Sablon, June 4th to 8th, 2014

Sablon, June 4th to 8th, 2014

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Vetting

Participants

The fair will be fully vetted by a panel of independent experts.

Every object on show will be screened by the Art Loss Register.

Art Passages................................................ 12
Astamangala............................................... 14

Vetting Committee

Gregg Baker Japanese Art......................... 16

Anthony Plowright
Dealer, scholar and collector since 1969. Specializes in South East Asian metal sculptures

Buddhist Art................................................ 18
Carlo Cristi.................................................. 20

Thierry Portier
Cabinet Portier, experts in Asian Art since 1909. Member of Professional Experts Union - Paris

Gisle Cros................................................ 22

Max Rutherston
Expert in Japanese netsuke and works of art and Chairman of Asian Art in London since 2010

Duchange & Rich...................................... 26

David Weldon
Senior Consultant, Sothebys Indian and Hymalayan Art - New York

Karim Grusenmeyer.................................... 30

Martin Doustar........................................... 24
Famarte....................................................... 28
Nayef Homsi............................................... 32

William Webber
The Art Loss Register - London

Jacques How Choong................................ 34

Indian Heritage........................................... 36
Andr Kirbach Kunsthandel....................... 38
Kitsune........................................................ 40
Kyoto Gallery.............................................. 42
Galerie Lamy............................................... 44
Mingei Arts Gallery..................................... 46
Renaud Montmat..................................... 48

Wednesday 4th to Sunday 8th June 2014 - Sablon

Wednesday 4th
Thursday 5th
Friday 6th
Saturday 7th
Sunday 8th

3 pm 9 pm
11 am 7 pm
11 am 8 pm
11 am 7 pm
11 am 5 pm

Alexis Renard.............................................. 50
John Siudmak............................................. 52
Wei Asian Arts............................................ 54
Michael Woerner........................................ 56
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Dear Friends,
One year ago we launched the new course of Asian Art in
Brussels and we were rewarded by the enthusiastic response and
participation of collectors and visitors who appreciated the quality
of the artworks exhibited and the excellent level of the cultural
lectures proposed under the name of Artconnoisseurs Talks, the
cultural program we created together with BAAF (Brussels Ancient
Art Fair) and BIAPAL (Brussels International Art Promotion and
Logistics).
This initial success has been for us a great motivation to prepare
the 2014 edition.
New distinguished colleagues have joined the already formed
group of exhibitors of AAB, adding quality and knowledge. The
23 members of Asian Art in Brussels will offer their best selection
of artworks from India, Tibet, China, South East Asia, Japan.
We all at AAB welcome the new members and look forward to
those who wish to join us in the future.
This year we are presenting lectures from renowned scholars,
leaders in their fields, which will be held in the prestigious Museum
of Musical Instruments (MIM). The program has been realized in
collaboration with Institut des Hautes Etudes chinoises (IBHEC)
and BIAPAL. The lectures will be filmed and will be available online
for those who will not be able to attend, and for those who still
want to share these moments.

The collaboration with BAAF and BRUNEAF has produced an

extensive campaign of comunication to send all over the world the
message of the three simultaneous important fairs, a unique event
in the world of art fairs. Brussels in June becomes the destination
of choice for collectors and art lovers.
Our special thanks to the esteemed lecturers, the members of the
Comit dHonneur and the Vetting Committee who, along with
Art Loss Register, London, have assured the impeccable quality of
the exhibits.
Its a week of art, culture and events to enjoy, an opportunity to
acquire selected works of asian art.
I warmly welcome Collectors, Curators and Friends to the 2014
edition of Asian Art in Brussels.

Carlo Cristi

ASIAN ART IN BRUSSELS

Supernatural Themes in Manj Netsuke from the Ashmolean

Museum, Oxford
Dr Joyce Seaman

Program of Lectures and Talks:

ASIAN ART IN BRUSSELS
and Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises
Thursday June 5th
3.00 pm Supernatural Themes in Manj Netsuke from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Dr Joyce Seaman
4.00 pm The Sculptures of Western Tibet in the 11th to 13th Centuries and

their Artistic Debt to Kashmir

Dr Amy Heller
Friday June 6th
3.30 pm On Khmer Sculpture Very Personal Comments on a Life-long Journey

Dr Felten and Dr Schreiber
5.00 pm Maps of East Asia in the early to mid-Nineteenth Century

Dr Richard Pegg
6.00 pm Approaches to Collecting

Steven M. Kossak
7.30 pm Cocktail reception on the rooftop terrace of the MIM
Venue:

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Muse des Instruments de Musique (MIM)

Rue Montagne de la Cour 2, 1000 Bruxelles

Most people are familiar with Japanese netsuke, the carved

toggles used to attach small personal items to the kimono
sash. Often overlooked, however, is a type of netsuke known
as manj; named for its shape, the manj netsuke was usually
flattish and round, resembling a sweet bean-paste filled
bun. It provided two surfaces for the artist to decorate with
illustrations from printed books, woodblock prints or simply
ideas from his own imagination. This lecture will look at subjects related to the supernatural,
drawing on examples from the Ashmoleans collection to discuss demons malign, benign and
humorous, and their appearance on nineteenth-century manj netsuke.
Joyce Seaman is a Research Associate in the Japanese Department at the Ashmolean Museum,
University of Oxford. She is the author of Manj Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean
Museum (2013).

