Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
AUCTION PREVIEWS: highlights from November UK sales of Chinese, Japanese and south-east Asian works of art
18 October 2021Once again the UK auction market gears up for the biggest of its two annual Asian art seasons.
Ming mythical beast plays the weighting game
18 October 2021This Ming period bronze weight comes in the form of a recumbent mythical beast.
Woodblock print sails in to south London
18 October 2021This Katsushika Hokusai woodblock print from the series Hyakunin isshu uba ga enoki (The Hundred Poems as Told by the Nurse) is titled Poem by Fujiwara No Toshiyuki Ason.
Dublin auction highlights include École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine work
18 October 2021The École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine was essentially a French art academy in Vietnam.
Frome saleroom makes debut appearance
18 October 2021New to Asian Art in London this year is the Frome saleroom Dore & Rees, now owned by Asian art specialist Lee Young.
Cockatoo perches on a Meiji vase
18 October 2021This unusual Meiji period Satsuma vase decorated in overglaze enamels and gilding, with a cockatoo perched on the branch of a flowering magnolia tree, has a gilt seal to the base for the Yabu Meizan workshop.
Japanese auctions trio to be staged by Sotheby's
18 October 2021Sotheby’s will hold three online sales of Japanese works of art that run from October 22 and close from November 2-5.
Charles I makes a return in embroidery form
18 October 2021Of such high quality that they justify the description ‘cabinet miniatures’, examples of a small group of silk and metal thread embroideries of Charles I can be seen in the V&A and Wallace Collection in London and in the New York Met.
Famille rose fish bowls in the swim of things
18 October 2021Duke’s sale in Dorchester on November 25 includes this pair of Yongzheng period (1723-35) famille rose fish bowls.
Provenance to Parry collection
18 October 2021The highlight of Bonhams’ Asian offering is the November 2 sale of Parry collection of Chinese art.
Java bronze depicts a figure of wisdom
18 October 2021Matthew Barton’s European and Asian Works of Art sale at Olympia Auctions on November 24-25 includes this 4in (10cm) bronze figure of Manjusri, the bodhisattva associated with prajna (wisdom) made in Java (Indonesia) in the 10th century.
Maori pendant boosted by fine notable provenance
18 October 2021A Maori hei-tiki pendant offered in Cheltenham on September 16 had an old paper label verso stating that it originally belonged to Makoare Te Taonui.
Geometric furnishing fabric
18 October 2021Chinese textiles specialist Jacqueline Simcox is selling this 15th century Chinese silk brocade geometric panel, priced at £20,000.
Rare example of vases dated to a particular year
18 October 2021This pair of 12in (30cm) high meiping-shaped vases bear the year 1701, making them one of the few dated pieces of Chinese porcelain to exist.
Not one but two sales in west London
18 October 2021Chiswick Auctions will hold two dedicated sales for the November season.
Dish boasts Augustus the Strong provenance
18 October 2021The scene on this 19in (43cm) Yongzheng famille rose dish depicts the Daoist immortal Magu on her way to celebrate the famous peach banquet of the Queen Mother of the West, Xi Wang Mu, who rules over the garden of the peaches of longevity.
Family values: the Ezekiel collection
18 October 2021Sotheby’s Important Chinese Art sale on November 3 includes a group of Chinese porcelains, jades and small works of art from the collection, formed by Marcus Ezekiel (1854-1927) and his son Victor (1905-76) in the first part of the 20th century.
Why collector Bohman became Bowman
18 October 2021Dawsons of Maidenhead holds an Asian sale on November 4 where this damaged 18in (46cm) famille verte yen-yen vase is guided at £200-300.
Lectern took musical inspiration
18 October 2021The November 4 Japanese sale at Bonhams includes, estimated at £7000-8000, this Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-26) era lacquer kendai (lectern) fashioned in the form of traditional court music and dance implements.