31 juillet 2016

Lot 553. Highly important 39.00 carats Burmese 'royal blue' sapphire and diamond ring. Estimate 300,000 — 400,000 CHF. Lot sold 2,770,500 CHF. Photo Sotheby's 2012 Set with a step-cut sapphire of superb colour weighing 39.00 carats, between triangular diamond shoulders,size 52, sizing band. Accompanied by SSEF report no. 64244 and Gübelin report no. 12110116, stating that the sapphire is of Burmese origin, with no indications of heating. The Gübelin report states that the colour... [Lire la suite]

Lot 56. A Shonzui-Style Blue-and-White Tea Cup, Late Ming Dynasty, first half 17th century. Estimation : 2 400 € / 3 120 €. Photo Auctionata AG Porcelain with underglaze blue painting. Shonzui ware. Cylindrical shaped tea cup with ninefold modeled sides on a high stand. The exterior decorated with cartouches filled with landscape sceneries and geometric patterns, below the rim a patterned border, inside also adorned with geometrical decor. Glazed underside with mark 'Fuku' in underglaze... [Lire la suite]

Lot 88. Blue and White vase with Dragons and Lucky Symbols, Ming dynasty (1686-1644). Estimation : 700 € / 910 €. Photo Auctionata AG Porcelain with underglaze blue painting. Vase with a bulbous body. On a slightly sweeping foot. Short neck with a stressed mouth rim. The exterior decorated with a dragon and the eight Buddhist symbols of good fortune. Height: 31 cm. Good condition. Blue and White Style. The blue white porcelain had its golden age in the Chinese Ming... [Lire la suite]

Lot 63. Ko-Akae Plate with Décor in Underglaze blue, China, Tianqi period (1621-1627). Estimation : 700 € / 910 €. Photo Auctionata AG Porcelain with underglaze blue, overglaze polychrome enamels in green, yellow, and iron red. Saucer dish raised on a low foot with gently flaring and slightly lobbedsides, the rim indented, decorated inside with a scetchy landscape scene in underglaze blue and cartouches filled with flowers painted in polchrome enamels, below the rim some spiral patterns with... [Lire la suite]

Lot 47. Blue and White Guan-Type Jar with Lion Mask Handles, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Estimation : 4 420 €. Photo Auctionata AG Porcelain with underglaze blue painting. Baluster shaped body with tapering sides on a slightly recessed base to a rounded shoulder with flaring neck and everted waisted rim. Lion mask handles flank the shoulder. The wall with a revolving a garden setting with scholars and armed warriors with weapons or on horseback. Framed by double circles and a band of petal lappets... [Lire la suite]

Lot 61. Wucai ‘Zhaofu‘ Dragon Dish, China, 17th century. Estimation : 4 420 €. Photo Auctionata AG Porcelain with underglaze blue and polychrome painting. Rare Wucai dish with a flat foot rim. Motif with a green horned dragon rising from foaming waves and chasing a 'flaming pearl'. Two further dragons in iron red and green on the exterior racing amidst ruyi heads and pursue flaming pearls. Base with eight-character inscription in underglaze blue ‘Jiaxu chunmeng Zhaofu zaoyong’ (Jiaxu... [Lire la suite]

Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719–48) holding a falcon, 1764. Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s). Mughal India, probably Lucknow. Opaque watercolor with gold on paper; 28 x 23.8 cm (page); 14.4 x 10.3 cm (painting). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, 2013.347 (recto). CLEVELAND,... [Lire la suite]