6 août 2016

Lot 490. Important diamond necklace, Marchak. Estimate 140,000 — 235,000 CHF. Lot sold 182,500 CHF. Photo: Sotheby's 2012 Designed as a series of articulated foliate and floral swags set with single- and circular-cut diamonds, highlighted with yellow gold rope work, length approximately 380mm, French assay marks, fitted case stamped Marchak, 4 rue de la Paix, Paris.  Sotheby's. Magnificent Jewels, Geneva, 14 Nov 2012  

Lot 396. 8.03 carats H Colour, SI1 Clarity Diamond ring, Van Cleef & Arpels. Estimate 100,000 — 150,000 CHF. Lot sold 182,500 CHF. Photo: Sotheby's 2012 Of bombé design, set with a circular-cut diamond weighing 8.03 carats, within a border of pear-shaped and brilliant-cut diamonds, size 52, signed Van Cleef & Arpels, partial maker's mark. Accompanied by GIA report no. 2155036409, stating that the diamond is H Colour, SI1 Clarity. Sotheby's. Magnificent Jewels, Geneva,... [Lire la suite]

Coupe sur piédouche à décor de lotus, règne de Chenghua (1465-1487), porcelaine bleu blanc, Hauteur : 0.115 m, Diamètre : 0.175 m. Ancienne collection Emmanuel Loo, Acquisition 1963. Paris, musée Guimet - musée national des Arts asiatiques, MA2584. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée Guimet, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier

Bol de type "liangzi" (évoquant la capsule à graine du lotus) à décor floral, dynastie Ming (1368-1644), porcelaine bleu blanc, Hauteur : 0.059 m. Diamètre : 0.103 m. Ancienne collection Ernest Grandidier. LiParis, musée Guimet - musée national des Arts asiatiques, G958. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée Guimet, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier

Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna), Lucretia, 1640–1642. Oil on canvas, 35 13/16 × 28 3/4 in. (91 × 73 cm). Roma, Musei Capitolini, Pinacoteca Capitolina © Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali – Musei Capitolini, Rome The distinctive character of Reni’s late paintings has led them to be central topics in recent debates about unfinished works from the seventeenth century. Reni’s contemporaries recognized that his later works are more delicate and softer, painted more freely with less... [Lire la suite]

Federico Barocci (Italian, Urbino ca. 1535–1612 Urbino), The Assumption of the Virgin, 1604–1605. Oil on canvas, 94 1/8 × 67 5/16 in. (239 × 171 cm). Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino © Scala / Art Resource, NY Barocci, perhaps the greatest Italian painter of his generation, was famed for the careful study that went into the design of his altarpieces. This Assumption, in which the Virgin rises to heaven surrounded by the Apostles, was left in the artist’s studio in Urbino at his death and... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 484. Diamond bracelet, 1930s. Estimate 60,000 — 90,000 CHF. Lot sold 200,500 CHF. Photo: Sotheby's 2012 Composed of three open work rectangular plaques, each set at the centre with a step-cut diamond, further embellished by variously cut diamonds, length approximately 188mm, French assay and maker's marks. Sotheby's. Magnificent Jewels, Geneva, 14 Nov 2012  

Lot 473. Gem-set and diamond bracelet-wristwatch, Ostertag, circa 1930. Estimate 95,000 — 140,000 CHF. Lot sold 206,500 CHF. Photo: Sotheby's 2012 The straps set with meandering vines of carved emeralds, sapphires and rubies, accented with marquise-shaped, circular-, and single-cut diamonds, the square-shaped dial within a cushion-shaped case pavé-set with circular-cut stones and flanked with bands of buff top calibré-cut emeralds, length approximately 165mm, case signed Ostertag made in... [Lire la suite]

Plat, Kraak Porselein, règne de Wanli (1573-1620), porcelaine bleu blanc, Hauteur : 0.085 m, Diamètre : 0.46 m, anc. coll. Gasnault ; don A.Dubouché, 1881. Limoges, musée national Adrien Dubouché, ADL524. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Limoges, Cité de la céramique) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Verseuse à encre, fin du 16e siècle, règne de Wanli (1573-1620), porcelaine bleu blanc, fours de Jingdezhen, Hauteur : 0.07 m, Largeur : 0.1 m, Profondeur : 0.07 m, anc. coll. Gasnault ; don A.Dubouché, 1881. Limoges, musée national Adrien Dubouché, ADL479. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Limoges, Cité de la céramique) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi