black lacquer

Lot 3142. A Black Lacquer Bowl and Cover, Ming Dynasty. Estimate 500,000 — 700,000 HKD. Lot sold 560,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. with deep rounded sides of the exterior deeply and densly carved through layers of black lacquer sandwiching two thin red layers, with two rows of upright guri pommels, above a row of smaller inverted ruyi-shaped pommels skirting the foot, all on a slightly tapered foot, fitted with a hemispherical domed cover... [Lire la suite]

Cartier Royal ring, 18K white gold, one 2.60 carat rose-cut diamond, black lacquer, brilliant-cut diamonds. Cartier Royal ring, platinum, one 22.75 carat sugarloaf sapphire from Ceylon, brilliant-cut diamonds. Cartier Royal ring, platinum, one 20.02 carat emerald-cut pink spinel, onyx, brilliant-cut diamonds.  Photos courtesy Cartier

  A pair of black lacquer foliate dishes, Song dynasty.  Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD. Lot sold 437,500 HKD (437,500 EUR). Photo courtesy Sotheby's each finely constructed with shallow rounded sides rising from a low foot to a slightly everted six-lobed gilt rim, divided into six lobes by small ridges evenly radiating around the cavetto, the lacquer of a lustrous deep brownish-black colour - 15.5 cm., 6 1/8  in. Note: The present dish takes its petal-lobed... [Lire la suite]

Tea bowl decorated with scenes of eight children at play, China, Jiajing period (1522 - 1566), Ming dynasty (1368  - 1644), carved cinnabar lacquer, 6.3 x 11.2 cm,. Gift of Mr J.H. Myrtle 1989, 247.1989. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (C) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Covered box decorated with lychee sprays, late 16th century, China, Jiajing period (1522 - 1566), Ming dynasty (1368  - 1644), carved cinnabar lacquer with black... [Lire la suite]

A very rare and fine bracket-lobed black lacquer dish, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014 The bracket-lobed dish has shallow rounded sides which rise to an everted, beaded rim, and stands on a recessed, flat base. It is lacquered all over in dark brown, suffused with fine crackles. 7 in. (18 cm.) wide, Japanese fitted wood box. Estimate HK$1,500,000 - HK$2,000,000 ($194,359 - $259,145). Price Realized HK$1,840,000 ($238,358) Provenance: An Important Collection of Early Chinese Lacquer,... [Lire la suite]

A black lacquer four-case inro. By a member of the Kajikawa family, 19th century. Photo Bonhams. Decorated in gold, silver and iro-e takamaki-e with a teamaster on his hands and knees, visible from the partially-open sliding door of a snow-covered rustic tea hut, greeting his guest, shown on the reverse, as he walks along the narrow garden path paved with imperfect stones, his body humbly lowered in preparation for the experience of tea, a stone basin for ritual cleansing and ladle in the left foreground, the interior of... [Lire la suite]

A black lacquer four-case inro. By a member of the Kajikawa family, 19th century. Photo Bonhams. The rich roiro ground embellished with kirikane and lacquered with cock and hen pheasants among wild plants, in gold and coloured takamaki-e with hirame highlights, the interior of nashiji, signed Kajikawa saku with red pot seal Ei; with carnelian ojime and modern wood manju netsuke. 8.9cm (3½in) high. Estimate £2,500 - 3,000 (€3,100 - 3,700) Bonhams. FINE JAPANESE ART, London, New Bond Street, 15 May... [Lire la suite]

A black lacquer seven-case inro. By Koma Kansai, 19th century. Photo Bonhams. Decorated in gold and red takamaki-e, kirikane and e-nashiji with a giant ceremonial gakudaiko (drum) partially hidden behind a sumptuous brocade curtain beneath flowering branches of maple, the design of the curtain continuing on the reverse, the interior of rich nashiji, signed Koma Kansai zo. 10cm (3 7/8in) high. Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 €3,700 - 4,900Bonhams. FINE JAPANESE ART, London, New Bond Street, 15 May 2014 -http://www.bonhams.com/

A black lacquer four-case inro. The inro by Kajikawa Bunryusai, with a wood netsuke by Arima Tomonobu, both 19th century. Photo Bonhams. The roiro ground decorated in gold, kirikane, togidashi maki-e and iro-e takamaki-e with the Bodhisattva Jizo holding a shakujo (Buddhist staff) and wearing a large lotus leaf on his head fording the Sanzukawa (River of Three Crossings), accompanied by Emma-O, God of Hell, holding a bamboo rod, a willow tree on the shore, the trailing branches of willow continuing on the reverse, the... [Lire la suite]

A black lacquer writing box decorated with painted gold lacquer showing an Imperial Dragon en face, China, Qianlong period. Photo Nagel. Square box with silk interior. Traces of age, few cracks, edges partly chipped, stains of top of the cover. 30,5x27,5x4,5 cm. Estimate 2500/3500 € Compare also with a Qianlong example, illustrated in Qing Legacies, The Sumptuous Art of Imperial Packaging, The MacauMuseum of Art, Exhib.cat., Macau, December 2000, no.24,p. 99. Nagel. "Asiatische Kunst". 8.5.2014 -... [Lire la suite]