octobre 2022

Vase, Cizhou ware, Jin dynasty, 12th century. Stoneware with sgraffito peony design through underglaze iron-brown slip, coated with green glaze, w17.4 x h35.0 cm. Important Art Object of Japan. The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka ; Gift of Sumitomo Group (The Ataka Collection). Photo Kazuyoshi Miyoshi  

Jar, Tang dynasty, 7th-8th century. Earthenware with applied medallions of baoxianghua under three-color glaze, w24.3 x h30.9 cm. Important Art Object of Japan. The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka ; Gift of Sumitomo Group (The Ataka Collection). Photo Kazuyoshi Miyoshi

Towered Pavilion, Eastern Han dynasty, 2nd-3rd century. Earthenware with green glaze, w44.5 x h104.5 cm. Important Art Object of Japan. The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka ; Gift of Sumitomo Group (The Ataka Collection). Photo Kazuyoshi Miyoshi

The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung. Lot 102. A small yellow jade figure of a rabbit, Song dynasty or earlier; 3.4 cm. Lot sold: 252,000 HKD (Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 modelled as a dainty crouching rabbit with subtly incised eyes, its muzzle framed by the front paws and the long ears swept backwards, the hind legs tucked under the muscular haunches, vertically perforated from behind the ears through to the flat underside,... [Lire la suite]

The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung. Lot 101. A silver-inlaid bronze 'tiger head' ornament, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period (475-221 BC); 4.8 by 4.7 by h. 2.5 cm. Lot sold: 302,400 HKD (Estimate: 300,000 - 500,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 well modelled in the form of a feline head with fine lines of silver inlay defining the details, the broad snout with a wide open mouth leading to a hollow interior and open at the back, the pair of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 350. Hei Tiki, Maori, New Zealand. Néphrite / jade, 11cm (4 2/8in) high. Estimate 4 000 € - 6 000 €. Photo Fabrice Gousset. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981)Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021). Note: Made of pounamou 'green stone', these hei tiki pendants were very precious to the families who owned them and passed them on from generation to generation. Numerous attempts to interpret their characteristic form, a stylised figure with a tilted head, seem to be inconclusive.... [Lire la suite]

Lot 344. A rare Aztec green stone mask of a dignitary, Mexico, Post- Classic Period, 1325-1521 BC; 13.5cm (5 1/2in) high x 9cm (3 1/2in) long x 6.8cm (2 5/8in) wide. Estimate 6 000 € - 10 000 €. Photo Fabrice Gousset. Provenance: Merton Simpson, New YorkRobert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981); acquired from the above on 20 January 1958Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021). Note: Le visage serein de ce personnage est transcrit de manière réaliste. La bouche ouverte et les narines dilatées de son nez lui... [Lire la suite]

Lot 297. A pale green jade double-handed cup, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); 12.3cm (4 7/8in) wide. (2). Estimate 1 500 € - 2 000 €. Photo Fabrice Gousset. With twin horned dragon loop handles, the dragons' mouths biting the rim, carved in relief with neat rows of small circular bosses, the stone polished to a lustre, wood stand. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981)Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021). Note: Compare with a similar two-handled cup, Ming dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams... [Lire la suite]

Lot 296. A rare green, ochre, turquoise and cream glazed 'fahua' jardinière, Late Ming Dynasty, 16th-first half 17th century; 41.3cm (16 1/4in) diam. Estimate 1 500 € - 2 000 €. Photo Fabrice Gousset. The slightly everted walls applied around the exterior with demi-lune pie-crust ochre glazed scrolls, each centred with a high relief cream-glazed lotus flower crowned by a green and ochre-glazed bud emerging over the rim, alternating with cosmic green and ochre-glazed 'cosmic' mountains, all reserved against a... [Lire la suite]

Madame Moitessier, 1856, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867), oil on canvas, 120 x 92.1 cm. © The National Gallery, London.  PASADENA, CALIF.- The Norton Simon Museum has begun the presentation of Picasso Ingres: Face to Face, an exhibition that brings together two extraordinary, interrelated paintings for the first time: Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Book (1932) and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Madame Moitessier (1856). A partnership between the Norton Simon Museum and the National Gallery, London,... [Lire la suite]