10 janvier 2008
Celadon-Schale
Celadon-Schale
Mittelgroße Celadon-Schale mit hell-lindgrüner Glasur. Abgesetzter Standfuß. Durchmesser: 15,5 cm. China, Song-Dynastie, 960- 1279 n. Chr. Estimate € 700 - 800. Invendu.
Hampel. Asian Art. Friday, 07. December 2007
Chinesisches Keramikgefäß
Chinesisches Keramikgefäß
Keramikgefäß, umlaufend mit Kaltmalerei dekoriert. Kurzer abgesetzter Fuß. Länglich bauchiges, leicht tonnenförmiges Gefäß mit kurzem Trompetenhals. Bemalung in Rot und Hellbeige auf dunklem Fond. Breite: 26 cm. China, ca. 3000 v. Chr. Estimate € 1.100 - 1.300. Invendu.
Hampel. Asian Art. Friday, 07. December 2007
A fahua pear-shaped vase - 16th century
A fahua pear-shaped vase - 16th century
Typically decorated within raised creamy slip borders with washes of turquoise, chestnut-brown and creamy-white glaze, all on a rich dark aubergine ground, depicting two lady Immortals descending on a cloud raft towards three welcoming figures standing on a pine terrace beside a large cluster of jagged rockwork (top of neck restored). 41cm (16¼in) high. - Sold for £1,500 plus Premium and tax
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A yellow-glazed saucer-dish - Zhengde six-character mark and of the period
A yellow-glazed saucer-dish - Zhengde six-character mark and of the period
Potted with a crisp flaring rim, standing on an in-sloping foot, all under a pale mustard-yellow glaze, the inside of the foot reserved white (interior glaze worn, tiny rim frit). 21cm (8¼in) diam. - Sold for £5,500 plus Premium and tax
Footnote: A smaller yellow-glazed dish from the Zhengde reign from the Cunliffe Collection sold in these rooms, 11 November 2002, lot 76.
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A fine and large celadon carved charger - Ming dynasty, 15th century
A fine and large celadon carved charger - Ming dynasty, 15th century
The broad circular dish finely potted with gently rising sides, deftly carved to the interior with a luxuriant lotus flower borne on scrolling foliage delineated by incised wavy lines, the well carved with a band of dense lotus scroll, the exterior incised with a single line below the rolled mouth rim, the base burnt orange-brown in the firing. 46.5cm (18¼in) diam.- Estimate: £30,000 - 50,000 - Unsold.
Footnote: A similar dish from the Ottoman Court Collection, preserved in the Topkapi Saray Museum, is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue – Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, Volume 1, London, 1986, no. 305.
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A carved celadon globular jar and cover, guan - Ming Dynasty
A carved celadon globular jar and cover, guan - Ming Dynasty
Heavily carved around the exterior with large coiling leafy peony issuing two full blooms, the leaf-shaped domed cover similar with a small stalk finial (cover crack restored). 25cm (9¾in) high. (2). Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 - Unsold.
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A very rare blue and white circular ewer - Yuan Dynasty, second quarter of the 14th century
A very rare blue and white circular ewer - Yuan Dynasty, second quarter of the 14th century
Of flattened circular form with a simple tapering loop spout and elaborately curved handle, painted on one side in bold characteristic rich dark blue showing traces of 'heaping and piling' with a single flying phoenix amongst a dense meander of flowering leafy peony, the other side with three large peony sprays issuing from budding leafy branches, both domed panels within a narrower border of continuous chrysanthemum meander, coiling wispy clouds beneath the handle and spout (handle reattached, minor rim glaze frit). 19.5cm (7¾in) high. - Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000 - unsold.
Footnote: A ewer of this kind, dating from the earliest period of commercial production of blue and white porcelain at Jingdezhen, clearly owes much in its form to a metal origin, particularly in the domed panels on the sides and elaborately looped handle, neither of which are natural ceramic forms. Although much attention has been focused on the emergence of new designs and shapes during the Yuan Period, now regarded as a dynamic moment in the evolution of Chinese ceramics, only very few examples of ewers of this form are recorded. One example is in Beijing, at the Capital Museum, illustrated by Zhu Yu Ping, Yuan Blue and White p.166, no. 6-66. Other examples are known purely with a white glaze; see for example the comparable ewer incised with a rhinoceros, The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, Catalogue pl.52. A third example, painted only with phoenix, was sold in London, 15 June 1988, lot 92.
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A blue and white globular jar, guan - Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty
A blue and white globular jar, guan - Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty
Painted around the body with a row of three qilins in pursuit above a stylised floral scroll, the foot with a row of stylised lappets (small chip). 22cm (8½in) wide. Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000 - Unsold.
Footnote: The result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Limited, no. P205b27, is consistent with the dating of this lot.
A similar jar is illustrated, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Volume 67. 2002-2003, pg.55, in the lecture Ceramics from South of the Clouds: Ceramics from Yunnan, where Cyril Beecher discusses this rare group of underglaze-blue porcelains from Yunnan province.
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A Jianyao 'hare's fur' bowl - Southern Song Dynasty
A Jianyao 'hare's fur' bowl - Southern Song Dynasty
The interior under a bright black shiny glaze with extensive thin streaks towards the chocolate-washed rim (rim chip restored). 13cm (5in) diam. Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500 - Unsold.
Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd., London
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street
A small Longquan celadon bottle vase - Southern Song Dynasty
A small Longquan celadon bottle vase - Southern Song Dynasty
The bulbous body rising to a wide slightly tapering neck terminating in an everted lipped rim, overall covered in an opaque greyish-green glaze. 16cm (6¼in) high. Sold for £1,000 plus Premium and tax
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street