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11 septembre 2010

Scholars's objects @ Doyle New York

Large and fine Chinese carved bamboo mountain. 18-19th century. Photo: Courtesy Doyle New York Typical form, deeply carved and undercut to show hilltop pagoda among pine and blossoming trees flanking a procession of approximately sixty-three immortals...

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Tags: Qianlong, Bamboo, Jiaqing, Brushpot, Yixing, water pot, soapstone, cricket cage and cover, seal, zitan, ink stone, boxwood, Mala

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11 septembre 2010

Chinese Gold Inlaid Bronze Camel. Warring Stated Period (475-221BC).

Chinese Gold Inlaid Bronze Camel. Warring Stated Period (475-221BC). Photo: Courtesy Doyle New York In a recumbent position, the legs tucked below the body, the head turned over the back and resting between the double humps. Height 2 3/4 inches, width...

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Tags: Gold Inlaid Bronze, Warring Stated Period, camel

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11 septembre 2010

Ming Dynasty 'Longquan' celadon & celadon @ Sotheby'sMing Dynasty 'Longquan' celadon & celadon @ Sotheby's

A large carved 'Longquan' celadon-glazed bowl. Ming Dynasty. photo courtesy Sotheby's with steeply rounded sides radially fluted to form petal-shaped panels, the exterior crisply carved with lotus blossoms growing leafy stems beneath a keyfret border...

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Tags: Celadon, Ming Dynasty, Longquan Celadon, Yuan-Ming Dynasty

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11 septembre 2010

Chinese Ming banknote, China, AD 1375

Chinese Ming banknote, China, AD 1375 © Trustees of the British Museum After seizing power from the Mongol rulers of China in 1368, the rulers of the Ming dynasty tried to reinstate bronze coins. However, there was not enough metal available for this,...

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Tags: Ming Dynasty, Hongwu, British Museum, Board of Revenue, banknote

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10 septembre 2010

The Joe Grimberg Collection's three black jade snuff bottles

A black jade snuff bottle. 1780-1820. photo courtesy Sotheby's very well hollowed, of flattened square form with rounded corners, sloping to a cylindrical neck, resting on a carved oval foot, the stone well polished, the white inclusion on one face deeply...

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Tags: 18th century, snuff bottle, black jade, 1750-1820, 1780-1820

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10 septembre 2010

Wucai baluster jar and cover. Transitional period, circa 1650

A Wucai baluster jar and cover. Transitional period, circa 1650. photo Christie's Ltd 2010 Painted around the body with a scene of a maiden kneeling in tribute before male and female officials, their attendants to one side in front of a large screen and...

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Tags: wucai, Transitional period, baluster jar and cover

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10 septembre 2010

Transitional period Blue & White porcelains @ Christie's

A blue and white cylindrical brushpot. Transitional period, circa 1640. photo Christie's Ltd 2010 Painted with scholars in a terraced landscape being attended to by their young servants while participating in three of the 'Four Scholarly Pursuits', the...

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Tags: Blue and White, Brushpot, sleeve vase, Transitional period

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10 septembre 2010

'Puddingstone', fossiliferous limestone, mammoth tooth, amygdaloidal basalt & hair chrystal snuff bottles

A 'Puddingstone' snuff bottle, 1750-1820. photo courtesy Sotheby's very well hollowed, of rounded form supported on a neatly carved oval footrim, below a cylindrical neck, the shoulders with well carved lions-head suspending mock ring-handles, the stone...

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Tags: snuff bottle, Limestone, 'Puddingstone', amygdaloidal basalt, fossiliferous, hair chrystal, mammoth tooth

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10 septembre 2010

A blue and white fish-bowl. Wanli mark and period

A blue and white fish-bowl. Wanli mark and period. photo courtesy Sotheby's stoutly potted with steeply rounded sides, painted in underglaze-blue of soft tone with a continuous scene of aquatic birds swimming amongst flowering lotus, arrow grass and other...

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Tags: Blue and White, Wanli Mark and Period, fish-bowl

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10 septembre 2010

Ming Dynasty blue and white @ Christie's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 - 17 September 2010, New York

A rare large blue and white 'shou-character' jar. Wanli six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1573-1619). photo Christie's Ltd 2010 The heavily potted, high-shouldered body decorated with a pattern of shou roundels...

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Tags: Blue and White, Wanli, Jiajing, 'shou-character' jar

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