30 janvier 2018
A fine Dehua figure of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, 18th century
Lot 107A. A fine Dehua figure of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 28 cm, 11 in. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Lot sold 62,500 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's 2017.
seated in lalitasana, wearing long flowing robes, the face with a serene downcast expression and hair ornately tied and set with jewellery, the reverse impressed with a gourd-shaped He Chaozong mark .
Provenance: Collection of Vilhelm Meyer (1878-1935). Thence by descent... [Lire la suite]30 janvier 2018
A blue and white bottle vase, circa 1640
Lot 120. A blue and white bottle vase, circa 1640; 38 cm, 15 in. Estimate 5,000 — 7,000 GBP. Lot sold 10,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's 2017
the globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall slightly waisted neck and flaring mouth, painted around the exterior in rich cobalt-blue tones with scholars seated conversing in a garden, all below a band of stylised flowers at the neck.
Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Londres, 10 mai 2017, 02:00 PM
30 janvier 2018
A diamond bracelet, by Harry Winston
Lot 129. A 70.32 carats diamond bracelet, by Harry Winston. Estimate USD 200,000 - USD 400,000. Price realised USD 319,500. © Christie’s Images Limited 2017.
Designed as a graduated series of circular-cut diamonds, within a marquise and pear-shaped diamond cluster surround, 7 1/4 ins., mounted in platinum, in a Harry Winston navy leather case and and outer box. Signed Winston for Harry Winston, no. 1216, with maker's mark.
With six pear-shaped diamonds, weighing approximately 1.83, 1.82,... [Lire la suite]30 janvier 2018
Archaic bronze sold at Sotheby's New York, 15 sept. 2010
Lot 270. A fine archaic bronze ritual food vessel, liding, Late Shang dynasty (c. 1600 BC–c. 1046 BC); height 8 1/4 in., 21 cm. Estimate 50,000 — 70,000. Lot sold 116,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's 2010
standing on three cylindrical legs with steeply rounded sides divided into three lobes, each lobe cast in raised relief with a taotie mask formed from raised bosses for eyes and hooked scrolls accented with intaglio lines reserved on a fine leiwen ground, the lipped rim with... [Lire la suite]30 janvier 2018
The Morgan explores the Medieval world's fascinating approach to the passage of time
August: Reaping Wheat, “Da Costa Hours,” Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1515, illuminated by Simon Bening, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.399, fol. 9v, purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910. Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/ Austria.
NEW YORK, NY.- Before the appearance of the clock in the West around the year 1300, medieval ideas about time were simultaneously simple and complex. Time was both finite for routine daily activities and unending for the afterlife; the day was divided into a fixed set of... [Lire la suite]