27 juin 2016

Lot 83. Commode à portes en bois noirci et sculpté et panneaux de laque de Coromandel, travail anglo-chinois de la fin du XVIIIe-début XIXe du siècle. Estimation 50,000 — 70,000 €. Photo: Sotheby's. ouvrant à deux portes, découvrant un intérieur en papier à l'imitation de la laque de Coromandel, la façade et les côtés à décor de paysages animés de personnages dans des encadrements polychromes, la bordure du plateau et la base en bois noirci sculpté et mouluré, de forme mouvementée ; dessus de... [Lire la suite]

Lot 31. Bureau Mazarin en vernis parisien d’époque Louis XIV, vers 1680-1690. Estimation 60,000 — 80,000 €. Photo: Sotheby's. à fond noir et décor or à l'imitation des laques de Chine et du Japon, le plateau rectangulaire à décor de paysage, de volatiles et feuillages dans un cartouche polylobés, la façade ouvrant à sept tiroirs et un vantail, reposant sur huit pieds en gaine réunis par une double entretoise ; ferrures en cuivre doré. Haut. 77 cm, larg. 118 cm, prof. 65 cm A Parisian... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8227. A polychrome enameled cong-form vase, Qianlong mark, Republic period. Estimate US$ 3,500 - 4,500 (€3,200 - 4,100). Photo Bonhams. Its square-sectioned body standing upon a spreading foot painted with cash and floral patterns, rising to a waisted neck adorned with a band of plantain leaves, the pair of raised elephant head and faux ring handles on opposing walls surrounded by stretching flowering branches, hovering butterflies, and birds in colorful enamels while the remaining walls display well-detailed... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8226. A pair of famille rose enameled and gilt painted dragon bowls, Qianlong marks, Republic period. Estimate US$ 6,000 - 8,000 (€5,500 - 7,300). Photo Bonhams. The deep curving side walls of the identical pair regally decorated to the exterior with two opposing reserves, each framing a pair of dynamic five-clawed dragons pursuing a flaming pearl over crashing ocean waves above an auspicious bat, surrounding by numerous chrysanthemum flower heads lavishly painted in pleasant enamels against a gilt ground... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8225. A polychrome enameled porcelain vase, Qianlong mark, Republic period. Estimate US$ 4,000 - 6,000 (€3,600 - 5,500). Photo Bonhams. Thickly potted and molded with eight raised panels displaying brightly hued seasonal blossoms in alternation with transcriptions of poems composed by the emperor Qianlong in black enamel and bearing iron red seals reading Qianlong and bingshu (the cyclical year equivalent to 1766), the surrounding surfaces painted with further flowers, leaf scrolls, bats... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8230. A wucai-decorated dragon and phoenix bowl, Guangxu six-character mark and of the period (1875-1911). Estimate US$ 4,000 - 6,000 (€3,600 - 5,500). Photo Bonhams. Its wide curving well centered with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl within an underglaze blue double ring while the exterior walls display a band of trifid leaves and rope separating each of the bajixiang drawn above opposing pairs of dragons and phoenix birds amid flowering branches, the mark written in underglaze blue regular script... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8229. A pair of famille rose baluster vases and covers, 18th century. Estimate US$ 8,000 - 12,000 (€7,300 - 11,000). Photo Bonhams. Each brightly enameled with two lobed cartouches, one containing a house and distant pagoda across a river and the other with a scholar in a pavilion within a mountainous landscape, each cartouche separated by peony, magnolia and aster blossoms issuing from a vase amid precious objects, all beneath richly embellished lappets at the shoulder composed of stylized phoenix in gilt... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8209. A famille verte enameled rouleau vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate US$ 15,000 - 25,000 (€14,000 - 23,000). Photo Bonhams. Stoutly potted with a cupped rim above little boys walking between flower-filled bands around the neck, a diapered pattern along the canted shoulder and an audience scene encircling the body of a high official and the emperor seated in a palace pavilion amid palace servants, retainers, guards and a caparisoned horse waiting within the garden precincts, the recessed base incised with... [Lire la suite]

Andrew Gn. Resort 2017. Photos: Anne Combaz

Lot 376. Deux rares et importants vases rituels en bronze, gu, Chine, fin de la dynastie Shang, XIIIème-XIème siècle av.JC. Estimation €60,000 - €80,000 ($68,062 - $90,749). Prix réalisé €199,500 ($58,567). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016. Each of slender form, the trumpet-shaped neck is finely cast with four blades of cicada type above a narrow band of four angular snakes with hooked tails. The center section is decorated with two taotie masks divided and separated by narrow flanges, the... [Lire la suite]