17 juillet 2019

Lot 169. An Art Deco multi-gem and diamond clip brooch, Cartier. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 81,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Designed as a maharaja, agate, bloodstone, carnelian, circular cabochon turquoise, circular, single and rose-cut diamonds, single-cut rubies and green gemstones, 18k gold and platinum (French marks), silver, 2 7/8 ins., 1937, signed Cartier, Paris, no. -079 (partially indistinct). Provenance: Daisy Fellowes... [Lire la suite]

Lot 329. A carved emerald bead, ruby and diamond ring. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 81,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Carved emerald bead, circular cabochon rubies, circular-cut diamonds, white gold, ring size 7. Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

Lot 212. A carved emerald, a drop-shaped emerald and gold pins, 3 1/8 and 2 3/8 ins. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 81,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Provenance: Nizams of Hyderabad. Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

Lot 72. A diamond-set gold and emerald huqqa mouthpiece, India, circa 1920;4 ins. (10 cm.) long. Estimate USD 70,000 - USD 100,000. Price realised USD 87,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Provenance: Nizams of Hyderabad. Note: This example illustrates the influence of European jewelry designs and techniques in 20th century Indian gem set objects. Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

Lot 186. An equestrian portrait of Aurangzeb, Mughal India, circa 1700. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, backed on cream card. Folio 11 3/8 x 8 ins. (28.7 x 20.4 cm.). Estimate USD 50,000 - USD 70,000. Price realised USD 87,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Provenance: Sir John Murray MacGregor, with Simon Ray, 2016. Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

Lot 11. A folio from the de Luynes album, Mughal India, Recto attributable to Hiranand circa 1600. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, recto depicting a mounted prince hawking, verso a court scene with jesters after a European print, within colored borders on cream album leaf. Recto painting 12 7/8 x 8 ¼ ins. (31.5 x 21 cm.); verso painting 7 1/8 x 4 ½ ins. (18 x 11.5 cm.); folio 18 1/8 x 12 5/8 ins. (46 x 32 cm.). Estimate USD 40,000 - USD 60,000. Price realised USD 90,000. © Christie's... [Lire la suite]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Head of a Young Man (Tête de jeune homme), 1923. Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 241/2 x 185/8 in. (62.2 x 47.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. BROOKLYN, NY.- Showcasing the breadth of the Brooklyn Museum's exceptional works on paper collection, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper highlights more than one hundred European... [Lire la suite]

Lot 492. A pair of huanghuali continous yokeback armchairs (nanguanmaoyi), Ming dynasty, 17th century. Height 45 1/4 in., 115 cm; Width 23 in., 63.5 cm; Depth 19 in., 48 cm. Estimate: 80,000 — 120,000 USD. Lot sold 137,000 USD. © Sotheby's each with an elegantly shaped crestrail supported by shaped spandrels, above a bowed, wide splat, with gently curving arms continuing, supported on S-curve supports, to join the recessed frontal stile, with a hard cane seat, the legs... [Lire la suite]

Lot 491. A painted and incised red lacquer recessed-leg table, Ming dynasty, 17th century. Height 32 1/8  in., 81.6 cm; Width 74 1/4  in., 188.6 cm; Depth 18 1/2  in., 47 cm. Estimate: 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 161,000 USD. © Sotheby's the long rectangular top painted and incised with a reserve of a pair of confronting dragons with flaming pearls, centered by a beribboned basket flanked by rolling waves below and stylized clouds above, all against an iron-red... [Lire la suite]

Lot 465. A pair of huanghuali simulated bamboo armchairs (nanguanmaoyi), 17th-18th century. Height 42 in., 107 cm; Width 20 3/4  in., 52.7 cm; Depth 16 1/2  in., 42 cm. Estimate: 120,000 — 180,000 USD. Lot sold 197,000 USD. © Sotheby's each with members simulating bamboo sections, the cylindrical crestrail, surmounting a rectangular bowed splat comprised of three sections, the upper carved with a ruyi medallion within a 'bamboo' frame, continuing to... [Lire la suite]