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20th century cabochon ruby, diamond and gold collar pendant necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris c,1970

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20th century cabochon ruby, diamond and gold collar pendant necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris c,1970. Photo courtesy S.J. Phillips Ltd.

the necklace converting to two bracelets, the pendant to a brooch, the necklace set to the front with five principal cabochon cut rubies in diamond borders, smaller clusters in between and one forming the clasp, the back with line of collet set diamonds and diamond pear shaped clusters, the pendant of shaped lozenge outline with principal cabochon ruby to centre bordered by smaller similar on a pave diamond ground, all mounted in 18ct gold, the pendant detaching for use as a brooch, the necklace converting to two bracelets, one formed by the front five principal ruby clusters, the second formed by the back diamond collets with ruby cluster ends, serial numbers 24660, 24661 and 24663. Length as necklace 35cm / Bracelet lengths 18/17cm / Length of pendant-brooch 6.4cm / Weight: 99g. Price on request.

S.J. Phillips Ltd. www.sjphillips.com


Pair of Art Deco diamond and carved ruby pendant earrings, c.1930

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Pair of Art Deco diamond and carved ruby pendant earrings, c.1930. Photo courtesy S.J. Phillips Ltd.

the cluster of leaf carved rubies forming a drop shape, to a baguette and round cut diamond set geometric surmount and Persian style tapering articulated line, with ruby leaf top, mounted in platinum. Length 8.3cms / Weight: 37g. Price on request.

S.J. Phillips Ltd. www.sjphillips.com

18th century diamond and ruby spray brooch, Portuguese, c.1750

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18th century diamond and ruby spray brooch, Portuguese c.1750

designed as a central scrolling stem of rubies emanating ruby and diamond flowerheads and diamond foliage, close set in silver with gold to the rubies. Length 6cms / 2 3/8''. Weight: 18g. Price on request.

S.J. Phillips Ltd. www.sjphillips.com

Antique ruby and gem set cross pendant, c.1830

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Antique ruby and gem set cross pendant, c.1830. Photo courtesy S.J. Phillips Ltd.

the round terminal ends set with shaped flat rubies, emerald cabochon highlights, central point cut ruby and citrine arms, close set in gold with applied berry detail. L 5.5 cms including hoop. Weight: 20g. Price on request.

S.J. Phillips Ltd. www.sjphillips.com

Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry. Ballet Précieux collection

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Ballerina Swan Lake clip, Swan Lake ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Black & White Feathers necklace, Swan Lake ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels

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Black & White Feathers earrings, Swan Lake ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Swan Lake ring, Swan Lake ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Ballerina Nikiya clip, La Bayadère ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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La Bayadère ring, La Bayadère ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Solor bracelet, La Bayadère ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Bright orange beads of Mandarin garnet combine with the crystalline blue‑green of a pear-shaped tourmaline to create a spectacular harmony. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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La Bayadère earrings, La Bayadère ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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La Bayadère brooch, La Bayadère ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Ballerina Clara clip, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Christmas Eve bracelet, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Combining airy volutes with opulent Christmas colors, this bow bracelet adorns the wrist with rows of white and yellow diamonds alternating with ribbons of Mystery Set™ rubies. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Christmas Eve ring, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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The Nutcracker bow brooch, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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The Nutcracker necklace, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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The Nutcracker snowflake earrings, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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The Nutcracker snowflake brooch, The Nutcracker ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Ballerina Golden Fish clip, Le Poisson doré ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Treasure of the sea long necklace, Le Poisson doré ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels

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Treasure of the sea earrings, Le Poisson doré ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Treasure of the sea ring, Le Poisson doré ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Vesna necklace, The Rite of Spring ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Vesna earrings, The Rite of Spring ballet, Ballet Précieux collection. Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.

Pair of Chinese rock crystal phoenix carvings

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Pair of Chinese rock crystal phoenix carvings. Photo Freeman's

Openwork carved as standing phoenix with a flower spray in its beak. H: 9 inches. Estimate $8,000-12,000

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com

Three Chinese crystal and glass pendants, Qing dynasty

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Three Chinese crystal and glass pendants, Qing dynasty. Photo Freeman's

Including a lavender amethyst peach form pendant, a yellow 'shuanghuan' pendant, and a circular rock crystal pendant. L or largest: 2 inches. Estimate $600-800

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com

Chinese carved agate 'monkeys' pendant, Qing dynasty

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Chinese carved agate 'monkeys' pendant, Qing dynasty. Photo Freeman's

Rectangular translucent stone, darker areas relief carved on both sides with monkeys among rockwork and pine trees. L: 1 7/8 inches, W: 1 1/2 inches. Estimate $800-1,200

