February 24th, 2012 
UAA Team 
In a story with a dateline of Paris, a city in a country knocked out of the top art markets several years ago, the China Post reports that the late artist Zhang Daqian 张大千 was the best-selling artist at auction in 2011. The information was provided to the paper by Artprice. Spanish great Pablo Picasso [...]
Posted in Art, Asian Art, Auction 
Tags: Artprice, Picasso, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, 张大千 
No Comments » February 11th, 2012 ewmiller 
A stool labeled as being from the Han dynasty (roughly 200 B.C. to 220 a.d.) recently brought $220 million with premium at auction in China. There’s only one problem, stools were not yet used in China during the Han Dynasty. According to Inside China, the jade set labeled “Han Qing Huang Yulong phoenix dressing table [...]
Posted in Antiques, Asian Art, Auction Tags: Art, Asian, Auction, China, Han Dynasty, Qing Dynasty No Comments » January 15th, 2012 Sun 
If, according to a director of a New York art institution, the first thing that curators should study is the neighborhood’s demography, then a collection in San Antonio will seem out of place. If an emphasis on Latino culture, with a vast selection from pre-Columbia, Spanish Colonial to contemporary, matches the city’s dominant Hispanic population, [...]
Posted in Art, Asian Art, Collecting, Museum Tags: Bunny Mellon, Kangxi, Liao Dynasty, qianglong, San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, Yongzheng 1 Comment » December 20th, 2011 UAA Team 
An exceedingly rare, ancient Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty solid nephrite jade bear, made between 475 B.C.-220 A.D. and exhibiting extensive calcification due to centuries of extended burial, sold for a little more than $8 million at a multi-estate auction held Dec. 10 by Florida’s Elite Decorative Arts. The nephrite (greenstone) bear was by far the [...]
Posted in Antiques, Asian Art, Auction Tags: Auction Florida, Chinese Antiques, Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty, Elite Auction, Jade Bear No Comments » October 18th, 2011 Sun 
Before heading to the exhibition Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at the Meadows Museum in the SMU campus, I did not know what to expect. Almost every sculpture in China’s Buddhist temples were remade after nearly one hundred years’ of negligence either from natural disaster, military or political turmoil. Most [...]
Posted in Art, Asian Art, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: Buddhist Art, Dallas, Meadows Museum, Northern Qi Dynasty, sculpture, SMU, Xiangtangshan No Comments » October 1st, 2011 ewmiller 
I’ve been in the room when an unnoticed or misidentified piece of Asian art hammers down at ten or more times the estimate. Chinese art and antiques having been owned by collectors for some time in America has a good chance of being the real deal, but it appears the most knowlegable people on the [...]
September 26th, 2011 ewmiller 
I feel very lucky to have had the experience in the past few days of traveling around Shanghai, China and experiencing some of the art and architecture of this ancient, and very modern culture. One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to West Lake in Hangzhou. It’s a place well-chronicled in Chinese [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art, Asian Art Tags: Bunny Mellon, Chinese, Hangzhou, I.M. Pei, Li Song, Musuem, Seal Carving, Shanghai Museum, Suzhou, West lake No Comments » September 19th, 2011 UAA Team 
Chinese porcelain starred at Kaminski Auctions’ August Fine Asian Art and Antiques sale, with a circa 1925, 20” x 9 ½” high vase painted in the traditional style of artist Wang Shigu of finely painted mountains selling for $152,100 as the top lot in the three day sale. The audience was filled with familiar faces [...]
Posted in Asian Art Tags: Bronze, Bronze Panel, Chinese, Japanese, Kaminski, princeton. Buddha, QianLong, Republic era, Wang Shigu No Comments » September 14th, 2011 UAA Team 
Doyle New York’s Asian Works of Art auction on September 12, 2011 attracted intense competition from an international audience of bidders in the crowded salesroom, on the telephones, and live on the Internet. In all, the sale totaled a strong $2,805,906 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,228,400-3,299,100 with 63 percent sold by lot and 75 [...]
September 3rd, 2011 UAA Team 
Worldwide media recently took note of a record-breaking find at the July 23rd Tulsa, Oklahoma taping of the popular PBS program, Antiques Roadshow. Five 17th-18th-century Chinese libation cups made from carved rhinoceros horn shattered all records to become the highest-appraised objects in the history of the program. Seeing this as a great opportunity to engage [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art, Asian Art, Collecting Tags: Antiques Roadshow, Christina E. Burke, Cup, Libation, Philbrook, Rino, Tulsa No Comments »
