21 décembre 2017

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain groups of Middle Eastern merchants seated astride standing Buddhist lions, Early Kangxi, circa 1680; 6 7/8 inches, 17.5 cm high. Price on request. © Marchant. each with open mouth and upright tail, the merchants wearing peeked striped caps with detailed hair-work to their faces, and wearing harlequin style jackets, the yellow-ground lions with moulded trappings, a bell and flames to their bodies all on openwork rectangular shaped stands with chamfered... [Lire la suite]

Chinese famille  noire biscuit porcelain hexagonal openwork teapot and cover, Early Kangxi, circa 1680; 5 7/8 inches, 15 cm total height, 6 1/8 inches, 15.5 cm handle to spout. Price on request. © Marchant. the reticulated body modelled with six panels of the ‘Three Friends of Winter’, sanyou, pine, prunus and bamboo above a moulded band of lotus petals beneath a flower head band in iron-red and gilt on a continuous scrolling green branch at the shoulder, with ruyi-head, hexagonal diaper and cash on... [Lire la suite]

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain square trays, Early Kangxi period, circa 1680; 5 ¼ inches, 13.3 cm diameter. Price on request. © Marchant. each with flat rims, painted with a standing phoenix bird on rockwork amongst peony and magnolia, one with a lingzhi branch the other with an insect in flight, the undersides with four different branches of flowers including prunus and camellia. The bases with four-character marks of Yu hai tang zhi, ‘made for the Hall of the Jade Sea’ in black... [Lire la suite]

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain water dropper, shuizhu, Early Kangxi period, circa 1680; 5 ¾ inches, 14.6 cm long. Price on request. © Marchant. of a recumbent piebald horse on a green glazed leaf-form base, with head turned to the side beneath its long flowing segmented mane and forelock falling between the pricked ears, the front legs bent as if about to stand, covered on the body with dark brown enamel patches on a pale cream translucent ground, the back with open oval aperture, the tail and mane... [Lire la suite]

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain ‘piggyback’ group, Early Kangxi period, circa 1680; 8 7/8 inches, 22.6 cm high. Price on request. © Marchant. modelled as a standing smiling young man wearing long yellow ground floral robes and the official badge of a first-grade civil mandarin beneath three button tied clasps carrying a younger boy on his back who wears an aubergine ground flower head jacket, the base unglazed. Condition: 2 fingers of right hand of boy restored, top knot repair. ... [Lire la suite]

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain large models of seated Buddhist lions on openwork rectangular stands, Early Kangxi period, circa 1680; 14 inches, 35.7 cm high. Price on request. © Marchant. the male with a reticulated ball of cash-pattern simulating a brocade ball under his front left raised paw, the female with a cub climbing up her front raised right paw, each covered on the body in a translucent pale green glaze with relief hairwork to the mane and spine heightened in dark green and blue... [Lire la suite]

Chinese porcelain famille  verte dish, Early Kangxi period, circa 1680; 15 3/8 inches, 39 cm diameter. Price on request. © Marchant. with gently flared rim, painted with a bearded figure with bulging eyes wearing cloud scroll robes, being sent away by an official in front of a further standing dignitary on a palace terrace, all amongst fencing with faux marble and two attendants, one holding a large fan, with plantain in the background, the underside with viewing pavilions amongst rockwork. The base... [Lire la suite]

Chinese porcelain famille  verte  rouleau vase, Kangxi period, circa 1680; 18 1/8 inches, 46 cm high. Price on request. © Marchant. with high shoulder, cylindrical ribbed neck and galleried rim, painted on the body in a continuous scene with the Tang Dynasty General Guo Ziyi, celebrating his sixtieth birthday amongst his family, including eleven boys, young men, two young girls and other scholars, dignitaries and attendants with one boy seated at a table in an iron red chair pretending to paint... [Lire la suite]

  PARIS.- – La vente de la collection d’Eleanor Post Close (1909-2006) et de son fils, Antal Post de Bekessy (1943-2015) s’est conclue ce soir sur un montant total de 7 139 047 € (8 466 553 $), bien au-dessus des estimations (estimation: 3,9 – 5,9 millions €). Au cours des deux derniers jours, plus de 1000 collectionneurs, marchands, et institutions du monde entier ont participé à cette vente exceptionnelle qui rendait hommage à l’œil et au goût exquis de cette dynastie de collectionneurs. 94 % des lots ont trouvé preneur... [Lire la suite]