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com


Chinese translucent jade dragon bangle, Qing dynasty

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Chinese translucent jade dragon bangle, Qing dynasty. Photo Freeman's 

Worked as a dragon with double dragon biting a pearl, the stone of translucent pale greyish white hue. D: 3 1/8 inches. Estimate $1,500-3,000

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10amwww.freemansauction.com

Chinese ice jadeite bangle

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Chinese ice jadeite bangle. Photo Freeman's

Circular translucent bangle with attractive moss green inclusions. D: 3 inches. Estimate $2,000-4,000

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com

Chinese white jade necklace, jades Qing dynasty

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Chinese white jade necklace, jades Qing dynasty. Photo Freeman's

Boy and lotus pendant suspending from a chain of jade bi discs. L closed: 9 inches. Estimate $2,000-4,000

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com

Chinese celadon jade bead

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Chinese celadon jade bead. Photo Freeman's

Hexagonal and well hollowed bead faintly incised with poem "Mei Hua Lao", with agate and malachite beads on each end and later suspension strings. L of jade: 1 3/4 inches Estimate $4,000-6,000

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com

Chinese cloisonne enamel ring, Qianlong mark

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Chinese cloisonne enamel ring, Qianlong mark. Photo Freeman's

Circular, turquoise ground decorated with green tendrils and budding orange flowers,. D: 4 1/4 inches. Minor surface wear and pitting, four character mark incised to back of the ring. Estimate $500-800

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10am - www.freemansauction.com

Chinese emerald jade ring

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Chinese emerald jade ring. Photo Freeman's

Consistent deep green hue. D: 1 inch; W: 4/5 inches. Estimate $5,000-8,000

Freeman's. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, March 15 at 10amwww.freemansauction.com

Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent opens exhibition of the work of Théodore Géricault

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Théodore Géricault, Portrait of Joseph, Study of a Model, 1818-19. Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.1 cm © The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California. 

GHENT.- In 1908, the Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent acquired a painting by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) for a bargain price at a Parisian auction. Entitled The Mad Murderer, the local press speculated at the time as to who would be fool enough to hang such a picture in his living room! The painting – which in fact depicts a kleptomaniac – forms part of a series of portraits that Géricault painted of mentally ill patients in the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. These include, amongst others, Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon) and Portrait of a Kidnapper (Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts). 

In 1819, Théodore Géricault presented his large historic painting, The Raft of the Medusa, which elicited public admiration but also repelled many precisely because of the tragic circumstances in which the ship sank. Moreover, the canvas denounced the government’s political bungling, which did not sit well at all with the existing powers. Géricault’s monumental composition represented a new direction in painting and sounds more contemporary than ever as it echoes recent events around Lampedusa. 

Soon after, Géricault produced a series of portraits of mental patients, deciding to abandon the conventional ways of depicting madness and rather highlighting the personality and humanity of his subjects. The exhibition aims to show that far from being a painter of tragic and insane subjects, Géricault, above all, desired to represent the margins of everyday life with a profound empathy and compassion for the protagonists of his paintings. 

Various international museums have also lent their paintings, drawings and prints by Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Francisco Goya, Johan Heinrich Füssli and Adolf Friedrich Menzel for this exhibition, allowing us to examine the artist’s work in a broader context. 

The exhibition, which is organised in partnership with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, was made possible by exceptional loans from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. The exhibition will run at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent from 21 February to 26 May 2014. 

The ‘petticoats’ of the Revolution

A small, related exhibition examines the role of women during the French Revolution. The art historical figure of Marianne is not just representative of the young French republic and freedom. Neither idealised nor allegorical, she really existed, her likeness having been modelled upon those of an everyday beauty. Women fought just as hard as men in the revolutionary army. A few even succeeded in playing a political role, although their fate was often pitiable. Take, for example, Théroigne de Méricourt, a freedom fighter who stood on the barricades in 1792 and, declared ‘insane’, was locked up in La Salpêtrière. The so-called ‘Hyena’, who was painted by Géricault, suffered the same fate and died in the hospital twenty years later. 

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Théodore Géricault, Portrait of a Kleptomaniac, ca. 1820-1824 © Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

GAND - En 1908, Les Amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand achètent pour une somme fort raisonnable un tableau de Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) intitulé le Fou assassin. A l’époque la presse parisienne se demandait qui serait assez insensé pour accrocher une telle oeuvre dans son salon! Ce portrait en réalité, celui d’un cleptomane, faisait partie d’un ensemble de portraits d’aliénés. 

