1 mai 2021

Lot 7. A rare Jizhou lobed tortoise-shell bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279); 11.2 cm. Estimate: 260,000 - 350,000 HKD. Lot sold: 327,600 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. with rounded sides gently divided into six lobes and raised on a short foot, liberally decorated overall with variegated brownish-beige splashes and mottles against a dark ground mimicking tortoise-shell, the glaze stopping neatly above the unglazed foot. Provenance : Zetterquist Galleries, New York. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 6. A yellow jade 'dragon' pendant, heng, Warring States Period (475–221 BC); 11.8 cm. Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 HKD. Lot sold: 302,400 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. of flat arc form with each end worked to depict a dragon's head, each flat side worked with raised bosses, pierced through at the centre for suspension, the stone of a warm yellowish-beige colour with russet patches. Property from the Kuan Yi Ju Collection. Exhibited: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, c. 2005 (label). ... [Lire la suite]

Edgar Degas, Danseuse rose, circa 1896, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021 LONDON.- Edgar Degas’ Danseuse rose (circa 1896, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000) and Femme sortant du bain (circa 1886-88, estimate: £1,300,000-1,800,000) will feature in Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Evening Sale on 30 June 2021. Together, they represent Degas’ exploration of two of the themes he found most enduring – that of the dancer at rest and the intimate gestures of a woman bathing. Through the second... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5. A superbly carved rare marble fragmentary head of Shakyamuni Buddha, Northern Qi dynasty (550-577); 27.8 cm. Estimate: 3,000,000- 5,000,000 HKD. Lot sold: 3,780,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. sensitively modelled, the benevolent face depicted with a pair of heavily-lidded downcast eyes, an elongated nose flanked by pendulous ears and delicately hemmed lips, all below evenly arched eyebrows, the hair arranged in dense rows of spiral curls rising to a faintly domed ushnisha, stand. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 4. A huanghuali kang table, kangji, Late Ming–early Qing dynasty; 101 by 64.8 by h. 30 cm. Estimate: 450,000 - 650,000 HKD. Lot sold: 604,800 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. the top set within a wide rectangular frame enclosed within a further edge, the edge of the frame moulding downward and inward to a shaped beaded-edged apron carved on each side with a pair of chilong, each cabriole leg with a mythical beast mask and corresponding claws. Note: Powerfully carved with dragons and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3. An archaic bronze ritual food vessel, gui, Early Western Zhou dynasty, 11th–10th century BC; h. 14 cm. Estimate: 1,200,000- 1,800,000 HKD. Lot sold: 2,394,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. cast with a deep 'U'-shaped body, the sides decorated with large taotie masks bisected by a vertical flange and flanked by a pair of loop handles surmounted by bovine heads and ending in hooked tabs, all supported on a tall pedestal foot decorated with a band of confronting sinewy dragons, the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 2. A black lacquer mallow-shaped dish, Song dynasty (960-1279); 21.5 cm. Estimate: 500,000 - 700,000 HKD. Lot sold: 882,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. elegantly constructed with shallow everted sides in the shape of nine overlapping mallow petals, covered overall in an attractive chocolate-brown lacquer, the base inscribed in red paint with a two-character mark, Japanese wood box. Note: With its distinctively shaped and slightly overlapping petals, the mallow flower was one of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1. A rare jade 'human-dragon' pendant, Western Zhou dynasty  (c. 1045 BC–771 BC); 9.5 cm. Estimate: 150,000 - 180,000 HKD. Lot sold: 201,600 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's. depicted in openwork as three stylised horned dragons and two humanoid heads, the coiling bodies of the beasts exquisitely picked out with scrollwork echoing the outlines of the pendant, pierced through with an aperture. Property from the Hei-Chi Collection. Literature: Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades... [Lire la suite]