The Sculptures of Western Tibet in the 11th to 13th centuries

and their Artistic Debt to Kashmir
Dr Amy Heller
To honour the memory of his father, Rinchen bzangpo, royal chapelain
to the king of Gu.ge, commissioned a sculpture of Avalokiteshvara by
the Kashmiri sculptor Bhidhaka. This life-size standing sculpture shows
exceptional prowess in casting and inlay techniques. At present, this
Avalokiteshvara is enshrined in a chapel in the family hometown of
Khatse near the Gu.ge capital at Toling. This sculpture acquired great
renown, undoubtedly inspiring numerous artists working in Gu.ge-Pu.
hrang and Ladakh. Notably, in 996, at the consecration of Khojarnath, a
great sculpture was cast leading to the sculpture triad of Avalokiteshvara,
Manjushri and Vajrapani which, known as the Three Silver Brothers,
became the palladium of the kingdom of Pu.hrang. Tibetan historical
sources also inform us that Rinchen bzangpo imported sculptures of
different aspects of Tara, Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri from Kashmir.
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In the light of Tibetan dedication inscriptions on sculptures and Tibetan historical documents, this
presentation will study the historical, iconographical and aesthetic relationships of these Kashmiri
metal sculptures and the sculptures they inspired both cast in metal and modeled in clay in the
kingdoms of Gu.ge-Pu.hrang and Ladakh during the 11th to early 13th century.
Amy Heller studied art history at Columbia University, the Tibetan language at Institut National de
Langues Orientales in Paris, and her doctorate in Tibetan History and Philology at La Sorbonne.
Since 1986 she has been affiliated with the Paris Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Visiting Professor in Rome at La Sapienza (2006 and 2008) and also Research Associate in Tibetan
art (2011-2013) at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies University of London). Since
2007, she works regularly as visiting Professor of Art history and Cultural History at Center for
Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University.
Her most recent book is Hidden Treasures of the Himalayas, Tibetan manuscripts, paintings, and
Sculptures of Dolpo (2009, Serindia Publications).

6th to the 14th centuries (Sothebys Publications, London, 1989). He has, in 1989, co-organized
the first major exhibition in Germany on Khmer art, at the Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst,
Cologne: Entdeckungen Skulpturen der Khmer und Thai. In his latest book Die Sammlerfalle
(The Collectors Trap) he amuses with wit, charm and irony about his live-long experiences in the
classical and contemporary art world.
The Podium Talk will highlight little known peculiarities of Khmer art and its importance within
the art history of Asia. Dr Feltens fresh insights on legal and moral provenance issues might add
a helpful groundedness to current discussions. And it will be exciting to hear what a life-long
collector can share about his approach to solve the most frequent collectors question: Is this
sculpture authentic ?
The Podium Talk will be in English.

Maps of East Asia in the early to mid-Nineteenth Century

Podium Talk:

On Khmer Sculpture Very Personal Comments on a Life-long

Journey

Dr. Richard Pegg

Dr Susanne Schreiber (HANDELSBLATT, Dsseldorf)

and Dr Wolfgang Felten, Munich

Maps are rich cultural objects presenting and

transmitting information about time and place
of production. This lecture will provide some of
the particular practices and relationships between
text and image in East Asian map making that
are unique in world cartography. In addition,
reactions to new ideas introduced from the
West including the concept of a larger world
construct, will be examined. The lecture will
present, through comparison, certain similarities
and distinctive differences in the representations of space, both real and imagined, in the early
modern cartographic traditions of China, Korea and Japan.

No other journalist in Germany is as long and as deeply involved in the

art scene as Dr. Susanne Schreiber who, since 1986, is with Germanys
leading financial daily newspaper HANDELSBLATT, and heading since
2004 its Art Market Section. As The Marktfrau (The Market Woman)
for the renowned German art magazine WELTKUNST, she comments in
her characteristic and well-chiseled writing style on major art market
developments as well as on exciting and often overlooked niches in the art
market.
ASIAN ART IN BRUSSELS 2014 is honored to welcome Dr Susanne
Schreiber who invites for a Podium Talk Dr Wolfgang Felten, renowned
lawyer, passionate connoisseur and collector of Southeast Asian sculpture.
Since the 1970s Dr. Felten has been involved in numerous aspects of the art history and
preservation of art from Southeast Asia. In recognition of his merits the Cambodian Government
bestowed on him in 2009 the Commanders Cross of the Royal Monisaraphon Order. Dr. Felten is
editor and co-author of notable publications, such as Thai and Cambodian Sculpture From the
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Richard A. Pegg has a BA and MA in Chinese and Japanese Literature from George Washington
University and a Ph.D in East Asian Art History from Columbia University. He has published and
lectured widely on the arts of Asia. His recent books include Passion for Form: Selections of
Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection and The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual
Bronzes. His most recent book is entitled Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps. Dr. Pegg is
currently Director and Curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection in Chicago.

Approaches to Collecting

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Steven M. Kossak
Mr. Kossak has been a well known collector of South and
Southeast Asian Art since the early 1980s and a curator at
The Metropolitan Museum for twenty years. He will discuss
approaches to collecting and discuss the similarities and
differences between collecting Indian painting and sculpture
for a Museum versus a private collection. Equally, he will look
at different paths of art collecting.
Mr. Steven M. Kossak, former Curator The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Collector.
Steven Kossak did his graduate work at Columbia University. He began working at The
Metropolitan Museum in 1986 and over twenty years made his way up through the ranks. He
left in 2006 as the Senior Curator dealing with South and Southeast Asian Art in the Department
of Asian Art. He had begun collecting European prints and drawings in high school. By the
late 1970s, he was buying Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian sculptures and paintings.
In 1984, the Asian collection he had formed, The Kronos Collection was exhibited at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art. After he joined The Museums staff, he deferred to The Museums
collecting needs, but continued to collect for himself. From the late seventies, he had also been
assembling distinguished works of art from Africa, Oceania, and other cultures that moved him.
So, despite the prominence of South and Southeast Asian works in his holdings, the overall
collection is unusually varied.

