Beijing, CHINA - The China Guardian 2012 Autumn Auction will present more than 3300 lots, including Chinese paintings, porcelain, artworks, furniture, Chinese oil paintings, sculpture, rare books, rubbings, manuscripts, jadeite, jewelry and watches on October 28-31, 2012, at the Beijing International Hotel Conference Center. The preview will be held from Oct 25-27.

“We successfully held the first auction in Hong Kong in early October. The total turnover was HKD 455 million. It greatly boosted our confidence for the upcoming Autumn Auction,” said by Wang Yannan, President and Director of the China Guardian. “We prepared many fine works, and some of them are ready for their first appearance. We hope that people can join the auction, and experience the beauty of art.”

In the Chinese Ancient Paintings section, there will have almost 200 works throughout three sessions. Four loyal collections from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and recorded in Shiqu Baoji, will be debuted. There are Dong Qichang’s two landscape paintings which are appearing on the market for the first time, and a calligraphy work and Zhang Zongchang’s Landscape.

In the Chinese Modern Paintings section, there are more than 600 lots spread over six sessions. Additionally, China Guardian will launch the View of the Art World session to promote three special subjects: Confucianism, Sketching, and Happiness. As with the Spring Auction, the Contemporary Ink Painting and New World of Contemporary Ink Painting sessions will appear again, this time including impressive works such as Qi Baishi’s Flower, Huang Binhong’s Landscape and Zhang Daqian’s Landscape.

In the Porcelain, Works of Art and Furniture section, there are nearly 1000 lots over eight sessions. An Exceptional and Important Imperial Jade-hilted Ceremonial Saber and Scabbard is expected to impress collectors, as the saber is an important national cultural relic, and its maker was supervised by Qianlong, an emperor of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In addition, there are more than sixty porcelain pieces from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in the Porcelain session.

In the Furniture session, more than forty pieces of Ming-style raw pear wood, the royal-style red sandalwood furniture, and four treasures of the sketch (the writing brush, ink, paper, and ink stone), will be launched.

In Contemporary Works of Art, there are almost 600 lots in four sessions. Many fine seal cutting works, made by Qi Baishi, Wu Changshuo and Zhao Zhiqian, will make their first appearance. Trip in Peach Orchard, a Shoushan Tianhuang carving in low relief is an impressive Shoushan Stone work, and weighed 513 grams. Gu Jingzhou’s Zisha teapot work will be auctioned in the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Zisha Teapots session.

In Chinese Oil Paintings and Sculptures, there are 200 lots in four sessions. Li Tifu’s Watching the Waterfall is very rare in the oil session. Chen Danqing’s Sinology Research Institute, You Jindong’s Middle Age and Ai Xuan’s early works will be auctioned in Chinese Oil Painting and Sculpture session. In addition, Nudity and Inspiration—Art and Design sessions will be launched for the first time.

In Rare Books, there are more than 180 lots, including six pieces of national cultural relics. In addition, it will have feature a distinguished gathering of famous literati letters. The Autumn Auction will also present special sessions: In Treasure of Yimeian, which will show some Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi’s fine works that collected by Luo Jimei and his wife. Luo was the host of Yimeian, and he was the former Kuomintang director of the photography department of the Central News Agency. Among them, the most eye-catching Fu Baoshi’s Microinscribing the Chapter will be available for the first time. Treasures from the Yuan Yu Xuan Collcetion will feature three cultural relics will be auctioned, and Important Watches, Jewellery and Jadeite will include a Vacheron Constantin rare and very limited production wristwatch with a pink gold manual-wind calendar tourbillon, which has been hailed as the most complex production process watch.

About China Guardian

Established in May 1993, China Guardian Auctions Co., Ltd., is the oldest Chinese auction house, specialising in the sale of Chinese artwork of all varieties. The auction house has successfully staged more than 300 auctions with more than 240,000 lots sold. China Guardian holds major Spring and Autumn Auctions, as well as its Quarterly Auction series. Regular auction business covers Chinese paintings and calligraphy, porcelain, jade, furniture and works of art, modern and contemporary ceramic art and stone carvings, oil painting, sculptures, photography, rare books and rubbings, stamps, coins, bronzes mirrors, fine jewellery, jadeite and watches.

China Guardian’s headquarters is in Beijing and the company currently has representative offices in New York, Vancouver, Tokyo, Shanghai, Tianjin, Taipei and Hong Kong. National and international records have been set in China Guardian’s auction rooms. Examples include, in Spring 2006, a fine and rare famille-rose “Eight Immortals” vase of the Qianlong Reign, sold for 52.8Million RMB breaking the record price for a work in porcelain and in November 2007 Red Cliff by Qiu Ying, a rare Ming Dynasty national-level masterpiece, sold for 79.52 million RMB, breaking the world record for all types of Chinese painting, including Chinese oil painting, and traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.

China Guardian has staged a number of charity auctions, in 2008 for the Sichuan Earthquake and for Leukemia Children, and sponsor exhibitions, academic symposia and concerts. The China Guardian Art Center, opening in 2015, will provide a major auction and exhibition space in Beijing.
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China Guardian Auctions Co., Ltd. presents the 2012 Autumn Auction

China Guardian Auctions Co., Ltd. presents the
2012 Autumn Auction