22 septembre 2022

Lot 314. A 'Jian' 'hare's fur' 'tenmoku' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Diameter 4⅞ in., 12.3 cm, metal-bound rim, Japanese wood box (3). Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD. Unsold. © Sotheby's 2022 Property from a Japanese Private Collection. Note: The humble appearance of tea bowls produced at the Jian kilns in Fujian province made them appropriate for use in Buddhist temples. Dramatically contrasting with the white foam of whipped tea, these lustrous black-glazed tea bowls soon gained... [Lire la suite]

Lot 313. A rare 'Jizhou' 'leaf' bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Diameter 4¼ in., 10.8 cm. Japanese wood box (3). Estimate: 12,000 - 15,000 USD. Lot sold: 81,900 USD. © Sotheby's 2022 Property from an Important American Private Collection. Provenance: Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999).Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18th November 1986, lot 13.China House of Arts, New York. Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 21 september 2022 

Lot 312. An iron-brown-decorated teadust-glazed vase, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Height 7⅞ in., 20.1 cm. Estimate: 8,000 - 15,000 USD. Lot sold: 6,300 USD. © Sotheby's 2022 Property from an Important American Private Collection. Provenance: Sotheby's London, 9th June 1987, lot 164. Collection of Robert E. Barron III (1930-2007), coll. no. 40. Christie's New York, 30th March 2005, lot 301. Exhibited: Heaven and Earth Seen Within. Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New... [Lire la suite]

Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, “Muscles of the Back,” Plate 14 from “Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle” (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size), by Joseph Guichard Duverney (Paris: Gautier, 1746). Color mezzotint. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1968, 1968-25-79n, TL42415.2. Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Photo: Joseph Hu. See how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment... [Lire la suite]