Participants

He is the co-author (with Martin Lerner) of The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast
Asian Art from the Samuel Eilemberg Collection (1991), Indian Court Painting: 16th-19th Century
(1997), co-author (with Jane Casey) of Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from central Tibet (1998),
Painted Images of Enlightenment: Early Tibetan Tangkas, 1050-1450 (2010).

ARTCONNOISSEURS is the cultural project of Asian Art in Brussels (AAB)

and Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF)
developed by Brussels International Art Promotion and Logistic (BIAPAL)
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 Art Passages
P.O. Box 14399
San Francisco, CA 94114
USA
Contact Ghassemi
Shawn
Mobile
+1-415-690-9077
d
uring AAB 2014 +32(0)470107538
Mail info@artpassages.com
Web www.artpassages.com

The Elephant Camcala

Rajasthan, Udaipur, ca. 1760s
Folio 31 x 44 cm, 12 1/8 x 17 3/8

Exhibiting at

12

Rue des Minimes 24

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 Astamangala

Keizersgracht 574
1017 EM Amsterdam
The Netherlands

6234402
T +31 20
Contact Sjoerd De Vries
Mobile
+31 621 546 317
Mail asta@xs4all.nl
Web www.astamangala.com

Vajrasattva

Bronze, eyes inlaid with silver

Western Himalayas, ca. 10th century
H 17 cm

The figure has been strongly influenced by the Kashmiri sculptural style;
the aureole (prabhamandala) though is in almost pure eastern Indian (Pala) style.

Exhibiting at

14

Rue des Minimes 52

15

 Gregg Baker Japanese Art

142 Kensington Church Street

London W8 4BN
United Kingdom

7221 3533
T +4420
Contact Olympia Toptsidou
Mobile
+44 7908 179 880
Mail info@japanesescreens.com
Web www.japanesescreens.com

A two-fold paper screen

Painted in ink and colour on a gold ground
with a leaping shishi (Chinese guardian lion)
Signed: H gen Takugan hitsu (painted by Hgen Takugan)
Seals:
Top: Yko
Bottom: Takugan
Japan, Edo period, 18th-19th century
H 143cm x W 174cm ( 56 x 68)
Katsuyama Takugan (1747-1824) was a Kan school painter, born in Kyoto
Works by the artist can be found in: The Honen-In Temple, Kyoto (painting
of a dragon); The Tokuyuji Temple, Nara (fifty fusuma paintings by Takugan
and Kan Eisho); Zurinji Temple, Tokyo (Nehan-zu - Nirvana painting);
Tsuruga City Municipal History Museum, Fukui Prefecture (portrait of
Ichinomiya Chozo, decorative-sword maker); National Diet Library, Tokyo
(ougi no ki Illustration of Fans, a collaborative work of book illustrations
with Nishimura Yoshitada 1728-1794).

Exhibiting at

16

Galerie Antoine Laurentin

Rue Ernest Allard 43
17

 Buddhist Art
Berlin
Germany
By Appointment
656 1260
T +49 173
Mail Buddhist.art@hotmail.com
Web www.buddhist-art.info

Head of Buddha
Bronze
Thai, Lanna, 14th century
H 32 cm

Exhibiting at

18

Rue des Minimes 61

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 Carlo Cristi
Asian Arts Company
12 Rue de Plancenoit
B-1401 Baulers (Nivelles)
Belgium

T +39 0332966114

F +39 0332966114
Contact Carlo Cristi
Mobile
+39 335 593

37 32

Mail carlocristi@tin.it
Web www.asianart.com/carlocristi

Siddhaikavira manjusri

Exhibiting at

20

Gilt copper
Nepal, 8th-9th century
H 22 cm

Galerie Champaka
Rue Ernest Allard 27
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 Gisle Cros
Avenue Emile Duray 44
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
82 16
T +322 511
04 19
F +322 514
Mail art@giselecroes.com

Iron mask and ring with gold and silver inlay

Exhibiting at

22

One of a pair
Early Western Han dynasty (206 BC AD 9)
H 31 cm (12 )

Avenue Emile Duray 44

photo Studio Roger Asselberghs - Frdric Dehaen

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 Martin Doustar

Ancient & Tribal Art

Paris - Bruxelles

T +33 687293074

F +32 2 416 63 43
Mail doustar79@aol.com
Web www.martindoustar.com

Thematic exhibition

THE BRONZE AGE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

Inaugural exhibition showing an important collection of archeological material

from Southeast Asia, including rare bronzes from the Dong Son culture of Vietnam
and a selection of Chinese and Eurasian artifacts. Catalogue available.

FIGURINE
Bronze
Thailand, Ban Chiang culture, 500 - 300 BC
Provenance

Dr Kurt Sandmair collection, Mnchen

Museum fr Asiatische Kunst, Berlin
Until recently, this superb bronze was on loan to the Museum of Asian Art, Berlin.
Exhibited in the Kurt Sandmair Raum, it was one of the highlights of the Southeast
Asian Department.

Reference

Comparable figure on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Exhibiting at

24

Rue des Minimes 61

25

 Duchange & Rich

Rue Ernest Allard 45
B-1000-Brussels
Belgium
42 18
T +322 512
Mobile
+32

479 833 703

Mail info@aabru.com
Web www.aabru.com

AN EXCEPTIONAL FAUX-BOIS AND FAMILLE ROSE LARGE

ORMULU-MOUNTED JAR AND COVER

Yongzheng period (1723 1735)

H 111 cm (with stand)

The different tones of reddish brown simulating wood with concentric knots
and the famille rose patterns show the same delicacy and the same quality as
the ones found on mark and period pieces with similar decoration. There is an
example in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum
vol 39, p. 164, pl. 145.

