15 janvier 2012

Model: Jay Shin/Jae Yi Shin (Wilhelmina) - Photographer: Andrew Yee - Stylist: Christopher Campbell - Hair: Kayla Michele - Makeup: Nam Vo

  Corail patte de chatsur socle. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Annexe II/B. Cites n° IT/IM/2010/MCE/02964. Hauteur : 32 cm - Estimation : 500 / 600 € Corail sur socle. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Annexe II/B. Cites n° IT/IM/2010/MCE/00964.. Hauteur : 27 cm - Estimation : 500 / 600 € Ensemble de sept gorgones montées sur socle en bois tourné. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Hauteur : de 24 à 50 cm. Estimation : 350 / 400 € Quatorze... [Lire la suite]

A  pair of  Chinese Export  famille rose Urns and Covers, circa 1825  Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Each of shield shape flanked by upright flowering branch handles, enameled with a different continuous view of boys on a terrace, the front and back with a molded portrait medallion of a beauty, the finial as a seated woman taking tea; 18¾ in. (47.6 cm.) high (4). Estimate $10,000 - $15,000 Notes: Urns of this classical form were fashionable from the late 1790s,... [Lire la suite]

A  Chinese Export  famille rose  five-piece garniture. Early Qianlong Period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Comprising two beaker vases and three baluster vases and covers decorated with court ladies and phoenix: 11 in. (27.9 cm.) high (8).  Estimate $20,000 - $30,000 Christie's. Chinese Export Art. 23 January 2012. New York, Rockefeller Plaza www.christies.com

A large pair of  Chinese  relief-molded famille rose vases.  Early Qianlong Period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Each of squared baluster form, applied allover in high-relief with flower-filled vases, auspicious objects and sprays of fruit and flowers, including pomegranates, finger citrons, prunus and chrysanthemum; 20¼ in. (51.4 cm.) high (2). Estimate $20,000 - $30,000 hristie's. Chinese Export Art. 23 January 2012. New York, Rockefeller Plaza www.christies.com

Crabe, Charybdis Feriata, sous vitrine. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Haut : 51,5 cm - Long : 53 cm - Estimation : 500 / 700 € Ensemble de onze crabes  leucosia anatum (Philippines)  montés sous globe Napoléon III. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Hauteur de l'ensemble : 44 cm - Estimation : 200 / 300 € Ensemble de six spécimens de crabes matuta lunaris montés sous globe Napoléon III. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Hauteur de l'ensemble : 54 cm... [Lire la suite]

  A large pair of  Chinese Export  famille rose jars, circa 1745. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Finely enameled to one side with a woman performing a dance for seated court lady, her attendants holding peacock feather fans, the other with a scene from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms with the beauty Diao Chan inciting jealously between the warrior Lu Bu and the warlord Dong Zhuo, within gilt cartouches surrounded by large peony, lily and prunus blooms and butterflies,... [Lire la suite]

A  Chinese Export  "Pronk" oval basin, circa 1738.  Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Richly enameled with garlands of spring flowers suspended from scrollwork on purple, rose, black and turquoise trellis grounds, a row of scallop shells around the shoulder, the interior with a floral garland and band of iron-red shells above four seated figures of Turkish potentates; 18½ in. (47 cm.) wide. Estimate $25,000 - $35,000 Notes: This pattern, known as 'The Potentate', is one of the... [Lire la suite]

A massive pair of  Chinese Export  famille rose jardinieres. Yongzheng-Early Qianlong period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Each of cylindrical form flanked by colorful Buddhist lion-mask handles suspending metal rings, the flaring rim with cartouches of figures reclining in landscapes, possibly drunken immortals, alternate with panels of flower-heads on cell-patterns, the exterior with exotic long-tailed birds perched among chrysanthemum, peony and prunus, the interior with further finely enameled... [Lire la suite]

Phasme sous globe Napoléon III. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Haut : 39 cm. Estimation : 300 / 400 € Ensemble de six mantes exotiques deroplatys desiccata et lobata mâles et femelles (Malaisie) montés sous globe Napoléon III. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Hauteur de l'ensemble : 44 cm - Estimation : 350 / 400 € Ensemble de quatres phasmes calvisia virbius (Malaisie) montés sous globe Napoléon III. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr - Paris Hauteur de l'ensemble : 50 cm... [Lire la suite]