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Lot 93. A blue and white meiping, Ming dynasty (1368-1644); 61⁄2 in. (16.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price Realised USD 11,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The vase is decorated with a wide floral scroll between a leafy band above and a cloud band below. Property from the Collection of Lenora and Walter F. Brown. Provenance: Acquired in Chicago, 1983.The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas. Christie's. Art of China. Including Property from the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 92. A blue and white 'phoenix tail' vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 181⁄8 in. (46 cm.) high. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price Realised USD 6,875. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 Decorated on the body with a continuous scene of figures in a garden setting below with a scene of scholars accompanied by attendants on the neck. Property from the Collection of Lenora and Walter F. Brown. Christie's. Art of China. Including Property from the Irving Collection, 18 Nov - 9 Dec 2020

Lot 91. A large blue and white vase, meiping, Late Ming dynasty, 17th century; 21 in. (53.3 m.) high. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price Realised USD 5,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The heavily potted vase is decorated on the body with three blossoming branches of camellia, above a band of classic scroll on the splayed foot. Property from the Collection of Lenora and Walter F. Brown.Provenance: Laurin Guilloux, Paris, 25 June 1980, lot 12.The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8. Southern Italian, probably Palermo, Sicily, circa 1220-1240. An Important Cameo with the Ascension of the Prophet Elijah to Heaven from the Imperial Treasury of the Holy Roman Emperors. Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 GBP. Lot sold: 801,500 GBP. Photo Sotheby's chalcedony, within a mid-16th-century enamelled gold mount with arabesques, inscribed in Hebrew to the reverse:  נעלה אליה לשמים [Elijah was raised to Heaven]; cameo: 27 by 28.6mm., 1.06 by 1.12in.,35.3 by 37.8mm.,... [Lire la suite]

Necklace in 18-carat white gold with white, autum Icy and champagne diamonds by de Grisogono

"Roi de Crocidolior" pendant, platinum, white gold, diamonds and "Eye-of-the-tiger" quartz by Dior Joaillerie

18k gold ring with sapphires and diamonds by Lydia Courteille.

  Lot 1081. A sancai splashed jar and a green and sancai glazed jar and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907); h. 15.8 and 28.5 cm. Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 HKD. Lot sold: 81,900 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. Provenance: Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo. Sotheby's. Chinese Art Including Property from the Collection of Cheng Huan, Hong Kong, 18 December 2020

Lot 1080. A pair of sancai-glazed 'monkey' candlesticks, Song - Jin dynasty (960-1234); l. 12.2 cm. Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 HKD. Lot sold: 13,860 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. Sotheby's. Chinese Art Including Property from the Collection of Cheng Huan, Hong Kong, 18 December 2020

Lot 1079. A sancai-glazed vase, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); l. 23.1 cm. Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 HKD. Lot sold: 69,300 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. Note: The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., sample no. C120e63. Sotheby's. Chinese Art Including Property from the Collection of Cheng Huan, Hong Kong, 18 December 2020