19 février 2016

A large famille verte dish, Kangxi period (1662-1722). © Christie's 2003 With flared, rounded sides rising to an everted rim, painted with a flower-filled basket encircled by two rows of flower-decorated petal-shaped panels below eight auspicious emblems reserved on a band of diaper patterns at the rim, a narrow band of diaper and foliate cartouches below the rim on the reverse, the base painted in underglaze blue with an artemesia leaf within a double circle - 20in. (50.8cm.) diam. Lot 295. Estimate $15,000 -... [Lire la suite]

A famille verte rouleau vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722). © Christie's 2003 Finely painted with a continuous fenced garden scene with groups of ladies engaged in various leisurely activities, including playing the qin, playing weiqi, reading and contemplating a hanging scroll, the shoulder with aquatic scenes set in oval panels reserved on a diamond diaper ground, the neck painted with three young boys playing in a fenced garden setting - 17½in. (44.4cm.) high. Lot 294. Estimate $12,000 - $15,000. Price... [Lire la suite]

A wucai sleeve vase, Transitional period, ca. 1650; 14in. (35.4cm.) high. Lot 303. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000. Price Realized $3,824. © Christie's 2003 The tall, slightly tapering sides vigorously painted with a dense allover design of infant boys climbing the scrolling stems of flowering peonies -   Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 12 - 13 October 1984, lot 304. Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

A well-painted wucai sleeve vase, Transitional period, ca. 1650; 15¼in. (38.7cm.) high. Lot 302. Estimate $7,000 - $9,000. Price Realized $26,290. © Christie's 2003 The tall, slightly rounded sides well painted in inky tones of underglaze blue, bright green, yellow and black enamels and iron-red with a scene of the Eight Immortals grouped outside a pavilion set in a mountainous setting, the immortal Shoulao seated astride a crane in flight above. Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 12-13 October 1984, lot... [Lire la suite]

  Fabergé Emotion Ruby Thin Ring, featuring over 100 rubies and set in 18 karat yellow gold. Fabergé Emotion Ruby rings in maxi and midi sizes.   Fabergé Emotion rings in rubies and sapphires. Fabergé Emotion rings in sapphires. Fabergé Emotion Blue Sapphire Ring featuring over 300 blue sapphires set in 18 karat white gold. Fabergé Emotion ring pavé set with 300 unique gems.

A Qingbai molded baluster vase, Song-Yuan dynasty, 13th century. © Christie's 2003 The compressed center of the body with sharp edges bordered by chrysanthemum petal bands, with a herring-bone band at the base of the neck, covered with a thin glaze of good pale blue tone continuing over the everted mouth and stopping at the top of the splayed pedestal foot - 8¼in. (21cm.) high. Lot 261. Estimate $2,500 - $3,500. Price Realized $4,183  Provenance: Hans A. Öström Collection, Stockholm.Professor Jan... [Lire la suite]

A small fine Qingbai flower-form saucer dish, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). © Christie's 2003 Thinly potted, the interior of the gently flaring sides with narrow ribs rising to the petal-lobed rim, covered allover with a thin glaze of good pale blue tone falling to the edge of the unglazed, slightly countersunk base - 4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) diam. Lot 260. Estimate $600 - $800. Price Realized $1,315  Property of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III Christie's. FINE CHINESE... [Lire la suite]

Two green Junyao vessels, Song dynasty (960-1279). © Christie's 2003 One a deep rounded conical bowl, the other a shallow dish with widely flared body rising to a galleried rim, both covered overall with a bubble-suffused crackled glaze of bluish-olive tone falling to the top of the ring foot, the base also glazed - 7 5/16 and 5¾in. (18.5 and 14.6cm.) diam., boxes (2). Lot 259. Estimate $7,000 - $9,000. Price Realized $7,170  Notes: This simple, yet refined, bowl and dish represent two of the classic... [Lire la suite]

A small Junyao tripod censer, Jin-Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century. © Christie's 2003 The compressed body raised on three small curved feet below a slightly tapering neck and everted rim, covered inside and out with a soft turquoise blue glaze thinning to mushroom on the edges of the rim - 4in. (10.2cm.) across, stand and box  Lot 257. Estimate $5,000 - $7,000. Price Realized $5,975 Notes: Compare a smaller Junyao blue-glazed censer of similar form illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection,... [Lire la suite]

  Silk Road (Turkmenistan-China), circa 6th-7th century. Distemper on stucco © Dalton Somaré  Indra, Gupta Period, Mathura School, India, circa 5th-6th century. 40 cm. © Dalton Somaré  Vajrasattva, Nepal, 15th century. Gilt bronze with silver inlay. Height: 14.5 cm. © Dalton Somaré  Vishnu, Cambodia, 7th-8th century. Sandstone. Height: 97 cm. © Dalton Somaré  Dalton Somaré at Asia Week New York 2016. March 9-17. Recent... [Lire la suite]