cinnabar

Lot 227. A large carved cinnabar mallow form box and cover, Qing dynasty, 18th century. H: 12.5 cm - Ø: 40.0 cm. Estimate 6 000 € - 8 000 €. Lot sold 39 000 €. Courtesy Asium-Millon. The top of the cover is deeply carved within an octafoil panel to depict a garden scene with sages and their attendants centered with a bridge and river. Each of the eight sides is decorated with flowers growing on branches within a cartouche, interspersed with lotus flowers, which is repeated on the box. Chine, XVIIIe... [Lire la suite]

Vandenbrandeite, Kasolite, Cuprosklodowskite, Uranophane, Digenite, and Uraninite Iridescent Ferberite with Siderite - Portugal Leiteite (white), Stranskiite (blue) and Warikahnite (orange) Cinnabar, Quartz and Dolomite - China  Rhodochrosite on Quartz - China

Manganese Oxides, Analcime. Locality: Fara Vicentino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy. Base 3,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi Cinnabar. Locality: Nikitovka Deposit, Novyi Donbass, Gorlovka, Donets'k Oblast' (Donetsk Oblast'), Ukraine. Picture width 8 mm. Photographer and collection O. Dziallas Strengite. Locality: Girard, Girard District, Burke Co., Georgia, USA. 2.6mm strengite cluster with nice surface features. Don Reems collection. JBS photo. Smithsonite. Locality: Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb,... [Lire la suite]

Cinnabar with Calcite / Tongren, China.

A fine lacquer bowl, wood with cinnabar red carved lacquer  decor, China, 1st half of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), late 15th or early 16th century, c. 1500, Photo Nagel the finely carved lacquer bowl is decorated on a broad frieze with peony flowers and leaves. D. 15,5 cm. Lot 1240. Estimate 3000 € Nagel Auctions. "Asian Art". May 10th 2012 http://www.auction.de/

An important Cinnabar box and cover. Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Photo Czerny's Cylindrical shape consisting in three sections fitted one into the other, resting on a short ring foot decorated with key-fret. The external surface decorated with large blooming peonies and leaves. high 22 cm. Estimate 10000.00 | 12000.00 € CZERNY'S INTERNATIONAL AUCTION HOUSE 11 december 2011. Ltd. P.zza V. Veneto, 17-19 19038 Sarzana (Sp) Italy. Tel.: +39 0187 69 13 76 Fax: +39 0187 69 27 03 info@czernys.com

A Japanese cinnabar lacquer on bronze snuff bottle. 1800-1900. photo courtesy Sotheby's of flattened spade shape below a cylindrical neck and metal-bound mouth, resting on a flat oval base, finely carved with a continuous field of magnolia blossoms and leaves, one face depicting a phoenix elegantly perched on a stem, the gilded bronze base incised with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong nianzhi mark; height 2 3/4 in., 7 cm - Estimate 10,000—15,000 USD. Lot Sold 20,000 USD PROVENANCE: Sotheby's London, 2nd... [Lire la suite]

A rare cinnabar lacquer jar. Mark and period of Qianlong of compressed globular form with an incurved mouth, the lateritious red lacquer deeply carved on the exterior with a fine continuous landscape of ladies and boys in an enclosed palatial garden, the ladies enjoying themselves in a leisurely fashion, while servants carrying trays and other offerings scurry around, all set between a band of carved lotus flowers around the mouth, with interlinked bats just below and upright lotus petals skirting the foot, the shoulders set... [Lire la suite]