chinoiserie

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted circular snuff box, circa 1735. Photo Bonhams Moulded in relief with pagodas on landscape vignettes to the side, a parrot perched on a branch to the base and a hunt vignette with a boar and hound on the cover, the silver mount with discharge mark of Hubert Louvet, Paris 1732-38, 4.5cm diam, (haircrack to side of box at rear). Estimate: £800 - 1,200, € 920 - 1,400, US$ 1,300 - 2,000 - Sold for £2,280 Provenance: Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1319 Literature: Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no.... [Lire la suite]

  A Saint Cloud gold-mounted box in the form of a monk, circa 1740.  Photo Bonhams The bearded figure holding a beaker in his right hand, traces of marks to mount, perhaps the 'crowned mace' discharge mark for Jacques Cottin, Paris, 1727-32, 5.6cm across, 4.7cm high; Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000, € 2,300 - 3,400, US$ 3,300 - 4,900 - Sold for £4,800 Provenance: Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1307 Literature: Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 78; Munger 2002, fig. 6 Exhibited: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003; London,... [Lire la suite]

Delft : plat rond à bord uni, époque XVIIIè siècle. Photo BOISSEAU POMEZ à décor en camaïeu bleu d'un paysage d'esprit chinois au centre, rochers percés fleuris sur l'aile, filet jaune, marqué. Diam. : 31 cm (égrenures et réparation sur l'aile) - Estimation : 50/60€ BOISSEAU POMEZ Sarl. SAMEDI 9 JUILLET à 14H00. 1-2, rue de la Paix, 10000 Troyes . Tél. : 03.25.73.34.07 - Fax : 03.25.73.14.39 - Email :  boisseau.pomez@wanadoo.fr

A very rare gold-mounted shell-shaped snuff box, probably Vezzi, circa 1725. Photo Bonhams Decorated in gilding over a red ground, the cover and base moulded in relief with a stylised shell against a gilt ground tooled with a trellis pattern, the ribs decorated with gilt bellflower motifs and dots, the sides with exotic birds, animals, plants and a figure, the inside cover with a vignette of three chinoiserie figures, the inside of the box with a chinoiserie figure seated on a cushion, 8.1cm wide (some wear). Estimate: £12,000... [Lire la suite]

  Lampas, Lyon, vers 1740-1745, d'après l'ornemaniste Alexis Peyrotte (1699-1769). photo Aponem Deburaux fond satin groseille, décor lancé et broché crème et vert à deux chemins suivis de chinois goûtant des fruits, fleurs et chinois aux oiseaux et singe, complet de ses deux lisières (un accroc recousus). Métrage: 2, 65 m en 0, 71 m de large. Estimation : 1 500 - 2 000 € Rapport: 1, 24 m Alain Gruber, Fondation Abegg, Chinoiserie, p. 50 & 51 (Fragment d'une tenture de soie - dans les collections de la... [Lire la suite]

A Saint Cloud gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1740. Photo Bonhams The cover and base moulded in high-relief with a shell heightened in coloured enamels in a Kakiemon palette, the sides painted with Oriental flower sprigs, the inside cover painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure standing by a fence, flanked by flowering bushes, the inside with a single flower sprig, 8cm across (slight rubbing to enamels on base). Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000, € 3,400 - 5,700, US$ 4,900 - 8,200 Literature: Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985,... [Lire la suite]

A Frankenthal gilt-metal-mounted rectangular snuff box, circa 1770. Photo Bonhams Of slightly waisted form with a domed cover and the exterior moulded with a basketwork pattern, the base and cover painted with chinoiserie scenes after Jean Pillement, the sides with landscape scenes depicting ruins, castles and bridges over rivers, the inside cover with a scene of peasants smoking and drinking, the mounts with wavy borders, 8cm wide. Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000, € 3,400 - 4,600, US$ 4,900 - 6,600   Provenance: Alfred Joseph... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted underglaze-blue-ground snuff box, circa 1740. Photo Bonhams Cartouche-shaped, the sides reserved with four oval panels painted with chinoiserie scenes within gilt scrollwork borders, the corners with, at the front, gilt foliage, and scrollwork at the rear, the cover similarly decorated, reserved with a band of indianische Blumen, the base painted with a chinoiserie scene, the inside cover painted with a bust of a bearded man wearing a turban and scattered insects, within a brown-edged quatrelobe... [Lire la suite]

  A St. Cloud silver-mounted water jug and cover, circa 1730. Photo Sotheby's in the white, applied with trailing branches of prunus blossom. Wilfrid Evill Collection Label; 20cm., 8in. ESTIMATE 4,000-6,000 GBP - Lot Sold: 7,500 GBP Note: For a similar example, together with its matching basin in the Musée de la Céramique in Rouen, see the Bard Graduate Center exhibition catalogue, The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ed. Bertrand Rondot, 1999, pp. 170-171, no. 87 An unusual figure of a magot, attributed to Villeroy, circa... [Lire la suite]

A fine Vienna porcelain déjeuner with Chinoiserie,  c. 1770.   Photo Nagel Auktionen comprising a tray, a cup with saucer, a small dish and a mocca pot,. Marked. L. 34 cm..  Some restorations, minor wear, the cover of the mocca pot is not matching. Estimate 2200 €  Nagel Auktionen. June 8th 2011. www.auction.de