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Nearly 5,000 items will be presented at the auctions, including Chinese painting and calligraphy, porcelain, jade ware, furniture, works of art, manuscripts and rare books.
As China’s largest and most authoritative off-line trading platform for the Chinese art market, China Guardian Quarterly Auctions have always dominated the domestic medium auction markets and followed an item selection principle that advocates “ordinary works by well-known masters, and excellent works by less famous ones”.
China Guardian Quarterly Auctions directly reflect the fluctuations of price in the art market, which helps set up a connection for newcomers and the market.
As China Guardian CEO Hu Yanyan said: “In the future, items in the Chinese domestic auction market will be more diversified. Except for classic artworks, it must have consumption sectors, which can lead to a balanced and diversified market. China Guardian Quarterly Auctions will continue to work hard to make the art market more accessible to ordinary people.”
Chinese painting and calligraphy
In this section, about 1,829 items will be auctioned in five special sessions, namely, “Modern Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy”, “Masterpieces by Modern Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy Artists”, “Modern and Contemporary Ink Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy”, “Classical Chinese Paintings and CalligraphyⅠ”, and “Classical Chinese Paintings and CalligraphyⅡ”.
The session “Modern Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy” will present exquisite artworks collected by experienced collectors and descendants of artists. Highlights in this session include Huang Zhou’s Donkeys and Qi Gong’s cursive handwriting of a poem.
Huang Zhou’s Donkeys
Qi Gong’s Calligraphy
What’s worthy of mentioning is the collection of ink and wash paintings created by three masters, Zhang Daqian, Pu Ru, and Huang Junbi, which shows high academic and aesthetic tastes.
Huang Junbi’s Character and Landscape
Zhang Daqian’s Persimmons and Bamboo
Pu Ru’s Landscape
The session “Masterpieces by Modern Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy Artists” collects 48 items created by masters like Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Li Keran and Huang Binhong and also by less famous artist like Wang Xuetao, Huang Junbi, Song Wenzhi and Bai Xueshi, following the principle of selecting “ordinary works by well-known masters, and excellent works by less famous ones”.
Li Keran’s Boy and Cattle
Qi Baishi’s Rabbits and Sweet Osmanthus
Huang Binhong’s Landscape
Wang Xuetao’s Chicken and Pine
Song Wenzhi's Landscape
Bai Xueshi’s Character and Landscape
The session “Modern and Contemporary Ink Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy” will highly recommend the artworks created by painters from Sichuan and Chongqing area. At the same time, a special section of “recommended artists” is also included in this session. Works by Yang Yanwen, Dong Xinbin and Chen Yupu will be presented at the auctions. Besides, China Guardian will also offer calligraphy and paintings as well as Zisha teapot created by six contemporary artists like Chen Ping and Li Jin.
Cen Xuegong’s Landscape
Chen Zizhuang’s Landscape
Dong Xibin’s Landscape
Chen Ping’s Landscape
Chen Ping’s Landscape
For two sessions of Chinese classic painting, Northern Song Dynasty painter Yan Yi’s landscape painting and a Children Playing by an anonymous ancient painter are the highlights.
Northern Song Dynasty painter Yan Yi’s Landscape
Children Playing by an anonymous painter
The session “Classical Chinese Paintings and CalligraphyⅡ” specially set up a section of religious paintings, which has a high place in the history of art in China. The section collected paintings on both subjects of Buddhism and Taoism. A religious painting of Guanyin Bodhisattva by an anonymous is the highlight.
A religious painting of Guanyin Bodhisattva by an anonymous ancient painter
Immortal by an anonymous ancient painter
Porcelain and works of art
This section of the 49th China Guardian Quarterly Auctions is divided into five special sessions, “Porcelain”, “Collection of Yongbi Retreat”, “Charm of the Important Porcelains”, “Arts from the Scholar's Studio”, and “Jade and Works of Art”. A total of 2,200 items are presented in this section.
The session “Porcelain” will present 11 items from different regions by a same collector and porcelain from Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and Republic Period. Among them, porcelains produced at the Qing Dynasty official kilns are the highlights, including a little blue-and-white bowl with the Eight Immortals pattern and a white jade hookah.
A little blue-and-white bowl with the Eight Immortals pattern and a white jade hookah produced at the Qing Dynasty official kiln
The session “Collection of Yongbi Retreat” deliberately chooses 29 exquisite ceramic wares, including decorative porcelain from Qing and Ming dynasties official kilns. A rain-hat shaped bowl with lotus patterns from the reign of Xuande Emperor of Ming Dynasty is a highlight.
A rain-hat shaped bowl with lotus patterns, Ming Dynasty
An ox-blood glazed Zun, reign of Kangxi Emperor of Qing Dynasty
The session “Charm of the Important Porcelains” has been consistent with the style of the 48th China Guardian Auctions. It selects nearly 100 exquisite porcelains of various kinds. Among them, a large blue-and-white bowl with portrait of ladies in lyre-playing, chess, calligraphy and painting from the reign of Emperor Wanli in the Ming Dynasty is a real rarity.
A porcelain hanging screen with portrait of ladies and children from the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty
A large blue-and-white bowl with portrait of ladies, Ming Dynasty
The auction of items from a scholar’s studio offers many interesting pieces of four treasures of the study - writing brush, the ink, the inkstone and the paper, including a set of Chinese ink stones specially made for the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The session also offers items of paper from a Japanese collector, who brought them from Rongbaozhai in the sixties and seventies of last century. As for stone seals, a tianhuang stone seal used by Pan Tianshou is the highlight.
A set of Chinese ink stones specially made for theJiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
A bronze zun from the early Qing Dynasty
As for jade ware, a white jade stove with beast patterns from the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is a special collection, which is worthy of your waiting. Regarding Buddhist images, China Guardian will offer this rare bronze gilt Buddhist figure of the Heavenly King of Wealth from the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
A white jade stove
Bronze gilt Buddhist figure of the Heavenly King of Wealth
Alloy copper Buddhist figure of Chakrasamvara
Furniture
This section selects 130 items of classical furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties and Japanese old iron kettles.
The classical furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties has always been the favorite choice of collectors due to their superb quality and exquisite workmanship. This time, China Guardian offers a pair of Huanghuali rose chairs from the early Qing Dynasty.
A pair of Huanghuali rose chairs, early Qing Dynasty
A redwood round table with bamboo pattern, Qing Dynasty
The iron kettle represents the high development of Japanese tea sets. China Guardian brings together 120 Japanese old iron kettles for this special session for collectors. None of these kettles has a base price.
An old iron kettle from the Edo period
An old iron kettle from the Meiji period
Manuscripts and rare books
This part, offering 696 items, includes several themed sessions, providing rare books, letters, manuscripts and autographs.
A rare book, The Plough and Weave, from the Qing Dynasty, is among the rarities of this section.
Eighteen volumes of Qiu Deng Cong Hua by Wang Jian
Twelve volumes of Xiezhai Jia Shu Shu Chao
The section also will hold a special auction for old book collected by a same collector.
Xing Ming Gui Zhi
Twenty-two volumes of Yu Zhuan Zhouyi Zhe Zhong by Li Guangdi
The rare book, The Plough and Weave
Two volumes of E Shan Tu Shuo
As for letters and manuscripts section, highlights are calligraphies by Fan Zengxiang and Xia Shoutian, and letters by Wu Zuoren, Fu Sinian and Dong Biwu.
A seven character poem in regular script by Fan Zengxiang
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