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Les Blés de Chanel: Moisson d’Or necklace mounted on white and yellow gold set with a oval-cut yellow sapphire and 27 marquise-cut diamonds, 329 brilliant-cut diamonds, 11 brilliant-cut yellow sapphires and 977 yellow sapphire beads © Chanel Les Blés de Chanel: Moisson d'Or earrings mounted on white and yellow gold set with 2 marquise-cut yellow sapphires for a total weight of 5.7 carats, 10 brilliant-cut yellow sapphires, 26 marquise-cut diamonds, 172 brilliant-cut diamonds and 182 yellow sapphire beads ©... [Lire la suite]

Lot 27. Chinese Porcelain Pair of 'Flower spray' Teapots, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 1 050 € / 1 400 €. Photo Marques Dos Santos, Porto. globular shape, floral decoration in blue, rouge-de-fer and gold, imari palette. Dim.: 16,2cm. Lot 28. Chinese Porcelain Pair of Imari Teapots, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 1 050 € / 1 400 €. Photo Marques Dos Santos, Porto. globular shape, floral spray decoration in blue and rouge-de-fer in the imari palette.... [Lire la suite]

Daphne Wright, Stallion, 2009, marble dust and resin © the artist. Courtesy of Frith Street Gallery. BRISTOL.- Arnolfini and National Trust Tyntesfield present a selection of work from the last 25 years by the Bristol-based artist Daphne Wright, who has developed a series of conceptual ideas and sculptural languages which have been quietly influential. Her work is the result of a relentless curiosity into the way in which materials can create an involvement with often unspoken human preoccupations.  The... [Lire la suite]

Lot 9. Chinese Porcelain Double walled Teapot, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 1 200 € / 1 500 €. Photo Marques Dos Santos , Porto. of globular shape and arched handle, double-walled body with hexagonal openwork reserves, blue decoration of floral, Precious Object and Auspicious Emblem motifs. Dim.:15,5cm. Lot 1. Chinese Porcelain Teapot 'Female figures', China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 1 200 € / 1 500 €. Photo Marques Dos Santos , Porto. ovoid shape, decorated... [Lire la suite]

Lot 10. Chinese Porcelain Kraak Wine Ewer, China, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period (1563-1620). Estimate 4 500 € / 6 000 €. Photo Marques Dos Santos , Porto. of ovoid lobbed shape and arched handle, blue decoration of alternating figure and flower reserves. Cf. Maura Rinaldi 'Kraak Porcelain' p.182, Pl. 237. Dim.:18,5cm.  MARQUES DOS SANTOS, PORTO. Art de la Théière II - Collection de Théières Chinoises et Tasses, le 01 Octobre 2016 à 15h00

Willem de Kooning, Untitled XXV, 1977. Estimated in the region of $40 million. Being sold exactly 10 years after setting world auction record for any Post-War work of art on November 15, 2006 at Christie’s New York. © Christie’s Images Limited 2016. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present Willem de Kooning’s 1977 masterpiece, Untitled XXV, in its November 15 Evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York. Estimated in the region of $40 million, Untitled XXV comes to the auction market for the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 84. A fine enameled copper set of cup, cover and saucer, Private manufacture from Guangzhou, 18th Century. Estimate 900,00 €-1500,00 €. Photo Czerny's the saucer featuring fine, famille rose decorations with flowers and leaves inside a black ink band, featuring gilded striping; the back is decorated with three, blue floral motif on the white border and painted with a pink flower at the center; cup and cover decorated en suite. The saucer featuring a breakage at the border and damaged enamel; diameter 15 - 9... [Lire la suite]

Lot 83. A fine enamelled copper cup and cover, Private manufacture, from Guangzhou, China, 18th century. Estimate 900,00 €-1500,00 €. Photo Czerny's Cup of ogeé shape, elegantly painted on blue ground with famille rose decorations depicting the Eight Buddhist Treasures (bajixiang), surrounded by leaves and floral motifs; the foot is decorated with a band made of petals; cover decorated en suite; the inner part of the cup is decorated on a turquoise ground with five, red bats with gold hints surrounding the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 76. An important and rare pair of doucai square porcelain jardinières on stands, 18th-19th century, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Estimate 6000 €-15000 €. Photo Czerny's Raised on four feet in the shape of brackets, each face is painted with a vigorous scroll flower whose stem supports a continuous yellow flower open to the center, three other profile purple flowers and purple buds, red, gray and yellow; the smooth edge is a band decorated with pumpkins double, leaves and red iron colored bats; glazes... [Lire la suite]

Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 1994. Estimate in the range of $20 million. © Christie’s Images Limited 2016. NEW YORK, NY.- Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild from the Collection of Eric Clapton will highlight Christie’s November 15, Evening Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York (Estimate in the range of $20million). Dating from the artist’s most celebrated period of abstraction and one of the highlights of the fall season, Abstraktes Bild was acquired by the rock legend Eric Clapton at auction... [Lire la suite]