Art of China and Japan

[leonard]

Awful, was in Europe, everything can be bought - China in terms of disposable priced 20 century who did not take to buy a $ 10-20tysyach!

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Hu Jintao - the second on the influence of money and ruler of the world!
http://www.inopressa.ru/article/05No...pa/forbes.html



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I then, in contrast to making money on this talk, gossip! In hobbies, I love Chinese culture, where a number of Confucius, not for nothing that such a potential in the nation!

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Сообщение от leonard; 1370011"

I love Chinese culture,

I agree with you .. Chinese masters, some of the best in the world ...
My favorite figurines made of jade. (From personal collection)
Paired figures of dragons.
Size 7.8 x 6 cm, white jade, the Qing Dynasty. Subject matter characterized by a thin thread with cross-cutting patterns, beautiful polished stones ....
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dragon - a symbol of change. Say, before the Dragons could be seen everywhere. Menacing and condescending, small and large, they lived alongside humans. They are still there, but in another, parallel world. People are stretched to the dragon because dragons possessed supernatural powers. They tamed the Dragons, who willingly went to meet the people because they like it when people told tales about them.
     Winged and wingless, horned and hornless, with legs and no legs, good and evil, similar to all the animals at once, in ancient China, dragons are a symbol of imperial power.
       Dragon on the altar protects home against evil spirits and demons and manages good .......
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The philosophy of the stone.
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"Yu" - so the whole variety of jade in China. The dictionary Xue Shen, "Structure of the texts to explain the characters, created during the Eastern Han Dynasty, about the character" yu "reads as follows:
"Jade - yu - this is the beauty of the stone. It has five qualities: the structure of the pattern you can find out what it is inside - this property awareness; warm from saturation and napitannosti - is the property of goodness; it difficult to break, break - this property prowess, clean and wide sound heard from afar - is the property of wisdom, sharp edges, he does not cause suffering - is property of spiritual purity. "
In China, they say: "Man feeds jade, jade nourish man." For the carrier of Chinese traditional culture jade - a precious stone, live interactive nature. Amorphous - crystalline in structure, in its crystallinity he spends feeling reflects distortions.
Jade looks differently in daylight, candlelight, in the sun, without sun. Looking intently into a mineral found in the habit attentively perceive the world. In Chinese it is called Shang Xi or Wang, which means that just to play, that is, to rejoice, enjoy. Antiques generally called Gu Wan - ancient fun. Rejoice, estimating.
All products are made of jade are both subjects of feng shui, both in form and content: almost all subjects of jade artefacts are inherently magical. Over time they became ornamental and symbolic, designed to bring happiness, prosperity, health and longevity. Symbols, accumulated over centuries of ritual, in conjunction with an energy stone and careful interaction with the amulet (in fact, the combination of the "Three Treasures": Heaven, Earth and Man) provide a powerful communication tool with the mystical reality or the cosmos as you like.

[kr555]

At the Bonhams auction has just ended, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art.
The highlight of the auction were a few lacquer works great Shibata Dzesina, and the most expensive lot, here is lacquered inro

Lot No: 286
A roiro lacquer four-case inro
By Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891), Meiji Period
Decorated with a design which is continuous on both sides, lacquered in black and gold shishiaimakie showing a boat drifting above waves rendered in seigaiha-nuri, loaded with young pine and takaramono, the myriad treasures associated with the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, the interior of rich nashiji, signed within an oval reserve Zeshin; with lacquer hako-netsuke similarly lacquered with waterweed floating above a combed wave pattern, signed with scratched signature Zeshin.
7cm (2 ¾ in).
Sold for £ 162,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi....bonhams.com/& sPath = 2010-08/13/94435520-213-1.jpg

[kr555]

And tomorrow at Bonhams has a Japanese auction. Special care will follow here in this gorgeous lot. 1912 of paintings syunga Kobayashi Eytaku, decorated in horizontal scroll makimono. Some images mesh, if not erotic love or confusing - do not look

