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<n>MUDEC (Museum of Cultures)</n> in Milan, designed by <n>David Chipperfield</n>, c. 2015.

<n>Southern Barbarians Come to Trade</n>, a pair of six-panel screens attributed to <n>Kano Naizen</n> (1570-1616).

Attributed to Kano Naizen (1570-1616) , Southern Barbarians Come to Trade | Christie's

A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE PAIR OF LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL PANELS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) One panel is decorated with a stag and a doe grazing beneath a cypress tree intertwined with wisteria, with a four-character inscription on the upper right corner reading bai lu yong shou (cypress, deer, eternal longevity). The other panel is decorated with a pair of cranes beneath a pine tree with lingzhi against a background of craggy mountains, with a four-character inscription on the upper left corn

A LARGE POLYCHROME FRESCO
CHINA, YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)
Painted with Guanyin at right, holding a water-vase in the right hand and the stem of a lotus blossom in the right, clad in flowing robes and wearing a crown centered by a diminutive image of Amitabha, with two smaller bodhisattvas at left, all three standing on lotus blossoms and backed by nimbuses, with a dragon amidst swirling clouds at the top
39 ¼ x 31 in. (99.6 x 78.7 cm.)

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849), Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) [“Great Wave”] | Christie's

<n>Cranes</n>, a pair of six-panel screens by artist <n>Maruyama Okyo</n> (1733-1795).

Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) , Cranes | Christie's

(#3202) A LARGE IMPERIAL PORTRAIT OF CONSORT CHUNHUI BY GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE AND OTHERS, TITLE CALLIGRAPHY BY THE QIANLONG EMPEROR QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

SANYU (CHANG YU, 1895-1966), Chrysanthèmes blanches dans un pot bleu et blanc (White Chrysanthemum in a Blue and White Jardiniere) | Christie's

FU BAOSHI (1904-1965)
The Song of the Pipa Player
Hanging scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated yiyou year (1945)

PROVENANCE :
Property formerly from the family of K’ung Hsiang-Hsi
Lot 2640, 30 November 2010, Fine Chinese Modern Paintings, Christie’s Hong Kong.

LITERATURE :
Ye Zonggao ed., The Chronicle of Fu Baoshi’s Life, Shanghai Classics Publishing House, December 2012, p.144.
113 x 66 cm. (44 ½ x 26 in.)

Shen Yuan (Qing Dynasty), Poetic Idea of "Song on the Lantern Fair";

Li Shizhuo 1687-1770, Poetic Idea of "Song on the Headcount Congee"



ink and colour on paper, two hanging scrolls

(Shen) signed Shen Yuan, with one seal of the artist

Inscription on the painting by Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799), and with two seals of his

with six collector's seals of Emperor Jiaqing (1760-1820) and with two other collectors' seals

Titleslip by Zhitianle Zhai 



(Li) signed Li Shizhuo, with one seal of th

Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899-1983)Red Robe Avalokiteshvaraink and colour on cloth, hanging scrollsigned, inscribed, with 3 seals of the artist188 x 91.4 cm 74 x 36 in. ---------------------------------------------- 張大千　朱衣大士設色布本　立軸 款識︰榆林窟第十七窟盛唐畫朱衣大士。漠高今存三百餘窟，榆林存者祗六十餘耳，兩處艁大士像現種種法身，朱衣楊枝，僅有此一區耳。西蜀近事男張大千敬橅并識。 鈐印︰「張爰之印」、「大千居士」、「老棄敦煌」。 188 x 91.4 cm 74 x 36 in.

A MAGNIFICENT SET OF CHINESE SPINACH-GREEN JADE PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF THE FOUR SEASONS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY | Christie's

Ink-brush master receives high acclaim at China Guardian Auctions[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

porcelain
each panel portraying two immortals in a landscape, all painted in a refined palette, with an inscription in running script relating to the scene, two panels signed Xichang Taomi Daoren Wang Qi, the other two signed Xichang Wang Qi, all with two seals reading Xichang Wang Qi and Taomi, enclosed within burlwood panels and framed between plaques carved with bats, clouds and peaches

A PAIR OF RARE IMPERIAL ZITAN-FRAMED GILT-BRONZE AND LACQUER NING XI PANELS, LATE QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-95) | Christie's

A RARE FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK THANGKA OF AVALOKITESHVARA SAHASRABHUJA
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The thangka is finely embroidered with a central figure of Avalokiteshvara Sahasrabhuja, dressed in elaborate robes and wearing jewelry around the neck and arms, shown with eleven faces and a thousand hands which stretch around the figure in a pointed arch, with an eye stitched in black on the palm of each hand. In the lower register, Jampal Gyatso, the eighth Dalai Lama, is sh

ITO JAKUCHU (1716-1800), Pair of Cranes and the Rising Sun | Christie's

A satin embroidered <n>Shakyamuni Buddha Thangka</n>.