Cet ensemble de portraits comme le chef d’œuvre du peintre, Le radeau de la Méduse, vont lui conférer la réputation de peintre de l’horreur, de la douleur, de la folie et de la mort. L'exposition veut présenter une autre approche de cet artiste passionné par tous les aspects de l‘humanité. Par sa quête volontaire d’un quotidien parfois heureux mais souvent violent ou mortifère, dans une période en proie aux soubresauts de l’histoire, Géricault veut décrypter l’homme dans tous ses états faisant preuve d’une empathie profonde pour ses modèles dont le visage porte les stigmates de la vie.

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Anonymous (French school), Portrait of a woman– ca. 1795, ©  Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

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Théodore Géricault: Madman-Kidnapper 1819-20 / 1822-23, Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 54cm© Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Art s Springfield, Massachusetts, The James Phillip Gray Collection

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Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, the Argus View), 1818-19. Brown ink on paper, 21 x 26.8 cm Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts © RMN – Grand Palais | Philippe Bernard, Paris. 


A carved 'Dingyao' dish, Northern Song dynasty

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A carved 'Dingyao' dish, Northern Song dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.

supported on a short foot ring, the sides rising from a broad base to the gently flaring hexalobed rim, carved on the interior with a lotus blossom, covered overall with a creamy-white glaze, the rim of the bowl and the footrim unglazed. Diameter 8 1/2 in., 21.5 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 10,000 USD

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

A carved 'Yaozhou ' bowl, Northern Song dynasty

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A carved 'Yaozhou ' bowl, Northern Song dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.

the shallow rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared everted rim, freely carved to the interior with a central medallion enclosing foliate designs within a line border, covered overall in a translucent olive-green glaze pooling at the recesses. Diameter 8 1/2 in., 21.5 cm.Estimate 28,000 — 35,000 USD

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

A 'Yaozhou' Celadon Molded 'Fish' Bowl, Jin Dynasty

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A 'Yaozhou' Celadon Molded 'Fish' Bowl, Jin Dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.

the thinly potted conical sides rising from a short ring foot to a flared rim, molded on the interior in crisp low relief with four fish swimming amid waves encircling another fish in the center, the exterior highly carved with radiating flutes, covered inside and out with a bubble-suffused olive-green glaze, the beveled footrim unglazed. Diameter 4 3/4 in., 12.1 cm. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD

A pair of bowls of this pattern in the Percival David Foundation illustrated in Margaret Medley, Catalogue, section 7, no. 20, where it is mentioned that the design is reproduced as a line drawing in the archaeological report on the Yaozhou kilns Shensi Tungquan Yaozhou yao, p. 33, fig. 22, no. 4; also in Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, London, 1979, pl. 8j, where another in the Honolulu Academy of Arts is noted. Another bowl of similar design but with twin fish, is in the Kwan collection and included in the exhibition Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, 22nd July to 11th September 1994, Hong Kong, p. 200, no. 82.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

A Rare 'Yaozhou' Celadon Carved Ewer, Northern Song Dynasty

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A Rare 'Yaozhou' Celadon Carved Ewer, Northern Song Dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.

the cylindrical body rising from a flat foot to canted shoulders set with a rib-strapped handle opposite a short curved spout, the waisted neck incised with two double line bands below the everted rim with lipped edge, carved all around with scrolling peony and covered overall with a clear glaze of dark olive-green color stopping at the base. Height 4 3/4 in., 12 cm. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 USD

Yaozhou ewers of this form are extremely rare, and there appear to be no other published examples. A small Yaozhou ewer with similar decoration and handle and spout, but with a different neck, was sold at Christie's New York, 21st - 22nd March 2013, lot 1170.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

A 'Yueyao' Jar and Cover, Northern Song Dynasty

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A 'Yueyao' Jar and Cover, Northern Song Dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.

of slightly compressed ovoid form, carved with four quatrefoil panels enclosing peonies divided by swirling designs, all above faint lines radiating from the flared foot, the cover similarly decorated with a bud finial (2). Height 4 5/8 in., 12.3 cm. Estimate 25,000 — 30,000 USD

Provenance: American private collection, by repute.

Literature: Kaikodo Journal, XXIX, Spring 2013, p. 122, no. 45.

A similar waterpot found at a Yue kiln site in Yuyao, is published in Kaogu xuebao, no. 3, 1959, pl. 7:10. Two other similar jars, but without their covers, in the Shanghai Museum and dated to the 10th century is published in Wang Qingzheng, Yueyao, Miseci, Shanghai, 1996, pls. 58 & 59. Another waterpot, of similar form, but with different decoration and with its cover, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ibid. no. 50.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

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