4 octobre 2011

Lot 10 A Fine Persimmon-Glazed Bowl, Mark and Period of Jiajing (1522-1566); 13.9 cm, 5 1/2 in. Estimate 1,800,000-2,500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 2,180,000 HKD (280,086 USD). Photo Sotheby's the deep rounded sides below a slightly flared rim supported by a short straight foot, covered overall with a coffee-brown glaze with a metallic lustre except for the base glazed white and inscribed with a six-character underglaze-blue reign mark within double rings. Provenance: Probably Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 7. A Massive Barbed Rim Longquan Celadon Charger, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period. Estimate 1,800,000-2,500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 4,820,000 HKD (619,274 USD). Photo Sotheby's sturdily potted on a low circular foot, the cavetto carved into sixteen equal bracket foliations below a barbed everted rim of matching form, the center left plain, covered overall with an even, thick, lustrous yellowish-green glaze, save for the wide ring on the base fired brick-red.  Provenance; Sotheby's New York, 8th May 1981,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 6. A Rare Longquan Celadon Double-Gourd Vase, Yuan - Ming Dynasty, 14th Century; 36.5 cm., 14 3/8 in. Estimate 800,000-1,200,000 HKD. Lot sold 2,900,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's of slender double-gourd form, the generously rounded spherical lower body tapering at the svelte waist before rising to a tall upper bulb surmounted by a lipped rim, evenly covered overall in a glossy celadon-green glaze, paling slightly at the rim and pooling thickly at the neatly cut footrim, the unglazed foot dressed in brown and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3. A Rare Pair of Café-Au-Lait Bowls, Marks and Period of Yongzheng  (1723-1735); 15.6 cm., 6 1/8 in. Estimate 1,000,000-1,500,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,940,000 HKD  (249,251 USD). Photo Sotheby's each of ogee-form, the rounded sides raised on a short straight foot, the exterior covered in a creamy light brown glaze, the interior and the base glazed white, the underside inscribed with a six-character underglaze-blue reign mark.  Exhibited: Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang... [Lire la suite]

A Fine Teadust-Glazed Bottle Vase. Incised Seal Mark and Period of Qianlong. Photo Sotheby's the compressed pear-shaped body raised on a splayed foot, tapering to a tall, narrow, cylindrical neck, covered overall in a mottled opaque glaze of olive brown save for the unglazed footrim dressed in a dark brown wash, the base incised with a six-character reign mark covered in brown; 33 cm., 13 in. Estimate 1,200,000-2,000,000 HKD Exhibited: Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, The British Museum, London, 1994. Evolution to... [Lire la suite]

Mark Rothko, American, 1903–1970: No. 3 / No. 13, 1949. Oil on canvas, 216.5 x 164.8 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bequest of Mrs. Mark Rothko through The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. (428.1981) © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY PRINCETON, NJ.- The loan of Mark Rothko’s (1903-1970) 1949 painting, Magenta, Black, Green on Orange (No. 3/No. 13), from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, brings... [Lire la suite]