2011 Lot Description Price - Clars Auction Gallery

Clars Auction Gallery
Prices Realized
June 11th 12th, 2011
2502 Persian Mir carpet, circa 1925, 15'11'' x 6'9'' $ 550
2503
Karl Hamburger baby grand piano, manufactured in Vienna circa 1907, serial number 4493, model MOD.Xa,
approximate length 61'' $ 850
2504
Renaissance style throne chair, having a relief carved crest depicting German heraldry above the upholstered
back surrounded with a pierce carved border with German eagle shields, flanked by the full carved stiles
terminating at the outswept arms having relief carved lion heads carved in the round and rising on paw feet,
70''h x 34''w x 27''d $ 950
2505
Drop leaf harvest table circa 1890, having a cherry finish and rising on baluster turned legs, 29.5''h x 84''w x
47''d (extended) $ 200
2506
(lot of 5) Empire style dining chairs, having a flame mahogany pierced back continuing to the padded seat and
rising on outswept feet, 33''h x 17''w $ 375
2510
2511
2512
2513
2514
2515
2516
2517
Chinese large embroidered textile hanging, Republic period, embroidered in bold colored threads with a
celestial warrior clutching two swords and mounted on a writhing blue dragon while engaged in intense
combat with two other male militaristic figures with Beijing opera facial makeup and full beards composed of
animal hair, all silhouetted on a red wool ground scattered with bats amid blue cloud scrolls and with stylized
rocks and flowers to the bottom, 117''h x 72''w $ 1,100
Japanese hanging scroll, after Tani Buncho (1763‐1840), 19th Century, Nanga school, ink and color on silk,
depicting a scholar and attendant on a river bridge approaching a mountain retreat, bearing the date 'Bunsei
mizunoto‐hitsuji rokugatsu (=1823.6) utsusu' and the signature 'Buncho', with one seal, painting: 50.5''h x
20.25''w; overall 89''h x 26''w $ 425
Japanese hanging scroll, after Kawanabe Kyosai/Gyosai (1831‐89), Meiji/Taisho period, ink on paper,
portraying a solitary crow perched at the end of a bare tree branch, bearing the signature 'Seisei Kyosai', with
two seals, painting: 51''h x 13.5''w, overall: 84.5''h x 19''w $ 275
Framed Japanese religious painting, Edo period, ink and color on paper, the richly adorned Buddhist or Daoist
figure seated in a pose of meditation on a lotus pedestal raised on a high plinth, his hands to front in a gesture
of veneration and entwined by floating scarves, all beneath a canopy and rainbow‐like nimbus, painting;
23.25''h x 11''w, overall: 40.5''h x 25.5''w $ 550
Framed Japanese woodblock print, by Utagawa Toyokuni (1769‐1825), entitled Furyu jin‐gi‐rei‐shi‐shin: shi
(Contemporary Five Confucian Virtues: Wisdom), of a high‐ranking courtesan, circa 1794‐96, signed Toyokuniga,
with kiwame censor seal and publisher cartouche of Izumiya Ichibei, sight: 15''h x 9.5''w, ovreall: 23.25''h x
17.5''w $ 325
Framed Japanese modern woodblock print with lacquer accents, Persimmon‐C, by Haku Maki (1924‐2000),
dated '77 and signed in pencil on the bottom right margin, sealed Haku Maki in the print, edition notation
22/206, sight: 8.325''h x 16''w; overall: 11.75''h x 20.5''w $ 150
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, Landscape of Jialing, attributed to Li Keran (Chinese, 1907‐1989), the
upper right inscribed 'xi nian Jialing jiang bian da de qi tu jing' (=seven views of the river bank at Jialing last
year), sealed 'Li' and 'Keran' (minor losses and tear along with tape residue to upper left), sight: 53.75''h x
27''w, overall: 90.75''h x 33.5''w; NB: this painting was featured in the Chinese magazine 'Hualang', October of
2001, edition 79, page 25; a copy of the magazine is being offered with lot; Provenance: acquired from a
private East coast collector approximately seven years ago $ 24,000
Framed Chinese hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, Magu Delivery Fruits of Longevity, the left with the
entitled 'jiu jin chang chun yi jie jing fu', bearing the signature 'Ye Manshu', at Shanghai '[]tao guang', with two
artist seals 'Ye Xiao hua yin' and 'Manshu', now set behind a plexiglas frame, sight: 31.5''h x 13.75''w, overall:
85.75''h x 23.25''w $ 2,250
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