12 février 2020

Lot 1792. A reverse-decorated coral-ground bowl, Daoguang seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1821-1850); 5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  With deep sides flaring slightly towards the rim, the exterior decorated with a pattern of conjoined leafy tendrils forming arabesques that enclose peony blossoms above and lotus blossoms below, all in white and finely penciled coral reserved on a deep... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1791. A copper-red-glazed meiping, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 12½ in. (31.8 cm.) high. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 68,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  The exterior covered with a glaze of liver-red color shading to a pinker tone above the foot, stand. Provenance: Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 16 May 1977, lot 177. Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 53. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3665. Teng Pu-chun, Beyond the rock, signed Pu Jun, Titled Bie You Dong Tian, dated 2014.2, inscribed and with two seals of the artist, ink and color on paper, framed, 218.5 by 98 cm., 86 by 38 1/2  in. Estimate 350,000 — 450,000 HKD. Lot sold 525,000  HKD. Photo Sotheby's. Provenance: Michael Hemsley collection. Sotheby's. Contemporary Literati — A Gathering, Hong Kong, 07 april 2014

Lot 1789. An unusual yellow-ground blue and white mantou bowl, 17th-18th century; 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 20,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  With rounded sides rising from the countersunk base, the domed center of the interior painted with a quatrefoil motif encircled by a border of florets, below a band of conjoined and trefoils and a band of foliate scroll pendent from the rim, the exterior with a band of petals between borders... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1788. An unusual green-glazed blue and white bowl, Chongzhen two-character mark in iron-red and of the period (1628-1644); 5¾ in. (14.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price realised USD 21,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  The deep rounded sides painted in pale underglaze blue on the exterior with four flame-bordered roundels enclosing the characters fu lu wan nian (blessings and emoluments for ten thousand years) surrounded by continuous foliate meander,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1787. An unusual small 'silvered' bowl, Qianlong minyao mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795); 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price realised USD 4,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  The deep rounded sides rising from the small foot to the everted rim, the exterior covered in oxidized silver below the brown-washed rim, the interior white, wood stand. Provenance: K.W. Woollcombe-Boyce Collection.Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 2 December... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1786. A pale café-au-lait-glazed ogee-form bowl, Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795); 8½ in. (21 cm.) high. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 11,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  The exterior covered in a pale yellowish-beige color in contrast to the white interior, wood stand. Provenance: Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 1-2 December 1977, lot 499.Greenwald Collection no. 52. Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The... [Lire la suite]

David Hockney's breath-taking The Splash sold for £23,117,000/ $29,820,930 / €27,509,230 (est. £20-30 million) – the third highest price for the artist. Executed in 1966, the landmark pool painting first appeared at auction in Sotheby’s London salesroom in 1973, and again in 2006 when it sold for £2.9 million / $5.4 million – a record price for Hockney at the time. Courtesy Sotheby's.  LONDON.- Seminal pop art painting "The Splash" by David Hockey sold for £23.1 million ($29.8 million) at a London auction on Tuesday, the... [Lire la suite]