1660

A Belgian silver Host box, Anthone Kerckhof, Bruges, 1660. Diam : 10,4 cm. Philippe d’Arschot at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. Philippe d´Arschot. Fine antique silver from the 16th to the 19th Centuries. Avenue Louise, 192, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Standing cup (Beckerschraube), Hans Otto, Germany, Augsburg, 1660. Silver and silver-gilt. Height 24,8 cm. Philippe d’Arschot at Brafa Art Fair, Brussels, 21-29 january 2017. Philippe d´Arschot. Fine antique silver from the 16th to the 19th Centuries. Avenue Louise, 192, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), Autoportrait au regard plongé dans l'ombre, 1634, Huile sur panneau, 71,1 x 56 cm. © New York, The Leiden Gallery PARIS - Dans le cadre de sa saison dédiée au Siècle d’or hollandais, le musée du Louvre présente une sélection des principaux chefs-d’œuvre des peintres du XVIIe siècle hollandais, issue de la collection de Thomas Kaplan et son épouse Daphné Recanati Kaplan. Rassemblée pour la première fois dans un grand musée international, cette sélection met à l’honneur la plus... [Lire la suite]

Adriaen van de Velde, The beach at Scheveningen, 1658, Oil on canvas © Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.  LONDON.- In collaboration with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts the first-ever exhibition devoted to the painter and draughtsman Adriaen van de Velde (1636 - 1672), one of the finest landscape artists of the Dutch Golden Age.  Over a career of less than two decades Van de Velde produced a varied body of paintings and drawings that earned him... [Lire la suite]

Paolo Porpora (1617-1673, Italy), "Flowers", 1660. TAIPEI (AFP).- A 12-year-old boy accidentally punched a hole through a $1.5 million centuries-old Italian oil painting when he tripped and fell into the piece during an exhibition in Taiwan.   The painting, entitled "Flowers" by Italian artist Paolo Porpora, dates back to the 1600s and is part of a collection of 55 artworks on show in the country's capital. Video footage released by the organisers shows the boy on Sunday trip over a platform in front... [Lire la suite]

Tête de Seuthès III. Golyama Kosmatka. Musée archéologique de Sofia © Institut national d’archéologie et musée - ABS / Ivo Hadjimishev PARIS - Patrie d’Orphée ou de nombreux rois légendaires cités par Homère, la Thrace, région encore méconnue, révèle peu à peu ses splendeurs grâce à de récentes découvertes archéologiques. Aux frontières du monde grec et de l’empire perse, émerge en Thrace, durant la période classique, une nouvelle puissance régionale, le royaume odryse. Les nombreuses tombes d’aristocrates ou de rois, mises au... [Lire la suite]

Lot 88. A gilt-bronze Avalokitesvara seated on a lotus base, Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi Period, dated in accordance with 1660; overall height 107 cm., 42 in. Estimate 10,000,000 — 12,000,000 HKD. Lot sold 19,720,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's. deftly cast and portrayed seated in vajraparyankasana, the serene face with a downcast gaze and a compassionate smile, flanked by long pendulous earlobes suspending elaborately decorated earrings, the hair neatly drawn up and crowned with a diadem securing a miniature effigy... [Lire la suite]

The Phoenix Art Museum bought this c. 1660 Delft Vase and Cover from Aronson Antiquairs, 23 inches Dutch Delft.  AMSTERDAM.- On the eve of the opening of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, his largest exhibition of the year, Amsterdam specialist Delft dealer Robert Aronson of Aronson Antiquairs, has announced that The Phoenix Art Museum has purchased a large Blue and White Dutch Delft Vase and Cover dating to 1660-70.  According to Robert Aronson, “I have been working with The Phoenix Art Museum for a... [Lire la suite]

A German parcel-gilt silver tankard, Hans Polmann, Danzig, circa 1660. Photo courtesy Sotheby's embossed and chased with cherubs symbolizing Autumn, carrying nature's bounty andincluding signs of Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, marked on body and cover; 20.5cm, 8in high; 890gr, 28oz 12dwt. Estimate 8,000-12,000 GBP NOTE: A large silver basin and a pair of flasks are recorded by this master as gifts to Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich in 1667 by the Polish King John Casimir and the Castellan of Volyhyrnia,... [Lire la suite]

Grand gobelet en vermeil en deux parties en forme de tonneau.  Dantzig, vers 1660. Photo Brissonneau & Daguerre Poinçon du maître orfèvre non identifié. Poids 153 g. Estimation : 3 000 - 5 000 € Vendredi 17 mai à 14h00. Hôtel Drouot - Salle 1. Brissonneau: EMail : brissonneau@wanadoo.fr - Tél. : 01 42 46 00 07. Daguerre: EMail : info@daguerre.fr - Tél. : 01 45 63 02 60