décembre 2021

Lot 5015. A superb Henan russet-splashed blacked-glazed 'partridge feather' temmoku bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 12.1 cm. Lot sold: 403,200 HKD (Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Provenance: Collection of Stephen Junkunc III. An American private collection. Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 180. Collection of Mr and Mrs James E. Breece III Christie's New York, 18th September 2003, lot 251. Collection of Peter Scheinman... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5015. A Dingyao lobed cup, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 8.2 cm. Lot sold: 81,900 HKD (Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Provenance: An old Filipino private collection. Sotheby's. Echoes of Fragrance – Evolution of Tea Culture from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 16 December 2021

Lot 5014. A Jizhou russet-splashed black tea bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 12.1 cm, Japanese wood box. Lot sold: 56,700 HKD (Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Cup d. 7.4 cm. Cupstand 13.1 cm.  Note: For a pair of closely related cups and cupstands from the Meiyintang collection, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. I, p. 317, no. 592.. Sotheby's. Echoes of Fragrance –... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5012. A qingbai cup and cupstand, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 13.5 cm. Lot sold: 37,800 HKD (Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Cup d. 7.4 cm. Cupstand 13.1 cm.  Note: For a pair of closely related cups and cupstands from the Meiyintang collection, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. I, p. 317, no. 592.. Sotheby's. Echoes of Fragrance – Evolution of Tea Culture from the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5011. A superb Cizhou marbled clay bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 13.5 cm. Lot sold: 327,600 HKD (Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Provenance: An old Filipino private collection. Sotheby's. Echoes of Fragrance – Evolution of Tea Culture from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 16 December 2021

Lot 5010. A Yue celadon-glazed tea bowl, Tang-Five dynastie (618-960); 14.9 cm, Japanese wood box. Lot sold: 50,400 HKD (Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Provenance: Mayuyama & Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan. Note: Such Yue celadon tea bowls of this type are usually conical in shape, with a bi-disc form shaped foot. It was noted in Luk Yu's Cha Jing (Classic of Tea) that 'Bowls produced from Yue Zhou ranked high', and 'The celadon of the Yue stoneware contrasts... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 5009. An engraved silver tea caddy and cover, Late Tang dynasty (618-907); 6.8 cm. Lot sold: 119,700 HKD (Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 the base inscribed with an inscription reading Xuan Hui jiufang Yu zi hao. Provenance: Antique Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. An American private collection. Note: Compare a silver bowl engraved with a similar mark, excavated from Beiyin village in Liulin city, Yaozhou district, Shaanxi in 1985, which is now... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 5008. A silver 'goose' tea spoon, Tang dynasty (618-907); 28.3 cm. Lot sold: 60,480 HKD (Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Provenance: Ben Janssens, London, 2015..  Note: Tea spoons were originally used as utensils to measure and transfer powdered-form tea from the tea brazier to a tea bowl. During the early period of diancha (tea whisking) culture, the tea spoon gradually became a utensil to whisk foam on tea. Cai Xiang’s Cha Lu (The Record... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5004. A rare green-glazed tea mortar, Tang - Five dynasties (618-960). 27 cm. Lot sold: 25,200 HKD (Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2021 Note: In the Tang dynasty, fresh tea leaves were first steamed, then ground in a special mortar, later compressed into cakes and strung with reed or bamboo to dry. To brew the tea, the cake broken and ground into a fine powder, sifted, and boiled. A full set of gilt-silver teawares excavated from Famen... [Lire la suite]