Water Vessel

Yu (water vessel) Commissioned by the Marquis of Qi, Late Spring and Autumn (570–476 BCE). Height 43.5 cm, Diameter of mouth 70.3 cm. Unearthed from the Great Channel of Zhongzhou, Luoyang, 1957. © Luoyang Museum.

Lot 23. An archaic ritual bronze water vessel 'he' with an anthropomorphic cover, probably late Shang dynasty, ca. 1200-1100 B.C. or later. H. 19,3 cm. Sold: €52 000 (Estimate €4 000 - €6 000). Photo Nagel Auction. The vessel cast in two parts with thin azurite and malachite patina, the lid in anthropomorphic form of a face with broad nose, bulging lips, wrinkled forehead and large, wide open eyes, at the temples with two bottle-shaped horns. The body with relief decoration of a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 15. A bronze ritual food vessel (gui), Early Western Zhou dynasty, 11th-10th century BC. Length 11 5/8  in., 29.5 cm. Lot Sold: 125,000 USD. (Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 USD). © Sotheby's boldly cast with a swelling body below an everted rim with a band of eight archaistic kui dragons between bow-string borders and divided into four pairs by a small animal mask on each side, the vessel flanked by a pair of loop handles each issuing from a bovine mask and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 787. A Shufu-glazed bowl, a Yingqing water vessel and a light turquoise-glazed ewer, Yuan-early Ming dynasty. D. 13,3/ 8,8, H. 11,8 cm. Sold: €1,500 (Est: €900 - €1,500). © 2021 Nagel Auctions Provenance: Old and important Berlin private collection, no. 372 (Shufu bowl) former collection Eleonore von Erdberg sold 14.6.2003, lot 418 with Klefisch in Cologne, no.160 (water vessel) bought 17.10.1974 from Dr. Werner Schmidt, Berlin, the ewer bought in the Berlin art trade prior 1980. Nagel... [Lire la suite]

Lot 906. A bronze ritual water vessel, pan, Middle Western Zhou dynasty, 10th-9th century BC; 14 ¼ in. (39.5 cm.) wide across handles. Estimate USD 40,000 - USD 60,000. Price realised USD 175,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017  The shallow body is flanked by a pair of upright U-shaped handles and decorated on the exterior with a band of scrolls, above a band of reversed Z-shapes with cusped ends on the pedestal foot. The interior has a later-added graph in the center and inscription to one... [Lire la suite]

Lot 660. A rare blue and white water vessel, Ming Dynasty, Late 15th-Early 16th century. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's. the globular body molded at the widest point with two raised horizontal ribs, with further ribs to the shoulder rising to a deep bowl-shaped mouth, the inside of the neck with a reticulated filter, the body densely painted with broad bands of lotus and peony scrolls, with a band of lappets at the foot, and the waisted neck with segmented florets, all divided by... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1251. A rare Yixing archaistic animal-form water vessel, signed Chen Zhongmei; 11 in. (28 cm.) long. Estimate $150,000 - USD 250,000. Price realised USD 182,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012 Finely modeled in the form of a hoofed animal standing foursquare, the cheeks outlined with curved borders that issue from the tripartite motif that covers the muzzle, with pricked ears and pierced mouth, a collar encircling the neck, scrolled haunches and a long faceted tail, the opening in the... [Lire la suite]

A Peach-Bloom Glazed Water Vessel with Jade and Silver Mounts, in the Manner of Edward I. Farmer of beehive form, the body with a mottled dusty rose glaze speckled with white and green, the underside bearing a six-character Kangxi mark, the foot and neck mounted with American silver bands stamped with anthemia, the hinged cover enclosing a pierced and carved jade pebble, depicting a fish among lotus and water-weeds, the stone of a pale celadon tone, retaining traces of the russet skin, underside of cover stamped STERLING, glass... [Lire la suite]