Samuel T. Peters Collection

Lot 123. A small white-glazed globular bottle vase, 18th-19th century; 7 in. (17.8 cm) high. Estimate USD 1,000 - USD 1,500. Price Realised USD 4,375. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The vase with a globular body and a slender neck is carved with peonies issuing from rocks, and two birds on one side. Property from the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine. Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection, no.114.Louisine Peters Weekes Tcherepnine (1886-1952).Adaline Hathaway Weekes... [Lire la suite]

Lot 120. A purple-splashed Jun jar, Jin-Yuan Dynasty (1115-1368); 4 1⁄2 in. (12 cm.) across handles. Estimate USD 600 - USD 800. Price Realised USD 2,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The jar with a globular body has two small loop handles on the mouth, and is covered with a glaze of pale milky-blue color splashed with purple which falls irregularly above the foot. Property from the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine. Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 118. Two small purple-splashed 'ma jun' vases, Ming dynasty or later; The larger, 53⁄4 in. (14.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 600 - USD 800. Price Realised USD 2,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The first, a small vase with bulbous body is covered with a glaze of pale sky-blue color accented with faint splashes of purple; the second, a ‘garlic head’ vase is covered overall with a glaze of pale sky-blue color decorated with purple splashes, the base carved with a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 118. A large Jun bowl, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); 7 1⁄4 in. (18.5 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 600 - USD 800. Price Realised USD 5,625. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The bowl is of deep, rounded conical form, and is covered inside and out with a glaze of pale milky-blue color thinning to mushroom on the rim and falling in an irregular line above the foot. Property from the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine. Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection, no. 518.Louisine... [Lire la suite]

Lot 115. A Yaozhou conical bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279); 81⁄8 in. (20.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 600- USD 800. Price Realised USD 1,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020 The conical sides that rise to a slightly lipped rim are applied on the interior with six slender ribs of slip that define six petals, and the bowl is covered inside and out with an olive-green glaze that thins over the ribs. Property from the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine. Provenance: Samuel T. Peters... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1. A purple-splashed Jun deep bowl, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); 43⁄8 in. (11.1 cm.) high. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000 (EUR 5,353.80 - EUR 7,138.40). Price realised USD 11,875. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. The deep, rounded sides are covered inside and out with a thick glaze of milky blue tone decorated on the exterior with three purple splashes suffused with copper-green spots, the glaze stopping above the foot on the exterior and above the center on the interior. Provenance: Samuel T.... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1346. Two Junyao deep bowls, Song-Jin Dynasty, 11th-12th century; 7 1/8 and 7 in. (18 and 17.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 11,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010.  Both with flared sides rounding upwards to the upright rim, covered inside and out with a milky blue glaze thinning to mushroom on the rim and falling in a slightly irregular line onto the neatly cut foot to expose the grey ware burnt pale brown in the firing, the interior of the foot... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1203. An eel-skin-glazed bottle vase, 18th century; 14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm.) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 10,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012  The globular body tapers towards the foot and the tall cylindrical neck. It is covered overall with a smooth, finely mottled opaque glaze of dark and paler olive-green tones that thins to a brown color on the rim and shades to a darker brown above the foot, which is covered with a brown wash. Provenance: Samuel... [Lire la suite]

Lot 34. A large carved Longquan celadon pear-shaped bottle, Ming dynasty (1368-1644); 183⁄4 in. (47.6 cm.) high. Estimate: USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price Realised: USD 3,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 The heavily potted vase has an ovoid body carved in relief with blossoming peony branches below a band of incised upright plantain leaves on the tall cylindrical neck that flares very slightly towards the rim, and it is covered with a crackled glaze of olive-green color that continues over the mouth rim... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1013. A Jun bud-form water pot, Jin-Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century; 4 3/8 in. (11 cm) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019. The water pot of lotus-bud-form is covered inside and out with a thick glaze of milky, pale-blue color thinning to a mushroom at the mouth rim and ending in an irregular line above the waisted foot to expose the buff stoneware body. Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection, New York.Warren E. Cox Associates, Inc., New York, 1975. ... [Lire la suite]