Kangxi

Kangxi, Chinese spherical hookah base for the Islamic market, China, 17-18th century. photo courtesy Amir Mohtashemi Ltd Kangxi period (1662-1722) hookah base, which is a copy of the 17th century Indian spherical hookah bases that were made of metal or glass. This hookah base has a globular body with a narrow truncated neck, top grinded, Indian metal rim. Decorated with blossoming prunus trees and peonies in blue and white and red, set in six mihrab panels; later clobbered in red and green enamels. Above the panels... [Lire la suite]

A fine and rare coral-ground famille-verte bowl, Kangxi, Yuzhi mark and period - Sotheby's finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short foot to a gently flaring rim, the exterior richly and freely decorated with flowering blooms, including peony, lily, camellia, and crabapple, the luscious blooms picked out in shaded tones of blue, pale-yellow, lime-green and lavender, and encompassed by slender stems with a myriad of feathery leaves in two shades of green interspersed with tight and opening buds, all reserved against a... [Lire la suite]

A Kangxi blue and white porcelain huqqa base for the Indian market, China, 1662-1722 AD - Sotheby's the porcelain body of squat bulbous form with a later added silver neck and mouth piece, decorated in underglaze blue with six panels each containing a different floral stem, the shoulder with a frieze of flowerheads; 18cm. Estimation: 10,000 - 15,000 GBP NOTE: A similar example sold in these rooms, 6 April 2011, lot 363. Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World. London | 24 avr. 2013 - www.sothebys.com

A mother-of-pearl inlaid black-lacquered Libation Cup, Kangxi, 1662-1722. Photo courtesy Sworders with Daoists in a garden between rocks, bamboo, maple and a summerhouse, the rim with zigzag, the interior lined with silver, strips missing, some wear, 10.5cm. Estimated Price: £200 - £300 Sworders Fine Art Auctionners. Tue 23rd April 2013. http://www.sworder.co.uk

A rare pair of Coffee Cups, early Kangxi, c.1665. Photo courtesy Sworders each enamelled with a yellow ground roundel of a red peony hung from green lotus leaves with blue flowers above red and green stiff border and circles, one cracked, wear, 7.5cm (2). Estimated Price: £600 - £800 Sworders Fine Art Auctionners. Tue 23rd April 2013. http://www.sworder.co.uk

A Chinese blue and white Bowl. Kangxi, 1662-1722. Photo courtesy Sworders with slightly flared rim, painted on the exterior with three flying feng amongst florets and foliage, all on a blue-washed ground, the interior conforming, rosette mark, 19.8cm diameter. Estimated Price: £1000 - £1500 Provenance: formerly in a Scandinavian private collection. Sworders Fine Art Auctionners. Tue 23rd April 2013. http://www.sworder.co.uk

A blue and white flower vase. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722). Photo China Guardian Size: H 45.5 cm. Estimate: HKD 350,000-450,000. Price Realized: HKD 667,000 China Guardian Hong Kong 2013 Spring Auctions. Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. April 4-5 2013.http://english.cguardian.com/

A Chinese Blue and White Huqqa Base Made for the Persian Market, Kangxi, 1662-1722 - Photo Sotheby's pyriform with bulbous base with tapering shoulders terminating in a ringed mouth, the body moulded and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with imbricated lobed registers enclosing potted flowering plants, the neck with an arcade of flowers and diamond trellis motif, base with floral bouquet; 23cm. height. Estimate: 5,000 - 7,000 GBP. LOT SOLD. 6,250 GBP CATALOGUE NOTE: See Yolande Crowe 2002 for details on... [Lire la suite]

A pair of gilt-bronze-mounted Chinese blue and white porcelain cachepots the mounts Régence, early 18th century, the porcelain Kangxi (1622-1722) - Photo Sotheby's each with flowers and scrollwork decoration, the gilt-bronze reeded rim above a hinge with a lion mask on each side with a ring in its jaws above a tapering pierced Berainesque style mount terminating in a fleur de lys ; the porcelain with minor firing defects; each 18cm. high, 24cm. diameter; 7in., 9½in. Estimation: 18,000 - 25,000 GBP ... [Lire la suite]

An extremely rare and exquisite 'bai furong' ink rest, by Zhou Bin Kangxi, dated early summer of 1706, Kangxi. Photo Bonhams The stone of an attractive semi-translucent ivory white colour, exquisitely carved in a rectangular shape and worked on all sides in extraordinary detail, the upper surface intricately incised with an elaborate bafenshu inscription, the reverse with finely worked taotie, ruyi-head and C-scroll motifs, flanked at the sides with further archaistics scrolls, four-character... [Lire la suite]