5 décembre 2022

Lot 87. MOULINS. Très rare assiette circulaire de commande en faïence décorée en polychromie d'une scène en plein représentant « le pal ou les supplices chinois » avec nombreux personnages nus sur des piques, les bourreaux autour d'un supplicié allongé, près d'une pagode tenant lieu de prison, un dragon et un serpent s'opposant à la base. Au revers inscription patronymique « Dodo clerge devareine 1749 », XVIIIe siècle, circa 1749. D : 24 cm. Estimation: 3000 - 4000 EUR. © Thierry de Maigret  Note: Une... [Lire la suite]

Lot 163. A large celadon jade pendant, huang, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); 24.3 cm. Lot sold: 226,800 HKD (Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 each side finely incised with a mythical creature with an undulating body, the hybrid animal rendered with a bird-like head and a dragon-form body, its head turns sharply backwards, its body depicted with clawed legs and feather-like curling fins, the principal side detailed with an additional bird-head two thirds along the... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 162. A green jade disc, bi, Neolithic period; 23.1 cm. Lot sold: 151,200 HKD (Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 of a slightly irregular circular shape and with uneven thickness, pierced with a wide central aperture, marked on one side with a grooved indent. Provenance: K.M. Siu & Co., Hong Kong, 15th February 1988. Literature: Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 7:7. Exhibited: British Museum, London, on... [Lire la suite]

Lot 161. A carved and inscribed marble Buddhist panel, Tang dynasty (618-907); 43 by 37 cm. Lot sold: 819,000 HKD (Estimate: 500,000 - 700,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 the heavy marble plaque of rectangular form, carved in high relief and depicting the early life of the Buddha, incised in the upper register with three characters reading Guangyancheng (Vaishali city), a holy place in Buddha's early life in Central India. Provenance: R.H. Ellsworth Ltd, New York, 13th April 1993. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 160. A small jade carving of twin female dancers, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period (475-221 BC); 3.7 cm. Lot sold: 529,200 HKD (Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 modelled as a pair of conjoined female figures, their hands clasped in front of the chests, depicted with incised facial features and striated hair tied at the back, dressed in waisted robes detailed with cross-hatched triangular motifs, all between a horizontal bar with a median groove and an... [Lire la suite]

Lot 159. A reticulated white jade 'bird and flowers' plaque, Ming dynasty (1368-1644); 5.6 by 6.6 by 0.5 cm. Lot sold: 126,000 HKD (Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 of rectangular form, finely reticulated with a crested bird stretching its wings amongst large sprays of flowers and foliage, the plumage detailed with cross-hatching and striations, all framed within a border of indented circles. Provenance: Pin Chen Tang, Hong Kong, 18th February 1993. Literature: Jessica... [Lire la suite]

Lot 158. A huanghuali waistless bench, 17th century; 165.6 by 42 by h. 49.8 cm. Lot sold: 2,772,000 HKD (Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022 of simple yet elegant proportions, the soft mat seat enclosed within a simianping or 'four corner's flush' structure, supported by three transverse stretchers underneath, the thick angular waistless frame raised on four square-sectioned corner legs gently tapering to high hoof feet, the wood of an attractive chestnut... [Lire la suite]

Michaelina Wautier, “The Five Senses” as displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Nov. 21, 2022. (Simon Simard/The New York Times)   BOSTON - Centered around her rare series The Five Senses (1650), this is the first gallery space in the Americas dedicated to the art of Michaelina Wautier (1614–1689), a painter from Brussels all but forgotten until the recent rediscovery of her work. The set of five pictures was virtually unknown until it was acquired by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and lent... [Lire la suite]

Lot 15. A Longquan celadon pear shaped vase, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279); 13.2cm (5 1/4in) high. (2). Sold for HKD 784,200 (Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 With a pear-shaped body supporting a very broad neck and lipped rim, all supported on a straight foot of narrow cross-section, covered inside and out with a fine glaze of even grey-green colour and smooth surface suffused with wide colourless crackles, the footrim unglazed, box. Provenance: Sotheby's... [Lire la suite]