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June 28, 2017, 2:24 pm

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Pair of 18ct yellow gold earrings in the form of melting telephones set with diamonds, emeralds and rubies. Inscribed Dali to the front of each earring and with an applied plaque to the reverse stamped COP.ALEMANY&ERTMANINC. H. 4.5 cm

Unique fine (pure) silver bangle cast from six original waxes and set with native-cut turquoises in fine gold mounts. Marked with Louis Osman's amker's mark and London 1968 Britannia silver hallmarks.

Unique lost wax cast 18ct gold candlestick with detachable large gold moth attached to a metal rod hovering above a flower. H. 61 cm (24 ins)

Large 22.2ct gold pendant with an embossed bearded head. 8.2 x 7.65 cm

Unique 18ct gold necklace with three abstract pendants set with diamonds, designed by Afro Basaldella and produced in the Masenza workshops, Rome, circa 1955.

Large 18ct gold ring in the form of a self portrait of the artist, Marisol Escobar, her hair tied in coils around her ears, and set with ruby eyes. No. 32 from an edition of 100, circa 1970.

Unique sterling silver brooch in the form of a spiral with a steel fastening prong.

Unique 18ct white and yellow bangle with textured surfaces by the Italian sculptor and jeweller, Gio Pomodoro, early 1960s

8ct gold necklace with kinetic gold balls of varying sizes set on an arc, designed by the Belgian sculptor Pol Bury for Artcurial, Paris. No. 11/50

18ct gold optical sculpture composed of nine pairs of graduated circular rings set at right angles. No. 4 from an edition of 9. 1970

18ct gold necklace with four discs of rutilated quartz, designed by the italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass and produce by GEM Montebello, Milan. 9/10, 1967.

Unique pendant necklace made in 18ct white and yellow gold with an assemblage of mechanical elements recalling springs, gear wheels, shaped plates and connecting rods. Designed by the Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni and made by Gherardi, Rome.

Necklace with a rainbow zigzag pendant formed from shaped anodised aluminium sheets set in silver and secured by yellow gold screws on a rose gold torque.

Metaphysical silver-plated borne pendant of a stylised classical draped female figure. Designed by Giorgio de Chirico and produced by Artcurial, Paris, in an unfinished edition of 250.

18ct gold pendant/brooch and matching pair of earrings set with coloured agate shapes.

Bracelet with abstract shaped hinged links made in a lightly brushed/frosted rose gold. Designed by Pietro Consagra and made in an edition of 10 by GEM Montebello, Milan, and with original purple felt case with a red leather ribbon tie stamped with Consagra signature in gold.

Necklace with six stylised jellyfish pendants in yellow gold and with white gold highlights, interspersed with a long central tentacle pendant and four smaller silver tentacles, the two back parts made in cast silver edged on the underside with yellow gold, and with a spring clasp.

Medallion cast in 18ct gold with a stylised bearded face of Oedipus, with a pierced hole in the centre of his forehead, set in an oval frame and with a bar chain.

18ct gold headband, the shaped ribbon decorated in repousse with in the centre a gorgon's head with green garnet eyes, to the left a fish and a scallop shell and to the right, a bud and flower spray.

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Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat lead Sotheby's Contemporary Sale in London

June 29, 2017, 2:31 am

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Oliver Barker fields bids at Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, 28 June 2017. Courtesy Sotheby’s.

LONDON.- Sotheby’s Evening Auction of Contemporary Art in London this evening exceeded its pre-sale high estimate to total £62,325,750 / $79,783,193 / €70,403,354 – an increase of 20% (GBP) / 15% (USD) on the equivalent sale last year.

· 95.1% sold by lot, this was the fifth consecutive Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s worldwide with a sell-through rate of over 90%.

· An auction record was achieved for British artist Cecily Brown – for the second time this year.

· 50% of lots sold for prices above their pre-sale high estimates.

· 70% of the works had never previously been offered at auction.

· The pre-sale estimates for the sale were £44.3-60.6m / $56.7-77.6m / €50-68.5m.

