2011 Lot Description Price - Clars Auction Gallery

Clars Auction GallerySale ResultsMarch 12 ‐ 13, 2011Eric Pfeiffer custom designed television and media storage unit, birch wood and brushed stainless steelveneer, with a central element of a tempered frosted glass, with thirty‐three clear glass port‐hole styledecorative elements, attached to four bearings, running on a horizontal steel frame, flanked on either sideare open storage shelves, the left side supported by square tube steel superstructure, on the right side arefour drawers with custom turned aluminum pulls, to the left of the drawers is the central lower unit, withtwo sliding doors, one covered with a brushed stainless steel laminate, the other is frosted tempered glass,running on aluminum tracks, to the left is a single storage drawer, the whole unit rising on square tube steel,95''h x 114''w x 32.5''d, Provenance: custom ordered from Eric Pfiffer for a San Francisco collector, EricPfeiffer is the co‐author of ''Bent Ply the Art of Plywood Furniture'', Princeton Architectural Press, New York,2003, the seminal book on the history and manufacturing of bent ply furniture, the San Francisco Museum of4698 Modern Art possesses four pieces of Eric Pfeiffer furniture in its permanent collection $550Asian style scholars stone reflecting pool, resting on a pedestal, with openness and perforations, with a4699 natural form, 33''h x 53''w x 36''d $600Collection of North Vietnamese military items including 2 NCO caps, So. Vietnamese tankers cap and black4700 Viet Kong pajamas $2254701 Electric right handed guitar, with a zebra body and a rosewood fretboard, overall: 39'h x 13''w $175(lot of 3) Remote control helicopters, two are battery powered, one with a gas engine, largest 13.5''h x 50''w4702 x 49.5''d, note: no remote controls $2504704 Arts & Crafts arched redwood entry door, 82.5''h x 45.75''w x 1.75''d $300(lot of 13) Chinese green hardstone cups, consisting: set of ten small stem cups shaped from a muted greentranslucent matrix mottled with dark inclusions, 2''h; pair of cups of inverted bell form of sea‐green hue withopaque inclusions, 4''dia; together with one mottled yellow‐green colored cup of inverted bell form, with4707 wood stand, with boxes, 3.3''dia $2547084710Japanese rectangular copper tray, Meiji period, centered by a relief depiction of a farmer and child in acountry landscape with a waterwheel and farmhouse shaded by lush foliage, Mount Fuji in the distance, witha signature cartouche 'Masahisa', the wide reticulated border formed by long‐armed monkeys amid fruitingpeach branches, the underside with insects and persimmon/pomegranate forming the supports (originalsilver wash worn away), 13.325''h x 10.5''w $110(lot 2) Chinese and Japanese textiles, the first a pair of Chinese embroidered sleeve bands, depicting acelebration welcoming the new 'zhuangyuan' to town, executed upon a white satin ground now mounted topaper backing, overall 24''h.; the second a Japanese brocade obi, with overall phoenix roundels amidscrolling floral tendrils and scattered with large leafy sprigs upon a pale green ground $25Southeast Asian carved wood figure of the Buddha, Shan state, depicting the Sakyamuni Buddha seated on a4711 waisted plinth and displaying the bhumisparsa mudra, the red lacquer coating with traces of gilt, 10.875''h $70Chinese Shiwan ceramic figure of Budai, 20th century, the auspicious deity wearing robes open to the frontto reveal his large belly and standing on lotus leaves resting on his treasure sack with the legend 'gong xi facai' to the front, with colored glaze accents, the interior with the inscription and with two impressed marks4712 reading 'Zhou Yong[zhen]', 13.375''h $254713Asian patinated bronze archaistic ovoid vessel, fashioned as hu cast with a wide band of taotie masks belowa pair of loop handles suspended from further masks featured on the shoulder, 9.5''h $35Page 28 of 86