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Anonymous court painter, Portrait of Emperor Yongzheng in his study. Ink and colour on silk. Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period. Ht. 171.3 cm Wi. 156.5 cm.© The Palace Museum. TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum unveiled The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors, presented by the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation with Manulife as Lead Sponsor. The exhibition is on display in the Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall from Saturday, March 8 until Monday, September 1, 2014. Presented in collaboration with Beijing’s Palace Museum,... [Lire la suite]

A purple-splashed 'Junyao' ewer, Jin Dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's. of bud form, the globular body rising from a short foot and flanked on one side with a short spout opposite a C-shaped handle, covered overall in a lavender-blue glaze suffused with dark purple splashes to one side, the glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the dark brown body. Height 3 3/8 in., 8.5 cm. Estimation 8,000 — 12,000 USD Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

  A 10th-century rock crystal ewer from Egypt. The Keir Collection of Islamic Art via Dallas Museum of Art. DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it will receive a long-term loan of one of the world’s largest private holdings of Islamic art, transforming the Museum’s Islamic art collection into the third largest of its kind in North America. Assembled over the course of five decades by the noted art collector Edmund de Unger (1918–2011), the Keir Collection is recognized by scholars as one of the... [Lire la suite]

A fine and rare Mughal-style jade ewer, 17th-18th century. Photo courtesy Bonhams. The thinly-worked globular body surmounted by a ribbed flaring neck resting on a spreading foot, set with a leaf-shaped loop handle and a long, slightly tapering spout, the exterior with evenly-spaced grooves and carved in low relief with borders of petals around the foot and shoulder, the base formed as a floral medallion encircling a star-shaped stamen, the finely-polished semi-translucent stone of striated grey tone. 16.5cm (6½in) long. Estimate... [Lire la suite]

A silver-mounted blue and white ewer, Ming dynasty, Chongzhen period. Photo Sotheby's the globular body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck, set with a loop handle, the body brightly painted with a kneeling attendant offering an official’s hat to a dignitary surrounded by further attendants and soldiers, all between a floral scroll and lappet band, the foot encircled by wavy lappets, the neck and the handle decorated with stylised floral sprays, the neck reduced and mounted with an engraved silver rim; 35.2cm.,... [Lire la suite]

The ewer has been in the family since Lord Curzon of Kedelston was Viceroy of India 1899–1905.  EDINBURGH.- A rare Mughal mother of pearl ewer once owned by Lord Curzon, Viceroy to India and dating from the 17th century, sold for £70,850 at Lyon & Turnbull on the 23rd October 2013.  The ewer has been in the family since Lord Curzon of Kedelston was Viceroy of India 1899–1905; it was left to his daughter Lady Cynthia Curzon who married Sir Oswald Mosley, then to her grandson Rupert Forbes Adam.  Gujarat is... [Lire la suite]

An important blue and white ewer, Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Period. Photo: Sotheby's. the pear-shaped body tapering up to a narrow neck and a square-lipped rim, set with a tall curved spout connected to the neck by a cloud-shaped strut, opposite an arched strap handle accented by a central raised ridge and a pointed terminal, the handle surmounted by a small lug, freely painted around the body with a broad chrysanthemum scroll issuing two large blossoms on each... [Lire la suite]

Chinese White Jade Ewer, 18th Century. The phoenix form base carved in high relief and rising to a wide lipped mouth, the tail forming the handle, incised details, stone an even white tone. Height 7 1/2 inches. Estate of Luz Papasian. Sold For $2,853,000. Photo Doyle NewYork NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle New York's Asian Works of Art auction on September 16, 2013 attracted strong competition from an international audience of bidders in the salesroom, on the telephones, and live on the Internet. The auction offered over 400 lots... [Lire la suite]

Ewer. Unknown. Chinese porcelain 1662 - 1722, French mounts 1700 - 1710. Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration; gilt bronze mounts. H: 1 ft. 6 in. x W: 1 ft. 1 7/8 in. x D: 5 3/8 in. 82.DI.3. The J. Paul Getty Museum ©J. Paul Getty Trust One of the earliest known examples of the French fashion for mounting Chineseporcelain, this ewer arrived in Europe around 1700. Although conceived as a functional vessel for beer or milk tea in China, the ewer's European owner would have... [Lire la suite]

Ewer, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Zhengde period (1506–21), ca. 1520. Chinese for the Portuguese market. Hard paste. H. 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm). Apocryphal mark of the Xuande period (1426–35). Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1961 (61.196). The Metropolitan Museum of Art © 2000–2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Islamic form of this ewer is a reminder that the West came late to the export trade, and its impromptu nature is further emphasized by the royal... [Lire la suite]