Dr. Ip Yee Collection

  Lot 1044. A large blue and white dish, Yongle period (1403-1425); 15 7⁄8 in. (40.3 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 200,000 – USD 300,000. Price realised USD 756,000. © Christie's 2022 The central medallion is finely decorated with peonies, all borne on scrolling interlocking stems, beneath the cavetto which is decorated with twelve floral sprays. The everted rim is encircled by a band of wind-tossed waves, and the exterior has a further band of composite foliate scroll, all in bright, inky tones of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1570. A large blue and white 'dragon' dish, Jiajing six-character mark in underglaze blue in a line and of the period (1522-1566); 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 32,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2020. The dish is decorated in the center with two dragons writhing above crashing waves and contesting a flaming pearl. Provenance: Dr. Ip Yee (1921-1984) Collection.Property of the Estate of Dr. Ip Yee; Sotheby's Hong Kong,19 November 1984, lot... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3425. A fine famille verte wine-cup, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 1,000,000 - HKD 1,500,000. Price realised HKD 1,360,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 The delicately potted flared sides are well painted with a couple seated on a painting table watching a pair of amorous fowl, next to a willow tree under billowing clouds. The recessed base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, stand, box. Provenance: Estate of Dr. Ip YeeSold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19... [Lire la suite]

Lot 4. A rare copper-red and celadon 'Sanduo' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735). Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 20,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's painted on the exterior in copper-red glaze with plum, pomegranate and peach, each with a single red fruit and leaves with incised veins covered with celadon glaze, the interior similarly decorated with a peach spray bearing two copper-red fruit with incised celadon-glazed leaves, six-character mark in underglaze blue... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3136. A rare pair of famille verte dishes, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 6 ¾ in. (17.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 100,000 - HKD 150,000. Price realised HKD 250,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019 Each dish is delicately enamelled with four colourful butterflies hovering above a leafy crab-apple branch spreading from the reverse, over the rim and to the interior. All bases have an encircled six-character apocryphal Chenghua mark. Provenance: Dr. Ip Yee Collection Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 22 November... [Lire la suite]

A rare teadust-glazed bombe censer, Xianfeng carved four-character seal mark and of the period (1851-1861) © Christie's Image 2003 With a pair of molded mask and ring handles, covered overall with a deep olive glaze thinning to golden buff color on the raised areas and on the mark, the foot rim covered in a purplish-brown wash - 5in. (12.7cm.) across handles. Lot 338. Estimate $3,000 - $4,000. Price Realized $8,365  Provenance: Dr. Ip Yee Collection, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 22 November 1984, lot... [Lire la suite]

Lot 35. A group of three 'Dehua' vessels, Qing dynasty, 17th century and later. Height of largest 9 1/4 in., 23.4 cm. Estimate 5,000 — 7,000 USD. Lot sold 20,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's the first a vase with attenuated cylindrical body surmounted by a narrow neck encircled by a chilongclasping a leafy sprig; the second, a censer of compressed globular form, flanked by lion-mask handles, one side inscribed with characters readingQing xiang Jin yu tang; and the third, a gu-form beaker vase... [Lire la suite]

Lot 27. A 'Langyao' bottle vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 9 1/8 in., 23.2 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 17,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's the pear-shaped body tapering into a tall slender neck, covered overall with a crushed deep-strawberry-crackled glaze, thinning at the mouth rim and pooling at the foot.  Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw Provenance: Property of the Estate of Dr. Ip Yee, Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th November 1984, lot... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1251. A rare Yixing archaistic animal-form water vessel, signed Chen Zhongmei; 11 in. (28 cm.) long. Estimate $150,000 - USD 250,000. Price realised USD 182,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012 Finely modeled in the form of a hoofed animal standing foursquare, the cheeks outlined with curved borders that issue from the tripartite motif that covers the muzzle, with pricked ears and pierced mouth, a collar encircling the neck, scrolled haunches and a long faceted tail, the opening in the... [Lire la suite]