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ORIENTALIA AT ELDREDS W/4 CUTS

EAST DENNIS, MASS. -- Following several preview sessions, Eldred's held a

two-session auction of Oriental art on December 3 and 4. The sale of 973 lots

from 85 consignors resulted in a gross of $160,886.

The top bid of the day, $2,750, went for an Eighteenth Century gilt bronze

Buddha seated in an earth-touching posture, having enamelled eyes and blue

hair, 12« inches high, surpassing an estimate of $1,2/1,800. The lot went to a

dealer.

Tying with another $2,750 winning bid, a Nineteenth Century white jade wrist

rest, 9Õ inches long, bamboo form, with a high relief spider on one end,

having calligraphy and a four character mark on the underside, had a

pre-auction estimate of $3/4,000.

A Japanese bronze figure of an eagle with a 27 inch wing spread, perched on a

wood base, Twentieth Century, by Imasanari, with gilt shakudo eyes and beak,

estimated at $1,2/1,500, brought $2,640; a pair of Satsuma pottery puppies,

impressed with the Meiji Period potters mark, each piece four inches long, one

in red, brown, and white, the other in black and white, each wearing collars

with bells, made $2,530; and an ivory netsuke mother monkey with two baby

monkeys, having inlaid eyes, signed by carver Shokoku Ikko, late Meiji Period,

sold at $2,420.

A Gandharan figure depicting a seated deity on a raised wooden platform, 15

inches high, third or fourth Century, realized $2,200; a 17 inch high giltwood

seated figure of Buddha seated on a multi-tier lotus throne, Edo Period, sold

at $1,760; and a rare ox blood red coral snuff bottle in urn form, with deeply

relief carved bird, insect, and flower design, with conforming stopper, 2«

inches high, Nineteenth Century, was purchased at $1,760.

A Hiroshige print estimated at $350/450 went out at $1,650. The first edition

of "Celebration of the Cock Festival in the Rice Fields" by Asakusa was from

the book "100 Years of Famous Places in Edo," oban tate-e, dated 1857, and

depicted a cat against a window looking out at Mt Fuji.

A pair of scroll paintings on silk attributed to Mori Sosen, each depicting a

mother monkey with two babies, were estimated at $1,8/2,200, but fetched

$1,540 for the pair, going to the trade; a late Nineteenth Century figural

ivory snuff bottle in the form of Li Ti Po, in a reclining position spilling

wine on himself while a bat attends him, the bottle having a stopper in the

form of a movable foot, reached $1,540.

A bronze figure of Shoki standing on a rock outcropping above a stream with

curling waves, holding his beard in one hand, dressed in a cloud patterned

robe, 18« inches high, Meiji Period, achieved $1,430; and ivory figure of a

sage standing holding a fly wisk, having a long moustache, with a sword across

his back, in a rich golden patina, nine inches high, Seventeenth Century, went

out at $1,430; and a sino-Tibetan lama, with a bare chest revealing protruding

ribs, in bronze, seated on a rectangular base, 6« inches high, Eighteenth

Century was purchased at $1,430.

Prices quoted reflect a required ten percent buyers premium.