8 juin 2016

Lot 675. A 'Jizhou' 'leaf' bowl and a 'Jizhou' 'papercut' bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279). Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 HKD. Lot sold 212,500 HKD. photo: Sotheby's. rising to an indented mouth, resist-decorated with a leaf against a brown-black glaze, the unglazed foot revealing the buff body; the second bowl with a groove to the interior around the mouth, decorated with florets and other motifs reserved in rich dark brown against a speckled toffee-brown ground, irregularly splashed on the exterior... [Lire la suite]

Lot 650. A 'Jizhou' painted 'wave' jar, Song-Yuan dynasty. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD. Unsold. photo: Sotheby's. of cylindrical section resting on a countersunk base, with sharply angled shoulders below the galleried rim, the buff-coloured body painted in dark brown with cresting waves and with overlapping petals radiating around the mouth, covered all over in a transparent glaze; 11.3 cm, 4 1/2 in.  Notes: The Jizhou kilns were among the most famous ceramic kilns of the Song... [Lire la suite]

Lot 648. A 'Jizhou' 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279). Estimate 90,000 — 120,000 HKD. Lot sold 112,500 HKD. photo: Sotheby's. with slightly rounded conical sides, covered overall with a dark brownish-black glaze and splashed with beige tones simulating tortoiseshell, the glaze stopping neatly above short foot; 11.1 cm, 4 3/8 in.  Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 02 Jun 2016

Lot 646. A 'Jizhou' 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 275,000 HKD. photo: Sotheby's. covered inside and out with a rich dark brown glaze and liberally splashed in tawny tones in imitation of tortoiseshell, the glaze stopping short of the knife-pared foot; 14.5 cm, 5 3/4 in. Provenance: Collection of Victor Rienaecker (label). Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 02 Jun 2016

Lot 618. A 'Jizhou' 'papercut' 'prunus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 HKD. Lot sold 137,500 HKD. photo: Sotheby's. the conical bowl resist-decorated with papercut prunus florets reserved against a speckled dark brown ground, the exterior with black stopping short of the unglazed foot, revealing the light buff-coloured body; 14.9 cm, 5 7/8 in. Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 02 Jun 2016

Lot 676. A carved 'Cizhou' bottle vase and a 'Cizhou' jar, Song dynasty (960-1279). Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Unsold. photo: Sotheby's. the vase with an ovoid body surmounted by a short waisted neck and flared rim, applied with a thick brown glaze and reserved-decorated against the buff-coloured body beneath with a foliate scroll between formal borders; the jar similarly decorated with buff-coloured peony scrolls carved through the brown glaze; 19.5 and 9 cm, 7 5/8  and 3... [Lire la suite]

Lot 651. A ‘Cizhou’ sgraffiato black-glazed vase, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 HKD. Lot sold 40,000 HKD. photo: Sotheby's. well potted with a pear-shaped form and flared mouthrim, carved through a rich dark brown glaze to the reddish brown body beneath with a broad band of vegetal scrolls and archaistic leiwen encircling the shoulder; 23.5 cm, 9 1/4  in. Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 02 Jun 2016

Lot 620. A ‘Cizhou’ sgraffiato ‘floral’ meiping, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Estimate 25,000 — 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 81,250 HKD. photo: Sotheby's. the tapered body resting on a slightly splayed foot and surmounted by a short neck bordered with a flange, the upper body carved through the layer of brown slip to the buff body beneath with two friezes of meandering scrollwork, the lower with stylised petals, the base inscribed with two characters reading Chen Yi; 25.8 cm, 10 1/8  in. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 605. A 'Cizhou' persimon-glazed 'temmoku' bowl, Song dynasty. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 HKD. Unsold. photo: Sotheby's. the slightly conical sides rising from a straight foot to a flared rim, applied with an opaque russet-brown glaze, the streaks on the interior thinning to reveal a lustrous black glaze beneath, the glaze stopping short above the foot revealing a buff-coloured ware; 10.8 cm, 4 1/4  in. Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 02 Jun 2016

PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION. Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986), Reclining Figure: Festival, bronze with a brown patina, 90 in. (230 cm.) long. Conceived in 1951 and cast in an edition of five plus one artist’s proof. Estimate: £15 -20 million  ($22,000,000-29,000,000/ €20,000,000-26,000,000) © Susan Young London - Henry Moore’s ground-breaking 1951 modernist sculpture Reclining Figure: Festival, commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951, will lead the sculpture section of... [Lire la suite]