15 septembre 2023

Lot 206. A rare archaic gray pottery tripod wine vessel (Gui), Early Shang dynasty, Erlitou culture; Height 23.9 cm. Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 USD. Lot sold 38,100 USD. © Sotheby's 2023 Provenance: Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris.Important European Private Collection. Exhibited: Treasures from Ancient China - V. Les Merveilles du Néolithique, Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 16. Note: Identified by the protruding spout set on the mouth, tripod vessels of this form are... [Lire la suite]

Lot 201. Property from a Hawai private collection. A rare archaic dark green jade ceremonial blade (Yazhang), Late Neolithic period. Length 34.5 cm. Estimate 5,000 - 8,000 USD. Lot Sold 19,050 USD. © Sotheby's 2023 Provenance: E&J Frankel, New York, 1980-81. Note: See a closely related jade blade of a slightly smaller size, attributed to the Neolithic period, Shimao culture, Shaanxi province, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published on the Museum's website (accession no. 新00125945).... [Lire la suite]

Bowl with five-lobed rim, North China, Liao dynasty, about AD 1000-1100. Stoneware with transparent glaze. Diameter: 18,4 cm. Height: 3,5 cm There is an inscription ‘xinguan’ (new official) on the base. Sir Percival David Foundation, PDF 186. Copyright SOAS All rights reserved Potters modelled this dish on a silver ware form. Ding wares seldom bear inscriptions except for some high-quality vessels marked 官(guan, ‘official’) or as here 新官 (xinguan, ‘new official’). The characters were incised before firing which precludes the... [Lire la suite]

Ewer in the form of a winged mermaid, Liao Dynasty (907-1115). Ding ware. Height: 13.40 cm; Width: 18.20 cm; Depth: 7.30 cm. Purchased from George Eumorfopoulos, 1937,0716.69 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Bowl, Liao dynasty (907-1125), 2 fishes inside. Made of green, brown glazed Arthur. Length: 5.60 inches. Purchased from George Eumorfopoulos, 1936,1012.2. © The Trustees of the British Museum

    Figure (Lohan). Liao Dynasty (907-1125). From Yizhou caves, Yi Xian, Hebei province. Stoneware, sancai glazed; Height: 103 cm; Weight: 106 kg (Base); Weight: kg (Figure) (Figure). Purchased from: S M Franck & Son, 1913,1221.1. © The Trustees of the British Museum Notes: An austere youthful ‘luohan' (arhat), this ceramic sculpture belongs to the celebrated set of sixteen or eighteen once placed in caves to the west of Yixian, Hebei province. The surviving ‘lohan’ from the set are so individually modelled that... [Lire la suite]