27 octobre 2011

A light green-turquoise-glazed ewer.  Song-Yuan dynasty. photo Nagel Auctions Minor corrosion, slightly chipped. H. 12,5 cm - Estimate 1 000 € Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 5th 2011. www.auction.de

A Qingbai porcelain bovl xith encarved design. Song-Yuan dynasty. photo Nagel Auctions Property from an old German private collection Good condition. D. 12,4 cm - Estimate 300 € Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 5th 2011. www.auction.de

A rare blue and white stemcup,. Yuan dynasty, ca. 1350. photo Nagel Auctions The cup with rounded sides rising to a flared rim resting on flared hollow foot, boldly painted in vivid tones with a leafy scroll above a border around the foot, the interior with a chrysanthemum sprig, all within double and single line borders.  Property from an European private collection Glaze slightly corroded.. D. 10,9 cm D. 10,9 cm - Estimate 15 000 € Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 4th 2011. www.auction.de

Boule à éponge en porcelaine de Saint-Cloud. Pour la monture, Paris, 1726-1732. Photo Fraysse & Associés à décor d'écailles de poisson et d'une fleur à huit pétales au centre. La monture en argent. Maître orfèvre indéterminé. Diamètre: 8,3 cm - Estimation : 6 000 - 8 000 € Saupoudroir à sucre en porcelaine de Saint-Cloud. Pour la monture, Paris 1732-1738. Photo Fraysse & Associés la monture en argent. De forme tronconique, la partie supérieure ajourée entre des branches de Prunus, ces dernières sont en rappel sur... [Lire la suite]

A fine, small vase with a beautiful celadon glaze, Longquan ware. Yuan (1279-1368) or early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 14th -15th C.. photo Nagel Auctions The elegant vase with a greyish white stoneware body is covered with a beautiful green celadon glaze and served originally as a spittoon ("zhadou") Property from a German private collection - Restorations  . H. 8 cm - Estimate 1 500 € Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 4th 2011. www.auction.de

A large carved Longquan celadon charger. Ming dyansty, 15th century. photo Nagel Auctions Sturdily potted with rounded sides, the interior carved in the well with trellis-pattern diaper below a band of peony scroll in the cavetto, the four flowers alternately shown from the side and from above, covered overall with a glaze of olive-green tone except for a wide unglazed ring on the base, burnt orange in the firing. Property from a Belgium private collection - Large dishes of this type and approximate size, all dated to the... [Lire la suite]

A celadon-glazed censer on wood stand. Ming dynasty. photo Nagel Auctions Property from an old Bavarian private collection D. 33,5 cm - Estimate 2 000 € Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 4th 2011. www.auction.de

Louis II Samson (1710-1781), Toulouse, 1763, aiguière en argent de forme balustre posant sur un piédouche. Photo Fraysse & Associés Photo Fraysse & AssociésAiguière en argent posant sur un piédouche à contours  dont la terrasse est recouverte de feuilles. Le corps de forme balustre à côtes obliques est décoré en repoussé de roseaux, cascades, guirlandes de fleurs, enroulements, rocailles. Armoiries des familles de Mengaud de Lattage et Dalmas de Boissière (avocat à Rodez), surmontées d'une couronne de marquis. Le... [Lire la suite]

A fine bowl with russet-splashed black-glazed. Cizhou stoneware. Jin or Song Dynasty. photo Nagel Auctions  The russet iron oxide splashes are only at the inside and at the rim of the flat bowl, the thick lustrous black glaze on the outside falls short of the foot ring in a quite even line revealing the buff coloured body. Property from a German private collection Cf. Sotheby's London, 9.11.2005, lot 250, a similarly glazed and a bit smaller bowl and of less elegant shape, dated to the Jin Dynasty and with numerous further... [Lire la suite]

A Jian 'Hare's Fur' teabowl .Song dynasty. photo Nagel Auctions Property from an old North German private collection A bowl of this classic 'Jian' teabowl type in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, was included in the exhibition Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, cat. no. 79. Compare several hare's fur bowls recovered from the 'Jian' kiln site in Jianyang county, Fujian province, illustrated in Kaogu jinghua, Beijing, 1993, pl. 285,... [Lire la suite]