Auction on
08 November 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
Salle 4 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
A major surprise came in this sale of Asian art when a lacquer console roused the five-clawed monster.
China, 18th century. A rectangular tianqi and qianjin lacquered console table decorated on the top with a face-on dragon holding the sacred pearl in one of its talons, legs and sides decorated with dragons chasing the sacred pearl among clouds, 77 x 94 x 29.5 cm/30.3 x 37 x 11.6 in. Result: €524,800
China, 18th century. A rectangular tianqi and qianjin lacquered console table decorated on the top with a face-on dragon holding the sacred pearl in one of its talons, legs and sides decorated with dragons chasing the sacred pearl among clouds, 77 x 94 x 29.5 cm/30.3 x 37 x 11.6 in. Result: €524,800
Sales of Chinese art regularly turn up surprises—and considerable ones, too—but they mostly involve porcelain with imperial marks, whether or not these are genuine. This time the revelation came with an 18th-century lacquer…
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