9 novembre 2011

A blue and white 'Phoenix' box and cover.  Jiajing mark and period. Photo Sotheby's of ingot shape, the domed cover painted in bright cobalt-blue tones with two phoenix, one male and one female, amidst meandering composite floral scrolls, all encircled by floral sprays and a classic scroll band, the decoration repeated in the box, inscribed to the base with a six-character Jiajing mark  Quantity: 2  - 20.8cm., 8 1/4 in. Estimate 8,000-12,000 GBP. Unsold. Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art.... [Lire la suite]

A blue and white 'Shou' box and cover. Ming Dynasty, Wanli Period. Photo Sotheby's of circular form, the domed cover painted to the centre with a shou character within a double circle, surrounded by eight converging sprays of flowering lotus pods supporting the bajixiang emblems amid leafy foliage, the rounded sides painted with undulating leafy scrolls of lotus pods each supporting a Chinese character forming an inscription reading tiankai shouyu, fuji xianban ('The heavens opened to the land of longevity and happiness... [Lire la suite]

Lot 161. A blue and white Lotus dish, Wanli mark and period (1573-1619); 19.7cm., 7 3/4 in. Estimate 15,000-25,000 GBP. Lot Sold: 21,250 GBP. Photo Sotheby's modelled in the form of a lotus flower supported on a low straight foot, with two rows of petals radiating from a central medallion inscribed with conjoined Tibetan/Sanskrit ligatures encircled by two rows of linked ruyi heads, the inner row of petals with trefoil motifs and the outer with stylised swirls, the exterior with the top row of petals enclosing... [Lire la suite]

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669),The Girl in a Picture Frame, 1641, Royal Castle, Warsaw Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Scholar at His Writing Table, 1641, 105,7 x 76,4 cm, Warsaw, The Royal Castle.   WARSAW.- From 4 November 2011 visitors are welcome in the new gallery on the ground floor of the Royal Castle, which was previously taken by the Courtiers’ Lodgings. These rooms now house the works of art given to the Royal Castle by professor Karolina Lanckorońska in 1994. It was her heirloom, earlier owned by Kazimierz... [Lire la suite]

Lot 160. A large blue and white 'Peony' dish.,Ming Dynasty, 16th century; 55cm., 19 7/8 in. Estimate 15,000-20,000 GBP. Lot Sold: 25,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's the deep rounded sides supported on a tapering foot, the central medallion painted in bright cobalt-blue tones with four large peony blooms amid leafy foliage within a scroll border, the well encircled with a meandering leafy scroll of peonies, the decoration divided by double line borders, similarly painted on the exterior, the base fired to a buff-orange tone. ... [Lire la suite]

A large blue and white dish. Ming Dynasty, 16th century. Photo Sotheby's painted to the interior with a central roundel enclosing two crane and two deer on a hill beside a fenced garden, with a wide band of prunus and bamboo in the cavetto; 40.8cm., 16in. Estimate 3,000-5,000 GBP Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. London | 09 Nov 2011 www.sothebys.com

A blue and white 'dragon' dish. Ming Dynasty. Photo Sotheby's the deep rounded sides rising from a tapering foot to an everted barbed rim, decorated in bright cobalt-blue tones with a winged dragon and a flaming pearl surrounded by mountains and foaming waves, the well with interlocking scrolls topped with pomegranate finials, encircled at the wide rim with a trellis border, all separated by line borders, the exterior similarly decorated with a frieze of four pacing winged dragons, all below a foliate scroll the base with... [Lire la suite]

Leonardo da Vinci, 'Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (The Lady with an Ermine)', about 1489-90. Property of the Czartoryski Foundation in Cracow on deposit at the National Museum in Cracow © Princes Czartoryski Foundation ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’ is the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. This unprecedented exhibition – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – brings together sensational international loans never before seen in the UK. Leonardo the artisWhile... [Lire la suite]