Exhibiting at

26

Rue Ernest Allard 45

27

 Famarte
Duindistelstraat 16
B-8300 Knokke
BELGIUM
62 50 15
T +32 50
Contact
Mobile

Farah Massart
+32 495 289 100

Mail art@famarte.be
Web www.famarte.be

Yamuna river goddess

Sandstone
North of India, 10th century
H 31 cm
Private Italian collection

Exhibiting at

28

Maison Costermans
Place du Grand Sablon 5
29

 Karim Grusenmeyer
Rue Lebeau 14
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
03 37
T +322 514
39 37
F +329 223
Contact
Mobile

Karim Grusenmeyer
+32 475 475 729

Mail karim@grusenmeyer.be
Web www.grusenmeyer.be

Bodhisattva

Exhibiting at 10

30

Galerie Lamy
Rue Ernest Allard 32

photo Studio Roger Asselberghs - Frdric Dehaen

Marble
China, Song dynasty, ca. 11-13th century
H 42 cm
Ex C. Chariot collection, Brussels, acquired before 1971, as attested by
a photograph taken in that year.

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 Nayef Homsi
Ancient Art of Asia
444 West 55th Street
NY 10019 New York
USA
415 1444
T +1 646
Mail nayef@nayefhomsi.com
Web www.nayefhomsi.com

Standing Buddha in abhaya mudra (reassurance gesture)

Exhibiting at 11

32

Grey schist
Ancient region of Gandhara, ca. 1th-2nd century
H 76,2 cm

Galerie Tom Desmet

Rue Watteu 16
33

 Jacques How Choong Oriental Art

RUE DES MINIMES 19
B-1000 Bruxelles
BELGIUM
Mobile

+336 2296 9583

Mail jacqueshowchoong@gmail.com

Web www.asianart.com/jacques

VAISHRAVANA THANGKA

Exhibiting at 12

34

Mineral pigments on cotton

Tibet, end of 18th century
80 cm X 56 cm
Ex French collection

Rue des Minimes 19

35

 Indian Heritage
24 rue Saint-Louis en lIle
75004 Paris
FRANCE
48
T +33 142 77 58
Contact
Mobile

Frdric Rond
+33 619637753

Mail indian.heritage@yahoo.fr
Web www.indianheritage.biz

Lion (ornament)

Brass
Tibet, ca. 9th century
L 7 cm

The use of this object is still mysterious but its style and material are probably
related to thogchag (Tibetan amulets).

For a very similar piece, see the Alain Bordier Collection (Gilles Bguin,

Art Sacr du Tibet: collection Alain Bordier, Findakly, 2013, p. 41)

Exhibiting at 13

36

Galerie Chrischilles
Rue des Minimes 58
37

 Andr Kirbach Kunsthandel

KLOSTERSTR. 60
40211 DSSELDORF
GERMANY
39 22 09
T: +49 211
Contact
Mobile

Andr Kirbach
+49 170 933 11 66

Mail mail@andre-kirbach.de
Web www.galerie-kirbach.de

Fresh water jar (mizusashi)

Exhibiting at 14

38

Japan, 20th century

H 17,5 cm x D 14,5 cm
Artist: Tamura Kichi (1918-1987)

Rue Coppens 3

39

 Kitsune
Rue des Minimes 55
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Contact
Mobile

Arie Vos
+32 476 87 85 69

Mail japanese.art@kitsune.be
Web www.kitsune.be

triad of Fud My- and his attendants

Wood
Japan, Momoyama, Edo period, 16th-17th century
H 27,5 cm (central figure)

Exhibiting at 15

40

A representation of Fud My- (a personification of Dainichi Nyorai) seated

on a brink of precipice, boldly chiseled to exemplify a rock of self-realization
and surrounded by flames symbolizing the power of intellect; the purification
of the mind, burning away all material desires. The threatening posture and
menacing face is meant to subdue evil, frighten unbelievers and force wicked
to surrender. The carver respected meticulously the iconography related to
this divinity. He used glass eyes to enhance the fierce expression; the left eye
somewhat closed and the fangs slightly visible.
The two separate figures represent his acolytes. Kongara Dji, holding a lotus
bud, symbolizes obedience and expresses the mind of benevolence, while
Seitaka Dji is said to personify expedient action; here represented with a club.

Rue de Minimes 55

photo Studio Roger Asselberghs - Frdric Dehaen

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 Kyoto Gallery
Rue Ernest Allard 20
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
703 701
T +32 71
703 702
F +32 71
Contact
Mobile

Tony Cammaert
+32 475 448 356

Mail info@chateaudacoz.be
Web www.chateaudacoz.be

Figure of a Japanese sculptor

Exhibiting at 16

42

Wood with gofun finish

Meiji period, 19th century
H 28 cm

Rue Ernest Allard 20

43

 Galerie Lamy
Rue Ernest Allard 32
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
12 05
T +322 502
Contact
Mobile

Georges et Hugues Jean Lamy

+32 475 604 053

Mail galerielamy@skynet.be

gilt bronze cylindrical censer with islamic inscription

Exhibiting at 17

44

Ming dynasty, Zhengde period (1506-1521)

Base inscribed with Zhengde six-character reign mark and of the period
H 8 cm x D 10 cm

Rue Ernest Allard 32

45

 Mingei Arts Gallery

NEW PERMANENT ADDRESS FROM SEPTEMBER 2014

5, rue Visconti
75006 Paris - FRANCE

Contact
Mobile

Philippe Boudin et Maiko Takenobu

+336 0976 6068

Mail info@mingei-arts-gallery.com
Web www.mingei-arts-gallery.com

Amida Raig
Hanging scroll, colour on silk
Nambokuch period, 14th century
H 86,8 cm x W 38,9 cm (H 162,6 cm x W 55,9 cm)

Three figures are descending from the upper. Kannon Bosatsu (Avalokitevara)
is standing ahead holding out a lotus pedestal to save the soul being reborn.
Seishi Bosatsu (Mahsthmaprpta) leans forward with hands clasped in prayer,
inclining toward the soul being reborn. Behind these two figures, a standing
figure of Amida Nyorai with hands in the raig mudr rides on a cloud. They
are coming to meet a dying person. These three figures thus form a raig
(literally come to pick up) image.

