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Chinese steel mirror with lac burgaute decoration &bronze mirror. possibly Shang dynasty

Chinese steel mirror with lac burgaute decoration. Photo courtesy Freeman's The circular mirror decorated to one side with mother-of-pearl figures in a black ground within a petal border. D: 8 1/2 in. Estimate $1,200-1,500 Chinese bronze mirror. possibly...

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Tags: Shang Dynasty, bronze mirror, lac burgaute decoration, steel mirror

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4 septembre 2011

Chinese Antique Bronze Mirrors @ Sotheby's, NY

A Large Silvered Bronze Lobed Mirror. Tang Dynasty. Photo Sotheby's well cast, of eight-lobed form, the central hemispherical knop enclosed by eight petals within a circular dog-tooth frame, the decorative field with four luscious open flowerheads alternating...

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Tags: Tang dynasty, Han Dynasty, bronze mirror, Western Han dynasty, 'lion and grapevine', TLV type, 'Star Cluster', Sui-Early Tang Dynasty, Chinese Bronze

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4 septembre 2011

Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cups @ Sotheby's, NY

A Magnificent Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup With Hawks, Signed You Kan. Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century. Photo Sotheby's the tall horn superbly carved in high relief as a pair of hawks by a gnarled tree with branches growing from the sides of a mountain...

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Tags: libation cup, rhinoceros horn, archaistic, Kangxi period, Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century, You Kan, hawk, Lotus Leaf

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4 septembre 2011

Chinese rhinoceros horn log raft carving, 17th-18th century

Chinese rhinoceros horn log raft carving, 17th-18th century. Photo courtesy Freeman's The well-carved, openwork vessel shows Zhang Qian riding comfortably in his hollowed log raft; horn of dark burnished patina; with well-carved openwork wood base resembling...

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Tags: rhinoceros horn, 17th-18th century, log raft carving

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4 septembre 2011

"Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey" @ Carnegie Museum of Art

Engraved after Sebastiano Ricci, Conjectural portrait of Andrea Palladio, c. 1715, frontispiece from Giacomo Leoni, The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715–1720). Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library. PITTSBURGH, PA.- Italian...

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Tags: Andrea Palladio, Carnegie Museum of ArtAndrea Palladio

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4 septembre 2011

Most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain published by Jorge Welsh Books

Entry 252 (Vol. II, p. 104), Tureen in the shape of a crouching crab and fixed stand. Porcelain decorated in famille rose enamels and gold. Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795), ca. 1770. Height: 10.5 cm; length of stand: 22.8 cm; width of stand:...

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Tags: Chinese Export Porcelain

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4 septembre 2011

LUOYANG CITY.- A worker sprays water to keep

LUOYANG CITY.- A worker sprays water to keep humidity of the excavation of Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770 BC-221 BC) in Luoyang city, central China s Henan province. In the main pit of the excavation, remainings of five chariots and 12 horses were found, suspected...

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Tags: Henan Province, Eastern Zhou dynasty

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4 septembre 2011

Chinese Rank Badges, Buzi @ Christie's NY

A Rare Pair Of Brocade Gold-Ground Civil Official's Rank Badges of a Peacock, Buzi. Late 17th-Early 18th century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010 Made for a civil official of the third rank and finely woven with a peacock (kongque) with spread wings...

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Tags: pheasant, Lion, Panther, Quail, goose, rank badge, Peacock, Buzi, Paradise Flycatcher, Xiezhi, crane

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3 septembre 2011

Chinese rhinoceros horn cups sold at @ Christie's 15 September 2011, New York

Lot 1225. An archaistic rhinoceros horn cup, 17th century; 6 in. (15.3 cm.) long, box. Estimate $100,000 - USD 150,000 . Price Realized $290,500 . © Christie's Ltd 2011 Carved around the sides with a band of taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground, the...

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Tags: rhinoceros horn, 17th century, 'Eight Immortals', 17th-18th century

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3 septembre 2011

Chinese Antique Bronze Mirrors sold at @ Christie's New York, 15 September 2011

Lot 1123. A bronze figural mirror, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220); 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 9,000 - USD 11,000. Price Realised USD 50,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2011. The large knob surrounded by a narrow decorative band and an outer field...

Posté par Alain Truong à 21:35 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Warring States Period, Tang dynasty, bronze mirror, Western Han dynasty, Eastern Han dynasty

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