5 mars 2018

Pale Celadon Chrysanthemum Form Bowl, Trần Dynasty, 1225-1400 A.D., Vietnam. Diameter: 22cm. © Zetterquist Galleries A large stoneware bowl of fnely scalloped form sitting on a well-potted straight foot-rim. This thinly potted bowl is covered with a fnely crackled, translucent pale green glaze that thickens around the rim, deepening its color. The interior center has fve spur marks, indicating another piece was fred inside. The foot is unglazed revealing a pale stoneware body. Chip to rim. From a private Japanese... [Lire la suite]

Longquan Celadon Censer with Applied Peonies, Southern Song - Yuan Dynasty, 13th - 14th century A.D. Height: 10.2 cm. Diameter: 15.25 cm © Zetterquist Galleries A porcelaineous stoneware censer with steep-sided straight walls and a fattened mouth-rim. The piece sits on three stylized claw feet and has a foot-rim on the bottom, unglazed and revealing a pale stoneware body fred to a russet color. The exterior is decorated with applique scrolling peonies in high relief around the entire body. The piece... [Lire la suite]

Japanese wooden lion and guardian dog, dated 1315. Height: 56 cm and 60 cm. © Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art Izumi Sukeyuki, Seated Puppy, Japan, 1838-1918. Boxwood. © Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art Japanese wooden sculpture of Fudo Myo-O, 13th century. Height: 40.2 cm. © Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art Large Japanese blue and white dish with map of Japan. Edo period, 19th century. © Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art. Exhibiting... [Lire la suite]

Prajnaparamita, West Tibet, 11th century. Paper, pigments, gold, ink, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. ( cm. 19 x 26 ) folio fragment; 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( cm 9,5 x 9,5 ) illumination. © Carlo Cristi Sadaksari Avalokitesvara. Sri Lanka, Anujradhapura , 7th-8th century. Copper alloy. © Carlo Cristi Narasimha on Garuda. Stone, India, Pala period, 11th century. 17 1/2 in. (44 cm). © Carlo Cristi Vajrapani Tangka. Distemper on cotton, Tibet, 14th century. 13 x 17 1/4... [Lire la suite]

A naturalistic boxwood (huangyangmu) scholar’s object formed as a section of branch carved with two crickets, Chinese, Qing dynasty, 18th century; length, 19.8 cm / 7 3/4 in height  6.8 cm / 2 1/2 in © Nicholas Grindley A catalpa wristrest carved as a qin zither, inlaid with camel-bone roundels. Chinese, Early Qing dynasty, 19th century. Catalpa (qiumu) wood with camel bone inlay. © Nicholas Grindley An adjustable folding yokeback chair. Late Ming–early Qing dynasty, 16th–17th... [Lire la suite]

Lot 542. A rare 'Number Five' Jun tripod narcissus bowl, Yuan-Early Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century; 8 ¼ in. (20.9 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 150,000 - USD 200,000. Price realised USD 588,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 The sturdily potted bowl has a band of twenty 'nail-head' bosses applied between bow-string borders, and a further sixteen bosses above the threeruyi-form feet. The bowl is covered with a thick glaze, the interior of pale blue and lavender tone and the exterior mostly of mottled purple... [Lire la suite]

Lot 541. An extremely rare 'Number Ten' Jun rectangular jardinière, Yuan-Early Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century; 6 ¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long. Estimate USD 70,000 - USD 90,000. Price realised USD 200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 The jardinière is thickly potted with shallow sides rising to a flat, everted rim with a raised outer edge, and is supported on four cabriole legs joined by bracket-shaped aprons. The vessel is covered overall with a pale, milky blue glaze which thins to... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 540. A rare large Jun deep bowl, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234); 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 175,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 The bowl is formed with deep rounded sides rising from the short foot ring to the slightly incurved rim, and is covered inside and out with a glaze of milky, sky-blue tone thinning to mushroom at the rim, except for the foot and a circular section on the bottom of the interior which are burnt orange in... [Lire la suite]

Lot 539. A large Jun bowl, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234); 8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 The bowl is well potted with deep, rounded sides rising from a low, spreading foot to a slightly inverted rim, and is covered overall with an even glaze of pale, milky blue color thinning to a mushroom tone at the rim and stopping above the unglazed brownish-grey foot, Japanese wood box.  Christie's. The... [Lire la suite]

Lot 538. A large Jun dish, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 11 ½ in. (29.1 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000. Price realised USD 324,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 The shallow dish is well potted with rounded sides rising to the slightly inverted rim encircled on the exterior by a finger-molded band. The dish is covered overall with a pale lavender-blue glaze which thins to mushroom at the rim, and continues onto the countersunk base which has five spur marks, Japanese wood box. ... [Lire la suite]