The bodies of the three deities and the lines of halo were probably painted in
gold paint layered on top of a tan red pigment ground, but it has all gone with
age and the details of their figures are then picked out in cinnabar lines. This
considerable use of gold paint is characteristic of Buddhist paintings in the
Kamakura and later periods. The glorious openwork nimbus which resembles a
sculpted form is also depicted in gold paint.
The painting lines of three figures are extremely fine and the expression of the
faces is sublimely beautiful.

Exhibiting at 18

46

Galerie Marc Heiremans

Rue Joseph Stevens 25
47

 Renaud Montmat
Avenue de lOpra 14
F-75001 Paris
France
by appointment
Contact
Mobile

Renaud Montmat
+336 1761 2160

Mail renaudmontmeat@gmail.com
Web www.asianart.com/renaudmontmeat

CATURBHUJA MAHAKALA
Bronze
Tibet, ca. 14th century
H 22,5 cm x L 30,5 cm

Exhibiting at 19

48

Galerie Jadis & Nagure

Rue des Minimes 59
49

 Alexis Renard
5 rue des Deux Ponts
F-75004 Paris
France
07 33 02
T +33 144
07 33 02
F +33 144
Contact
Mobile

Alexis Renard
+33 680 37 74 00

Mail alexis@alexisrenard.com
Web www.alexisrenard.com

Three disciples of Buddha - Part of a scene depicting Parinirvana

Grey schist
India or Pakistan, Gandhara, circa 3rd century

Provenance

formerly in the collection of a French diplomat, acquired late 1960s - early 1970s

This impressive sculpture is probably part of an important stupa panel depicting
the Parinirvana. These scenes are usually found on a smaller scale.
The treatment of the folds hiding the hands and the strong feelings of compassion
expressed by the faces are making this sculpture a very good example of
Greco-Buddhist sculpture of the Gandhara region.

Exhibiting at 20

50

Flamant
Place du Grand Sablon 36
51

 John Siudmak Asian Art

3 Sydney Street - Flat 3

SW3 6PU London
United Kingdom

349 9316
T +44 207
Contact
Mobile

John Siudmak
+44 7918 730 936

Mail john@johnsiudmak.com
Web www.johnsiudmak.com

Grey chlorite plaque with eighteen-armed Durga MAHISHASURA

Exhibiting at 21

52

Grey chlorite
Kashmir, ca. AD 800
H 14,3 cm

Galerie Jadis & Nagure

Rue des Minimes 59
53

 Wei Asian Arts

Rue Van Moer 5
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
58 35
T +322 503
Contact
Mobile

Howard Wei & Paola DAlatri

+32 485 960 695

Mail weiasianarts@skynet.be
Web www.asianart.com/wei

GUARDIAN
Marble
China, Quyang
Northern Qi dynasty, 6th century
H 18,5 cm
Guardian lokapala caught in a dynamic movement, one hand resting on his hip,
the other in a protective gesture

Exhibiting at 22

54

Belgian collection

Rue Van Moer 5

Photo credits: Nicolai Blomstrand

Provenance

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 Michael Woerner

HONG KONG - BANGKOK

T +852 9874 1061
during AAB 2014

+49 172 660 45 22

Mail micwoerner@yahoo.com

Thematics exhibitions EARLY

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TIBETAN RUGS: MASTERPIECES FROM THE PICCUS COLLECTION

RECENT ACQUISITIONS: SCULPTURES AND WORKS OF ART

DANCING GANESHA (DETAIL)

Phyllite
Eastern India, Pala period, 10th 11th century
H 45 cm
Provenance

Private collection, California, USA (since 1970s)

Reference

Art Loss Register Certificate ref. S00083619

Exhibiting at 23

56

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The Architects House
Rue Ernest Allard 21
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construction of the building that will host the
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THE KODE Art Museum, Bergen,
Norway, has announced that it will be
returning seven columns, out of the 21
the museum holds, from the
Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, in
Beijing to the Chinese government
later this year. The deal was brokered
with the help of a Chinese businessman,
Huang Nubo. The museum decided to
return the columns after it received a
US$1.63 donation from Huang Nubo,
a real estate developer and
philanthropist, to refurbish its China
exhibition space. The pillars will be
displayed at Peking University, which is
located next to the Old Summer Palace.
As well as the return of the columns,
the university has also established an
academic cooperation programme with
the museum.
The columns form part of the
collection of Chinese works of art that
were originally donated by Johan
Wilhelm Normann Munthe between
1907 and 1935. Johan Munthe began
his career as a cavalry officer in the
Norwegian army, but in 1886 made his

way to China, where he worked in the

Chinese customs service. He fought on
the Chinese side in the 1894-95 SinoJapanese War and was named a
lieutenant general by Yuan Shikai, who
would later become the first president
of the Republic of China. Munthe
became an avid collector of Chinese
sculpture, pottery and other artefacts,
including the seven plinths. However, it
is unclear how they came into his
possession.
It is believed that Mr Huangs
donation will comprise half the amount
the museum has budgeted to refurbish
its China exhibition space. A burglary
at the museum in January 2013, when
thieves made off with more than two
dozen objects from the China
collection, left considerable damage. It
was the second recent theft from the
collection, following a break-in in 2010.
Huang told the government owned
China Daily that the museum donation
was not a trade or throwing away
money, but a very meaningful action
that shows patriotism, as well as a way

