6 juin 2020

Lot 3166. A miniature blue and white 'melon' jar, 18th-19th century; 2 ½ in. (6.3 cm.) high. Estimate $3,000 – $5,000 . Price realised $6,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The tapering body is divided into six lobes, each decorated in shades of cobalt blue with fruiting melon vines below the short waisted neck. The recessed foot is of conforming outline. Provenance: Reverend Isaac Taylor Headland Collection (1859-1942), and thence by descent within in the family. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3165. A blue and white Ming-style bottle vase, Daoguang seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1821-1850); 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm.) high. Estimate $12,000 – $18,000 . Price realised $93,750. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The vase is decorated in fifteenth-century style with a broad band of composite foliate scroll above a petal-lappet band on the globular body, and bands of pendent ruyi heads and further foliate scroll on the shoulder, all separated by plain rib... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3155. A wucai 'dragon and phoenix' bowl, Daoguang six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1821-1850); 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised USD 32,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The bowl has deep, rounded sides flaring slightly to the rim, and the exterior is painted with two phoenixes descending between green and iron-red dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flower sprigs, below a band of Buddhist Emblems alternating... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3163. A green-glazed 'dragon' dish and a yellow-glazed incised 'dragon' dish, Daoguang six-character seal marks in underglaze blue and of the period (1821-1850); 7 and 6 ¾ in. (17.7 and 17.1 cm.) diam. Estimate USD20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 Each dish is decorated on the interior with a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl, and on the exterior with two further dragons at a similar pursuit. On the first dish the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3159. A green-enamelled 'dragon' jar and cover, Jiaqing six-character seal mark in underglazed blue and of the period (1795-1820); 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high. Estimate $20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised 60,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015 The ovoid body is decorated with two five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst clouds between a petal-lappet band below and a ruyi border and the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) on the shoulder above. Another dragon chasing a flaming... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3157. A pair of blue and white iron-red-ground 'palace' bowls, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 25,000. © Christie’s Image Ltd 2015 Each bowl has deep, rounded sides and is decorated on the exterior with five camellia blossoms borne on a leafy undulating stem, and on the interior with a central medallion of a stylized camellia spray, all in blue and white against an iron-red ground of deep color below the... [Lire la suite]

Ren Hang, Untitled, 2015. Courtesy OstLicht Gallery and Ren Hang Estate. PRATO.- One of the first new projects to go on show in an Italian museum after the closure brought about by the health emergency runs from 4 June to 23 August 2020 at the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, which is exhibiting for the first time in Italy a corpus of works by the acclaimed Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang (1987- 2017), who tragically died before turning thirty.Curated by Cristiana Perrella, the exhibition... [Lire la suite]