pomegranate

Sevan Biçakçi. Pomegranate Ring.

Verdura. Pomegranate earclips. Photo courtesy Verdura Sapphire, ruby and gold. Price: $24,500  (http://www.verdura.com/)

Verdura, Pomegranate brooch. Photograph by Tino Hammid. set with peridot, ruby cabochons, and yellow diamonds in gold; circa 1945. 2 1/2 inches wide. 

Persian ancient ancient necklace and necklace pendant : Ancient 22 karat gold necklace with 27 hollow pear shaped beads, and a pendant in the shape of pomegranate. Probably belonged to a King or Queen. 500 B.C.

Water pot in the form of a half pomegranate. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, about AD 1600–1630. Height: 44 millimetres. Width: 95 millimetres. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Registration number: PDF,A.637. © Trustees of the British Museum.  Porcelain water-pot in the form of a half pomegranate with applied leaves and branches. Underglaze blue on branch-shaped handle and tops of fruit and leaves. Two applied fruit-shaped... [Lire la suite]

A pair of  lavender-blue 'Pomegranate' vases. Haorang Tang mark, Daoguang Period. Photo Sotheby's each of globular form, the waisted neck terminating in five everted folds of the fruit's stem, slip-decorated with a leafy flowering bough and a small single blossom, covered overall in a lustrous lavender-blue glaze draining to a pale blue over the decoration and around the rim of the mouth, the footring unglazed for firing, the three-character mark in underglaze blue on the countersunk base,... [Lire la suite]

An assembled pair of Chinese Export  blue and white pomegranate tureens, civers and stands. circa 1780. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 Each cover molded with three small pomegranates, their stem forming the finial, the rim of the cover and stand in a "Fitzhugh" type pattern, the tureen body and stand painted with pagodas in landscape; 9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diameter, the slightly larger stand (6).  Estimate $2,500 - $3,500 .  Christie's. Chinese Export Art. 23 January 2012. New... [Lire la suite]

Mariano Fortuny Pink Coral Stencilled Velvet Long Coat. Photo Vintage Luxury Silk, velvet ,metallic pigments.. Pattern: Nicolo and Pomegranates. Length 46". Sleeve 30". Hem 70". Price contact dealer Fortunys coats take their inspiration from a myrid of references,renaissance ,persian,arabic .These are often elaborately decorated in historical motifs surprisingly unrelated to the cut itself.The hand stenciling is done with real silver metallic pigments aged to a mellow, burnished color. Fortuny built his stenciled pieces layer... [Lire la suite]

A copper-red 'three fruits' bowl.. Kangxi six-character mark and of the period. Photo Bonhams The bowl with a short foot rising to a flared rim, the exterior with three fruits of pomegranate, persimmon and peach in underglaze copper-red, all on white ground. 15.2cm diam. Sold for HK$540,000 清康熙 釉裡紅三果圖碗 雙圈青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 Provenance來源: Carl Kempe collectionSotheby's Paris, 12 June 2008, lot 82.Illustrated出版: B.Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 783.Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a... [Lire la suite]

A pair of blue and white garden seats. Ming dynasty, Wanli period. photo Sotheby's each of bombe rounded form with a lion mask handle applied to each side at the centre of the body, painted with a wide central band of peacocks amongst peony issuing from rockwork, between two bands of raised bosses, above a band of breaking waves at the base and below a band of shaped cloud collar panels of peony, the upper surface with four Buddhistic lions playing animatedly with brocade balls, around a central pierced roundel in the form of a... [Lire la suite]