11 novembre 2022

Vittore Carpaccio, Virgin Reading, c. 1510, oil on canvas transferred from panel, overall: 78 x 51 cm (30 11/16 x 20 1/16 in.), framed: 119.7 x 86.4 x 10 cm (47 1/8 x 34 x 3 15/16 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection Washington, DC—A leading figure in the art of Renaissance Venice, Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526) is best known for his large, spectacular narrative paintings that brought sacred history to life. Celebrated in his native city of Venice for centuries,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 44. A stone fragment of a lion, Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD); 11cm (4 1/4in) high. Sold for €4,845 (Estimate 500 € - 800 €). Courtesy Bonhams. The ferocious beast carved with its jaws agape, bulging eyes below the pronounced brows, with back-turned ears flanking the finely incised layered mane leading to the back. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981), acquired prior to 1935.Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021). Note: See a related stone figure of a seated lion, Tang dynasty, which was... [Lire la suite]

"Women's Good" bronze Fang Zun, Shang Wang Wuding Period. Height 43 cm, mouth length 35.5 cm, width 33 cm. Unearthed from the tomb of Fuhao in Yin Ruins, Anyang, Henan in 1976. Henan Museum Collection. Fang Zun has an extravagant mouth, a bound neck, shoulders, a straight belly, high feet, four dragon heads on all sides of the shoulders, and four standing birds on the four corners. The whole body of the vessel has a thunder pattern as the ground, the neck is decorated with banana leaf patterns, and the belly and feet are decorated... [Lire la suite]

Bronze square tripod, Early Shang Dynasty (about 1600 BC - 1400 BC)0 The overall height is 86.5 cm, and the mouth length is 61 cm. Unearthed in Zhangzhai South Street, Zhengzhou, Henan in 1974. Henan Museum Collection. The mouth of the tripod is rectangular, with a pair of arched ears on the top, a deep abdomen, a slightly introverted abdominal wall, a flat bottom, and four hollow cylindrical feet with upper thickness and lower thickness. A set of single-line animal face patterns is cast on each of the four sides and four... [Lire la suite]

Polished black pottery vase, Neolithic, Longshan Culture (about 2600 BC - 2000 BC). Height 28.7 cm, diameter 7 cm, bottom diameter 6.3 cm. Unearthed in Wadian, Yuzhou, Henan in 1997. Henan Museum Collection. This black pottery looks like it is made of two pottery pots glued up and down, the top is large and the bottom is small. Flared mouth, straight belly, lower belly turned outward, goble-shaped feet turned outward, belly and feet decorated with string patterns. Fine texture, polished surface. Among the... [Lire la suite]

Double painted pottery pot, Neolithic, Yangshao Culture (about 5000 BC-3000 BC), 21 cm high. Unearthed in Dahe Village, Zhengzhou, Henan in 1972. Henan Museum Collection. This pot is made of clay and red pottery. The whole vessel is in the form of two pots side by side. The two belly are connected by an oval hole, and the outer sides of the two pots each have a vertical ear. The body of the pot is painted in black color, with vertical or oblique lines inside the parallel lines. According to ethnological... [Lire la suite]

  Bone flute, Neolithic Peiligang Culture (about 6100-5000 BC), 23.1 cm long. Unearthed in Jiahu, Wuyang, Henan, 1986-1987. Collection of Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology More than 20 bone flutes made of crane wing bones were unearthed at the Jiahu site in Wuyang. The bone pipes of these bone flutes are engraved with equal division marks, indicating that they have been carefully calculated before drilling, and some of them have also used small holes to adjust the pitch... [Lire la suite]

  Stone grinding disc, Stone grinding rod, Neolithic Peiligang Culture (about 6100-5000 BC). Stone grinding disc is 68 cm long and 6 cm high; stone grinding rod is 58 cm long. Unearthed in Peiligang, Xinzheng, Henan in 1977. Henan Museum Collection. Stone grinding discs and stone grinding rods have appeared as early as the late Paleolithic period. They were originally used as tools for grinding nuts and other collections. After agriculture, they became grain threshing and grinding tools. The early stone... [Lire la suite]