Kangxi period

Copper-Red Glazed Porcelain Stem Bowl with Fish Decor, China, Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Photo courtesy Auctionata. Porcelain, glazed inside and outside. Retrospective six character mark of the Xuande period (1426-1435) surrounded by double circles on the underside. Copper-red glaze. With fish decoration in reserve on the copper-red ground. Height: 9 cm. Diameter: 10 cm. Very good condition. Estimate €1,920 – €2,400 Provenance: from a German private collection These Chinese porcelain footed bowl was presumably made... [Lire la suite]

A rare and unusual cafe-au-lait ground white-slip decorated 'Dragon' bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's. of conical form, decorated on the exterior with two striding dragons chasing 'flaming pearls' among stylized clouds in white slip, all reserved on a pale coffee brown ground, apocryphal Da Ming Chenghua nianzhi mark in underglaze blue within double circles. Diameter 7 3/4 in., 19.6 cm/ Estimation 8,000 — 12,000 USD Provenance: Seattle Art Museum.Sotheby's New York, 2nd November 1979, lot 367 Litterature:... [Lire la suite]

A powder blue and gilt-ground famille-verte rouleau vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's. reserved with four upright rectangular panels with birds perched on flowering and fruiting branches, the neck with two panels of flowering plants, all on a bright blue ground gilt with lotus scroll on the body and a wan diaper pattern around the neck, the base glazed white, apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark. Height 18 in., 46 cm. Estimation 20,000 — 30,000 USD PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTOR There appear... [Lire la suite]

  A blue and white 'Landscape' rouleau vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's. painted with a scene of a mountainous river landscape with rocks, a fishermen steering a boat on the lake below birds in flight, two scholars in conversation on a rocky bank, and another walking towards a pavilion, all below floral sprays and a single bowstring band around the neck. Height 18 1/2 in., 47 cm. Estimation 25,000 — 35,000 USD Provenance: Collection of Della Brooks Walker van Loben Sels (1878-1978), California, (according to... [Lire la suite]

A pair of blue and white 'Soldier' vases, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's. each jar of massive baluster form, well-painted in underglaze blue with a continuous pond scene of lotus and other aquatic plants issuing from calm waters above a narrow lappet band, the shoulder with a pendent blue ground ruyi collar enclosing stylized floral scrolls beneath a band of floral cartouches reserved on a diaper ground, the short straight neck with blossoming branches beneath a ruyi band at the lipped rim, the domed covers decorated... [Lire la suite]

A celadon-ground, underglaze blue and copper red baluster vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's. the elegantly potted ovoid body rising to a slightly flared neck encircled by a single raised fillet, well-painted in raised white slip and underglaze blue and copper red on a celadon ground with flowering prunus branches emerging from rockwork with two small birds darting above, the interior and base glazed white. Height 17 in., 43 cm. Estimation 8,000 — 10,000 USD PROPERTY FROM THE MACDOUGALD... [Lire la suite]

Two blue and white baluster jars and covers, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's each jar molded with three registers of barbed lappet panels each enclosing a flowering tree emerging from rockwork and festooned with hanging vines, the branches and leaves cross-hatched, all between diaper bands at the rim and base, repeated on the domed fitted cover with pointed knop (4). Height of taller 23 1/2 in., 59.7 cm. Estimation 12,000 — 18,000 USD PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PETER L. ROSENBERG A jar of the same form and design is... [Lire la suite]

A pair of Famille-Verte square dishes, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's the shallow sides rising to flat rims, all resting on low, wide conforming foot, both painted on the biscuit, one with a butterfly and grasshopper above pierced rockwork, large leaves and flowering plants, the other with seven fish swimming in a lotus pond amongst flowers and leaves, the exteriors with various floral sprays, the bases with four-character marks of Yu Hai Tang zhi, 'made for the Hall of the Jade Sea' in black enamel within a... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-Verte cup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's of deep U-shape, the exterior decorated with a scene from Wang Shifu's Xixiang Ji (Romance of the Western Chamber), depicting the lovers Cui Yingying and Lin Sheng observed by Hong Niang in a terrace garden setting. Height 4 3/8 in., 11 cm. Estimation 5,000 — 7,000 USD A cup of this form also painted with a figural scene is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Musée Guimet, 1981, no. 139; another of slightly smaller size in the... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-Verte 'Longevity' dish, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's enameled to the interior with a scene of Magu, the Goddess of Longevity, standing beside a spotted deer pulling a cart holding a wine jar with lotus leaf cover, followed by a female attendant carrying a staff suspending a bundle of scrolls and lingzhi tied with ribbons, below iron-red bats in flight, the exterior of the dish decorated with wide bands of stylized shou characters, apocryphal Chenghua mark within a double circle. Diameter 15 3/4 in., 40... [Lire la suite]