Chongzhen Period (1628-1644)

Lot 1056. A rare pair of reticulated white bowls, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 9.2 cm diam. each. Price realised USD 10,710 (Estimate USD 6,000 – USD 8,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023 The decoration incorporates five characters below the rim which read you tian yong you yu (there is a heaven which has abundance). Provenance: Nagatani, December 1959.Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from a American Private... [Lire la suite]

Lot 33. A very fine blue and white tankard, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high. Sold for £8,287.50 (Est: £6,000 - £8,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 The cylindrical vessel of tapering form, boldly painted around the exterior in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue with a continuous scene of a scholar with a fan by a gnarled taihu rock with two young boy attendants approaching, carrying a goose and a box and cover, all amidst a balustraded garden setting with mountains in the distance, between... [Lire la suite]

Lot 32. A blue and white pear-shaped ewer with Dutch silver mounts, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 24.7cm (9 3/4in) high. Sold for £5,737.50  (Est: £2,000 - £3,000). © Bonhams 2001-2022 Finely potted of pear shape rising from a tall spreading foot and rising to a flaring mouth, applied with a loop handle, decorated around the exterior with a scene of two scholars engaged in conversation with a guqing and scrolls amidst a garden, attended by two boys carrying covered trays, the shoulder... [Lire la suite]

Lot 421. A blue and white 'boy on buffalo' bowl, Ming dynasty, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 10 cm, 3⅞ in., Japanese wood box. Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 HKD. Lot sold: 113,400 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. Provenance: A Japanese private collection, by repute. Sotheby's. China / 5000 years, Hong Kong, 27 November 2020

Lot 6. A small blue and white ovoid 'dragon and phoenix' jar, Wanli six-character mark within a double circle and of the period (1573-1619); 51⁄4 in. (13.3 cm.) high. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000 (EUR 8,923 - EUR 13,384.50). Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. The sides are decorated with two five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls alternating with two phoenixes, all amidst foliate scroll between a band of 'The Three Friends of Winter' on the shoulder and ribbon-tied... [Lire la suite]

Lot 825 . A blue and white 'figural' mustard pot, Ming dynasty, Chongzhen period (1628-1644). Height 4¾ in., 12 cm. Estimate: 2,600 - 3,500 USD. Lot sold: 1,250 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. the base with a fuguijiaqi mark in underglaze blue. Provenance: Collection of Anthony du Boulay. Bonhams London, 10th November 2003, lot 21. Collection of Roy Louis Byrnes (1924-2019), and thence by descent. Sotheby's. The Hundred Antiques: Fine and Decorative Asian... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1325. A blue and white beaker vase, Transitional period, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high. Estimate 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised 30,000 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010 Finely painted on the neck with two plump quail standing on a rock amidst bamboo and chrysanthemums, with a pair of birds, a butterfly and insects in flight below the sun on the reverse, the center section with fu symbols alternating with quatrefoil cartouches of lotus, and the bottom section with... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1304. Two wucai petal-lobed dishes, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 7 7/8 and 8¼ in. (20 and 21 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price realised USD 13,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 One is decorated with a scene of a buffalo and a donkey beneath a tree, and with a hut in the distance. An apocryphal Chenghua mark is on the base. The other is bracket-lobed and decorated with a scholar followed by his attendant carrying a wrapped qin. A four-character potter's mark is on the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1303. Two rare blue and white shonzhui-style serving dishes, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 8,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 Each is heavily potted with shallow rounded sides rising to a brown-dressed, irregularly lobed rim. The interior is decorated with four single characters in a vertical line and two magpies, one perched in a blossoming plum tree, while the other is in flight above, all reserved on... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1062. A rare blue and white ewer and cover, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) across. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 18,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2019. The ewer has a compressed tapering body decorated with a continuous river landscape below a band of ruyi-heads on the shoulder below the neck, and is set with a faceted S-shaped spout emerging from a lion mask opposite the imitation-bamboo handle. The domed cover is decorated with ruyi-heads below the lotus bud finial, Japanese wood... [Lire la suite]