Archives

Lot 317. A Qingbai baluster vase, Song dynasty (960-1279). Height 18.2 cm. Lot Sold 2,540 GBP (Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 GBP)  Sotheby's 2023 Provenance: Galaxie Art & Gift Co., Hong Kong, 21st January 1991. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.  

Lot 314. A Qingbai 'floral' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Diameter 20.6 cm. Lot Sold 3,810 GBP (Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 GBP)  Sotheby's 2023 Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.

Lot 313. A Qingbai lobed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Diameter 12.6 cm. Lot Sold 8,890 GBP (Estimate 1,500 - 2,000 GBP)  Sotheby's 2023 Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.

Lot 311. A Qingbai lobed ewer and cover, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Overall height 16.1 cm. Lot Sold 8,255 GBP (Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 GBP)  Sotheby's 2023 Provenance : Galaxie Art & Gift Co., Hong Kong, 1st September 1991. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.

  Lot 309. A painted 'Jizhou' black-glazed 'floral' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Height 11.2 cm. Lot Sold 2,540 GBP (Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 GBP).  Sotheby's  Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 13th February 1988. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.

Lot 306. A miniature green-splashed tripod censer, Liao-Jin dynasty (907-1234). Diameter 8.2 cm. Lot Sold 1,905 GBP (Estimate 1,500 - 2,000 GBP).  Sotheby's Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 13th February 1988. Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.

Lot 304. A 'Yaozhou' 'moon-white'-glazed bowl, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234). Diameter 19.2 cm. Lot Sold 10,160 GBP (Estimate 4,009 - 6,000 GBP).  Sotheby's Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.  

Lot 301. A rare miniature 'Yaozhou' celadon-glazed figure of a lady, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234). Height 8.6 cm. Lot Sold 6,985 GBP (Estimate 1,500 - 2,000 GBP).  Sotheby's 2023 Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 21st January 1989.Sotheby's. China / 5000 Years, London, 8 November 2023.

Left: Sandro Botticelli, Study of the head of a woman in profile (La Bella Simonetta)(recto); Study of the figure of Minerva (verso), c. 1485. Metalpoint, white gouache on light-brown prepared paper (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache (verso). 13 ⅜ x 9 in (34.2 x 23 cm). The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834. ©️ Ashmolean Museum. Sandro Botticelli. Right: Sandro Botticelli, Head of a Youth, Turned to the Left, ca. 1480. Silverpoint, grey... [Lire la suite]

Bowl with dragon design, Hongzhi mark and period (1488-1505), Jingdezhen kilns, south China. Porcelain painted in coloured enamels. Diameter: 16.5cm. Given from the Bloxam Collection (2007). Museum no. C.142-1928 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London In the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) Jingdezhen became the major ceramic-manufacturing centre. Imperial kilns were established to produce fine porcelain for the exclusive use of the emperors. The tradition of inscribing the emperor's reign title on the wares also started in the Ming. This... [Lire la suite]