Tonight’s total brings combined sales of Contemporary Art so far this season – including the 11 contemporary works sold in last week’s ‘Actual Size’ sale – to £68,751,000 / $87,884,791.*

“During the important summer art calendar in Europe, following Venice, Documenta and Basel, London is the final stop for collectors around the world. The June auctions are at the heart of the vibrant London art scene at this time of year, making for busy views, packed salerooms, and real competition for the art on offer, as we saw tonight.” - Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Art, Europe.

Oliver Barker fields bids at Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, 28 June 2017. Courtesy Sotheby’s.

STAR LOTS
This evening’s sale was led by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s untitled work from 1983. Conceived in the style of a classical frieze, the triptych sold for an over-estimate £6,492,500 / $8,311,049 / €7,333,947 (est. £4-6 million). Never before offered at auction, the painting had been in the same collection for 20 years. This followed a string of strong prices for Basquiat at Sotheby’s London. In the past twelve months, all but one of the paintings offered by the artist have achieved prices above their high estimates.

Recalling the sequential progression of a classical frieze in its grand scale and rich communicative power, Jean-Michel Basquiat's breathtaking Untitled demonstrates the artist’s creative reimagining of the weighted genre of history painting. Underscored by the nascent rhythms of hip-hop and the clatter of metropolitan life, this work gives cinematic form to the new creative epicentre emerging out of downtown New York.

Lot 8. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, acrylic and oilstick on canvas, in 3 parts, overall: 244 by 191 cm. 96 by 71 1/4 in. Executed in 1983. Sold for £6,492,500 / $8,311,049 / €7,333,947 (est. £4-6 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait, 1963-64, brought the second highest price of the evening, selling for £6,008,750 / $7,691,801 / €6,787,502 (est. £5-7 million). From Warhol’s very first sequence of self-portraits, created using images from a photo booth, this work is effectively the artist’s first-ever selfie. It appeared at auction for the very first time tonight, 30 years on from the artist’s death in 1987. Artworks from this period typically attract the strongest prices for Warhol at auction, with eight of the top ten auction prices for the artist coming from the years 1962-4.

Self-Portrait comes from a concise series of nine similarly titled works, each made in the same scale using silkscreen prints enlarged from the same shred of photographic source material. In the latter part of the twentieth-century, Andy Warhol joined the ranks of Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso to take his place amongst the most important and influential self-portraitists in the history of art.

Lot 10. Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 50.5 by 40.4 cm. 19 7/8 by 15 7/8 in. Executed in 1963-64. Sold for £6,008,750 / $7,691,801 / €6,787,502 (est. £5-7 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

Two joint collaborative works by Warhol and Basquiat, from the collection of Tommy Hilfiger, both soared over estimate. Sweet Pungent, 1984-85, sold for £4,433,750 / $5,675,643 / € 5,008,377 (est. £1.4-1.8 million) and New Flame, 1985, sold for £2,408,750 / $3,083,441 / € 2,720,931 (est. £1.7-2.2 million). Although teaming up with the legendary Warhol was certainly a coup for the 23-year-old Basquiat, the reciprocity of the collaboration should not be underestimated. Basquiat reinvigorated Warhol, who was inspired to paint by hand for the first time in 20 years.

From the inimitable collection of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol’s collaborative work Sweet Pungent is a painting of great significance. In 1983, fortuitous circumstances enabled the inauguration of a unique and perhaps unlikely collaboration between the founding father of Pop art, Andy Warhol, and the art world’s latest Neo-Expressionist prodigy, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Created in 1984-85, Sweet Pungent offers a unique insight into one of the most important relationships within the history of contemporary art and evinces a perfect partnership between aesthetic pioneers from different generations.

