15th century

A Celadon porcelain plate with dragon, China, Ming Dynasty, 15th century. Photo Cambi Casa d'Aste diam 34cm. Estimation : 3 000 / 4 000 € Cambi Casa d'Aste. Mercredi 22 mai 2013. Castello Mackenzie - Mura di San Bartolomeo 16. Contact: Emilie Volka 0039 (0) 108395029 -emilie@cambiaste.com

A cinnabar lacquer ‘Floral’ cupstand. Ming dynasty, 15th century - Sothebys the hollow bowl with rounded sides collared with a wide six-lobed dish with slightly curved sides, all supported on a hollow spreading foot, carved through the layers of red lacquer on the exterior with organically arranged leafy floral blooms including chrysanthemum, peony, camellia and prunus, the interior of the bowl and foot lacquered in black; 16.2cm., 6 3/8 in. Estimation: 15,000 - 20,000 GBP PROVENANCE: A Japanese Private... [Lire la suite]

A fine and rare Ming red lacquer four-tiered hexafoil box and cover, China,  early Ming dynasty (1368-1644), early 15th century. Photo Nagel Auktionen The box is deeply carved on the top over a thin diaper ground with different motifs for the earth and air. A scholar holds a fan, seated in a small pavilion below a tall pine tree and looking at a companion approaching with his attendant. The sides of the box are also deeply carved to a yellow lacquer ground with flowers of the seasons, camellia, flowering prunus... [Lire la suite]

A fine cloisonné enamel tripod censer, Ming dynasty, 15th century - Sotheby's the cylindrical body rising from three ruyi-shaped feet to an everted rim, flanked by a pair of upright scrolled handles, the exterior brightly decorated against a turquoise ground with leafy scrolling lotus, the base and the rim gilt; 33.3cm., 13 1/8 in. Estimation: 80,000 - 120,000 GBP PROVENANCE: Bluett & Sons, London, 4th June 1985.Collection of Juan Jose Amezaga.Christie's Paris, 13th June 2007, lot 1. NOTE: The... [Lire la suite]

A magnificient and rare 'jun' mallow-shaped lavender-glazed Imperial flowerpot. Ming dynasty, early 15th century - Sotheby's superbly potted of hexagonal section with deep bracket-lobed flaring sides rising from a slightly splayed foot to a broad everted galleried rim, covered overall with a lustrous lavender glaze heightened with vivid sky-blue and deep pinkish-purple shades, draining away from the mouthrim and between the lobes to reveal a mushroom-brown tone, the interior predominantly of... [Lire la suite]

A 'Longquan ' celadon vase. Mid-Ming Dynasty, 15th Century. Photo China Guardian H 31.3 cm. Estimate: HKD 58,000-88,000 (USD: 7,500-11,400) Sotheby's, New York, 22nd/23rd Sept. 2004, Lot 205.Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8th Apr. 2009, Lot 1603. China Guardian Hong Kong 2013 Spring Auctions. Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. April 4-5 2013. http://english.cguardian.com

Guido Reni (Calvenzano 1575-1642 Bologna), The Assumption. Oil on copper. 58x44.4 cm. Sold for CHF 1.22 Million. ZURICH.- At the spring auctions at Koller Zurich an early work by the Italian artist Guido Reni which had languished unrecognised for over 40 years in a Swiss private collection was sold for CHF 1.2 million. Of the 17 Old Master paintings which had adorned the Potsdam villa of the fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, 14 found new owners. The top lot was a Renaissance work by the 15th century Master of Frankfurt entitled... [Lire la suite]

A large blue and white 'windswept' jar, guan. Mid-15th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2013 Heavily potted and of baluster form, the jar is deftly painted around the sides in the 'windswept' style with Daoist imagery, with a scene of two men playing weiqi while an imposing figure with a halo around his head, possibly Laozi holding a ruyi scepter, sits between them observing. To one side Xiwangmu is seen holding a tray of peaches between two female attendants holding feather fans, and to the other side a... [Lire la suite]

Ceramic dish with blue underglaze decoration. Iran, 2nd half of 15th cent. Inv. no. 73/1998. The David Collection The decoration on this Persian dish copies a contemporary Chinese pattern. The largest flowers look like peonies when seen from above, but the smaller ones resemble lotuses when seen from the side. It can, however, be difficult to tell these flowers apart, even on their Chinese models. The history of blue and white ceramics is a classical example of cultural exchange. The Chinese were the first to develop a white... [Lire la suite]

Celadon-glazed porcelain dish with Persian poetry. China; 15th century (Calligraphy: Iran; 16th-17th century). Diam: 48.5 cm. Inv. no. 6/1978. The David Collection Chinese porcelain with a celadon glaze was greatly admired in the Islamic world under the early Abbasid caliphs (8th-9th century), and after the advent of the Mongols in the 13th century it attained a very special status. Written sources show that in certain places in the Middle East, it was believed that celadon would shatter if it were used to hold... [Lire la suite]