The seven columns that are currently held at the Kode Art Museum in Bergen,
Norway, with an image of the Yuanmingyuan in the background

of repaying back the mother country,

which made me rich. Karin Hindsbo,
director of the Kode Art Museum in
Bergen also spoke to China Daily and
commented that the donation would
be used on academic research and the
general care of our collections of
Chinese art.

news in brief

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Paintings from the Courts of
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New York, NY 10075

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The marble columns, representing a

combination of old Chinese stone arts
and Western artistic influence, were
originally installed in the Westernstyled part of the garden. The Xiyang
Lou area (Western-style mansions) is
in the Old Summer Palace (Yuan
mingyuan) grounds, where the 18th-

Inside

BAMIYAN WORLD HERITAGE SITE,

AFGHANISTAN

The World Heritage site in Bamiyan has received

further support with the government of South Korea
committing to provide US$5.4 million to build a
museum and cultural centre. The cultural centre and
museum aim to maximise the role that culture can
contribute towards nation-building in Afghanistan. Its
temporary and permanent exhibitions, training and
function rooms will promote the knowledge of
Afghan millennial history as a crossroad of
different civilisations.
The centre will also run training on traditional skills
and handicrafts which provide a number of economic,
social and cultural benefits including employment,
large scale involvement of women and minorities,
generation of off-season employment and the
promotion of exports. Koreas commitment will cover
a range of activities including the physical construction
of the building, heritage training, creative industries
promotion and development, and public education.
The first phase of the project is the design and
construction of the building that will host the
Museum and Cultural Centre. Expanding the
museum sector outside of Kabul also means that more
people can have access to learning about history and
culture. The Director of the National Museum of
Afghanistan, Mr Massoudi, said that the museum will
provide an important space to safeguard cultural
artefacts in Bamiyan and is also a way for local people
to improve their livelihoods through skills training.

CHINESE SCULPTURE RETURNS

TO HARVARD

Art Passages, San Francisco, CA 94114, 415.690.9077

www.artpassages.com
info@artpassages.com
detail: Ambika (Devi) Confronts Shumbha, No. 45 from a Devimahatmya series, Pahari, Guler, ca. 1780

century European-style palaces,

fountains and waterworks, and formal
gardens were created. However, these
European-style
buildings
only
occupied an area along the back of the
Eternal Spring Garden and was small
compared to the overall area of the
gardens only about 5% of the
Imperial Gardens most of which
were built in the Chinese style. The
most controversial works of art from
Xiyang Lou are the zodiac heads,
which were originally part of a 12-part
water clock rendered as over life-sized
sculptures of the Twelve Zodiac
Animals. The heads were fitted atop
seated, robed figures and served as the
spouts for water, which ran for two
hours each as part of the 12 hours of
the Chinese 24-hour calculation.
The buildings survived just over
100 years before they were destroyed
and their contents, including the 12
zodiac heads, were either stolen or
destroyed by invading French and
British troops in 1860 during the
Second Opium War.

An 18th-century Chinese incense burner was returned

to Harvard in January, 35 years after it disappeared
from the university art museum. Ernest Dane, a
businessman and art collector who graduated from
Harvard University in 1892, and his wife, Helen Pratt
Dane, donated the Qing dynasty jade censer to the
Fogg Museum in 1942.
In 1979, after the museum opened a small exhibition
featuring a selection of jades the Danes had donated,
museum officials discovered the censer was missing

2 The Korean artist

Lee Ufan

8 Byobu: The Grandeur of

Japanese Screens at
Yale University Art Gallery

12 Treasures from Korea: Arts and

Culture of the Joseon Dynasty
in Philadelphia

16 Luxuriance: Silks from

Islamic Lands 1250-1900,
in Cleveland

20 Women in Chinese Painting

in Washington DC

ASIAN ART

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The newspaper for collectors, dealers,MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES MARCH 2014 5.00/US$10/10

Yuanmingyuan Columns to
Return to China from Norway
THE KODE Art Museum, Bergen,
Norway, has announced that it will be
returning seven columns, out of the 21
the museum holds, from the
Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, in
Beijing to the Chinese government
later this year. The deal was brokered
with the help of a Chinese businessman,
Huang Nubo. The museum decided to
return the columns after it received a
US$1.63 donation from Huang Nubo,
a real estate developer and
philanthropist, to refurbish its China
exhibition space. The pillars will be
displayed at Peking University, which is
located next to the Old Summer Palace.
As well as the return of the columns,
the university has also established an
academic cooperation programme with
the museum.
The columns form part of the
collection of Chinese works of art that
were originally donated by Johan
Wilhelm Normann Munthe between
1907 and 1935. Johan Munthe began
his career as a cavalry officer in the
Norwegian army, but in 1886 made his

Next issue

The seven columns that are currently held at the Kode Art Museum in Bergen,
Norway, with an image of the Yuanmingyuan in the background

of repaying back the mother country,

which made me rich. Karin Hindsbo,
director of the Kode Art Museum in
Bergen also spoke to China Daily and
commented that the donation would
be used on academic research and the
general care of our collections of
Chinese art.