Lot 13. Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sweet Pungent, acrylic, oilstick and silkscreen ink on canvas, 244.5 by 206.1 cm. 96 1/4 by 81 1/8 in. Executed in 1984-85. Sold for £4,433,750 / $5,675,643 / € 5,008,377 (est. £1.4-1.8 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

Despite the distinct stylistic differences between the two artists, New Flame evinces a vibrant meeting of two of the most revolutionary minds in contemporary art. A vibrant medley of iconography and colour, the contrast between the artist’s two most iconic mediums – Warhol's consciously flat graphically inspired imagery and Basquiat’s coarse, textured oilstick draughtsmanship – is here completely subsumed by the pictorial blend of Warhol and Basquiat's style.

Lot 14. Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, New Flame, acrylic, oilstick and silkscreen ink on canvas, 201 by 269.6 cm. 79 1/8 by 106 1/8 in. Executed in 1985. Sold for £2,408,750 / $3,083,441 / € 2,720,931 (est. £1.7-2.2 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

Other strong prices for American artists included Roy Lichtenstein’s Picasso-inspired Two Paintings with Dado, 1983, that sold for an above estimate £3,308,750 / $4,235,531 / €3,737,574 (est. £2.4-3 million) and Richard Prince’s School Nurse, 2005, that also sold above estimate for £4,096,250 / $5,243,610 / €4,627,136 (est. £3.5- 4.5 million).

Lot 6. Roy Lichtenstein, Two Paintings with Dado, signed and dated 83 on the reverse, oil and Magna on canvas, 127.5 by 109 cm. 50 1/4 by 42 7/8 in. Sold for £3,308,750 / $4,235,531 / €3,737,574 (est. £2.4-3 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

From the very outset, Roy Lichtenstein dedicated his career to making art about art. Lichtenstein exhibited a number of art historical icons rendered in the same hard-edged graphic style as his comic book paintings. Juxtaposing art historical icons and unifying them via the author's own borrowed aesthetic, Two Paintings with Dado at once reaffirms and furthers Lichtenstein’s position at the very forefront of appropriation art.

Lot 11. Richard Prince, School Nurse, signed, titled and dated 2005 on the reverse, acrylic and inkjet print on canvas, 177.8 by 124.4 cm. 70 by 49 in. Sold for £4,096,250 / $5,243,610 / €4,627,136 (est. £3.5- 4.5 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

Based on the uncredited cover art of dime-store romance novels, the Nurses offer a transgressive scrutiny of idealised modes of feminine portrayal as popularised in the later Twentieth Century. Marking a reformulation of the iconic blonde bombshell trope as elevated into the realm of high-art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Prince's Nurses assimilate and pick apart erotic stereotypes and gender constructs.

Another important result for British art was set by Cecily Brown’s The Girl Who Had Everything. This monumental work set a new auction record for the artist at £1,868,750 / $2,392,187 / €2,110,946 (est. £800,000 -1.2 million), superseding the record set in London just earlier this year.

Lot 15. Cecily Brown, The Girl Who Had Everything, signed and dated 98 on the stretcher; signed and dated 98 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 253 by 279.5 cm. 99 5/8 by 110 in. Sold for £1,868,750 / $2,392,187 / €2,110,946 (est. £800,000 -1.2 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

WORKS THAT SAW THE DEEPEST BIDDING

- Lot 29: Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer #81, 9 bidders

Lot 29. Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer #81, signed on a label affixed to the reverse, c-print, in artist's frame, 181 by 238.1 cm. 71 1/4 by 93 3/4 in. Executed in 2005, this work is number 1 from an edition of 1, plus 1 artist's proof. Sold for £500,750 (est. £800,000 -1.2 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

- Lot 39: Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 8 bidders

Lot 39. Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, signed, oil on canvas, 146 by 114.2 cm. 57 1/2 by 45 in. Executed in 1962. Sold for £2,168,750 (est. £800,000 -1.2 million). Photo: Sotheby's.

Epitomising the essence of Lucio Fontana’s ground-breaking career, Concetto Spaziale encapsulates two of the artist's defining traits: a continuous search for new forms of abstraction and an abiding re-evaluation of the traditional principals of painting. Striking in its compositional and monochromatic simplicity, the lyrical patterns of gashes – or squarci – here radically rupture the two-dimensional canvas support, and in doing so, Fontana offers a philosophical glimpse into the infinite void beyond.

