10 avril 2014

A diamond necklace and earring suite. Photo Bonhams. The necklace designed as a series of graduated floral clusters, set with marquise-cut and pear-shaped diamonds throughout, the earrings en suite, diamonds approximately 36.00 carats total, necklace length 39.5cm, earring length 2.2cm. Estimate £30,000 - 40,000 (€36,000 - 48,000)Bonhams. FINE JEWELLERY, London, New Bond Street, 30 Apr 2014 -www.bonhams.com

Lot 3678. A root wood sculpture, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 87 cm., 34 1/4 in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 HKD. Lot sold 500,000 HKD . Photo: Sotheby's. oriented vertically, one side with a dense array of irregular gnarled knots and nodes forming deep crevices and ridges, the extremities tapering to smaller sections of roots, the reverse left plain, the wood of dark chocolate patina, metal standSotheby's. Contemporary Literati — A Gathering, Hong Kong, 07  april 2014 

A diamond single-stone ring. Photo Bonhams. The old brilliant-cut diamond, weighing 10.14 carats, within a six double-claw setting, to a pierced gallery and engraved shoulders, ring size M½. Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 (€60,000 - 85,000) Bonhams. FINE JEWELLERY, London, New Bond Street, 30 Apr 2014 - www.bonhams.com

Lot 3677. A carved marble architectural frieze, Ming dynasty (1368-1644); 28 by 115 by 9.5 cm., 11 by 45 1/4 by 3 3/4 in. Estimate 300,000 — 400,000 HKD. Lot sold 437,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. the thin fragment carved in low relief with a broad register containing an elaborate dragon anthropomorphising into a foliate scroll in pursuit of a stylised flaming pearl, all above a row of pendent heart-shaped lappets containing trefoils, metal stand. Note: Architectural elements, such as this frieze, are known from... [Lire la suite]

A diamond "Raindance" necklace, by Boodles. Photo Bonhams. Designed as a double-row of collet-set brilliant-cut diamond "raindrops" of varying size, diamonds approximately 12.00 carats total, signed Boodles, numbered, length 38.0cm, maker's case. Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 (€12,000 - 18,000) Bonhams. FINE JEWELLERY, London, New Bond Street, 30 Apr 2014 - www.bonhams.com

Lot 3676. Cai Xiaosong (B.1964), Royal Garden Series: Scholar's Rock, with one seal of the artist; ink on silk mounted on paper; 95 by 51 cm., 37 1/2 by 20 in. Executed in 2008. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot sold  375,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. Exhibited: Ways of Abstraction: Hai Ping Xian Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute, Shanghai, 28th December 2010 - 16th January 2011.The Era of Ink Paintings: 2010 Shanghai New Ink Art Exhibition, Shanghai... [Lire la suite]

A diamond "Raindance" bracelet, by Boodles, 2010. Photo Bonhams. The highly articulated bracelet designed as a series of cascading brilliant-cut diamond "raindrops" of varying size, mounted in platinum, diamonds approximately 19.50 carats total, maker's mark, London hallmark, length approximately 18.5cm, maker's case. Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 (€24,000 - 36,000) Bonhams. FINE JEWELLERY, London, New Bond Street, 30 Apr 2014 - www.bonhams.com

A lacquered nanmu burlwood tree trunk brushpot, Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century. Photo: Sotheby's. formed from multiple sections of wood creating a free-form shape and naturalistic uneven surface of knots, holes and bumps, covered overall with a dark black lacquer, the grain of the wood revealed in patches on the exterior where the lacquer has worn thin, the interior and base with a very smooth even surface; width 19.5 cm., 7 5/8 in. Estimation 200,000 — 300,000 HKD - Unsold. Sotheby's. Contemporary Literati — A Gathering, Hong... [Lire la suite]

A diamond single-stone ring. Photo Bonhams. The pear-shaped diamond, weighing 2.77 carats, on a chevron-shaped single-cut diamond hoop, with a square-cut diamond highlight, mounted in platinum, maker's mark, UK hallmark, ring size H. Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 (€18,000 - 24,000) Accompanied by a report from AnchorCert stating that the diamond weighing 2.77 carats is D colour, VVS2 clarity, Type IIa. Report number 20014873, dated 8 March 2014. Bonhams. FINE JEWELLERY, London, New Bond Street, 30 Apr 2014 - www.bonhams.com

Lot 3674. A huanghuali display stand, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 36.2 cm., 14 1/4 in. Estimate 70,000 — 90,000 HKD. Lot sold 87,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's modelled after a standard-size altar table, the flush top flanked by a pair of everted ends on the narrow sides, above a slightly figured waist and a straight beaded apron with ruyi-shaped cloud brackets on the corners, the square-sectioned legs with a vertical rib down the middle secured on foot stretchers and two spandrels with an openwork ruyi heads in the centre. ... [Lire la suite]