NYC’s Top Asian Galleries

All of the participating galleries boast an impressive collection of antiques, as well as a vast number of fine and decorative arts which included traditional and contemporary artwork from China, India, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia. The price of these objets d’art range from the few thousands to the staggering millions. Asia Week is a spectacular time in this town, and it offers a rare opportunity for collectors, art students, philosophers, or art enthusiasts to view and collect the rarest, and most unusual museum quality Asian paintings, statues, screens, sculptures, jewelry, pottery and textiles.

“Asia Week New York 2013 is a nine-day celebration of Asian art throughout metropolitan New York, with exhibitions, auctions and special events presented by 43 leading international Asian art specialists, five major auction houses, and 17 museums and cultural institutions.” Asia Week New York.  To inquire further about the pieces shown on this post, please feel free to email  me directly.

* Overall there are 43 international galleries participating.

Eye Bead Agate Necklace, Bactrian 2500 – 1800 B.C.
Mounted in gold during the 20th Century

A Cizhou incised and painted large meiping, Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115-1234)
The Song dynasty was the Golden Age of Chinese Ceramics. The elegant vessels with subtly colored glazes produced by Chinese potters during the Song are among the most beautiful ceramics ever made.

Gold dust: Detail work of a screen from Japanese artist, Maio Motoko
Lesley Kehoe at the Fuller Building

JADESTONE

A massive and rare Tokyo School ivory carving of a shell collector. Signature undeciphered. Meiji Period

Okimono sculpture in the form of a catfish with shakudo eyes swimming among water reeds, its whiskers waving to the side. Late Meiji/Taishoo era, circa 1910-1920