circa 1620

Lot 52. A Regensburg silver gilt tankard, Regensburg, marks of Hans Ludwig Federer, circa 1620. H 18.5 cm, weight 628 g. Estimate: €12,000 - €15,000. Courtesy Kunsthaus Lempertz Slightly tapering vessel on a shallow base, with moulded rim and C-shaped handle. Embossed with animal depictions in oval landscape reserves amid scrollwork and cherub's heads. The domed lid with corresponding decoration, small baluster form finial and a female herm forming the thumb rest. Engraved on the underside with owner's monograms... [Lire la suite]

L0t 200. A rare Ottoman gold openwork mirror, Turkey, circa 1620; 3 7/8in. (10cm.) across. Estimate GBP 30,000 - GBP 50,000. Price realised GBP 79,875. © Christie's Image Ltd 2013 The gold panel of oval form, the back decorated in extremely elegant openwork with a dense floral vine surrounding an avian combat group, a border of meandering floral vine, the remains of textile visible beneath, around this and around the edge of the mirror a minor border set with quatrefoil turquoises alternated with... [Lire la suite]

Lot 384. Portrait of Prince Khurram, Later Shah Jahan, Mughal India, circa 1620. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, in colored borders on gold-flecked cream album leaf, backed on cream card. Painting 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 ins. (16.2 x 10.3 cm.); folio 12 3/8 x 8 ¾ ins. (31.2 x 22.3 cm). Estimate USD 40,000 - USD 60,000. Price realised USD 40,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

Cross, Spain, circa 1700. Gold and diamonds, 9 x 4 cm (3.5 x 1.6 in.) Weight 24.2 g. © Deborah Elvira at TEFAF Maastricht 2019, Stand 151.  Provenance: Private collection, Spain. Reliquary Cross, Spain, circa 1600. Gold, enamel, ebony, ivory, rock crystal, 9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.6 in.) Weight 23.7 g. © Deborah Elvira at TEFAF Maastricht 2019, Stand 151. Saint Vincent Ferrer Pendant, Spain, circa 1620. Gold and enamel, 4 x 2.5 cm (1.6 x 1 in.). © Deborah Elvira at TEFAF Maastricht 2019,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1205. Jacob van Hulsdonck (1582 Antwerpen – 1647), Still life with fruit basket, circa 1620. Oil on panel, 55 x 77 cm. Signed on edge of table. Estimate 300.000-500.000 €. Courtesy Hampel Provenance: Private collection, France. Private collection, Switzerland. Exhibitions: "Art Rules" organized by Art Life Project, Tallinn Town Hall, Estonia, 5 June - 5 October 2015. Note: Van Hulsdonck was particularly fond of grapes, plums, lemons, cherries, apricots and occasionally... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1138. Carl Theodor von Piloty and Franz Adam (Munich 1826–1886 Ambach on Lake Starnberg) and (Milan 1815–1886 Munich), Empress Elisabeth of Austria as bride on horseback in Possenhofen 1853, signed, dated and inscribed n. d. N. v. Carl Piloty. Pferd v. Franz Adam 1853 [painted from nature by Carl Piloty, horse by Franz Adam 1853], oil on canvas, 128 x 108 cm, original frame, (Rei). Estimate EUR 300,000 to 400,000 (USD 328,000 to 437,500). Realized price EUR 1,540,000... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3040. Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg circa 1593 - 1657 Delft), Large still life with fruit on a Delft plate, seashells, insects, flowers in a Wanli vase and two parrots. Circa 1620. Oil on panel. Signed lower centre: .B.vander.ast.., 77 x 107 cm. Estimate CHF 850 000 / 1 200 000 (€ 787 040 / 1 111 110). Photo: Koller. Provenance: - Reverend J. Willemsen collection, Middelburg, 1780.- Kalbfleisch collection, Flushing, NY.- S. Westerman collection, Amsterdam, 1935.- I. Heitmanek-Engeling... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3507. A blue and white tapering cylindrical vase, Late Ming dynasty, Wanli-Tianqi period, circa 1620. Estimate $40,000 – $60,000. Price realised USD 60,000. Photo Christie’s Image Ltd 2015 The elongated vase, with high rounded shoulders and short cylindrical neck, is decorated on the body in rich tones of cobalt blue in a ‘windswept’ style with a continuous landscape with tall craggy mountains, in which two scholars meet and another walks with an attendant, all below panels of birds reserved on... [Lire la suite]

Lot 158. An Iznik pottery dish, Ottoman Turkey, circa 1620. Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 ($2,844 - $4,266). Price Realized £4,750 ($6,755). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016 With sloping rim on short foot, the white interior decorated in cobalt-blue, bole-red, green and black with a large swaying hyacinth sprig surrounded by a floral spray composed of hyacinths, carnations and roses, the border of reciprocal cusped palmettes on green ground, the exterior with alternating blue lozenges and green roundels, old... [Lire la suite]

A Dehua figure of Guanyin, China, Late Ming dynasty, circa 1620. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's the figure modeled standing on a vase brimming with lotus on a bank of swirling waves, wearing long robes that cover the hands, open at the chest to reveal a ruyi-bead necklace, extending to a cowl and falling gracefully to expose one bare foot, the head turned slightly to the left and hair arranged beneath the cowl and fastened with a lotus diadem, the back... [Lire la suite]