qing vases, but one of the rarest types. The price realized demonstrates the still strong desire for fine and rare Imperial Wares
Qianlong Yellow and Green vase, Christies
Finally among the Christies Chinese ceramic offerings was a pretty fantastic green glazed Cizhou baluster vase from the Song or Jin Dynasty (12th C.). This classic example had a wonderful shape coupled with elegant black drawing over the fine near apple green colored ground.This was a very handsome and early example and the bidders rewarded its merit bringing the final selling price to $722,500.
Cizhou Song or Jin Vase, Christies
The antique Japanese and Korean markets remain spotty with a few standouts drawing loads of interest. A fine pair of six panel Japanese screens by an anonymous artist brought nearly $1,000,000.00 and a Korean Choson period square Korean Bottle Vase selling for $482,500.
19th C. Choson Period, Christies
Finally perhaps one of the best examples of the year was a large 51 inch gilt bronze 15thC. Tibetan bronze which brought $3,666,500. The casting of this example was done in sections due to its size and was simply among the very very best known. An elegant face and sublimely formed torso. A great one!!!
1907 was the second year of the running of the famed Bermuda Race from New York City to Hamilton Bermuda and was won as they say by MILES by a Maritime legend. The Boat was the 85 foot sloop “Dervish” which arrived 5 hours ahead of Lila another class boat in the race.
The following year in 1908 “Dervish won again. The yacht was owned by the renowned yachtsman Henry Morss the then Commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead Massachusetts. The Dervish made the trip in a stunningly fast 89 hours.
In 1908 the start of the race was moved from New York City to Marblehead as it gave a better alignment nautically for the race to the Island. To this day, the Dervish remains a sailing legend on the island and in many other places as well.
Fast forward to the 1990’s and the passing of Sherman Morss {Henry’s Son} in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Sherman was a highly regarded and well known yachtsman himself and owner of the J-Boat “Rainbow” an America’s Cup Contender. Sherman Morss was a supporter of yachting and “The Cup” all his life.
I had the opportunity to meet him a few years before he died, he wasn’t well, BUT he was still a classically great New England guy. After he passed away my then business partner Robert Landry and I handled the personal property and conducted the subsequent auction of Sherman Morss’s estate.
Included in the auction was a considerable amount of Yachting material and memorabilia. Included among one lot I bought myself at the sale a wooden box containing over 100 Class Plate Positive slides taken aboard the Dervish during the race to Bermuda.
Recently we found the ONLY company capable of creating true black and white processed images onto archival paper from very Hi Resolution Scans (3200 DPI) of these great glass plates. We will be offering these here under the Maritime catagory.
In addition we will also be offering other images including Marblehead and Gloucester harbors during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Some done by Eleanor Park Custis and scanned from proof images from her original large negatives.
The other day a friend and customer asked me; “What is the best Asian Art reference site on the internet.” While many museums and dealers have websites and a number of hobbyist group sites like Gotheborg.com display a mix of ceramics and reign marks and have a contributor board. , nearly all have done a very poor job at indexing, populating and posting their sites.
They all tend to have a dozen or fewer images, all too small and maybe a title and little else. This includes the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Metropolitan Museums of Art in New York. These two get at best a “D” for content, information, ease of use and image quality. In other cases they show things of such low quality, but lots of them it might end up making you hate Asian Art.
This is the Asian art reference informational and image site of all sites!! Fantastic is an understatement.
So you might ask how many images and text captions are on this site? Its hard to say actually. If you include; Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Southeast Asian and cover Ceramics, Paintings, , Prints, Bronzes and Carvings etc. somewhere around 5,500 images are available and ALL FOR FREE!!!! ALL the images Enlarge!!! For a quick peek have a look at the Chinese Art Section at the Freer - Sackler.
Yes I said all the data is free. Its free because its the Smithsonian Institution and the place belongs to us all the American people. If you add Islamic and middle eastern stuff, the images total over 6,000.
Enjoy it, the images can be saved onto your own computer as desktops for your computer, you can create a Private Collection on the site of you favorite images and things..sort of like having your own museum. So you can at last Collect Song bowls, Ming Paintings, Neolithic Bronzes, and Yuan Basins if your thing is Chinese…if Japan is your area of interest you can build a group of screens and scrolls. From a personal standpoint, the monchromes and are particularly excellent.
The possibilities are endless, the next rainy day you might even find something there to interest your children. If you decide its as good as I do..maybe make a donation of a couple dollars.
