12 juillet 2019

Lot 80. A serpentine and rock-crystal hilted dagger, North India, probably  Helps 19th century; blade India or Iran, dated AH 1198 / 1783-84 AD; 18 ¾ ins. (47.5 cm.) long; 2 ½ ins. (6.5 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000. Price realised USD 125,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019  Watered-steel blade, rain guard signed and dated. Literature: Hales 2013, p.27, no.67. Exhibited: Grand Palais, Paris 2017, p.131, no.101The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p.156, no.102The... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 159. A blue and white archaistic vase, Qing dynasty, 18th century. Height 14 3/4  in., 37.4 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 10,000 USD. Lot sold 15,000  USD. © Sotheby's. with wide canted shoulders surmounted by a trumpet-shaped neck with a galleried rim, painted all over in shades of underglaze blue with floral scrolls beneath a band of waves encircling the shoulders, with florets and upright plantain lappets at the neck and flanked by a pair of dragon handles, the rim... [Lire la suite]

Paul Gauguin, French, 1848–1903; Reclining Tahitian Women, or The Amusement of the Evil Spirit (Arearea no varua ino), 1894; oil on canvas; 23 5/8 x 38 9/16 inches; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen MIN 1832. ST. LOUIS—Best known as a painter, Paul Gauguin was an inventive and versatile artist who also created woodcarvings, ceramics and prints. This summer, the Saint Louis Art Museum will celebrate the range of Gauguin’s artistic output from his early Impressionist paintings to his iconic works from Brittany and Tahiti to his... [Lire la suite]

Lot 157. A large blue and white 'figural' bowl, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Diameter 9 1/8  in., 24.4 cm.Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 15,000  USD. © Sotheby's. with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, finely painted around the exterior with two large rectangular panels, one enclosing a scene of figures working with textiles, the other with farmers in fields, the interior painted with a central medallion enclosing bamboo issuing from... [Lire la suite]

Lot 150. Two blue and white rosewater sprinklers, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height of taller 9 1/2 in., 24 cm. Estimate 600 — 800 USD. Lot sold 3,125  USD. © Sotheby's. made for the Islamic market, each of typical pear shape raised on a high foot and with elongated neck, the larger painted with four stylized foliate medallions between narrow café-au-lait and foliate bands; the other painted around the body with 'Hundred Antiques' and on the neck... [Lire la suite]

Lot 149. A rare and unusual underglaze-blue and copper-red 'Squirrel and grapevine' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 17 in., 43 cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 USD. Lot sold 12,500 USD. © Sotheby's. of attenuated baluster form, finely painted with two leafy grapevines with spreading branches laden with ripe fruit highlighted in copper red, lively squirrels clinging to the branches amid the curling tendrils, all beneath two leafy and fruit-laden vine sections... [Lire la suite]

Lot 147. A blue and white 'Four accomplishments' baluster vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 17 1/2  in., 44.5 cm. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 50,000 USD. © Sotheby's. of elegant baluster form with galleried rim and ribbed neck, well-painted with a continuous scene of scholars gathering to learn and master the gentlemanly arts of the game of weiqi, playing the qin, calligraphy and painting all in an outdoor setting replete with... [Lire la suite]

Lot 146. A blue and white pear-shaped 'Lotus' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 16 5/8  in., 42.2 cm. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot sold 10,000 USD. © Sotheby's. raised on a high pedestal with a flaring foot and rising to a galleried rim, painted all around the body with scrolling lotus flowers all above petal lappets between a geometric border around the foot and below the rim, the base with double circles in underglaze blue. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 145. An unusual blue and white vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 14 7/8  in., 37.7 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 10,000 USD. Lot sold 8,125 USD. © Sotheby's. with a compressed globular body painted allover with blossoming lotus scrolls, continuing on the neck and interrupted by a raised collar, with a band of scrolls around the rim, apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue. Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York, 19... [Lire la suite]

Lot 144. A penciled blue and white 'Lotus' small vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 7 1/4  in., 18.4 cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 USD. Lot sold 6,250 USD. © Sotheby's. the globular body rising from a short foot and surmounted by a tall neck, painted delicately around the body and halfway up the neck with scrolling foliage, the long stems terminating in lotus blossoms, the neck with a collar of upright stems above a narrow band of interlocking whorls,... [Lire la suite]