15 mars 2017

Lot 517. A copper-red 'Three fish' bowl, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 40,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. delicately-potted with deep curved sides rising from a straight foot to a flared rim, the exterior boldly decorated with three mandarin fish in rich copper-red silhouettes, all reserved on a white ground, the interior left undecorated, the base with a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue. Diameter 4 3/4  in., 12.2 cm ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 516. A copper-red glazed stem bowl, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 52,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. well-potted, the rounded sides rising to a flared rim, supported on a hollow slightly splayed pedestal foot, the exterior applied with a rich red bubble-suffused glaze draining to white at the rim, the interior glazed white, the interior of the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue. Diameter 6 in., 15.4 cm Provenance: Sotheby Parke... [Lire la suite]

Lot 515. A copper-red glazed dish, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Estimate 3,000 — 5,000 USD. Lot sold 9,375 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. the rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a straight rim, covered overall in a deep red glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone just below the rim, the rim and base left white, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue. Diameter 8 in., 20.2 cm Provenance: Sotheby's London, 17th November 1998, lot 185. Sotheby's. Important... [Lire la suite]

Giacomo Liege (Liege 1605 - Milan 1640-1645), The Pantry, oil on canvas, 58 5/8 x 74 in (149 x 188 cm) © Galerie Canesso Provenance: Sale, Vitelli Gallery, Genoa, JDB Collection of Ancient Art, 20 april 1933, lot 132, pl. i (as "Benedict Castiglione"); Genoa, collection of Piero Pagano (1929-2007), by descent, to the present day. Literature: Ezia Gavazza, "Protagonists and supporting actors. acquisitions and cultural interference "in Painting in Liguria. The second seventeenth century, Genoa, 1990, p. 44, Fig. 42; Anna... [Lire la suite]

Lot 511. A rare and large ru-type hu-form vase, Yongzheng seal mark and period (1723-1735). Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 USD. Lot sold 396,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. of archaistic bronze form, the broad pear-shaped body rising from a slightly spreading foot to a waisted neck encircled with a raised fillet and flanked by a pair of single-horn mythical animal-mask handles suspending mock rings, covered overall with a thick lavender-blue glaze, save for the unglazed foot ring, the base with a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 510. A 'clair-de-lune' glazed vase, Kangxi mark and period (1662-1722). Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 USD. Lot sold 225,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. the finely potted globular body rising from a short, slightly splayed foot to a slender cylindrical neck flaring gently at the rim, covered overall in a rich, glossy, soft pale-blue glaze thinning at the everted rim and pooling around the foot, the base glazed white with a six-character mark in underglaze blue. Height 8 in., 20cm Provenance:... [Lire la suite]

Hemmerle earrings sapphires, demantoids, zircons, bronze and white gold © Hemmerle.   Hemmerle earrings spinels, tourmalines, white gold and silver © Hemmerle. Tefaf 2017 Maastricht. Stand 141

Lot 507. A pair of blue and white 'bats and shou' dishes, Qianlong seal marks and period (1736-1795). Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's. each painted in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue to the interior with a central shou roundel, surrounded by five bats each grasping a beribboned wan symbol, bordered by a band of pendent ruyi heads below the rim, the exterior with leafy lotus sprays divided by bats suspending beribboned chimes, the base with a six-character... [Lire la suite]

Lot 506. A pair of blue and white 'dragon' bowls, Qianlong seal marks and period (1736-1795). Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. each with deep rounded sides supported by a slightly curved foot, the exterior painted with a pair of Ming-style dragons amidst ruyi clouds beneath a double-line band at the rim, the interior centered by a double-line roundel encircling a similar dragon, the base with a six-character seal mark (2). Diameter 5 3/4  in., 14.75 cm ... [Lire la suite]

Hemmerle earrings, sapphires, micromosaic, copper, rosé gold from the Egyptian Story project © Hemmerle. Inspiration: Detail of ‘Stela of Djemi’ from the First Intermediate Period and the early 11th Dynasty, ca. 2120–2030 BC from Egypt, probably from Southern Upper Egypt, Gebelein (Krokodilopolis) © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Tefaf 2017 Maastricht. Stand 141 Hemmerle earrings, diamonds, jade, white gold and copper © Hemmerle. Inspiration: detail of Kano Sansetsu’s ‘Old Plum’, 1646, one of four... [Lire la suite]