Qianlong period

Lot 2267. A fine and rare blue and white 'Dragon' bowl, Qianlong period, Zhiyuan Tang hall mark (1736-1795); 5 5/8 in. (14.1 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000. Price realised HKD 525,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 The exterior finely painted with two dragons striding amidst clouds and above waves crashing against rocks at the four cardinal points, Japanese wood box. Provenance: A private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, sold at Christie's New York, 21 March... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 87. A rare dancing Tyrolean couple, Qianlong period, circa 1752; 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 25,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018  After a Meissen model, the couple in the midst of a lively dance, clasping each other's hands and balancing on one foot as they look over each other's shoulder. Provenance: The collection of Sir Mark Wrightson, Bt., England. MARCHANT, EST. 1925 (Lots 59-100 and 116-173)  ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 190. A rare initialed fox hunting punch bowl, Qianlong period, circa 1795; 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 27,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 With a continuous foxhunting scene showing the mounted hunters and their pack, each side with neoclassical shield initialed 'WE' in gilt script, the interior with a similar initialed shield beneath underglaze blue and gilt border. Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 31. A large pair of 'Tobacco leaf' beaker vases, Qianlong period, circa 1775; 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised USD 27,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 In the classic pattern with vivid famille rose colors. Christie's. Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, 18 January 2018, New York

  Lot 49. A very large blue-ground famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, mid 18th century; 23 ¾ in. (60.3 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised USD 37,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 Each side decorated with shaped panel enclosing phoenix among large peony blossoms, two applied gilt-metal beast head-handles with loose rings, the interior with carp, shrimp, crabs and sea plantlife. Provenance: With Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 198. A boar's head soup tureen and cover, Qianlong period, circa 1760; 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) long. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 37,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 Naturalistically modeled with raised snout and staring eyes, the open mouth revealing teeth, tongue and fangs, glazed in iron-red, grisaille and famille rose. Provenance: The collection of Florence Adele Sloane Burden of Manhattan and Long Island, New York. A great-granddaughter of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 129. A famille rose fish bowl, Qianlong period, circa 1740; 23 ½ in. (59.7 cm.) diameter, 16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 40,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 Finely enameled with a fenced garden showing birds hovering above peonies growing from rockwork, all between molded lion head handles, the interior with various carp and shellfish swimming amongst aquatic plants. Provenance: with Ed Hardy, San Francisco. Anonymous sale;... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 125. A large verte-Imari monteith, Qianlong period, circa 1740; 20 ¼ (51.5 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 50,000 - USD 80,000. Price realised USD 87,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 Brightly painted on each side with large blooms growing from blue rockwork, smaller sprays on the sides, the lappets floral-decorated on each side, the inside with matching floral decoration. Provenance: Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 March 1989, lot 331. The Collection of Benjamin... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 103. A very rare set of blue and white 'Tea Cultivation' dishes, Qianlong period, circa 1750; 15 1/8 in. (38.5 cm.) diameter, the largest. Estimate USD 40,000 - USD 60,000. Price realised USD 150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 Painted with the various stages of tea cultivation within borders ofrocaillerie, numbered in underglaze blue to reverse, in various sizes. Note: In the 1690s the Kangxi Emperor commissioned a work to portray significant Chinese industries,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3008. An imperially inscribed imperial octagonal inkstone, Qianlong period, dated to the bingshen year, 1776; 14.7 cm., 5 3/4  in. Estimation 600,000 — 800,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,360,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's 2013 the She inkstone of flat octagonal form, carved to one side with a slightly graded surface pooling the water in a small well, the recessed base on the reverse inscribed with a long poem dated to the bingshen year (corresponding to 1776), followed... [Lire la suite]