13 avril 2021

Lot 279: Surya, Inde, ca 10°-12° siècle. Grès. 54 x 46 cm. Est: €3,000 - €5,000. Sold: 4,500  €. Courtesy Cornette de Saint Cyr. Partie supérieure d’une grande stèle figurant le dieu solaire identifiable aux lotus maintenus au-dessus de ses épaules. De part et d’autre de la divinité sont encore visibles les vyalas adossés aux colonnes du dosseret supportant des makaras qui soutiennent des divinités secondaires sur leurs trompes. Au-dessus du nimbe lotiforme sont représentés des couples de divinités... [Lire la suite]

Lot 510. Vase de forme Hu, Chine, Dynastie Qing, ca 19° siècle. Laque rouge sculptée. H. 32 cm. Est: €800 - €1,500. Sold: €4800. Courtesy Cornette de Saint Cyr. La surface est richement décorée de pivoines dans les feuillages enserrant des cartouches présentant des paysages dans lesquels se déplacent des personnages, probablement des immortels. Deux masques de lions forment anses de part et d‘autre du col. Provenance : Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes (Paris) (Inv.17936 Acquis à Londres en 1958). Cornette de... [Lire la suite]

Lot 114: Armoire, Chine, ca 19° siècle. Hongmu, 190,5 x 126 x 57 cm. Est: €3,000 - €5,000. Sold: €4,500. Courtesy Cornette de Saint Cyr. Les deux portes et la traverse inférieure sont richement sculptées de motifs de fleurs et de feuillages. Le système de fermeture, les charnières et les sabots des pieds sont en laiton. Deux tiroirs sont disposés sous une étagère à l’intérieur. Provenance : Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes (Paris) (Inv.22913 Acquise en 1983). Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Collections de la... [Lire la suite]

Lot 95. A pair of Iznik pottery tiles, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1570. Each 9 ½ x 9 ½in. (24.5 x 24.5cm.). Estimate: GBP 18,000 - GBP 24,000. Sold for: GBP 21,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021. The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and turquoise with two saz leaves overlaid with tulips surrounded by flowering prunus blossoms, beneath a red cartouche with tulips, similar partial cartouches in the lower corners, blue part palmettes in the upper corners. Provenance: Ader Picard... [Lire la suite]

Lot 93. An Iznik pottery dish, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1580; 11 7/8in. (30cm.) diam. Estimate: GBP 30,000 - GBP 50,000. Sold for: GBP 37,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021. The white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red and turquoise with a central roundel containing stylised animals surrounded by radiating lobed panels, a border of overlapping cusped motifs, the exterior plain. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1989, lot 144. Note: This Iznik dish belongs to a group of vessels produced in the second... [Lire la suite]

Lot 92. An Iznik pottery dish, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1590; 12in. (30.6cm.) diam. Estimate: GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000. Sold for: GBP 6,875. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021. The interior decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red, turquoise and black on white ground with a central radiating rosette within a cloud surrounded by scrolls, within repeated overlapping lobed motif borders, the underside plain, losses to glaze around the rim, intact. Provenance: Anon. sale in these Rooms, 14 October 2003, lot 71. Note: Iznik dishes with... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 91. An Iznik pottery dish, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1590; 10 ½in. (26.7cm.) diam. Estimate: GBP 12,000 - GBP 16,000. Sold for: GBP 50,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021. The white ground decorated in green, bole-red and cobalt-blue with a central radiating roundel, within a green border with a meandering tendril issuing stylised leaves, the exterior with alternating green and blue floral motifs, minor chips to the rim, intact. Christie's. Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs... [Lire la suite]

Lot 80. A monumental Iznik calligraphic tile, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1565; 12 3/8 x 21 5/8in. (31.4 x 55cm.). Estimate: GBP 150,000 - GBP 200,000. Sold for: GBP 325,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021. Forming part of a large inscription panel, the white ground decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red and turquoise, with a flowing nasta'liq inscription surrounded by arabesque flourishes, one side with two cobalt-ground spandrels decorated with red arabesque, intact. Provenance: Boghos Ispenian family... [Lire la suite]

Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 2001. Oil on Dibond. 50 x 72 cm / 19.1 x 28.3 inches. Estimate: € 600.000-800.000 / US$ 690,000-920,000. Courtesy Ketterer Kunst MUNICH.- Mission accomplished. Gerhard Richter has completed his pictorial œuvre at the age of 89. His paintings made in squeegee technique mark the peak of his creation. A particularly fine example of these internationally sought-after works will be called up in the Ketterer Kunst auction in Munich on June 18/19 with an estimate of €... [Lire la suite]

Lot 147. A Ming-style blue and white bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Height 14 ⅝ in., 37 cm. Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD. Lot sold: 69,300 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. the globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall elegant waisted neck, finely painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a composite flower scroll band, all between lotus lappet and 'classic' scroll bands at the base and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the neck... [Lire la suite]