22 septembre 2015

Famille Verte Douple Spout Teapot, China, Kangxi period. Estimate : 3 000 € / 5 000 €.  Photo Marques Dos Santos of oblong lobed shape, double spout and arch handle, decorated with chrysantemum and plum blossom motifs in polychrome famille verte enamels. Jorge Welsh sticker. Dim.: 19cm. MARQUES DOS SANTOS , PORTO. L'Art de la Théière - Collection privée de Porcelaine Chinoise, le 26 Septembre 2015 à 15h30

Double walled Teapot, China, Kangxi period. Estimate : 3 000 € / 4 000 €.  Photo Marques Dos Santos of glubular shape. decorated in underglaze blue with floral motifs. Double-walled, openwork of honeycombs and navettes. Jorge Welsh sticker to bottom. Dim.: 17,6cm.  MARQUES DOS SANTOS , PORTO. L'Art de la Théière - Collection privée de Porcelaine Chinoise, le 26 Septembre 2015 à 15h30

Adam and Eve Teapot, China, Qianlong period. Estimate : 3 000 € / 4 000 €.  Photo Marques Dos Santos globular form, decoration in gold, coral and grisaille representing Adam and Eve in paradise. Ex Mottahedeh Collection  Reproduced in HERVOUËT "La Porcelaine ... ", p. 258, image 11.1. Sticker from Mottahedeh Collection 'mo10'. Jorge Welsh MARQUES DOS SANTOS , PORTO. L'Art de la Théière - Collection privée de Porcelaine Chinoise, le 26 Septembre 2015 à 15h30

Jacques Dubois (1694-1763), Commode en laque à décor de scènes chinoises, Epoque Louis XV. Estimation : 80 000/100 000 €. Photo Hôtel des ventes d’Avignon SVV Commode à façade et côtés galbés en laque et bois laqué à décor de scènes chinoises dans des paysages arborés et animés. Elle ouvre par deux tiroirs sans traverse et présente sur le dessus un plateau de marbre "portor" mouluré à gorge. Très belle ornementation de bronzes ciselés dorés et redorés de style rocaille, très mouvementée, faite de courbes... [Lire la suite]

Fruhstorferia anthracina Fruhstorferia nigromuelleri Fruhstorferia kinabalensis Fruhstorferia flavipennis Fruhstorferia nigromuliebris, male Fruhstorferia nigromuliebris, female

Edvard Munch, Puberty, detail, 1914-1916, Munch-museet, Oslo. Photo © Munch Museum © Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid, 2015 MADRID - The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is hosting Edvard Munch. Archetypes, the first exhibition to be held on the Norwegian artist in Madrid since 1984. Organised with the generous collaboration of the Munch-Museet in Oslo, the show brings together a selection of eighty works by the artist, who is hailed today as one of the fathers of modern... [Lire la suite]

Edvard’s ticket for the World Exhibition in Antwerp, 1885 - Vincent at the age of nineteen.  AMSTERDAM.- On the occasion of the Van Gogh commemorative year 2015, the Van Gogh Museum will present Munch : Van Gogh, an ambitious exhibition that brings together Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch. Many iconic masterpieces that are only rarely put on loan, as well as other first-class works from around the world will be exhibited. Munch : Van Gogh will be the very first exhibition in the reopened Exhibition Wing... [Lire la suite]

A red-figure Apulian skyphos with Eros and female images, Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 5th to 4th centuries BCE, 12¼ in. high, 11½ in. diameter, est. $7,000-$9,000. BOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallery will launch its busy fall auction season with a Thursday, Sept. 24 online auction led by Part II of the late James Caswell’s collection. Caswell was an artist, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and respected owner of Historia Antiques in Santa Monica, California. The entire Caswell estate consignment,... [Lire la suite]

T'oros Roslin (Armenian, active 1256-1268), Canon Table Page, 1256, Tempera and gold paint on parchment. Leaf: 26.5 x 19 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 59, fol. 8. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America today announced that they have resolved their dispute over the ownership of eight illustrated pages—called Canon Tables —from the Zeyt’un Gospels, by T’oros Roslin (Armenian, active 1256 - 1268), which have been in... [Lire la suite]