8 août 2017

Lot 1561. A rare pair of fahua weiqi boxes and covers, Ming dynasty, 16th century, 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 9,375 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 Each bulbous jar is molded on the exterior as six petals covered in a purplish-blue glaze and applied with turquoise-glazed beaded garlands suspended from monster masks on the shoulder below a lobed collar with inner bead border encircling the mouth. The similarly glazed cover is surmounted by a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1563. A Longquan celadon tripod bulb bowl, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century, 12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 6,250 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The compressed body is raised on three curved mask supports and carved around the sides with the Eight Trigrams (bagua) between bands of bosses. The whole is covered in a glaze of rich sea-green color, revealing the burnt-red body in the center decorated with a molded flower medallion, wood stand.  ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1560. A small Longquan celadon jar and cover, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) high. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price realised USD 1,875 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The jar has a compressed globular body and the cover is molded with a central blossom. Both are covered with a glaze of blue-green ton, box.  Note: The same characters, jinyu mantang, are carved in the petals of a flower head in the center of a Longuan celadon bowl, dated 15th century, sold at... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1559. A Longquan celadon carved jar, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 23,750 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The rounded sides are carved as petals bound by a bowstring band, and the bowl is covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green color that continues over the foot and onto the base to the edge of an unglazed circle burnt brick-red in the firing, wood cover with jade finial.  Note: The same... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1552. A Longquan celadon petal-carved bowl, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), 5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 6,250 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The rounded sides are carved as petals bound by a bowstring band, and the bowl is covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green color that continues over the foot and onto the base to the edge of an unglazed circle burnt brick-red in the firing.  Provenance: Uraganu Sokya Do Co. Ltd, Japan, 2007. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1551. An unusual small Longquan celadon censer and cover, Ming dynasty, 16th century; 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 23,750 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The square censer is decorated on the sides with floral sprigs and is supported on the shoulders of four kneeling human figures, raised on an integral openwork base. The cover is surmounted by a Buddhist lion seated with its left paw resting on a beribboned brocade ball. The whole is covered in a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1550. A Longquan celadon shrine of the South Sea Guanyin, Early Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century, 10 in. (25.4 cm.) high. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 10,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The figure of Guanyin is left in the biscuit and shown seated on a cloth-draped ledge within a grotto framed by vertical outcroppings of rocks and scrolling clouds that rise towards further clouds and the moon above, while two acolytes are shown standing below.  Note : The South Sea Guanyin is a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1547. A fine early Ming Longquan celadon carved deep bowl, Yongle period (1403-1425), 8 3/8 in. (21.4 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 25,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The bowl has deep rounded sides carved on the exterior with chrysanthemum, lotus and peony blossoms between borders of classic scroll and lotus petals, and the interior is carved with a dense floral scroll comprised of the same flowers surrounding a branch bearing two peaches in a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1535. A large Longquan celadon carved dish, Ming dynasty, 15th century, 18 5/8 in. (47 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 8,125 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The dish is thickly potted with shallow rounded sides, and is carved in the interior with flowering tree peony within a barbed petal panel, below a band of undulating peony scroll in the well, all under a glaze of olive-green tone that continues over the foot rim to an unglazed ring on the base... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1513. A large blue and white bowl, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th centuy, 14 in. (35.6 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 7,000 - USD 9,000. Price realised USD 7,500 © Christie's Images Ltd 2016 The exterior of the vessel is painted with a continuous riverscape including numerous pavilions, pagodas and sampans, with a similar riverscape in a medallion in the center of the interior and in a border below the rim.  Provenance: Dr. Ralph C. Marcove (1929-2001) Collection, New York. ... [Lire la suite]