1690

Tapisserie, laine et soie, Manufacture royale de Beauvais, « L'Air» de la suite des Quatre Eléments d'après  Charles Lebrun, vers 1690. Photo Aponem Junon et Iris sur un nuage agité par le vent, au milieu de nombreux oiseaux. 84 x 3, 64 m84 x 3, 64 m - Estimation : 80 000 - 100 000 € Cette suite de tapisseries à été commandé à la manufacture des Gobelins, par Colbert, dès 1662. Les tableaux et les bordures étaient entre les mains de Béhagle à Beauvais, en 1690, où des tapisseries sont tissées avec des bordures à... [Lire la suite]

Lacquered cabinet. English. Circa 1690. An extremely rare red and white lacquered cabinet on original silver gilt stand. With two cupboard doors decorated with chinoiserie figures and foliage and variously shaped panels decorated en grisaille with landscapes and figures mounted with shaped, pierced and engraved lock-plate, hinges and angles enclosing ten various-sized drawers similarly decorated with chinoiserie figures and scenes, vases of flowers, foliage and utensils, the original silver gilt stand with deep pierced frieze... [Lire la suite]

A Chinese large blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin. First half 20th Century Modelled standing on a lotus above crested waves, wearing long robes, hands together, adorned with a necklace, bangles, bejewelled tassels suspending from underneath upper robe and diadem against the high chignon, glaze chip. 85 cm. high. Est. €2,000 - €3,000 - Price Realized €4,000 A Chinese blanc de chine theatrical group. Circa 1690 Modelled as a lady and her attendant standing beside a joss stick holder on a raised plinth behind two male... [Lire la suite]

A blanc-de-chine 'hunting party' figure group. Circa 1690 The hollow form moulded as a hillside with a winding trail leading to a pavilion amidst pine trees and grottoes, with two hunters aiming their rifles at a deer, followed behind by a horseman holding a whip and an attendant bearing a flag all working their way up the hillside with their hunting dogs. 20.2cm (8in) high. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 - Unsold Footnote: Various similar groups are published. See D.Howard and J.Ayers, China for the West. Chinese... [Lire la suite]

Three Vung Tao cargo blue and white goblets and two covers. Circa 1690 Two of tapering beaker form, with floral decoration; one of cylindrical form, with fixed cover. The tallest 19cm (7½in) high. (5). Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500 Footnote: One base with the labels for Christie's Vung Tau Cargo, Lot 58 and the Jarras Collection; and one base with labels for Christie's Vung Tau Cargo, Lot 37, the Jarras Collection and Marchant, London. For a similar covered beaker of tapering form, compare the example illustrated on page 236 of... [Lire la suite]