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China Guardian’s 2006 Spring Auctions will be held from June 3-5 at the Beijing Kerry Center Hotel, and will include the following twelve auctions: Classical Paintings and Calligraphy; Modern and Contemporary Painting I and II; Fine Contemporary Paintings; Porcelain, Works of Art, Jadeite and Diamond Jewelry; Arts from the Scholar’s Studio- the Jian Songge Collection; Oil Paintings and Sculptures; Rare Books; Rubbings and Calligraphy; Stamps and Covers; The Ma Dingxiang Collection of Coins and Banknotes; and The Xizhai (Peaceful Scholar’s Study) Collection of Bronze Mirrors; 4,300 items in all. The preview for this auction will take place from May 31- June 2, also at the Beijing Kerry Center Hotel.

Chinese Painting-

The four Chinese Painting Department auctions, Classical Painting and Calligraphy, Modern and Contemporary Painting I and II, and Fine Contemporary Paintings, total 900 works.

The Classical Painting and Calligraphy Auction includes our strongest selection yet of Ming and Qing paintings, both in terms of the quality and the quantity. The Zhao Zuo handscroll, Streams and Mountains Without End, is one of the best works of the artist’s entire oeuvre, as estimated by Dong Qichang in his colophon to the painting.

The Modern and Contemporary Painting Auction includes a strong northern and southern polarity. The north is represented by large groups of works by Qi Baishi, Pu Ru, and Li Keran. The south by such greats as Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Lin Fengmian, Zhang Da Qian, Fu Baoshi, etc. A particularly plentiful selection of paintings by Qi Baishi shows works from all periods of the artist’s career and displays all of his major subjects, from the often seen shrimps, fish and crabs to several dazzling works of flora and figures. Paintings such as Embracing the Little Darling, a popular Qi Baishi theme showing a lady embracing her son, who sometimes holds a cypress branch, is one favored by collectors for its implied secondary meanings of longevity and a prosperous life. This particular work shows the magic of Qi Baishi’s brushwork, deftly capturing both inner and outer emotions, and is accompanied by a sentimental inscription by the artist.

The Fine Contemporary Paintings Auction includes a fine and rare painting by Jia Youfu, Boundless Surges, from his black Taixing landscape series. Wang Mingming’s painting after the poet Tao Yuan Ming’s ‘Drunk and Happy Old Men’ is also a recent and major work by the artist, and is about to be published as the subject of a small stand-alone painting volume. Also very notable, considering the successful fall auctioning of its sister lot, will be the latter half of a group of works from the “’93 (ink) Critic’s Invitational Exhibition,” including 20 works, and offering a time capsule of diverse artists in an important period in ink painting history.

Ceramics and Works of Art-

The Porcelain, Works of Art, Jadeite and Diamond Jewelry sale includes 300 lots of porcelain and works of art. A Magnificent Qianlong Famille-Rose Eight Immortals Vase, once a part of the collection of Cheng Qinghua, is a rare treasure indeed. The vase is octagonal in shape and the mouth and ring foot are decorated with reserve panels of phoenix tail patterns on yellow ground with bats designs. Neck and flanks show chi dragons and shou characters over the same yellow and copper-red phoenix tail ground, while the neck is covered in a pale pink ground with tendril patterning and decorated with qing instruments hanging from panchang knots and ruyi cloud heads. These groupings of auspicious symbols, done with exacting precision, were meant to appease the tastes of no less than the Qianlong emperor himself. Each of the eight reserve panels across the belly is decorated with one of the Eight Immortals of folk legend as they cross the ocean to mythical gardens to drink in the pleasures of spring. They are painted in lively and animated manners that bring the vase to life. The base is painted with a six-character Qianlong mark of the period in copper-red on a turquoise ground. The vase is regal and stately, the colors are precise, plentiful, and elegant, and it is of the finest examples of Qianlong famille-rose workmanship. A vase apparently identical in painting, workmanship and kiln origin to this piece is in the Shanghai Museum collection.

“Arts from the Scholar’s Studio- The Jian Songge Collection” is superb collection of Chinese works of art designed for scholarly use and includes sculpted bamboo, rhinoceros horns, ink stones, lacquer wares, bronze works, and works of zitan and huanghuali woods. There are 120 works in all, including a Ming Dynasty Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup with a Spring Landscape, carved by Fang Zhushi. The outer wall is carved in a joyful southern spring scene with a seven line inscription in vigorous relief-carved cursive characters, and with the relief seal of Fang Zhushi, a Ming artist famous for his carved rhinoceros horn cups, which are now rarely seen. Other items of note are the Bamboo Incense Holder Carved with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove by Gu Jue, the Qianlong Zitan Ruyi Scepter with Inset Han Jade and Silver and Gold Inset Poetry by the Emperor, as well as a rare imperial ink stone made of songhua rock.

Jadeite and Diamond Jewelry-

The Porcelain, Works of Art, Jadeite and Diamond Jewelry sale includes sixty-three items of jewelry, of which fifty-two are jadeite and eleven are diamond. This sale also marks the first sale of diamonds at China Guardian’s auctions.