- Lot 7: Jean Dubuffet, Béret Rose, 5 bidders

Lot 7. Jean Dubuffet, Béret Rose, signed and dated 56; signed, titled and dated Août 56 on the reverse, oil and collage on canvas, 88 by 61.5 cm. 34 5/8 by 24 1/4 in. Sold for £2,633,750 (est. £1,200,000 — 1,800,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

Belonging to Jean Dubuffet's Tableaux d'assemblages, created in Vence between November 1955 and December 1956, Béret Roseembodies the artist's career-long fascination with the metamorphic portent of nature. An important body of work, in which Dubuffet explored the concept of pre-painted canvas collage, the Tableaux d'assemblages allowed the artist to experiment with new-found textures and depths in the picture plane, while excavating the mythological properties of the earth.

- Lot 13: Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sweet Pungent, 5 bidders

ANOTHER FAVOURITES:

Lot 20. Gerhard Richter, Split (Rubble), signed, dated 1989 and numbered 685-2 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 112.4 by 102 cm. 44 1/4 by 40 1/8 in. Sold for £3,871,250 (est. £3,500,000 — 4,500,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

Lot 40. Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attesa, signed, titled and inscribed Che cielo sereno!! Che serenità d'animo on the reverse , waterpaint on canvas, 55 by 46 cm. 21 5/8 by 18 1/8 in. Executed in 1964-65. Sold for £1,088,750 (est. £800,000 — 1,200,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

Lot 36. Anselm Kiefer, DEM UNBEKANNTEN MALER (TO THE UNKNOWN PAINTER), titled, acrylic and shellac on woodcut on paper laid down on canvas, 245 by 379 cm. 96 1/2 by 149 1/4 in. Executed in 1982. Sold for £992,750 (est. £500,000 — 700,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

Lot 19. Gerhard Richter, STADTBILD M 6, signed, titled, dated 68 and numbered 170 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 85 by 90 cm. 33 1/2 by 35 1/2 in. Sold for £848,750 (est. £800,000 — 1,200,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

Lot 17. Cy Twombly, Lycian Drawing (Nimphidia), signed with the artist’s initials, titled and dated Sept 26 82, oil, crayon and pencil on Fabriano paper, 100 by 70cm. 39 3/8 by 27 1/2 in. Sold for £692,750 (est. £600,000 — 800,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

Lot 24. Anish Kapoor, Turning the World Upside Down (Blue), signed, dated 2006 and variously inscribed on the reverse, paint and aluminium, 220 by 220 by 47 cm. 86 7/8 by 86 7/8 by 18 1/2 in. Sold for £632,750 (est. £500,000 — 700,000). Photo: Sotheby's.

*The 11 contemporary artworks included in last week’s ‘Actual Size’ Sale achieved a total of £6,425,250 / $8,101,599.

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Axel Vervoordt at Masterpiece London 2007

June 29, 2017, 3:19 am

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A 'Jun' vase, yuhuchunping, Jin – Yuan dynasty

June 29, 2017, 6:21 am

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Lot 552. A 'Jun' vase, yuhuchunping, Jin – Yuan dynasty, 25.5 cm, 10 in. Estimate 80,000 — 100,000 HKD. Lot sold 325,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

well potted with a pear-shaped body rising to a slender neck and flared rim, supported on a neatly cut foot, finely applied overall with a rich pale blue glaze suffused with bubbles transmuting to a mushroom tone at the rim, the glaze falling unevenly above the foot revealing a reddish stoneware.

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June 29, 2017, 6:28 am

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Lot 553. A 'Jun' handled jar and a small 'Jun' dish, Yuan – Ming dynasty, 16.7 and 11.6 cm, 6 5/8 and 4 5/8 in. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 HKD. Lot sold 13,750 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the jar of globular form set with a pair of small loop handles at the shoulder, covered with a greyish-blue glaze; the dish with shallow sides and an everted rim, covered with a sky-blue glaze.

