China

Lot 155. Six Cantonese export porcelain dishes, a plate and a bowl made for for Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, China, circa 1877. Estimare £3,000 - 5,000 (€3,500 - 5,800). Photo: Bonhams. each of shallow form on short feet, elaborately decorated in gilt and polychrome on a white ground with a central roundel bearing a landscaped water motif and a bird, the upper cusped cartouche an inscription-filled cartouche surmounted by two lion and sun motifs, a crown above, further panels and cartouches with bird and floral... [Lire la suite]

A group of ceremonial tubes , most produced by the Liangzhu culture 良渚 (ca. 3300-2250 BCE), Late Neolithic period, ca. 5000-1700 BCE, Jade (nephrite), Gifts of Charles Lang Freer, Arthur M. Sackler, and Dr. Paul Singer. © 2016 Smithsonian Institution WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will launch a digital catalog, "Jades for Life and Death," from its extensive collection of one of the finest holdings of Chinese jades in the world Oct. 6. The first release, in a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 387. Cinnabar Vase, detail, China, 18th-19th century. Estimate $3,000-5,000. Photo Skinner. BOSTON, MASS.- Skinner, Inc. will present an Asian Works of Art auction of over 700 lots on Friday, September 16, 2016 at 11AM, coinciding with Asia week auctions in New York City. The auction features several important private collections, including early Middle Eastern ceramics and manuscripts, tomb pottery from the Han and Tang periods, and an exceptional collection of early monochrome miniature ceramics from the Tang... [Lire la suite]

Lot 339. Qingbai floral bowl, China, Song Dynasty, 960-1279. Photo Hampel Diameter: 15.2 cm. glazed greenish-white, floral decor. Estimation: € 1.100 - 1.300 Hampel. Art d'Asie. jeudi, 30 juin 2016

Lot 338. White glazed stoneware bowl, China, Song Dynasty, 960-1279. Photo Hampel Diameter: 18.2 cm. Estimation: € 900 - 1.100 Hampel. Art d'Asie. jeudi, 30 juin 2016

Lot 1071. Pair of small blue and white porcelain bottle vases, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, 1662 - 1722. Photo Hampel Height: 12.5 cm. Estimate € 6.500 - 7.500  Hampel. Art d'Asie. jeudi 7 avril 2016 

Lot 1072. Blue and white porcelain ewer, China, late Chongzheng-early Shunzi period, 1628 - 1661. Photo Hampel Height: 34.0 cm. Underglaze blue paintings of tulips, four cartouches of landscape and other floral decor on neck and handle. Estimate € 7.800 - 8.400Literature: Compare for similar exemplar: Gordon Lang, The Wrest ling Boys: An Exhibition of Chinese and Japanese Ceramics from the 16th to the 18th Century in the Collec tion at Burghley House, Lincolnshire 1983, Nr. 148. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1073. Blue and White Porcelain Jar, China, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period, 1522 - 1566. Photo Hampel Height: 11,5 cm. Painted with underglaze blue, two pairs of ducks between lotus plants. Four-character Xuande Mark on the base. Estimate € 15.000 - 20.000 Hampel. Art d'Asie. jeudi 7 avril 2016

Lot 1070. Blue and white porcelain dish, China, Ming dynasty, Wanli mark and period, 1573 - 1620. Photo Hampel Diameter: 17.7 cm. Rounded sides rising to a flaring rim. Three lingzhi clouds within a double circle in the well. A pair of dragons chasing the flaming pearl on the exterior. Base marked with six-character Wanli mark (Da Ming Wan Li nian zhi) within a double circle, and of the period. Estimate € 26.000 - 30.000 Hampel. Art d'Asie. jeudi 7 avril 2016

Lot 370. Blue and white jar, China, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, 1662-1722. Photo Hampel Height: 33 cm. Bottom side Kangxi leaf mark. Underglaze blue figurative representation on white porcelain. Estimate € € 6.000 - 8.000 Hampel. Art d'Asie. jeudi, 30 juin 2016