09 avril 2010
A fine and very rare pair of archaistic celadon-ground gilt-decorated vases. Seal marks and period of Qianlong
A fine and very rare pair of archaistic celadon-ground gilt-decorated vases. Seal marks and period of Qianlong. photo Sotheby's
based on Western Zhou period bronzes, each with a pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot and rising gently to the waisted neck and flared lipped mouth, flanked by a pair of moulded mythical animal masks suspending mock-ring handles, applied overall with a pale caesious green glaze and painted in gilt, the body with confronting dragons forming interlocking 'S' design... [Lire la suite]
09 avril 2010
Jadeite and tourmaline jewelry, Qing dynasty
Impressive jadeite and tourmaline court necklace, Qing dynasty. photo Sotheby's
Composed of a hundred and eight pink tourmaline beads, intersected by four jadeite foudou and a gourd-shaped fodouda of semi-translucent apple-green colour, supporting a silk cord tassel intersected by a flattened rectangular jadeite pendant of similar colour in a filigree silver-gilt mount, terminating to a pink tourmaline drop enhanced by three jinian strands, each composed of blue tourmaline beads, terminating with a filigree-silver mount... [Lire la suite]
09 avril 2010
A fine and rare wucai 'garlic-mouth' vase. Mark and period of Wanli
A fine and rare wucai 'garlic-mouth' vase. Mark and period of Wanli. photo Sotheby's
the stoutly potted large pear-shaped body supported by a wide straight foot, rising to a garlic-bulb shaped mouth, the main body decorated in the wucai palette including iron-red and vivid purplish underglaze-blue, painted with two pairs of ferocious dragons, each pair in mutual pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' amid scattered flowers on meandering leafy stems, beneath a band of upright and pendant triangles containing trefoils at the... [Lire la suite]
09 avril 2010
Important and rare fancy vivid blue diamond and diamond ring, "De Beers Millennium Jewel 11"

09 avril 2010
A rare imperial 'dragon' kesi textile. Ming dynasty, Wanli period

09 avril 2010
Gem-set and diamond 'blackamoor' brooch, Nardi

09 avril 2010
Keiichi Tahara, deux Photographies sur plaque en porcelaine et structure métallique

09 avril 2010
Imperial Treasures Soar at Sotheby's Sales in Hong Kong
