22 juin 2011
Yongzheng, Jiaqing & Qianlong monochrome @ Bonhams
A copper red glazed porcelain vase (yuhuchunping). Yongzheng Mark and Period photo Bonhams
Of elegant pear shape raised on a flared foot and tapering inward to a narrow neck under a flared trumpet mouth, the deep peach-red glaze of even color shading to a darker rich color at the foot, the base with a six character mark written regular script within a double ring in underglaze blue; 9 3/4in (24.8cm) high. Sold for US$290,000
A coral red and gilt enameled porcelain double gourd vase. Jiaqing Mark. photo Bonhams
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22 juin 2011
A white glazed porcelain deep dish with incised floral decoration. Ming Dynasty, 16th Century
A white glazed porcelain deep dish with incised floral decoration. Ming Dynasty, 16th Century. photo Bonhams
Thickly molded and delicately line-incised with a roundel of lotus flowers across the floor of the well, bands of flowering peonies and pearls encircling the cavetto and exterior walls, all beneath a celadon-tinged glaze that stops along the outside edge of the foot, leaving an unglazed foot pad and recessed base; 14 1/8in (36cm) diameter - Sold for US$9,150
Provenance:: Chait Galleries, New York
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22 juin 2011
Touracos, Rollier d Abyssinie, Guépier écarlate, Gros bec & Barbican @ Osenat Fontainebleau
Touraco de Livingstone II-B bagué Touraco livingstonii. Photo Osenat Fontainebleau via Interenchères
Estimation : 400/500€
Touraco violet ailes ouvertes II-B Musophaga violacea. Photo Osenat Fontainebleau via Interenchères
Estimation : 350/450€
Touraco violet II-B Musophaga violacea. Photo Osenat Fontainebleau via Interenchères
Estimation : 300/400€
Rollier d"Abyssinie NR Coracias abyssinica. Photo Osenat Fontainebleau via Interenchères
Estimation : 300/400€
Guépier écarlate NR Merops nubicus. Photo Osenat... [Lire la suite]
22 juin 2011
French 18th century Chinoiserie porcelaine from the Wilfrid Evill Collection @ Sotheby's

22 juin 2011
Attribué à P. Paillou. « Nature morte aux perdrix rouges et grises, cailles et bécassines près d'un panier de raisins...

22 juin 2011
Alonso Sanchez Coello (vers 1531-1588/1590). Attribué à. « Portrait de l'infante Catalina Micaela (1567-1597) ».

22 juin 2011
Johann Adalbert Angermayer, "Pinson des arbres" et "Roitelet dans des paysages"

22 juin 2011
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Paris 1686 - Beauvais 1755) et atelier. « Nature-morte aux instruments de musique et au singe ».

22 juin 2011
Pippi Giulio detto Giulio Romano dit Jules Romain, « La Naissance de Saint-Jean-Baptiste ou la Naissance de la Vierge »

22 juin 2011
Chinese robes and surcoats @ Bonhams, San Francisco
A Manchu noblewoman's embroidered midnight blue surcoat (longgua). Late 19th Century. Photo Bonhams
Intricately embroidered in white, polychrome and gilt-wrapped threads with eight roundels of five-clawed dragons grasping a precious pearl surrounded by clouds, bats, ribboned auspicious emblems and a shou medallion, all above a wide lishui border that repeats on the edges of the sleeves below three tiny dragon roundels embroidered en suite. 57 1/4in (145.5cm) long - Estimate: US$20,000 - 30,000
A chestnut silk ground... [Lire la suite]