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Detail: Features some 250 dealers, including a number of Asian art specialists. While Jacqueline Simcox will mainly be exhibiting Ming and early Qing period Chinese textiles, she will also display some works of art, including a late 18th century Mongolian vase set with turquoise, amber and coral, a 16th/17th century piece of Tibetan lamellar armour in leather decorated with red and gold flowers, and a large 17th century painted and gilded wood sculpture of a Tibetan abbot seated in a horseshoe-shaped chair. She will also be bringing some Indonesian textiles, such as a gold-stamped royal batik cloth with designs of Garuda’s wings – a design reserved for the court. Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art’s collection will be presented in a contemporary setting, with a large designer stand. Featured will be a selection of Chinese porcelain for the European market, as well as Han and Tang pottery and some Chinese and Japanese works of art. Two large blue-and-white covered cisterns decorated with ‘the archer’ design after Cornelis Pronk, one of them fitted with the original pewter tap, are a highlight. As well as objects and textiles from the Middle East, Millner Manolatos will be bringing a group of Indian stone sculptures of Hindu and Buddhist deities from a Swiss private collection, ranging from the 1st to the 12th century. Their pièce de résistance is a blue-and-white Persian charger from the Safavid period, which reveals a fusion of Chinese Kraak border designs and more Turkish and Persian motifs at the centre.
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