18 juillet 2016

Chaumet. "Métamorphoses de Daphné" laurel brooch with pink spinels. © Chaumet Chaumet. "Firmament apollinien" laurel ring, a subtle combination of Ceylon sapphire and moonstone celestial blues. © Chaumet Chaumet. Open-worked "Champs de lumière" wheat ring, filtering the summer sunset light with a Padparadscha sapphire. © Chaumet Chaumet. "Offrandes d'été" earrings, diamond wheat bouquets tied with simple elegance. © Chaumet Chaumet. "Songe de nuit" lily diamond... [Lire la suite]

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Lot 541. A café-au-lait-glazed bowl, Qianlong period, dated 1767. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 HKD. Lot sold 212,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's of double ogee form, the exterior covered with a pale 'café-au-lait' glaze, the base inscribed with a sample mark and dated to the thirty-first year; 15.7 cm., 6 1/8  in. Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23rd/24th May 1978, lot 215. Note: The inscription reads, "Wu Number 94, thirty-first year, sample". Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 499. A pair of coral-ground bowls, seal marks and period of Qianlong (1736-1795). Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 HKD. Lot sold 50,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's  each of ogee form rising from a straight foot, the exterior enamelled in coral-red and painted in gilt with floral sprays, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark; 20.7 cm., 8 1/8  in.  Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 03 Dec 2015

Lot 427. A red-glazed dish, Seal mark and period of Qianlong. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 HKD. Lot sold 75,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's  well potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, applied overall with a mottled red glaze of crushed raspberry colour, save for the rim and the base left white, the latter inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark; 18.1 cm., 7 1/8  in.  Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 03 Dec 2015

Lot 415. A carved celadon-glazed 'Kui Dragon' jar, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795). Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's  of baluster form with high shoulders, finely carved with kui dragons in dynamic poses around the vessel, their highly stylised bodies studded with tiny bosses terminating in bifurcated tails, all set between a wan symbol band below the lipped rim and upright lotus petals around the foot, the glaze of a rich olive-green... [Lire la suite]

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Lot 248. Three famille-rose scholar's objects, c (1736-1795). Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 HKD. Lot sold 75,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's the lobed dripping pan set with trompe-l'oeil miniature fruits; the reticulated box and cover painted with landscape panels; and the rectangular brushrest painted with a scholar; the brushrest and the box with four-character minyao seal marks; 4.6 to 8.1 cm., 1 3/4 to 3 1/8  in. Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 03 Dec 2015