Lot No: 335 *
Kobayashi Eitaku (1843-1890)
Mid /late 19th century
A nikuhitsu shunga makimono, mounted with twelve erotic scenes with domesticated and wild animals and creatures endowed with supernatural powers, in ink and colour on silk, signed with seal Sensai; with double wood storage boxes, the cover of one box painted with Autumnal grasses in contrasting tones of gold by Mano Gyotei (1874-1934), the pupil of Kawanabe Gyosai (1831-1889), signed in gold Gyotei with seal Gyotei. Each painting approx. 26.7cm x 39cm (10 ½ in x 15 3/8in), total length 26.7cm x 639cm (10 ½ in x 25 5/8in). (3).

Estimate: £ 13,000 - 15,000, USD 20,000 - 24,000

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...leSectionNo=1#

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Japanese masters ... loved it.

[leonard]

November 10 took Sotheby's auction
 
FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

Very nice vase - A MAGNIFICENT BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONY' JAR, GUAN

YUAN DYNASTY, MID 14TH CENTURY

At the initial assessment of 400,000-600,000 GBP

Was sold for 2,617,250 GBP

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Vasu the time of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty was sold at auction in London for 51.6 million pounds (83 million dollars). As reports Bloomberg, this is a record amount ever paid for a Chinese work of art.

40-inch porcelain vessel in question was discovered in the course of cleaning the house in the London borough of Pinner. After studying the find, the experts found that the vase produced at the court of Emperor Qianlong in the mid-18 th century. The specialists immediately recognized the uniqueness of this work of art: from similar imperial artifacts this vase features a very complex pattern, as well as excellent condition.

Vase auctioned Bainbridges auction house during the festival of Asian Art in London. Estimate lots would be established within the 800,000 - 1.2 million pounds. Thus, the buyer vases (unnamed auction agent from Beijing) to pay for it 50 times more than the appraised value.

Until now, a record price for a product of classical Chinese art owned manuscript of the poet Juan Tintszyanya (Huang Tingjian) since the Song Dynasty. In June 2010, an unnamed buyer paid for the rollout of almost $ 66 million. With regard to the Imperial vases, there is record was set in October - a porcelain vessel 18 th century has left Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 32.6 million dollars.

[leonard]

Perhaps no country in the world with a more diverse philosophical - religious thought. In addition, general well-known international religious teachings of Confucianism and the presence in the tradition of Chinese Taoism gives a special inner meaning of human life, the possibility of some alchemical transformation of the individual.
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 Chzhan Tien-shih ("the heavenly teacher Chzhan"), in the Chinese Taoist and folk mythology of the late chief magician and master of demons. At the heart of the image of a mythical Chzhan Tien-shih is the notion of the head of the Taoist church Chzhan Dao-Lina (3. Mr.. Er.), Which (like his direct descendants) was assigned a 5-in. the honorary title tyantsi (Celestial Masters "). According to legend," Chzhan Tao-ling, traveling around the country, reached the mountains in the county Sinansyan Jiangxi Province, where he began manufacturing the pills of immortality. When the pill was ready, he took her, and although Chzhan Tao-ling's been a while 60 years old, he became a young man at the same time he received the mysteries works and gained the power (by which he could cast out demons and werewolves), and infiltrated the mysteries of transformation.
Residence of the Celestial Masters - Taoist temple complex in the city Shangqing, in the mountains Lunhushan.

[leonard]

Oh, Heaven!
You're all the truths of disinterested

You see all that is hidden in our gloom,

You help those who in this life

Worthy exist on earth.
 
Qu Yuan.

It is strange that no longer find a decent picture, Zhang Tian-shi.
Taoism - it's all a mystery, though not all there!

[kr555]

Сообщение от leonard

It is strange that no longer find decent images of Zhang Tian-shi. Taoism - it's all a mystery, though not all there!

No, a lot of images. Only Google is better for the English version of the name of Zhang Tian Shi or so once the Chinese 张 天师.
Here's an example
http://bookofchina300.blogspot.com/2...-tian-shi.html
And on behalf of the Russian look no sense, in Russia it is all in its infancy, alas ...