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Established in Edinburgh in 1826, Lyon & Turnbull is Scotland’s oldest firm of auctioneers holding regular sales of Asian art, notably Chinese.

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Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art

Friday 14  May 2021 10:00

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Lyon and Turnbull
Live Online | Viewing in London

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Featuring 60 lots of specially curated selection of Chinese literati scholars items, alongside fine works of art, ceramics, jade, Japanese, Indian & Islamic art.

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Viewing 7-13 May | 10am-5pm

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SPECIALITY
Chinese, Indian, Islamic & Middle Eastern, Japanese, SE Asian
IMAGE GALLERY
Discover the lives of the ancient Chinese literati scholars through a specially curated selection of pieces featuring in our 14th May auction of Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art.
HUANGHUALI 'MAGNOLIA' BRUSH POT | QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, Provenance: private Swedish collection. 15.6cm wide
SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'SCHOLARS' BRUSH POT | QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY, Provenance: Private French collection, 15.5cm high
PALE CELADON JADE 'FINGER CITRON' WATER POT | QIANLONG PERIOD, Provenance: property of a gentleman; formerly in the collection of an European diplomat Sven Hedin (1865-1952) who acquired it from Hong Kong in 1930s, 9cm wide
ROCK CRYSTAL SQUARE WATER POT | QIANLONG PERIOD, Provenance: property of a gentleman; formerly in a private German collection, acquired from an antique shop in Munich between 1965 and 1980, 5.8cm wide
WUCAI 'SCHOLAR AT LEISURE' ROULEAU VASE | LATE MING TO EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY, Provenance: private Swedish collection, 48.5cm high
CINNABAR LACQUER SQUARE-SECTIONED VASE | QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY, Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Glasgow, c. 1900, thence by descent, 26.2cm high
LACQUERED WOOD CARVING OF SEATED GUANYIN | QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, Provenance: private English collection, 32cm high
VERY RARE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL | NEOLITHIC-TO-BRONZE-AGE-STYLE, MONGOLIA, DONGHU TRIBE, Provenance: formerly in the Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (1929-2014) Collection, acquired from Sotheby's New York on 19th March 2002, lot 30, 18.5cm wide
PAIR OF GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF TEMPLE GUARDIANS | QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, Provenance: private German collection, 23cm high each; 26cm high with stand
YELLOW JADE RIBBED VASE | QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY, 13.7cm high
RARE PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A BIXIE WESTERN | HAN DYNASTY, Provenance: Private English collection, 7.5cm wide
RARE WHITE JADE 'DAYLILY' PENDANT | JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY, Provenance: Private English collection, acquired from UK market about 10 years ago; possibly sold to the UK market during the mid-20th century for earning foreign currency Note: a closely comparable example, dated to the Jin dynasty, is in the collection of the National Museum of China, 7.5cm wide
IMPERIAL RED-OVERLAY TRANSLUCENT GLASS BOTTLE VASE | QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, Provenace: Private English collection, acquired from Christie's London, 13 November 2001, lot 105, 27.3cm high
ZHANG DANNONG (CHINESE B.1903-D.1975) | WEST TAIHUA MOUNTAIN, DATED 1932 AND 1952, Provenance: Private Scottish collection Note: According to the inscription, the Duke and Duchess of Kent referred to would be Prince George, Duke of Kent (1906 - 1968) and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906-1968), recorded visited Sarawak (then a British Crown Colony) in 1952, where she laid the foundation stone of the Cathedral of St. Thomas in Kuching. 119cm x 42.2cm
DING WARE 'FOLIATE' BOWL | NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, Provenance: Private Scottish collection, has been collecting Asian ceramics for 25 years; acquired from R & G McPherson Antique, Kensington Church Street, London on 14 June 2002, with a photocopied handwritten receipt which stating the piece dated to the Northern Song Dynasty, c. 11th Century, 12.1cm diameter
JIAN WARE 'OIL SPOT' TEA BOWL | SONG DYNASTY, Provenance: Private Taiwanese collection, 11.7cm diameter
LARGE WHITE GLAZE 'DRAGON' CHARGER | POSSIBLY YONGZHENG PERIOD, Provenance: property of a gentleman; formerly from a private German collection, acquired from Beijing in 1965, thence by descent, 36.3cm diameter
TURQUOISE-GLAZED 'DRAGON' STEM BOWL | YONGLE MARK BUT POSSIBLY QIANLONG PERIOD, Provenance: property of a gentleman; formerly in a private German collection, acquired from an antique shop in Munich between 1965 and 1980, 10cm high, 15.8cm diameter
LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' VASE | QIANLONG MARK, 18TH CENTURY, Provenance: Private English collection, 50cm high
PAIR OF QIANJIANG ENAMELLED HEXAGONAL HAT STANDS | QING DYANSTY, 19TH CENTURY, Note: Ren Huanzhang, actived in 1874-1902, an imperial painter in the late Qing court, famous for his shanshui landscape and sage-like figures, pioneered in the literati faction of painted porcelain, Provenance: Private Paris collection, 27.8cm high each
LARGE BRONZE SCULPTURE GROUP OF FUGEN BOSATSU | LATE EDO TO MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY. Collection of Robert Cowan Marshall from the Glasgow International Exhibition 1901. 76.7cm high
PROPERTY OF MAHARAJAH DULEEP SINGH (1838-93) THE LAST SIKH KING TWO SILK AND GILT-METAL THREAD SASHES, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY, Provenance: Elveden Hall, Suffolk, Home of Maharajah Duleep Singh (1863-1893). Private Collection, UK, acquired from the above in the late 1950s. Note: In the renowned full portrait painting of Maharaja Duleep Singh by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) [1], the last Sikh king is featured as a young man in his full Indian regal dress. He is shown wearing a silk sash wound around his waist that closely resembles the two offered here for sale. length: 202cm and 308cm long

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