26 février 2010

A rare blue and white porcelain seal Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zao six-character mark in underglaze blue in a line and of the period. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2010 The top molded with a tortoise above lingzhi sprays on three sides and the reign mark on the fourth, the base with a four-character intaglio seal, Wo si guren - 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) square - Estimate : $25,000 - $35,000 Provenance: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, Literature! Paul Moss, Emperor, Scholar, Artisan, Monk: The Creative Personality in Chinese Works of Art,... [Lire la suite]

Photo: Marcin Tyszka - Style: Natalia Alaveridan - Model: Isabeli Fontana

Lot 1346. A rare massive Longquan celadon charger, 14th-early 15th century; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 40,000. Price realised USD 164,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010. Very heavily potted with shallow rounded sides, covered all over with a glaze of olive-green tone except for two unglazed circles on the base burnt orange in the firing Provenance: Tai Sing Co., Hong Kong, 1991.Cargill & Donna MacMillan Collection. Note: Longquan celadon chargers of this large undecorated type are rare. One of... [Lire la suite]

A chinese longquan celadon tripod censer, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2010 12in. (30.5cm) diameter - Estimate : $800 - $1,200 Christie's. Christie's Interiors. 2 - 3 March 2010. New York, Rockefeller Plaza www.christies.com

Photo Marcus Ohlsson - Models Tyson Ballou & Ryan Kennedy - Stylist Lisa Lindqwister

Lot 1352. A Fahua baluster jar, Ming dynasty, late 15th-16th century; 14 in. (35.6 cm.) high. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 92,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010 Slip decorated and carved with scenes of scholars separated by trees and clouds between a band of petal lappets below and a ruyi collar above, with clouds on the neck, all in turquoise and biscuit on a dark purplish-blue ground, the interior glazed green, the base with a brown glaze wash. Note: Fahua was popular during the middle Ming period, and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1347. A very rare slip-decorated white-glazed jar, Ming dynasty, 16th century; 12 in. (30.4 cm.) high. Estimate USD 300,000 - USD 500,000. Price realised USD 362,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010. Unusually decorated around the sides with four melon vines and four squirrels seen biting a tendril of each vine, between a band of slender leaves below and dragons amidst clouds on the high shoulder, with further clouds on the slightly tapering neck, all in slip with incised details that has been left in the biscuit in... [Lire la suite]

Photographer: David Byun - Model: Magdalena Frackowiak

Matteo Civitali, "Virgin and Christ Child", ca. 1480. Painted terracotta, ht. 39 inches. BOSTON, MA.- In Italy during the Renaissance (around 1400 to 1600), an innovative form of sculpture was developed using fine clay that was shaped and modeled before being fired in a kiln. Called terracotta in Italian (meaning “baked earth”), this type of sculpture often has been overlooked by scholars in favor of the more commonly known Renaissance sculptures carved in marble or cast in bronze. "Modeling Devotion: Terracotta... [Lire la suite]

Photographer: Damon Heath - Stylist: Leith Clark - Models:: Chanel Iman, Liui Wen, Giedre Dukauskaite, Addison Gill, Kate Somers, Kim Noorda, & Charlotte di Calypso