The jadeite jewelry includes beaded necklaces, bangles, pendants, rings, saddle rings, ear pendants, brooches and buttons, of which the majority are of the finest quality material and the most verdant green colors, increasingly rare characteristics in the current market. The eleven white and colored diamond pieces included in this sale are notable for their large size, high quality of color and purity, and for their impeccable taste in presentation. Forms include stud earrings and rings from one to five karats in size meant for both adornment and collection or investment purposes.

Oil Paintings and Sculptures-

Over two hundred works will be auctioned in the Chinese Oil Paintings and Sculpture sale. The Meng Luding and Zhang Qun painting In the New Age- Adam and Xiawa is particularly noteworthy as it is considered by contemporary art academics at large to be the work that most reflects the culture and art environment of 1980’s China. It is a crucial image in discourses on contemporary Chinese history and arts.

Through China Guardian’s consistent predominance and tradition in the Chinese oil painting auction market, the selection of early masters includes the renowned Wu Guanzhong’s Zizhu Garden. This work was painted in 1975 and shown in the First Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art.

Collectors have also consistently favored artworks that reflect the grave and monumental reality of the Cultural Revolution. Such collectors will be interested in Ma Changli’s Taihang Mountain and Liu Chunhua’s The Premier Lives in Our Hearts Forever, two powerful works that remain influential to this day.


Rare Books and Manuscripts, Stone Rubbings and Calligraphy-

The over four hundred pieces that make up the Rare Books and Manuscripts as well as the Ancient Stone Rubbings and Calligraphy Auctions include among other things notable Ming and Qing Dynasty letters, a hand painted map, Ming Dynasty printed texts, Han Dynasty stele rubbings, a collection of Yuan Dynasty imperial printings, and the calligraphy of famous collectors, etc.

Hand painted maps are rare for their integration of the fine arts and practical usage and have in the past year piqued the interest of collectors and museums. This auction includes a case of five handscrolls titled Jin Sha Jiang Quan Tu  (A Complete Map of the Jinsha River). The painting is marvelous both for its massive scale and for its exactness in execution. It is the epitome of the highest level of ancient Chinese painted landscape maps and cartography for use by the government. Painted with color on silk, the scroll has a preface by a government representative and an opening overview map of the Jinsha River region, followed by over seventy meters of the exactly painted landscape depicting the flowing waters, the steep banks, the mountains and plains, the architecture, animals and figures of the Jinsha River basin. Labeled over the relevant sections are recommendations made to the emperor for improving the river travel, making this map not only a detailed description of a particular place in time, but also a historical document of government planning.

There is also a multiplicity of private letters in this auction, including an collection of eminent Ming personalities such as Wen Zhengming, Wen Peng, Song Cao, and Yan Yan, etc. Another important piece is the Ming printing of San Cai Tu Hui, a famous piece in Chinese printing history as it is the prevailing Ming collection used for classification standards of carved printing.


Stamps, Coins and Bronze Mirrors-

Stamp, coins and bronze mirrors auctions have always gained the attention of collectors from across the world. This spring the auction is divided into the Ma Dingxiang Collection of Chinese Coins and Banknotes, The Xizhai (Peaceful Scholar’s Studio) Collection of Chinese Mirrors, and the Stamps and Covers Auction. All three auctions total 2400 lots.

The Chinese Coins Auction contains many valuable and treasured pieces, including mechanically made coins, banknotes, silver sycees, ancient coins, etc. An exceptionably rare Yuan Shikai Commemorative One Dollar Gold Pattern Coin, signed by L. Giorgi, which was last auctioned in 1971, has been in private hands and off the market and unseen for the last 20 years. Furthermore the coin is unique, there is no other such coin on record in any other collection in China, public or private, making this the most rare of coin treasures.

Bronze mirror collection is on the rise, and the auction of an impressive and famous Taiwanese collection, the Xizhai (Peaceful Scholar’s Studio), includes 70 first-rate bronze mirrors. A Ming Dynasty Cloisonné Enamel Mirror with Grape Motif for Imperial Use is especially impressive by its massive size of 440mm and 9040g and its fine workmanship. Cloisonné enamel work is a specialty of the Ming and Qing dynasties, mostly used for aesthetic appreciation and interior decoration, and was only very rarely applied to bronze mirrors, making this exceptionally large, finely patterned, and richly colored example among the rarest of the rare. Including this piece, only three such examples of cloisonné enamel mirrors from this period and with magnificent court workmanship are known; The other two are in the Beijing Forbidden City Collection, and in the private hands of a major Swiss collector. But this lot for auction is the largest and best preserved of the three. Also included in the auction will be a strong selection of fine mirrors from the Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, objects fast coming into favor with collectors. The auction will conclude with a selection of fine traditional mirrors from the Warring States to Tang periods.

The Stamps Auction will include over six hundred pieces and include many masterpieces, such as a 1897 Mint Condition 3 Cents Red Revenue Stamp with Small Character One Dollar Surcharge, nicknamed the “Little One Dollar.” The red revenue stamp with the one dollar surcharge is called “The King of Chinese Stamps” as it is the most famous and sought after of Chinese stamps.