art passages

Asia Week New York

Gallery shows

Islamic Arts Diary

way to China, where he worked in the

Chinese customs service. He fought on
the Chinese side in the 1894-95 SinoJapanese War and was named a
lieutenant general by Yuan Shikai, who
would later become the first president
of the Republic of China. Munthe
became an avid collector of Chinese
sculpture, pottery and other artefacts,
including the seven plinths. However, it
is unclear how they came into his
possession.
It is believed that Mr Huangs
donation will comprise half the amount
the museum has budgeted to refurbish
its China exhibition space. A burglary
at the museum in January 2013, when
thieves made off with more than two
dozen objects from the China
collection, left considerable damage. It
was the second recent theft from the
collection, following a break-in in 2010.
Huang told the government owned
China Daily that the museum donation
was not a trade or throwing away
money, but a very meaningful action
that shows patriotism, as well as a way

Paintings from the Courts of

India & Persia

March 13th-22nd
11-6pm
at Isselbacher Gallery
41 E. 78th Street
New York, NY 10075

April 2014
South Asian focus

Contact us
Art Passages, San Francisco, CA 94114, 415.690.9077
www.artpassages.com
info@artpassages.com
detail: Ambika (Devi) Confronts Shumbha, No. 45 from a Devimahatmya series, Pahari, Guler, ca. 1780

century European-style palaces,

fountains and waterworks, and formal
gardens were created. However, these
European-style
buildings
only
occupied an area along the back of the
Eternal Spring Garden and was small
compared to the overall area of the
gardens only about 5% of the
Imperial Gardens most of which
were built in the Chinese style. The
most controversial works of art from
Xiyang Lou are the zodiac heads,
which were originally part of a 12-part
water clock rendered as over life-sized
sculptures of the Twelve Zodiac
Animals. The heads were fitted atop
seated, robed figures and served as the
spouts for water, which ran for two
hours each as part of the 12 hours of
the Chinese 24-hour calculation.
The buildings survived just over
100 years before they were destroyed
and their contents, including the 12
zodiac heads, were either stolen or
destroyed by invading French and
British troops in 1860 during the
Second Opium War.

Inside

BAMIYAN WORLD HERITAGE SITE,

AFGHANISTAN

The World Heritage site in Bamiyan has received

further support with the government of South Korea
committing to provide US$5.4 million to build a
museum and cultural centre. The cultural centre and
museum aim to maximise the role that culture can
contribute towards nation-building in Afghanistan. Its
temporary and permanent exhibitions, training and
function rooms will promote the knowledge of
Afghan millennial history as a crossroad of
different civilisations.
The centre will also run training on traditional skills
and handicrafts which provide a number of economic,
social and cultural benefits including employment,
large scale involvement of women and minorities,
generation of off-season employment and the
promotion of exports. Koreas commitment will cover
a range of activities including the physical construction
of the building, heritage training, creative industries
promotion and development, and public education.
The first phase of the project is the design and
construction of the building that will host the
Museum and Cultural Centre. Expanding the
museum sector outside of Kabul also means that more
people can have access to learning about history and
culture. The Director of the National Museum of
Afghanistan, Mr Massoudi, said that the museum will
provide an important space to safeguard cultural
artefacts in Bamiyan and is also a way for local people
to improve their livelihoods through skills training.

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TO HARVARD

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The marble columns, representing a

combination of old Chinese stone arts
and Western artistic influence, were
originally installed in the Westernstyled part of the garden. The Xiyang
Lou area (Western-style mansions) is
in the Old Summer Palace (Yuan
mingyuan) grounds, where the 18th-

news in brief

22 Imari porcelain in Tokyo

24 Our annual guide to the events of
28 New York listings
29 New York map
42 New York museum exhibitions
46 New York auction previews
50 Hong Kong auction previews
51 Fairs: Maastricht and New York
52 Museum exhibitions
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The marble columns, representing a

combination of old Chinese stone arts
and Western artistic influence, were
originally installed in the Westernstyled part of the garden. The Xiyang
Lou area (Western-style mansions) is
in the Old Summer Palace (Yuan
mingyuan) grounds, where the 18th-

2 The Korean artist

12 Treasures from Korea: Arts and

8:34 am

of repaying back the mother country,

which made me rich. Karin Hindsbo,
director of the Kode Art Museum in
Bergen also spoke to China Daily and
commented that the donation would
be used on academic research and the
general care of our collections of
Chinese art.

March 13th-22nd
11-6pm
at Isselbacher Gallery
41 E. 78th Street
New York, NY 10075

Inside

BAMIYAN WORLD HERITAGE SITE,

AFGHANISTAN

The World Heritage site in Bamiyan has received

further support with the government of South Korea
committing to provide US$5.4 million to build a
museum and cultural centre. The cultural centre and
museum aim to maximise the role that culture can
contribute towards nation-building in Afghanistan. Its
temporary and permanent exhibitions, training and
function rooms will promote the knowledge of
Afghan millennial history as a crossroad of
different civilisations.
The centre will also run training on traditional skills
and handicrafts which provide a number of economic,
social and cultural benefits including employment,
large scale involvement of women and minorities,
generation of off-season employment and the
promotion of exports. Koreas commitment will cover
a range of activities including the physical construction
of the building, heritage training, creative industries
promotion and development, and public education.
The first phase of the project is the design and
construction of the building that will host the
Museum and Cultural Centre. Expanding the
museum sector outside of Kabul also means that more
people can have access to learning about history and
culture. The Director of the National Museum of
Afghanistan, Mr Massoudi, said that the museum will
provide an important space to safeguard cultural
artefacts in Bamiyan and is also a way for local people
to improve their livelihoods through skills training.

