19 avril 2022

Guo Pei at the close of her spring 2020 couture show. Photo: Francois Guillot / AFP via Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco celebrate Guo Pei’s extraordinary designs with Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 668. A painted pottery figure of a standing official, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535); Height 21 in., 53.3 cm. Lot sold: 27,720 USD (Estimate: 5,000 - 7,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Property from a New York Private Collection. The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C122a2. Provenance: China House of Arts, New York, prior to 2000. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, New York, 29 March... [Lire la suite]

Lot 667. A painted pottery figure of a standing official, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535); Height 8 in., 20.3 cm, wood stand. Lot sold: 1,008 USD (Estimate: 1,500 - 2,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Property from a Pennsylvania Private Collection. Provenance: Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York,  July 1979. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, New York, 29 March 2022  

Lot 546. A painted pottery warrior, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535); Height 14⅜ in., 36.5 cm. Lot sold: 2,268 USD (Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Speed Art Museum. The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C122c93. Provenance: Collection of Dr. Scott W. Cole. Gifted to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, in 1965 (acc. no.... [Lire la suite]

Lot 545. A painted pottery warrior, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535); Height 14¼ in., 36.2 cm. Lot sold: 1,638 USD (Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Speed Art Museum. The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C122c95. Provenance: Collection of Dr. Scott W. Cole. Gifted to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, in 1965 (acc. no. 1965.14.1). ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 314. A gray pottery figure of a caparisoned bull, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535); Height 5¾ in., 14.6 cm, wood stand, Japanese wood box. Lot sold: 15,120 USD (Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Provenance: Japanese Private Collection. Exhibited: Kaikan njyu-go shunen kinen-Chugoku Toji Yonsen-nen-ten [25th anniversary of the museum - Four thousands years history of Chinese porcelain], Fukui Prefectural Museum of Ceramics, Fukui, 1996, front cover and cat. no. 28.  ... [Lire la suite]

Persian, Feline, 19th century, bronze; cast 4 1/4 x 6 11/16 2 9/16 in. (10.8 x 17 x 6.5 cm), The Hossein Afshar Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; photo: © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Celebrating the rich artistic and cultural heritage of Persian civilization, Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands features over 100 works from the sixth to the nineteenth century drawn from the preeminent Persian art collection of Hossein Afshar. Persia refers to the historic lands in southwestern Asia... [Lire la suite]

Lot 666. A green-glazed pottery figure of a dog, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); Height 12⅞ in., 32.6 cm. Lot sold: 8,190 USD (Estimate: 800 - 1,200 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C122c99. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 4th December 1984, lot 142. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, New York, 29 March 2022

  Lot 665. Two green-glazed articles, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); Height of taller 12 in., 30.5 cm. Lot sold: 2,394 USD (Estimate: 1,000 - 2,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 comprising an earthenware model of a house and a tripod vessel and cover. The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test nos C122a3 and C122a4. Provenance: China House of Arts, New York, acquired prior to 2000. Sotheby's. China / 5000... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 644. A green-glazed vase (Hu), Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); Height 16⅞ in., 42.8 Height 14⅖ in., 37.4 cmcm. Lot sold: 3,150 USD (Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Property from a New York Private Collection. Provenance: Private Collection, acquired prior to 1997, and thence by descent. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, New York, 29 March 2022