6 octobre 2021

Lot 859. A blue and white 'landscape scroll' charger, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) diam. Estimate: USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 10,625. © Christie's 2021 The shallow dish is decorated on the interior with a handscroll depicting two scholars in a riverscape. The scroll is enclosed by two leafy branches with composite flower blossoms. The exterior is decorated with two stylized leafy sprays. Property from the Collection of James E. Breece III. Provenance: Spink... [Lire la suite]

Lot 788. A blue and white 'phoenix-tail' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) high. Estimate: USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 25,000. © Christie's 2021 The vase is decorated on the body in vibrant shades of underglaze blue with a crane in flight descending towards a stag on a rocky promontory, and a doe beneath a crane nestled in a pine tree. The neck is decorated with two further deer and two cranes within a continuous landscape scene. Sold by The Yale... [Lire la suite]

Lot 787. A blue and white 'phoenix-tail' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 18 in. (45.7 cm.) high. Estimate: USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 47,500. © Christie's 2021 The vase is decorated on the body and the neck in brilliant underglaze blue with continuous scenes of scholars and fishermen amidst rocks and pines in a riverscape. Sold by The Yale University Art Gallery for the benefit of acquisition funds Provenance: Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh (d. 1940)... [Lire la suite]

Lot 245. A blue and white 'landscape' baluster vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 18 in., 45.7 cm. Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 USD. Lot sold: 12,600 USD. © Sotheby's 2021 the slender body rising from a splayed foot to a rounded shoulder and a tall, straight neck, the body decorated with five registers of bracketed cartouches depicting various landscapes, all between chevron borders, the neck painted with a narrow band of floral sprays between two raised fillets... [Lire la suite]

Lot 241. A massive blue and white 'figural' 'soldier' vase and a cover, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 43½ in., 110.5 cm. Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 USD. Lot sold: 75,600 USD. © Sotheby's 2021 the elongated baluster body tapering towards the foot and rising to gently sloping shoulders surmounted by a waisted neck and everted rim, painted in rich cobalt-blue tones with four large rectangular panels enclosing two alternating processional and court life... [Lire la suite]

Lot 243. A blue and white 'lotus' vase, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644-1661). Height 11¾ in., 29.8 cm. Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 USD. Lot sold: 9,450 USD. © Sotheby's 2021 the ovoid body rising to broad shoulders and an elongated, slightly waisted neck, the sides boldly painted with large cobalt-blue ruyi-shaped lappets each enclosing a central lotus bloom surrounded by dense leafy scrolls all in reserve, a further lotus blossom suspended in the negative space... [Lire la suite]

Claude Monet, Au jardin, la famille de l’artiste, 1875. Estimate: $12 Million - $18 Million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021 New York – Claude Monet’s Au jardin, la famille de l’artiste, 1875 (estimate: $12 Million - $18 Million) will be a leading highlight of Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale this November in New York. Publicly exhibited only a handful of times since its creation, the painting was last seen at auction in 1984 and has remained in the same collection ever since. Au jardin, la... [Lire la suite]

Gerhard Richter (B.1932), Abstraktes Bild 747-1, 200 x 200 cm. Oil on canvas. Painted in 1991. Estimate HK$128,000,000 – 166,000,000 / US$16,500,000 – 21,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021 Hong Kong – Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art Department is proud to present a rare, museum-quality masterwork by the legendary Abstract Art titan Gerhard Richter: Abstraktes Bild 747-1, as a focal point of the 20th and 21st Century Art Evening Sale on 1 December. Executed in 1991, the iconic... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 841. A carved Longquan celadon jar, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); 12 in. (35 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box. Estimate: USD 15,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's 2021 The heavily potted jar is carved with four panels, including peony, chrysanthemum, camellia and foliate scroll, all above a band of narrow petals and below a saw-tooth band on the neck, and is covered overall with a glaze of pale sea-green tone. Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 840. A carved Longquan celadon tripod censer, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); 10 in. (25.4 cm.) across handles, reticulated silver cover, Japanese double wood box. Estimate: USD 7,000 - USD 9,000. Price realised USD 17,500. © Christie's 2021 The censer is raised on three animal-mask feet and the sides are incised with 'cash' pattern between two bands of applied florets below two rope-twist handles at the rim. The censer is covered with a thick glaze of soft sea-green color except for an area in... [Lire la suite]