15/8/05

The seven columns that are currently held at the Kode Art Museum in Bergen,
Norway, with an image of the Yuanmingyuan in the background

century European-style palaces,

fountains and waterworks, and formal
gardens were created. However, these
European-style
buildings
only
occupied an area along the back of the
Eternal Spring Garden and was small
compared to the overall area of the
gardens only about 5% of the
Imperial Gardens most of which
were built in the Chinese style. The
most controversial works of art from
Xiyang Lou are the zodiac heads,
which were originally part of a 12-part
water clock rendered as over life-sized
sculptures of the Twelve Zodiac
Animals. The heads were fitted atop
seated, robed figures and served as the
spouts for water, which ran for two
hours each as part of the 12 hours of
the Chinese 24-hour calculation.
The buildings survived just over
100 years before they were destroyed
and their contents, including the 12
zodiac heads, were either stolen or
destroyed by invading French and
British troops in 1860 during the
Second Opium War.

news in brief

art passages
Paintings from the Courts of
India & Persia

Asian Art hires logo

way to China, where he worked in the

Chinese customs service. He fought on
the Chinese side in the 1894-95 SinoJapanese War and was named a
lieutenant general by Yuan Shikai, who
would later become the first president
of the Republic of China. Munthe
became an avid collector of Chinese
sculpture, pottery and other artefacts,
including the seven plinths. However, it
is unclear how they came into his
possession.
It is believed that Mr Huangs
donation will comprise half the amount
the museum has budgeted to refurbish
its China exhibition space. A burglary
at the museum in January 2013, when
thieves made off with more than two
dozen objects from the China
collection, left considerable damage. It
was the second recent theft from the
collection, following a break-in in 2010.
Huang told the government owned
China Daily that the museum donation
was not a trade or throwing away
money, but a very meaningful action
that shows patriotism, as well as a way

The marble columns, representing a

combination of old Chinese stone arts
and Western artistic influence, were
originally installed in the Westernstyled part of the garden. The Xiyang
Lou area (Western-style mansions) is
in the Old Summer Palace (Yuan
mingyuan) grounds, where the 18th-

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THE KODE Art Museum, Bergen,

Norway, has announced that it will be
returning seven columns, out of the 21
the museum holds, from the
Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, in
Beijing to the Chinese government
later this year. The deal was brokered
with the help of a Chinese businessman,
Huang Nubo. The museum decided to
return the columns after it received a
US$1.63 donation from Huang Nubo,
a real estate developer and
philanthropist, to refurbish its China
exhibition space. The pillars will be
displayed at Peking University, which is
located next to the Old Summer Palace.
As well as the return of the columns,
the university has also established an
academic cooperation programme with
the museum.
The columns form part of the
collection of Chinese works of art that
were originally donated by Johan
Wilhelm Normann Munthe between
1907 and 1935. Johan Munthe began
his career as a cavalry officer in the
Norwegian army, but in 1886 made his

of repaying back the mother country,

which made me rich. Karin Hindsbo,
director of the Kode Art Museum in
Bergen also spoke to China Daily and
commented that the donation would
be used on academic research and the
general care of our collections of
Chinese art.

8:34 am

Yuanmingyuan Columns to
Return to China from Norway

The seven columns that are currently held at the Kode Art Museum in Bergen,
Norway, with an image of the Yuanmingyuan in the background

century European-style palaces,

fountains and waterworks, and formal
gardens were created. However, these
European-style
buildings
only
occupied an area along the back of the
Eternal Spring Garden and was small
compared to the overall area of the
gardens only about 5% of the
Imperial Gardens most of which
were built in the Chinese style. The
most controversial works of art from
Xiyang Lou are the zodiac heads,
which were originally part of a 12-part
water clock rendered as over life-sized
sculptures of the Twelve Zodiac
Animals. The heads were fitted atop
seated, robed figures and served as the
spouts for water, which ran for two
hours each as part of the 12 hours of
the Chinese 24-hour calculation.
The buildings survived just over
100 years before they were destroyed
and their contents, including the 12
zodiac heads, were either stolen or
destroyed by invading French and
British troops in 1860 during the
Second Opium War.

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way to China, where he worked in the

Chinese customs service. He fought on
the Chinese side in the 1894-95 SinoJapanese War and was named a
lieutenant general by Yuan Shikai, who
would later become the first president
of the Republic of China. Munthe
became an avid collector of Chinese
sculpture, pottery and other artefacts,
including the seven plinths. However, it
is unclear how they came into his
possession.
It is believed that Mr Huangs
donation will comprise half the amount
the museum has budgeted to refurbish
its China exhibition space. A burglary
at the museum in January 2013, when
thieves made off with more than two
dozen objects from the China
collection, left considerable damage. It
was the second recent theft from the
collection, following a break-in in 2010.
Huang told the government owned
China Daily that the museum donation
was not a trade or throwing away
money, but a very meaningful action
that shows patriotism, as well as a way

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THE KODE Art Museum, Bergen,

Norway, has announced that it will be
returning seven columns, out of the 21
the museum holds, from the
Yuanmingyuan, Summer Palace, in
Beijing to the Chinese government
later this year. The deal was brokered
with the help of a Chinese businessman,
Huang Nubo. The museum decided to
return the columns after it received a
US$1.63 donation from Huang Nubo,
a real estate developer and
philanthropist, to refurbish its China
exhibition space. The pillars will be
displayed at Peking University, which is
located next to the Old Summer Palace.
As well as the return of the columns,
the university has also established an
academic cooperation programme with
the museum.
The columns form part of the
collection of Chinese works of art that
were originally donated by Johan
Wilhelm Normann Munthe between
1907 and 1935. Johan Munthe began
his career as a cavalry officer in the
Norwegian army, but in 1886 made his

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Harvard University in 1892, and his wife, Helen Pratt
Dane, donated the Qing dynasty jade censer to the
Fogg Museum in 1942.
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