Asian Art - Paris auction house Drouot

1. CHINESE SCREEN dating from the 18th century, illustrating 8 luohan meditating and chatting in a mountain landscape, dotted with pines and waterfalls. Above the scene is a poem written by the emperor Qianlong in which he pays homage to the ancients.
2. Statuette in gilded bronze, from Mongolia, Zanabazar School, 18th century. It represents Amitabha Buddha, seated in padmasana, on a double lotus-shaped base with inverted, hemmed and chiselled rows, his hands in dhyana mudra.
3.CHINA - KANGXI period (1662 - 1722)
A green, yellow and manganese enamelled porcelain table screen with openwork decoration of the three friends of winter: cherry trees, pine trees and bamboos. The support is decorated with a frieze of Grecians, the sides decorated with barrels.
4. A gold-lacquered bronze statue of Guanyin, late Qing period (1644-1911)
5. Stele illustrating Shakyamuni Buddha seated in the Badrasana posture. On either side, four Boddhisattvas. - Northern Qi "BeiQi" dynasty (550-577).
6. South China - Ming period, XVII-XVIII c. A gold and red lacquered bronze subject, representing the thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, seated in padmasana on a lotus, crowned with a large five-flowered tiara, his two main hands joined in Anjali, the others radiating around the deity, holding various attributes, the upper ones carrying a figure of Amida Buddha on a cloud.