Kangxi period

  Dancing Dakini. China, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period. Bronze with lacquer, silver and copper inlaid. Height: 35.4 inches (90 cm). Photo courtesy Jacques Barrère   Blue and white rouleau vase. China, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Height: 17.7 inches (45 cm). Photo courtesy Jacques Barrère   Green Tara. Tibet, 14th Century. Gilt bronze. Height: 10.6 inches (27cm). Photo courtesy Jacques Barrère Gallery M & M, 34 East 67th Street, New York 10065. T (212) 288 0043 - M +33 66 165... [Lire la suite]

A pair of blue and white yenyen vases, Kangxi. Photo courtesy Bonhams Each painted with four panels at the neck and body, depicting scholars, fishermen and boys carrying out various activities amidst a mountainous riverscape with trees and birds, wood stands. The taller 46.7cm (18½in) high (4). Sold for £7,500 (€8,948) Provenance: an English private collection Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street. 7 Nov 2013

A blue and white 'dragon' jar, Kangxi. Photo courtesy Bonhams Of baluster form, painted vividly around the exterior with four scattered roundels, each enclosing a writhing four-clawed dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl, alternating with stylised clouds above foaming waves interspersed with jagged rocks, all between a diaper border and a classic scroll band. 22.5cm (9in) high. Sold for £7,500 (€8,948) Provenance: an English private collection Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street. 7 Nov... [Lire la suite]

A blue and white rouleau vase, Kangxi. Photo courtesy Bonhams The cylindrical body vibrantly painted with two lobed square cartouches, two fan-shaped cartouches and two four-lobed cartouches, variously containing precious objects, mountain scenes and floral sprays, all surrounded by a densely foliate lotus scroll, the neck with decorative fretwork and ruyi-head bands beneath the lipped rim. 45.4cm (17 7/8in) high. Sold for £6,250 (€7,457) Provenance: an English private collection. Bonhams. FINE CHINESE... [Lire la suite]

A rare green-glazed 'six dragon' baluster vase, meiping, Kangxi. Photo courtesy Bonhams The elegant vase incised and enamelled in green with three upper and three lower front-facing five-clawed dragons evenly spaced between flaming pearls and four-pronged cloud scrolls. 36cm (14 1/8in) high. Sold for £35,000 (€41,903) Provenance: acquired in 1946 by Lord (Rolf) Cunliffe from Peter Boode (Cunliffe collection label no.PM 36)Sold at Sotheby's London, 20 May 1952, lot 81A European private collection Bonhams. FINE... [Lire la suite]

An anhua-decorated and green-enamelled 'dragon' dish, Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi. Photo courtesy Bonhams The central medallion enamelled in green with a fiercely-writhing five-clawed dragon clutching at a flaming pearl above an anhua-incised wave-pattern ground within double circles in underglaze blue, the exterior with four green striding five-clawed dragons amid fire and cloud scrolls also on an anhua-incised ground beneath a band of underglaze blue floral and circle motifs. 19.7cm (7 3/4in) diam. Sold for... [Lire la suite]

An aubergine-glazed incense burner, Kangxi. Photo courtesy Bonhams The bulbous body embellished with two applied animal-head handles beneath the lipped rim, all covered with a deep and glossy aubergine glaze, stopping at the foot, the underside also glazed. 22.8cm (9in) wide. Sold for £3,500 (€4,190) Provenance: a Swiss private collection Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street. 7 Nov 2013

Hong Kong – On November 27, 2013, Christie’s Hong Kong will hold three sales of Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art as part of its Hong Kong 2013 Fall Auctions, which are estimated to realise in excess of HK$390 million/US$50 million. Two important single owner collections will be presented, The R.F.A Riesco Collection of Important Chinese Ceramics and Imperial Chinese Porcelain Treasures from a Distinguished American Collection, followed by... [Lire la suite]

A large pair of blue and white 'Chrysanthemum' baluster jars, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's. each robustly-potted body rising from a flat base to a rounded shoulder and short waisted neck, painted around the exterior in rich cobalt-blue tones with leafy scrolling chrysanthemum below a lotus lappet band at the neck, wood covers. Quantité: 4; 39.5cm., 15 1/2 in. Estimation 10,000 - 15,000 GBP Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. London | 06 nov.... [Lire la suite]

A blue and white ‘Fish’ jardinière, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's. the tapering ovoid body with deep rounded sides rising to a wide everted rim, brightly painted to the exterior with four fish swimming amongst waterweeds and other aquatic plants, the interior left plain;23cm., 9in. Estimation 12,000 - 18,000 GBP Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. London | 06 nov. 2013 -http://www.sothebys.com/