Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Sold at Sotheby's
Sotheby’s auction of fine Chinese ceramics and works of art was taken place on May 12, which achieved a total of £7,179,100.
An extremely rare ‘Ge’ brushwasher of Yuan Dynasty, was sold for £993,250 (Estimated: £180,000-220,000), which was the highest price of the auction. This brushwasher was finely potted, the lobed flaring sides rising from a slightly concave base to an everted rim, covered overall with a thick and lustrous soft grey glaze suffused with a matrix of dark grey and gold crackles, the base with six spur marks revealing the blackish body beneath.
The second highest price was achieved by a fine and exceptionally rare pair of imperial gilt-bronze and cloisonné ‘Tree and Bird’ group and stands, which was from Qian-long Period of Qing Dynasty. Its hammer price was £690,850 (Estimate: £500,000-700,000). It was naturalistically cast in mirror image. Each gnarled and twisted tree trunk with spikey branches was patinated in green, brown and parcel gilt. Upon the branches, a flock of cloisonne enamel magpies perched, each with head alertly raised, variously enamelled in bluish-black with white chests and green, blue and turquoise with the gilt cloisons delineating the plumage, all raised on matching gilt and patinated bronze stands.
A flambé-glazed bottle vase with Qiang-long impressed six-character sealmark fetched £481,250 (Estimated: £60,000-80,000). It had a slightly compressed globular body with moulded horizontal ribs around the waist and shoulder. The vase was covered overall in a flambe glaze of deep reddish-purple tone, lightly mottled with milky pale blue to the body and the rim.
The final bid of the rare ‘Qing-bai’ Buddhist Lion-shaped Pillow of Northern Song Dynasty was £277,250 (Estimated: £120,000—150,000). The lower section finely modelled with a powerful Buddhistic lion holding a brocade ball in its mouth and with its head turned towards a small cub, with a fierce expression and bearing its teeth and claws on an oval base carved with overlapping lotus petals in relief. It had a lobed kidney-shaped upper surface, finely incised with a design of foliage around a central flower head.
Lin Feng-mian’s painting, Lady Holding a Flower, was sold for £277,250 (Estimated: £30,000-50,000) which achieved the highest price of painting section. The painting is signed by the artist Lin Feng-mian and with one seal in the corner. It was purchased from the artist in Shanghai between 1963—1965.
Information
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