2 août 2018

Lot 861. A Cizhou carved bean-shaped pillow, Song-Jin dynasty, 11th-12th century; 10 ¾ in. (27.5 cm.) wide. Estimate $20,000 - $3,000. Price Realized $17,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The top carved through the white slip with a large blossoming peony stem reserved on a finely mottled brown ground within a line border, all under a clear glaze. Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH PART IV - CHINESE WORKS OF ART: METALWORK, SCULPTURE AND EARLY CERAMICS, 20 March... [Lire la suite]

Lot 859. A Cizhou carved bowl, Jin-Yuan dynasty (1115-1368); 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000. Price Realized $7,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The bowl with rounded sides rising to a lipped rim, the interior well carved through the white slip with a large leafy, lotus stem bearing one blossom reserved on a combed ground below a line border, all under a clear glaze. Provenance: The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, acquired in Hong Kong, 1986. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 863. A Cizhou inscribed pillow, Jin dynasty, 12th century; 10 1/8 in. (25.5 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 47,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 With tall sides, the canted top painted in brown on white slip with a thirteen-character inscription that may be translated, 'The pure breeze wakens me from drunkenness. The dream is broken and the window is filled with a fading moon', within a double line border, all under a clear glaze. Provenance: The Collection of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 864. A Cizhou-type carved ovoid bottle, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); 16 5/8 in. (42.3 cm.) high. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000. Price Realized $6,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The slender, tapering body lightly carved through the white slip with a band of flowers and foliage between a floral scroll on the shoulder and a band of lappets around the foot, all reserved on a ground of 'fish roe’ and covered in a thin ivory glaze. Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH PART IV - CHINESE... [Lire la suite]

Lot 858. A Cizhou brown-painted globular jar, Jin-Yuan dynasty, 12th-14th century; 6 ¾ in. (16.5 cm.) high. Estimate $7,000 - $9,000. Price Realized $8,750. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The tall, tapering ovoid body covered with a white slip painted in brown with a horizontal calligraphic panel between two bands fluidly decorated with flowers, all under a clear glaze, box The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH PART IV - CHINESE... [Lire la suite]

Lot 841. A Shufu molded deep bowl, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); 8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 2,500 - USD 3,500. Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The center of the interior molded with a flower head below a band of peony scroll bearing two blossoms alternating with two phoenixes, below a narrow key-fret border, covered inside and out with a glaze of pale blue tone. The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD... [Lire la suite]

Lot 862. A Cizhou painted tapering jar, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); 7 in. (18 cm.) high. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price realised USD 7,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The upper body covered on the exterior with a white slip painted in brown with three prunus sprays pendent from a band of petals below the rim, all under a clear glaze above the unglazed, tall, cylindrical lower body, the interior covered with an olive-brown glaze. The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York ... [Lire la suite]

Flemish and Northern Schools rooms. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado MADRID.- The new installation presented was first envisaged in the Redesign of the Collections of the Museo del Prado Plan, known as the “2009-2012 Action Plan”. It has been implemented through the Museum’s subsequent four-year plans and aims at making full use of all the existing galleries in the Villanueva Building. Following the completion in 2007 of the extension to the Museo del Prado around the Jerónimos Cloister, which resulted in a... [Lire la suite]