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Clars Auction Sale 503
Prices Realized
January 8 and 9, 2011
Lot Description Price
4070 Japanese metal lantern‐form lamp, fashioned as a temple lantern with a wide flaring top above a cylindrical
body pierced with scrolling leafy tendrils and with a single hinged door allowing access to the interior light, all
raised on three tall supports with curved terminal attached to a circular base on a wooden stand, 22.5''h
$ 90
4071 Chinese gilt metal figure of the historical Buddha, his gilded face with aristocratic features and downcast
eyes, the seated figure draped in simulated cloisonne enamel decorated monastic robes with a floral pattern
on a blue ground, his right hand displaying the 'earth witness' mudra (bhumisparsa), 19.75''h
$ 200
4072 Japanese patinated metal temple lantern (electrified), the central bulbous section with pierced floral panels
and a hinged door below a roof‐like top suspending small bells (one missing) and surmounted by a flaming
jewel finial, all supported on a tall stepped pedestal base attached to a wooden stand, 32.75''h
$ 225
4074 Chinese crackle glazed and iron oxide decorated porcelain vase, now electrified, celadon glazed body with
dark craquelure and featuring a relief of a large writhing dragon picked out in iron‐oxide, reversed by a crane
suspending a jewel from its beak, the neck bracketed by branch‐form handles accented with white enameled
blossoms, now surmounted by a scroll pierced wooden lid, vase: 23.5''h, overall: 43''h
$ 300
4076 (lot of 2) Chinese white elephant‐form ceramic garden seats, the first with a circular seat molded with a shou
medallion and tendrils supported by a small elephant above a plinth; the second with a rectangular seat rising
from the back of a caparisoned elephant, 22.25''h
4077 Chinese lacquered wooden panel now set as a table screen, the rectangular panel highly carved with a
caparisoned deer supporting a vessel of elixir below the character 'fu' (good fortune) and framed by cloud
scrolls below a gnarled pine, together with a free‐standing base fitted with pierced panels and spandrels
(wear and some losses), overall: 39.25''h
4078 Chinese ox‐blood (langyao) glazed porcelain vase, now electrified, of baluster form and covered in the
characteristic red glaze mottled with occasional dark specks and thinning to white at the mouth rim, some
pooling at the base, (drilled), vase: 16.6''h
4079 Chinese stained rosewood tall plant stand, the square top framed by a faux‐bamboo edge, all rising on
similarly carved long slender supports bracketing a pierced faux bamboo apron, the bottom with lattice work
stretchers carved en suite, 48.25''h
$ 60
$ 110
$ 275
$ 130
4080 Chinese Peking rug, circa 1940 (wear), 17'8'' x 11'7'' $ 850
4081 Pair of Chinese blue‐and‐white porcelain garden seats, each of barrel shape and decorated with branches of
flowering prunus reserved on a cobalt blue ground, the top pierced with a cash emblem, further cash
emblems forming handles on the sides between two rows of raised bosses, 18.5''h
$ 325
4083 Japanese Tokyo‐style keyaki and kiriwood naga‐hibachi, Meiji/Taisho period, the rectangular body with a row
of two drawers across the bottom, a stack of three small drawers on one side, with a copper liner (water
staining), 15.5''h x 28.5''h x 15.5''d
$ 175