3 octobre 2019

PARIS - Mellerio rend hommage aux îles Borromées, lieu emblématique de l’élégance italienne et fleuron de l’architecture baroque, mais aussi berceau de la famille Mellerio dont le village d’origine se trouve à quelques kilomètres du Lac Majeur. Après Isola Madre et Isola Bella, le nouvel opus de cette collection en trois actes célèbre « Isola dei Pescatori », la plus petite de ces îles et pourtant la seule à être réellement habitée. Le charme et l’authenticité de ce village lacustre ont inspiré à Laure-Isabelle... [Lire la suite]

Lot 916. A famille-verte 'Four Accomplishments' rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 19 in., 48.3 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 62,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. the slightly tapered body rising to a cylindrical neck and everted mouth rim, painted with a continuous scene of women in a large garden pavilion completing the 'Four Accomplishments': reading poetry, playing go, admiring Chinese paintings, and playing musical instruments, surrounded... [Lire la suite]

Lot 912. A famille-verte 'Xiwangmu' rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 17 3/4  in., 45 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Lot sold 68,750 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. the cylindrical body set over a low foot and supporting a columnar neck with a galleried rim, richly painted with Xiwangmu arriving from the left on a cloud with an assembly of female musicians and an attendant bearing a dish of peaches, a phoenix soaring nearby, the emperor seated on a tall platform awaiting... [Lire la suite]

Lot 910. A famille-verte 'birds and flowers' yenyen vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 17 3/4  in., 45 cm. Estimate 25,000 — 35,000 USD. Lot sold 32,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. the broad rounded shoulders resting on a spreading foot, surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck and trumpet mouth, all vibrantly enameled, the body with a pair of peacocks perched on rockwork amidst a lush verdant garden with chrysanthemums, coxcombs, further flowers and various insects, the neck... [Lire la suite]

Lot 906. A rare famille-verte 'landscape' brushpot, Kangxi period, dated Renchen year, corresponding to 1712. Diameter 7 1/4  in., 18.4 cm. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 56,250 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. of slightly waisted cylindrical form, the exterior  enameled to one side with a rectangular panel enclosing a scene depicting the poet Su Shi seated at a table enjoying wine under the canopy of a sampan, an oarsman at the stern guiding the boat by towering boulders and... [Lire la suite]

Chinese porcelain dated famille verte brushpot, Kangxi, 1712; 7 5/8 inches, 19.3 cm diameter. M4474. Price on application. © Marchant Chinese porcelain dated famille verte brushpot, bitong, painted with a scholar seated in the front of a fishing boat looking up at overhanging rockwork, and seated beside a tiered box with an upright handle and a wine jar, being steered by a fisherman holding the rudder, beneath long branches of overhanging pine, with a mountain range, migrating birds and the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 900.  A quadrangular famille-verte 'Landscape' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 19 in., 48.2 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750USD. © Sotheby's the stoutly potted square-section body with tapered rectangular sides supporting a waisted cylindrical neck and everted rim painted brightly with floral sprigs and butterflies, one side of the body painted with two figures conversing in a landscape, another side with dwellings situated among pine... [Lire la suite]

Lot 899. A very rare famille-verte 'dragon-carp' moonflask, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 10 1/4  in., 26 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 USD. © Sotheby's elegantly potted with a flattened spherical body rising to a waisted neck and a pear-shaped upper bulb, set with two strap handles each accentuated by a central raised ridge and a leaf-shaped terminal, the convex circular sides each painted with a carp leaping from the turbulent... [Lire la suite]

Lot 892. A pair of wucai 'hundred boys' jars and covers, 17th century. Height 15 3/8  in., 40 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 10,625 USD. © Sotheby's each of baluster form rising from a flat base to a slightly waisted neck, one jar decorated with children engaged in playful activities including playing weiqi and the qin, lighting firecrackers, impersonating officials, and riding a wooden horse, the other depicting children enjoying... [Lire la suite]

Lot 891. A wucai 'figural' jar and a cover, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644-1661). Height 11 3/4  in., 31 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 10,000 USD. © Sotheby's of ovoid form, surmounted by a short straight neck, enameled with a scholar meeting an official in a misty balustraded terrace, accompanied by attendants, all surrounded by lush greenery, craggy rocks, and suggestions of neighboring walls and houses obscured by the mist, inscribed with a poem by the... [Lire la suite]