5 mars 2014

Lot 476. A pair of café-au-lait-glazed barbed-rim dishes, Qianlong seal marks and period  (1736-1795). Diameter 8 1/8 in., 20.5 cm. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 53,125 USD. Photo Sotheby's. each with deep everted sides resting to a flared barbed rim with eight bracket foliations, the exterior encircled with raised double filets, all beneath a glossy and opaque pale brown glaze, the base glazed white, six-character seal marks in underglaze blue (2).  Provenance: Bobby Chapman,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 475. A rare and unusual café-au-lait ground white-slip decorated 'Dragon' bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Diameter 7 3/4 in., 19.6 cm/ Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 . Photo Sotheby's. of conical form, decorated on the exterior with two striding dragons chasing 'flaming pearls' among stylized clouds in white slip, all reserved on a pale coffee brown ground, apocryphal Da Ming Chenghua nianzhi mark in underglaze blue within double circles.  Provenance:... [Lire la suite]

Lot 472. A powder blue and gilt-ground famille-verte rouleau vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Height 18 in., 46 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Unsold. Photo Sotheby's. reserved with four upright rectangular panels with birds perched on flowering and fruiting branches, the neck with two panels of flowering plants, all on a bright blue ground gilt with lotus scroll on the body and a wan diaper pattern around the neck, the base glazed white, apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark.  PROPERTY OF A... [Lire la suite]

A fine and rare blue and white Ming style barrel-form vase, Qianlong seal mark and period. Photo Sotheby's. of ovoid form, well-painted in varying tones of underglaze blue in classic 'heaping and piling' style with a central band of six stylized lotus and chrysanthemum flowerheads on a continuous lingzhi scrolling foliate branch, between ruyi-head bands and beneath a narrow border of cresting waves under the rim, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue. Height 7 3/4 in., 19.7 cm. Estimation 120,000 — 150,000... [Lire la suite]

 Lot 470. A blue and white 'Landscape' rouleau vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Height 18 1/2 in., 47 cm. Estimate 25,000 — 35,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's. painted with a scene of a mountainous river landscape with rocks, a fishermen steering a boat on the lake below birds in flight, two scholars in conversation on a rocky bank, and another walking towards a pavilion, all below floral sprays and a single bowstring band around the neck.  Provenance:... [Lire la suite]

Lot 471. A pair of blue and white 'Soldier' vases, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Height 50 in., 127 cm. Estimate 150,000 — 250,000 USD. Lot sold 233,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's. each jar of massive baluster form, well-painted in underglaze blue with a continuous pond scene of lotus and other aquatic plants issuing from calm waters above a narrow lappet band, the shoulder with a pendent blue ground ruyi collar enclosing stylized floral scrolls beneath a band of floral cartouches reserved on a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 469. A blue and white 'Mallow' dish, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795). Diameter 7 5/8 in., 19.3 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 15,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's. painted in the center with a stylized design of three mallow blooms encircling a central bloom, all borne on an undulating foliate stem within double lines repeated at the rim, the exterior with a similar continuous floral scroll, six-character seal mark in underglaze blue.  Provenance: Acquired in Taipei, 1993 ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 468. A Ming-style blue and white 'Lotus' dish, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Diameter 11 7/8 in., 30.3 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 11,875 USD. Photo Sotheby's. the center painted with a medallion of lotus blossoms surrounded by scrolling foliage, the theme repeated on the wide flange below the cafe-au-lait dressed rim, the cavetto decorated with a band of ribbon-tied chimes alternating with bats, the exterior decorated with sprigs of bamboo and lingzhi, the six-character... [Lire la suite]

Imposant buste de l'empereur romain Caracalla (211-217 ap. J.-C.) en marbre blanc veiné de gris. Estimate: 10.000-15.000. Photo courtesy Hotel des Ventes GENEVA.- This March, Hôtel des Ventes will have the privilege of auctioning the entire contents of a large Genevan townhouse with no reserve prices! Recently discovered by Bernard Piguet in a 19th century abode situated in the centre of Geneva, the interior had remained virtually unchanged for over 60 years. The collection reflects an eclectic taste varying from Archaeology,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 467. A blue and white 'Lotus' bowl, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735). Diameter 4 in., 10.1 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 40,625 USD. Photo Sotheby's. delicately painted on the exterior with three stylized lotus sprays alternating with floral arabesques and leaves, the interior with a single stylized floral spray within double circles, six-character mark in underglaze blue.  Provenance: Christie's London, 9th November 1983, lot 198.C.C. Teng & Co., Taipei, 1992 Note:... [Lire la suite]