Auction introduction: This December, the Art d’Asie sale presents 230 lots of important porcelain and works of art, including rare Buddhist sculptures, important thangkas, lacquer, jade and fine porcelain. Highlights feature a selection of extremely rare gilt-bronze figures including a 14th-century Tibetan example of Amitayus and a beautiful 15th-century painting showing Buddha Shakyamuni and Sthaviras, both from a distinguished European collection. Almost all objects in the sale come from private European, French, UK and Asian collections. The auction includes a rare and important blue and white ‘fruit and flower’ hexafoil bowl with a six-character Xuande mark and of the period (1426–35), previously in the personal collection of Carl Alfred Jensen (1886–1953), Denmark. From the Qianlong reign, another highlight is a large flambé-glazed Hu vase from a private Scottish collection. Also from the Qing dynasty, we will present a spinach-green jade dragon seal and a pale celadon jade seated figure of Buddha. After the success of the first part of the collection sold in New York in September, the December Paris sale will also present the second part of a beautiful netsuke collection from an Important European Private Collector.