11 décembre 2022

Lot 89. An extremely rare pair of Meissen red-ground bottle vases, circa 1735. Sold for £831,900 (Est: £120,000 - £180,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Each of globular form with a long, slightly flared neck, the body reserved with three shaped quatrelobe cartocuches framed in brown and painted with elaborate chinoiserie landscape scenes, one vase with a bird in flight and flowering branch reserved on the red ground, the lower body and shoulder reserved with a broad band edged with brown lines and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 59. A pair of small white jade 'mythical beasts' rectangular table screens, 19th century. Each 10.7cm (4 1/4in) wide; 13cm (5 1/8in) high. (3). Sold for HKD 95,625 (Estimate HKD 50,000 - HKD 80,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Intricately carved in relief on stone of even white tone, one plaque with four mythical beasts, set in a landscape with rocks, wutong tree and lingzhi fungus; the other plaque with five other mythical beasts, set in a landscape with raging waves,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 58. A small white jade carving of a horse, 18th-19th century; 5.3cm (2 1/8in) wide. Sold for HKD 95,625 (Estimate HKD 50,000 - HKD 80,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Skilfully worked as a recumbent horse with its front legs gently bent and its head turned over its back, the body rendered with taut haunches terminating in a long tail swept to its right, the narrow and long head detailed with a pair of wide and alert eyes, below its finely incised bifurcated mane, the stone of an even pale celadon-tinged... [Lire la suite]

Lot 56. A pale green jade carving of two mythical beasts, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); 14cm (5 1/2in) wide; 9cm (3 1/2in) high. (2). Sold for HKD 229,500 (Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Well carved as a younger beast playfully resting on a larger recumbent beast, the larger one with its head slightly tilted to the right, detailed with a long snout, bulging eyes beneath furrowed brows a long single horn and a finely incised mane flanked by a pair of large furled ears,... [Lire la suite]

 Lot 35. A large spinach-green jade oval 'dragon' washer, 18th-19th century; 23.2cm (9 1/8in) wide. Sold for HKD 481,800 (Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 350,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 The washer of oval section rises from a flat base to an inverted rim, the exterior carved in high relief with five five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst dense clouds above rocks and crashing waves rising from the whorl-carved base, the semi-translucent stone of mottled spinach-green tone with some black... [Lire la suite]

Lot 35. An spinach-green jade reticulated circular incense burner and cover, 18th century; 17.3cm (6 3/4in) diam. (3). Sold for HKD 165,750 (Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 The gently rounded sides rising to a flat everted rim, the domed cover in two tiers and surmounted by a coiled dragon finial, all carved in openwork with scrolling lotus, with a lappet band to the rim, the mottled spinach-green stone with speckled black inclusions, stand and box. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 33. An exquisite pair of white jade cups and stands, Qianlong period (1736-1795).Each cup: 8.5cm (3 3/8in) diam. (2); stand: 12.3cm (4 7/8in) diam. (2). (7). Sold for HKD 2,019,000 (Estimate HKD 1,500,000 - HKD 2,000,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Each cup of deep bell shape raised on a ring foot that sits within the circular platform centering the stand formed by eight flared petal-shaped lobes, all on a flower-shaped footrim, the finely polished semi-translucent stone of pure white tone, one... [Lire la suite]

Lot 32. A pale green and russet jade archaistic rhyton cup, 18th century; 13cm (5 1/8in) high. (2). Sold for HKD 191,250 (Estimate HKD 150,000 - HKD 180,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 The lower body carved in high relief around the sides with a finely detailed bearded chilong dragon with single horn jutting backwards and its flowy long mane on the rounded tip of the vessel, all below a narrow rope-twist border separating it from a field of small detached scrolls on the upper body, with a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 30. A pale green jade 'lychee' brush washer, 17th century; 13.3cm (5 1/4in) long. (2). Sold for HKD 76,500 (Estimate HKD 60,000 - HKD 80,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 With shallow rounded sides modelled as a lychee fruit, the handle at one side formed by an intricate network of interlacing lychee branches issuing gently curling leaves extending to the base, the stone of pale greenish-beige tone, box. Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, Hong Kong, 30 November 2022  

Lot 56. David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels), Interior of a laboratory with an Alchemist at work and a stuffed alligator hanging from a ceiling beam, oil on canvas, signed 'D. TENIERS. FC' (lower right),  71.8 x 88.2cm. Sold for £529,500 (estimate: £300,000 - £500,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 LONDON.- A painting by 17th century Golden Age Dutch painter David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp, 1610-1690, Brussels) illustrating the mysterious process of the transformation... [Lire la suite]