ovoid jar

  Lot 1492. A Cizhou-type brown slip-painted ovoid jar, Jin-Yuan Dynasty (1115-1368); 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price realised USD 3,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 The upper body is freely painted in brown with foliate scroll alternating with clouds between line borders on a white slip and under a clear glaze that also covers the brown slip on the lower body and foot. There are small foliate sprays between the four ribbed strap handles applied... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1178. A Cizhou-type white-glazed bowl with 'pie crust' rim, Northern Song dynasty, 10th century; Bowl 4¾ in. (12 cm.) diam.; jar 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 8,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 The bowl has deep, flared sides that round upwards to the pinched 'pie crust' rim, and is covered inside and out with a glaze of ivory color that falls irregularly onto the knife-cut foot exposing the granular ware. Together with a... [Lire la suite]

Lot 52. Two blue and white ovoid jars, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 77⁄8 in. (20 cm.) high; 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high. Estimate: USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price Realised: USD 5,625. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Each rounded ribbed jar is decorated with four medallions enclosing a figural scene, one with an apocryphal Jiajing mark on the base, the other with an apocryphal Chenghua mark. The Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Family Collection. Provenance: One jar: Warren E. Cox & Associates Inc.,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 81. A 'jun' ovoid jar, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); height 4 in., 10.2 cm; widest 5 1/4 in., 13.3 cm. Estimate USD 10,000 — 15,000. Lot sold USD 12,500. © Sotheby's.  the globular body tapering down to a slightly flared foot, with a short upright neck supporting the generously wide mouth rim, an unctuous glaze of sky-blue tone applied to the interior and exterior, stopping evenly mid-foot and thinning on the rim to reveal the mushroom-colored body, the fine ware, revealed at the foot rim,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1319. A rare large gold-splashed bronze ovoid jar, 17th-18th century; 17¾ in. (45.1 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 56,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010. With six whorl roundels on the shoulder below the waisted neck, the exterior and base liberally splashed with gold in contrast to the golden olive patina, the base cast with a Xuande four-character mark within a rectangle, wood stand. Provenance: Christie's, New York, 4 June 1992, lot 140. Christie's. Fine... [Lire la suite]

Small Ovoid Jar with Short Neck and Wide Mouth and with Decoration of Bowstring Lines, Cham kingdom, 9th-10th century, Vietnam. Turned bronze with incised decor. H. 14.2 x Diam. 19.1 cm (5 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Walter C. Sedgwick and partial purchase through the Louis Sidney Thierry Memorial Fund, 2006.169.9 © President and Fellows of Harvard College Stemcup with Knobbed Stem and Flaring Mouth, Cham kingdom, 9th-10th century, Vietnam. Turned bronze.H. 18.7 x... [Lire la suite]

Lot 949. A large blue and white ovoid jar, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795); 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised USD 50,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014   The jar is decorated in rich tones of underglaze blue with a dense allover design of lotus scroll below a double band of overlapping petal tips on the short neck, box. Note: The decoration on the present jar appears to be an adaptation of a Ming-dynasty... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1717. A famille verte ovoid jar, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 7½ in. (19 cm.) high. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000. Price Realized $7,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011. Painted on the exterior with two meandering scrolls bearing leaves and large stylized blossoms, each with different centers and different color combinations, all between aruyi-cloud and wan-fret band incorporating dragon-filled reserves at the shoulder and a lappet band encircling the foot, wood cover.  Christie's. Fine Chinese... [Lire la suite]

Lot 457. A pair of famille-verte ovoid jars, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 21.5 cm, 8 1/2  in. Estimate £4,000 - £6,000. Sold: £9,375. © Sotheby's  each brightly enamelled around the exterior with a ram and a hound divided by a bird in flight, all within a rocky landscape, the shoulder with cusped panels enclosing birds and animals reserved on a trellis-diaper band, later pierced wood covers. Provenance: L. Wannieck, Paris (according to label on one).Paul Bridgeman (according... [Lire la suite]

Lot 241. A blue and white ovoid jar, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 24.5 cm, 9 5/8  in. Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000. Lot Sold: £17,500. © Sotheby's the rounded sides of the jar rising to a short unglazed neck, painted on one side with a lotus waterscape cartouche detailed with large blooms and lotus pads, the opposite side with a scene of two scholars conversing within a 'Master of the Rocks' style mountainscape, the cover decorated with flying insects encircling blooming peonies... [Lire la suite]