16th century

Lot 277. A carved cinnabar lacquer 'birds' box and cover, Ming dynasty, 16th century; Diameter 8.2 cm, 3¼ in. Lot sold: 8,190 GBP (Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 GBP). © 2022 Sotheby's. Property from a European Private Collection. Provenance: JBerwald Oriental Art Ltd., London, 12th June 2003. Note: This particularly moving figure represents an evolution from the traditional iconography of the Song dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist sculpture. Its salient stylistic features probably... [Lire la suite]

Lot 236. A Fahua-glazed 'floral' meiping, Ming dynasty, 16th century. Height 11⅜ in., 28.9 cm. Estimate: 5,000 - 7,000 USD. © Sotheby's 2022 Provenance: European Private Collection.  Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 21 september 2022

Lot 637. A blue and white 'windswept' jar, Ming dynasty, 16th century and blue and white 'dragon' dish, Qing dynasty, 18th century. The dish with an apocryphal Xuande mark; Hauteur de la jarre : 22,3 cm. (8 3⁄4 in.). Diamètre du plat : 20,7 cm. (81⁄8 in.). Price Realised EUR 32,760 (Estimate EUR 4,000 - EUR 6,000). © Christie's 2022 Provenance: Collection of Francis Golding (1944-2013). Christie's. Five Private Collections. London, 5 July - 19... [Lire la suite]

Left: Memento Mori Sculpture, German, 18th century. Marble. Height ca 6.5 cm, width ca 7 cm, depth ca 8 cm, at Kunstkammer Georg Laue. Middle: Renaissance Memento mori Janus head, German or Low Countries, 16th century. Boxwood; gold. Height ca 5 cm, width ca 5 cm, depth ca 7 cm, at Kunstkammer Georg Laue. Right: Vanitas Still Lives by Josep and Pere Santilari, at Stuart Lochhead. Renaissance Memento mori Janus head, German or Low Countries, 16th century. Boxwood; gold. Height ca 5 cm, width ca 5 cm, depth ca 7 cm, at... [Lire la suite]

Lot 30. A pair of blue and white 'lotus' bowls, Ming dynasty, 16th century; 12.8 cm, 5 in. Lot sold: 1,890 EUR (Estimate: 1,500 - 2,000 EUR). © Sotheby's 2022 Property from a European private collection. Lot 31. A blue and white 'peach' dish, Ming dynasty, 16th century; Diam. 29.8 cm, 11 3/4 in. Lot sold: 2,772 EUR (Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 EUR). © Sotheby's 2022 the fruiting stems coiling to form a stylised auspicious... [Lire la suite]

Lot 10. A carved cinnabar lacquer octagonal box and cover, Ming dynasty, 16th century. Width 11¼ in., 28.5 cm. Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD. Lot sold: 27,720 USD. © Sothebys.  Provenance: Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997). Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. M.4.26.  Note: A closely related box in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Catalogue of Chinese Lacquer, London, 1925, pl. 46. See also a box of this form with the sides carved... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1113. A large iron-red and green-enameled double-gourd vase, Ming dynasty, 16th century; 13 1⁄8 (33.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box. Estimate USD 15,000 – USD 20,000. © Christie's 2022 The lower and upper bulbs are decorated with roundels containing flowers and birds reserved on a diaper ground superimposed by florets in quatrefoil borders, all between various decorative borders. Provenance: Private collection, Osaka, before World War II, by repute. Note: A similar double-gourd vase, but... [Lire la suite]

Beaker with incised leaf scroll pattern, Annam; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam, 16th century, stoneware with yellow green glaze, 4 5/8 in. x 5 13/16 in. x 5 13/16 in. ( 11.7 cm x 14.7 cm x 14.7 cm ). Gift of Helmut Stern, 1991/1.95,University of Michigan Museum of Art. ©2018-2021 Regents of the University of Michigan A finely potted stoneware beaker with a rounded bottom and a lightly incised, freely drawn leaf scroll spreading across the widest part of the body, flanked by incised double horizontal lines, all covered evenly... [Lire la suite]

  Beaker, Annam; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam, 16th century, stoneware with a mottled, dripped green glaze, 4 1/2 in. x 4 15/16 in. x 4 15/16 in. ( 11.5 cm x 12.5 cm x 12.5 cm ). Gift of Helmut Stern, 1991/1.96,University of Michigan Museum of Art. ©2018-2021 Regents of the University of Michigan A finely potted deep stoneware beaker with a rounded bottom and a mottled, dark green glaze. The attractive glaze effect is achieved by applying small dots of a wax over the entire surface of the vessel, and then pouring the... [Lire la suite]

Shallow dish with incised floral medallions and molded lotus petals, Annam; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam, 16th century, 13/16 in. x 4 1/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. ( 2 cm x 10.4 cm x 10.4 cm ). Gift of Helmut Stern, 1991/1.98, University of Michigan Museum of Art. ©2018-2021 Regents of the University of Michigan The lotus petals that adorn the rim of this broad, flat plate are symbolic in Buddhism of purity, suggesting that the plate may have been used in Buddhist rituals. The dominant religion in Vietnam for much of its history... [Lire la suite]