Late Qing-Republic Period

Bonhams sale of Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings will offer an impressive array of 250 lots from several notable collections. Highlights include a magnificent and rare 'robin's-egg' glazed archaistic hu-shaped two-handled vase, Qianlong six-character, impressed seal mark and of the period (1736-1795) from the Estate of Robert P. Youngman (estimate: US$400,000-600,000); an impressive zitan luohan chuang (bed) late Qing/Republic Period (estimate: US$200,000-300,000); Mountain Gorge, a splendid modern painting... [Lire la suite]

Lot 12. A pair of famille-rose 'phoenix' bowls, Late Qing-Republic period; Diameter 5⅜ in., 13.6 cm. Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 USD. Lot sold: 5,292 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. each base with an apocryphal six-character Guangxu mark in iron red. Sotheby's. The Hundred Antiques: Fine & Decorative Asian Art, New York, 11-22 June 2021

Lot 598. A part teadust-glazed porcelain model of standing Damo, late Qing-Republic period; H. 57 cm. Estimate: € 2,000 - €3,000. Result: € 2,000. Courtesy Nagel. Provenance: Former old European private collection, assembled prior 1990 - Private property Frankfurt.   Fine Asian Art, Stuttgart - Part I by Nagel Auction, December 8, 2020

Lot 40. A large underglaze red decorated hu-form vase, Late Qing-Republic period; 21 1/4in (54cm) high. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000. Sold for US$ 7,500. © Bonhams. Powerfully drawn with four five-clawed dragons contending in a turbulent sea, the dynamic scene set off by raised elephant handles. Provenance: A Private Oregon Collection by Descent from China.  Bonhams. Chinese Works of Art, Los Angeles, 17 December 2019 

Lot 2149. A pair of famille rose jardinières, Late Qing-Republic period. Estimate US$ 6,000 - 8,000 (€5,700 - 7,600). Photo: Bonhams. Each with bulging sides and flat-lipped rim, painted as mirror images of each other with a pair of magpies in a garden setting of flowering prunus, peony, chrysanthemum and fluttering butterflies, all between lappet borders. 14 1/2in (37cm) diameter Bonhams. CHINESE WORKS OF ART AND PAINTINGS, 13 Mar 2017, 12:00 EDT, NEW YORK

Lot 208. A large Chinese yellow ground and underglaze blue "eight treasures" vase, hu, late Qing-Republic period. Estimate $5,000-8,000. Sold for $21,250. Photo Freeman's the body painted with meandering leafy scroll and the eight treasures of Buddhism, between a band of pendent ruyi motifs and a band of upright lappet border, the neck flanked by a pair of scroll handles; drilled. H: 17 in., 43 cm   Provenance: Property from a Long Island family collection Freeman's. Asian... [Lire la suite]

Lot 9116. Two carved agate containers, Late Qing-Republic period. Estimate USD 800 ~ 1,200. Sold for US$ 1,625 (€1,467). Photo: Bonhams. he first thinly sectioned as a curved leaf forming a shallow well rising from reticulated flowering and fruiting branches with two songbirds perched on the rim, the translucent stone marked with russet patches (losses); the second a libation cup of inverted bell form with handles carved as stylized dragons, the translucent stone of gray with a faint golden cast... [Lire la suite]

Lot 9202. A Group of five civil rank badges, Late Qing-Republic period. Estimate USD 1,500 ~ 2,500. Sold for US$ 1,187 (€1,069). Photo: Bonhams. Including a pair of ninth rank paradise fly catchers still attached to one another, each embroidered with shades of blue and white satin stitches, couched silver and gilt-wrapped threads (wear, soiling); the third a kesi-woven silver pheasant of the fifth rank woven in shades of blue against the present variegated brown ground with some details added in ink... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 9199. A large group of twenty-eight unfinished rank badges, Late Qing-Republic period. Estimate USD 2,000 ~ 3,000. Sold for US$ 3,125 (€2,814). Photo: Bonhams. Including ten pairs in various sizes and embroidery techniques but without any animal or bird for rank designation (many with wear, soiling); one pair of brocade woven badges in black, white and red with what may be the pheasant of the fifth civil rank; one pair embroidered in counted stitch and couched gilt threads with what may be the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 9198. Five pairs of civil rank badges with metallic-wrapped threads, Late Qing-Republic period. Estimate USD 1,500 ~ 2,500. Sold for US$ 2,500 (€2,251). Photo: Bonhams. The first pair kesi-woven with a second rank golden pheasant in gilt-wrapped threads amid blue cloud scrolls and bright red sun (borders torn, worn); the second pair embroidered in counted stitch with a fourth rank wild goose separately worked and applied onto a black gauze badge now lined with cerise silk, both badges and birds combining... [Lire la suite]