6 janvier 2014

A gilded bronze mirror and stand, Qing Dynasty. Photo Bonhams. Modelled as a recumbent deer, its back designed with a crescent moon shaped stand for the circular mirror with central boss, wood stand, 20cm long (3). Estimate £500 - 700 (€600 - 840) For a similar design of mirror stand, see the parcel-gilt example in The Victoria and Albert Museum, dated to the Song or Yuan era (Salting Bequest. V.& A. No.M.737-1910.). Bonhams. BRITISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS, GLASS & ASIAN ART, INCLUDING THE TATTON HEWETSON COLLECTION PART... [Lire la suite]

Five agate snuff bottles. Photo Bonhams. Including three of organic form, two carved with leaves, largest 7.5cm, another of shouldered form carved with rows of bamboo, 6.5cm, the fifth plain, 7.5cm, one with hardwood stand (6). Estimate £500 - 700 (€600 - 840) Bonhams. BRITISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS, GLASS & ASIAN ART, INCLUDING THE TATTON HEWETSON COLLECTION PART II. Oxford. 29 Jan 2014 - www.bonhams.com

A Chinese embroidered 'xia pei' tabbard with rank badges, 19th century. Photo Bonhams. Centre front opening, of navy satin, an applied rank badge to the back and front depicting the egret of the sixth civil official, worked in couched gilt threads, the front also worked with two side-facing four-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls and a front-facing dragon to the back, amongst clouds, bats, flowers and auspicious symbols, above waves and mountains, with a knotted and tasselled silk fringe, 107 x 59cm. Estimate £300 - 500 (€360... [Lire la suite]

A Chinese embroidered dragon robe, 19th century. Photo Bonhams. Of blue gauze, featuring nine couched gilt thread five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls, amongst clouds, bats, flying cranes and further auspicious symbols, above mountains, crashing waves and a lishui hem, with horseshoe cuffs and edging bands in embroidered black gauze and gilt filigree buttons, 141 x 209cm. Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 (€1,800 - 2,400) Provenance: Acquired in China around the time of the First World War, by a Royal Naval Submarine Officer and... [Lire la suite]

A Dutch façon de Venise baluster wine glass, circa 1700. Photo Bonhams. The conical bowl on a single collar and hollow baluster with single rim below, conical foot, 18cm high. Estimate £700 - 900 (€840 - 1,100) Provenance: The Tatton Hewetson Collection. Bonhams. BRITISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS, GLASS & ASIAN ART, INCLUDING THE TATTON HEWETSON COLLECTION PART II. Oxford. 29 Jan 2014 - www.bonhams.com

A Façon de Venise small cruet, circa 1700. Photo Bonhams. Probably English, possibly by Hawley Bishop, the body baluster with a conical neck, with fine trailing and applied decoration, with an elaborately pinched scroll handle, 11.8cm high. Estimate £400 - 600 (€480 - 720) Provenance: The Tatton Hewetson Collection With Sheppard and Cooper, 16th September 1992, Sotheby's The Antony Waugh Collection, 28th April 1980 Bonhams. BRITISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS, GLASS & ASIAN ART, INCLUDING THE TATTON HEWETSON COLLECTION PART II.... [Lire la suite]

  A Meissen Kakiemon plate, circa 1735-40. Photo Bonhams. Painted with flowers issuing from stylised rockwork and a butterfly overhead, the brown-edged wavy rim painted with flowering branches and insects, 22.4cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark. Estimate £600 - 800 (€720 - 960) Similar plates in the Dr. Enrst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, Munich, are discussed by Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern (2013), II, cat. nos. 193-201. ... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen saucer, circa 1723-25. Photo Bonhams. Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure seated at a table flanked by flowers within a shaped gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche edged with iron-red foliate scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border to the rim, 13.2cm diameter, gilt numeral 26., incised / inside footrim. Estimate £800 - 1,200 (€960 - 1,400) Bonhams. BRITISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS, GLASS & ASIAN ART, INCLUDING THE TATTON HEWETSON COLLECTION PART II. Oxford. 29 Jan 2014 - www.bonhams.com

Interior Remodeling of St. Moritz Church / John Pawson © Hufton+Crow (source http://www.archdaily.com/)

An American silver and mixed-metal Japanese style hot milk jug, Tiffany & Co., New York, dated 1877. Photo Sotheby's on four bracket feet, body and lid applied with twisting vines and tendrils bearing a gold leaf and copper gourd, the body also applied with copper and mokume dragonfly and butterflies, one side engraved with monogram CL under coronet, pierced handle, carved nephrite finial, gilt interior; marked on base and numbered 5048-8940/741; height 4 1/2 in., 11.4cm; 7oz 10dwt, 230g. Estimation 18,000 — 22,000 USD For... [Lire la suite]