12 novembre 2022

Lot 57. A small square wool carpet, Late Qing Dynasty (1820-1911); 72cm (28 5/16in) x 70cm (27 9/16in). Sold for €701.25 (Estimate € 500-800). Photo Fabrice Gousset. Decorated with a wan key-fret border enclosing a floral diaper ground around a quatrelobed cartouche with a central leafy blossom. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981)Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021) Bonhams. The Robert and Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting - Part 1. Paris, 25 october... [Lire la suite]

Lot 56. A small wool 'Five Dragons' carpet, 18th-19th century; 91cm (35 7/8in) x 92cm (36 1/4in). Sold for €2,167.50 (Estimate € 500-800). Photo Fabrice Gousset. Woven to the centre with a forward-facing serpentine dragon encircled by four further writhing dragons, within mountain, ruyi-clouds and lishui borders. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981)Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021) Bonhams. The Robert and Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting - Part... [Lire la suite]

Lot 55. A small metal-wire and wool carpet, 18th-19th century; 93cm (36 5/8in) x 93cm (36 5/8in). Sold for €2,805 (Estimate € 300-500). Photo Fabrice Gousset. The square carpet decorated with Wan key-fret border enclosing an octagonal cartouche with floral and lotus blossoms. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981)Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021) Bonhams. The Robert and Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting - Part 1. Paris, 25 october 2022.

Lot 54. A small wool 'Five-dragon' carpet, 18th-19th century; 97cm (38 2/8in) x 83.5cm (32 7/8in). Sold for €4,462.50 (Estimate € 600-1,000). Photo Fabrice Gousset. The carpet of nearly square shape, finely woven with a central front-facing five-clawed dragon, encircled by four writhing dragons turned to the central beast amidst flames and bats, within rolling waves and interspersed with ruyi designs. Provenance: Robert Rousset, Paris (1901-1981)Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021) Bonhams. The Robert and... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 18. A rare blue and white and copper-red peach-shaped dish, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 26cm (10 1/2in) wide. Sold for £12,112.50 (Estimate £10,000 - 15,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Finely potted in the shape of a peach with gently curving sides and supported on a short foot, deftly painted in the interior with a scholar and attendant on a shore beside a pavilion surrounded by a dense thicket of pine and copper-red wutong trees, a fisherman on a sampan emerging from the right, all... [Lire la suite]

Lot 16. A rare blue and white 'Saagata' sleeve vase, Chongzhen period (1627-1644); 47cm (18 1/2in) high. Sold for £28,020 (Estimate £12,000 - 15,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 The tall elegantly potted cylindrical vessel brilliantly painted around the exterior in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue with a continuous scene of an Arhat in cascading robes holding a staff with concerned expression beneath long eyebrows and wrinkled brow, gazing at a boy-attendant carrying a meditation mat through a pole, both... [Lire la suite]

Lot 16. A blue and white 'Master of the Rocks' jar, Shunzhi-early Kangxi period (1644-1722); 27.8cm (11in) high. Sold for £28,020 (Estimate £12,000 - 15,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Of elegant baluster form, painted around the exterior with a continuous scene of craggy mountains in pencilled line around a lake with fisherman on a sampan, pavilions with scholars dotted throughout, all amidst various trees, the sky with V-shaped flocks of geese, all beneath a border of pine trees on the shoulder, the... [Lire la suite]