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EMBROIDERED-APPLIQUE SILK BROCADE THANGKA
MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The composition is exquisitely worked with brocade, satin, and embroidered silk appliqués, some detailed with satin stitches and outlined with couched cords to accentuate outlines, the central image depicting Sakyamuni, one hand held across the lower chest and the other in vitarka mudra, gesture of the teaching of the Doctorine, the deity emanating an aureole, seated with legs crossed in vajrasana on

ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Lotus
Inscribed and signed, with a total of ten seals of the artist
Dated spring, dinghai year (1947)
Dedicated to Kuo Chun
Titleslip inscribed by the artist
A set of four hanging scrolls, ink and colour on paper
Each scroll measures 154 x 78 cm. (60 3/8 x 30 3/4 in.)

SANYU (CHANG YU, CHINA, 1901-1966), CHRYSANTHÈMES DANS UN VASE EN VERRE (CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN A GLASS VASE) | Christie's

A highly important thangka of Vairocana , CENTRAL TIBET, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY | Christie's

33 by 29 1/2 inches
in the form of a circular multi-colored lotus bearing a vimana palace and five forms of Hevajra depicted within inner chambers, with the blue eight-headed, sixteen-armed, four-legged Akshobya-Hevajra at the center embracing his consort Vajra Nairatmya and dancing on prostrate mara, red Amitabha-Hevajra with his consort Pandara Vasini in the chamber above, yellow Ratnasambhava-Hevajra with Buddha Lochani to the left, green Amoghasiddhi-Hevajra with Samaya Tara to the right and

Qi Baishi, Twelve Landscape Screens (1925). Courtesy Poly Beijing

A Thangka of Four Mandalas of Hevajra
Tibet, 16th century
The red female deity Jnana Dakini seated at center with Abhayakara Gupta, dressed in the robes of a monk, surrounded by four mandalas, each with a form of Hevajra on a lotus blossom surrounded by deities and within palace walls, together representing the Tantric aspects of Body, Speech, Mind, and Essence, with charnel grounds in the four directions and intermediate directions each with their own Direction God of the Cemetery
Opaque pigmen

SANYU

1895 - 1966

FLEURS DANS UN POT BLEU ET BLANC



oil on masonite

signed in Chinese and French 

executed in 1950s

91 by 62 cm; 35 ⅞ by 24 ⅜ in.

張大千 仿王希孟〈千里江山圖〉| Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899-1983), Landscape after Wang Ximeng | Fine Chinese Paintings | | Sotheby's

(#4) Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-Chien, 1899-1983) Lotus and Mandarin Ducks

seated in vajraparyankasana on an outcrop of rock spread with a floral patterned red and green covering, his hands in the meditation position, dhyana mudra, wearing flowing white and cream garments and a monk's patchwork robe secured by a ring and ribbon, gouniu, his blue silk shoes resting on a ledge before him, all set in a fabulous blue and green mountain landscape with pines and fruit trees, with a sutra, a gilt tripod censer and stand and a circular cinnabar lacquer box placed on an outcrop

LIN FENGMIAN (CHINA, 1900-1991)
FISHING VILLAGE
signed in Chinese (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
80 x 78 cm. (31 1/2 x 30 3/4 in.)
Painted circa. 1950s-1960s

A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL EMBROIDERY-EMBELLISHED 'SANXING' KESI PANEL
QIANLONG SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Mounted as a hanging scroll, finely woven to depict the triad, Sanxing, in a mountain landscape scene with Shoulao, God of Longevity, offering a peach to Lu Xing, God of Prosperity, who holds a flowering peony spray and is standing beside Fu Xing, God of Happiness, holding a child his arms, detailed with a deer and cranes amidst flowering peony, all below a panel of calligraphy, t