21 janvier 2017

Vhernier. Blue Velvet ring, titanium and diamonds. Vhernier. Blue Velvet bracelet, titanium and diamonds. Vhernier. Collier Blue Velvet, titanium and 2,262 diamonds. Vhernier. Velvet necklace, titanium, 2,321 diamonds and a rare tanzanite weighing 70.05 carats. Vhernier. Collier Orange Velvet, titanium, diamonds 2,427 and a spessartite with the same shade Vhernier. The spessartite of Orange Velvet necklace.

Chinese iron red ewer made for the Indian market, Jingdezhen, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722), circa 1710, 26.7cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. The ewer moulded and painted in iron red and gilt with a central tear-shape decorated with a lotus flower surrounded by cloud bands reserved on a red ground and flanked by sprigs of flowers. The neck is moulded with radiating petals and painted with stiff leaves. This type of ewer was made for the export market. The shape... [Lire la suite]

Chinese huqqa base made for the Islamic market, China, Kangxi period, 17th-18th century, 20cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. This Kangxi period (1662-1722) huqqa base copies 17th century Indian spherical huqqa base forms of metal or glass. The huqqa base of globular form, narrow truncated neck, the top grinded down with an Indian metal rim. It is decorated with blossoming prunus trees and peonies in blue, white and red, set in six mihrab panels. Later on, the huqqa base has... [Lire la suite]

Kraak dish decorated with Persian ladies, Jingdezhen, China, 17th century, 29cm diameter. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017.  A blue and white dish with two Persian ladies seated centrally with feathers in their caps and surrounded by two borders of foliage. The border painted with alternating panels of working farmers, tulips, and various other flora. Two similar Kraak dishes decorated with Persian ladies are held at the British Museum on loan from Sir Percival David... [Lire la suite]

Chinese blue and white huqqa base made for the Indian market, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722), 20cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. The compressed globular body of Indian form, painted in underglaze blue with three panels of depictions of Chinese antiques decorated on a cracked ice and prunus background. The neck and cup also painted with a cracked ice and prunus ground with an unglazed and rounded base. The form of this huqqa base derives from 17th century Indian... [Lire la suite]

Chinese blue and white ewer made for the Islamic market, Jingdezhen, 16th century, 27cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. The blue and white ewer with a compressed globular body, stepped foot and trumpeted neck. The ewer, without a handle, is decorated in underglaze blue with scrolling tendrils, fans, flowers, butterflies and wan symbols with lappet bands on the shoulder and base. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd. Indian and Islamic Works of Art, 69 Kensington Church... [Lire la suite]

A pair of porcelain blue ewers made for the Islamic market, China, 18th century. Both 29cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. A rare pair of porcelain dark blue ewers of compacted pear-shaped form and flared feet. The mouths are crescent-moon shaped; the spouts are curved. Both ewers have traces of floral gilt decoration. Two similar ewers are in The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Accession Numbers 775-1888 and 1674-1876, and are published by Kerr and Mengoni,... [Lire la suite]

Blue and white porcelain huqqa base in melon form, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, 17th century, 15.5cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. The huqqa base has a squat globular melon-like form. Painted in underglaze blue with a band of standing leaves above the drip guard. A further band of leaves forms from just below the neck with thin underglaze blue lines running in between the moulding of the lobes and reaches the last band of leaves near the base. The base of the huqqa... [Lire la suite]

Blue and white ewer, China, Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Period with apocryphal four-character Xuande mark, 24cm high. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. The flattened pear-shaped body is painted with cobalt blue lotus scrolls on a white ground. Each side of the ewer is decorated with three floral sprays on a scrolled leafy ground on a central tear-shaped raised panel. Upright leaves are painted on the tapered neck with a diamond-pattern band set below the neck. The curved spout is... [Lire la suite]

Iznik tile, Turkey, Second half of the 16th century, 25cm square. Amir Mohtashemi Ltd at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. A polychrome tile of square form painted with cobalt blue, green and bole red on a white slip ground. A central star-like floral rosette is surrounded by four main flower heads on a symmetrical design with leaves and stylised lotus flowers.   A nearly identical tile is illustrated in Bilgi, Iznik: The Ömer Koç Collection, Hülya Bilgi, Ghent, 2015, fig. 149, p. 350. Amir Mohtashemi... [Lire la suite]