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The 9th China Guardian Seasons Auction will take place at the Beijing International Hotel, March 17-18, 2007. Over 3,000 lots of Chinese painting, porcelain and works of art, and rare books and manuscripts will be auctioned. The auction preview will take place at the same venue, March 15-16. This is the first Seasons Auction of rare books and manuscripts, a sale that is bound to attract the attention of large collectors and aficionados alike.

Chinese painting and calligraphy includes three sections: Modern Painting and Calligraphy; Classical Painting and Calligraphy; and Contemporary Painting and Calligraphy. The sale of Modern Painting and Calligraphy gathers 997 lots from famous artists of various styles, in keeping with the Guardian Seasons spirit. Three representative landscapes by Li Keran, from his mature period, are standouts: ‘Mountains as Green as the Sea, Sun as Red as Blood’ (39x69cm); ‘Memories of Canton’ (66x44cm); and ‘Mists of Mt. Huang’ (83x50cm). These three lots are from the collection of the famous Chinese national friend, Sol Edler, whose favorite modern painter was Li Keran.

‘Mountains as Green as the Sea, Sun as Red as Blood’, painted in 1965, takes its title from a line by Chairman Mao. Painted as a horizontal composition, with vigorous waves of crimson mountains and lines of army comrades, its display of national pride is similar to the star work of last fall’s auction, ‘Danxia Mountains,’ painted in 1963. ‘Mists of Mt. Huang’, though undated, is of the same period in style and takes as its subject matter the “vanishing mists of Mt. Huang.” ‘Memories of Canton’, painted in 1964, is of a much cooler nature than the other two lots. It uses the Li family style of western painting composition and expression combined with Chinese traditional brushwork to produce a shady and wet scene of the high Guangdong mountains.

Sol Edler was a famous American economist who moved to China in the 1960’s with his wife Berte Edler, also a well-known intellectual. Both taught at Beijing Foreign Languages University and one expression of their deep interest in Chinese culture was their collection of modern Chinese painting, which also includes works by Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Li Yimin, and Deng Lin to be auctioned in this sale.

The Modern Painting and Calligraphy sale also includes a gathering of about fifty works by the famous calligrapher Yu Youren, collected from both abroad and within China, which are sure to peak collectors’ interests.

Classical Painting and Calligraphy brings together five hundred works of Ming and Qing masters including the Wumen, Songjiang, Four Wangs, Jinling, Yangzhou and Shanghai schools. There are more than enough lots of fine condition and high quality, such as Wen Boren’s ‘Fragrant Gardens’, and many lots from abroad as well.

The Contemporary Painting and Calligraphy sale shows over three hundred strong works by older, mid-career and young artists alike. Representative works by Jia Youfu, Yang Yanwen, Wang Mingming, Xu Xi, Wang Xijing, Fang Chuxiong, Shi Lu, Niu Ou, Tian Liming, Shi Qi and Nan Haiyan are included, with a few early works of high exhibition pedigree.


The defining characteristic of the Guardian Seasons Porcelain and Works of Art sale is its plentiful variety of over eight hundred works. The more than five hundred pieces of porcelain boast Ming and Qing dynasty imperial kiln wares, a large number of Republican period porcelains, modern era porcelain and classical works. For example, a ‘Bowl with Aquatic Motif in Blue Ground and Applied White Glaze’, a Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign piece inspired by Ming dynasty, Xuande porcelain. Another special work is the Republican period ‘Famille-rose Landscape Brushholder’ by the master artisan Wang Yeting. The over three hundred works of art include Buddhist figures, jade and bronzes.

Perhaps the most notable section though, is the ‘Early Qing Dynasty Porcelain from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.’ This is the first time the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has ever auctioned de-accessioned pieces abroad and is also the first time that works from a foreign museum have ever been consigned to a Chinese auction house for sale, establishing a landmark in the development of the Chinese auction field.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a long history of collection and has over 350,000 pieces from all over the world and spanning all eras, from the most ancient to the most contemporary. It was originally opened in 1876 as the exhibition space for art from both the Harvard University collection and the MIT collection. The collection of Chinese porcelain and pottery stands out as one of the most important, and the collection of Chinese art overall ranks at the crown jewel of the seven major American collections. After careful research into the market, the Museum eventually concluded that this group of early Qing dynasty porcelain should be consigned to China Guardian for sale.

There are over twenty works in the ‘Early Qing Dynasty Porcelain from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ section, which spans the 16th to 17th centuries, and is the epitome of foreign collection tastes in blue and white ware and wucai porcelain. This historical international cooperation between the foreign museum world and the national art market establishes a precedent in the return of objects from abroad.

The sale of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the upcoming Seasons Auction marks yet another precedent set by that department, which since its beginning in 1994 has been continuously gaining attention for opening this market. The first of the Seasons Rare Books and Manuscripts auctions has brought together more than 380 lots and has redefined traditional divisions into fourteen classifications: Qing imperial documents; Western and Chinese woodblock printed works; handwritten letters; illustrated volumes; collections of literature; collections of poetry; dictionaries and novels; classics, histories and miscellaneous; painted books; inscription studies; new rare books; catalogues; and the collection of the Han Hai Lou of Suzhou.

One notable work is a Ming dynasty Wanli era black and cinnabar ink printing of ‘Stories from the Three Kingdoms’ with printed illustrations, each stamped with the printed seal ‘man tang’ in cinnabar ink. No such work is on record in any collection abroad or within China, making it a valuable object for research.

Other works of note are: the 113 volume ‘Detailed Summary of Supporting and Administering Communications,’ a 1598 Suzhou government reprinting of a Ming dynasty governmental edition; the six volume Guangxu reign ‘Imperial Introductions, Poems and Commendations on Illustrations of Commendable Activities Compilation’ with over sixty illustrations; the 360 volume ‘Instructions on Commentaries’ from 1733, during the Yongzheng reign, printed in the Wu Ying Hall; and the more recent ‘Beijing Tap Water Factory Shareholder Letters of Bo Zengxiang, Wang Yitan, etc.’