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A 'Jun' purple-splashed dish, Northern Song – Jin dynasty

June 29, 2017, 6:49 am

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Lot 557. A 'Jun' purple-splashed dish, Northern Song – Jin dynasty, 22.3 cm, 8 3/4 in. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot sold 375,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

with an everted barbed rim, covered overall with a thick sky-blue glaze accentuated with a purple splash to the interior, the recessed base with five spur marks.

Provenance: A private Japanese collection, Kansai, by repute.

Note: It is extremely rare to find a ‘Jun’ dish of this barbed ‘water caltrop’ shape and the present piece is particularly remarkable for its large size, and highly unusual in being seven-pointed rather than hexa- or octafoil. No other purple-splashed ‘Jun’ dish of this shape and size appears to be recorded.

‘Jun’ dishes of this type are well known in smaller sizes, with flat circular rim, both with and without purple splashes, but manufactured in a similar way, with low unglazed foot ring and supported in the firing on spurs; see, for example, a more densely splashed circular dish with three spur marks in the Sir Percival David Collection in the British Museum, illustrated and described in Illustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, rev. ed., London, 1999, no. 93, and a circular, monochrome green ‘Jun’ dish with five spur marks, no. A 66. This firing method, supported in the kiln on spurs that left distinctive raised marks on the glazed base, surrounded by pooling glaze, is characteristic of dishes of the Jin dynasty (1115-1234), with smaller dishes generally supported only on three spurs.

This barbed ‘water caltrop’ shape appeared simultaneously in different media in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) of south China and in the Jin dynasty in the north, and became particularly popular in the Yuan period (1279-1368). It is similarly found among ceramics, silver and lacquer wares. While on the earlier examples the basic dish shape remained circular, in the Yuan, the sides of the dish were generally shaped in accordance with the bracket-lobed form of the rim; compare a hexafoil guan dish of the Southern Song in the British Museum, illustrated in Basil Gray, Sung Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1984, pl. 109; and an octafoil ‘Ding’ dish of the Jin in the same collection, published in S.J. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1991, pl. 72.

Although this dish is thus in every way characteristic of the period, it is nevertheless difficult to find closely comparable examples. It is extremely rare to find any ‘Jun’ dish with this bracket-lobed rim, although one comparable monochrome blue piece, attributed to the Song dynasty, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, of smaller size, with hexafoil rim, and fired on a more narrow foot ring, published in Selection of Jun Ware. The Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2013, pl. 20; the dish is also illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1996, vol. I, pl. 228, where the six-pointed ‘water caltrop’ shape is judged to have been particularly difficult to achieve. Another dish similar to the Palace Museum example, also with barbed hexafoil rim, of smaller size, and without purple, was sold at Christie’s London, 10th June 1991, lot 78, and again in our London rooms, 6th June 1995, lot 182.

Smaller barbed purple-splashed dishes of different type and lesser quality, with the shallow sides also barbed and perhaps somewhat later in date, have been excavated in Yuzhou, see Yuzhou Juntai yao/The Juntai Kilns in Yuzhou, Zhengzhou, 2008, col. pl. 99: 1 and 3; another such dish severely misfired, with the glaze shrivelled, is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1925-8, vol. 3, pl. XIII, no. C 61; compare also a related much smaller, monochrome blue ‘Jun’ dish with barbed rim and sides from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 274 and 9th December 1986, lot 121, and in our New York rooms, 29th November 1988, lot 153; and one formerly with M. Komor and later in the Georges Debatz collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 30th November 1983, lot 343.

‘Jun’ ware, the most spectacular of the major Song dynasty (960-1279) wares, with its type site represented by the Juntai kilns at Yuzhou, Henan province, was produced by many different manufactories in Henan, including the Ru kilns at Qingliangsi in Baofeng, as evidenced by archaeological excavations, see Baofeng Qingliangsi Ruyao/Ru Yao at Qingliangsi in Baofeng, Zhengzhou, 2008, col. pl. 183; and Gugong Bowuyuan cang Zhongguo gudai yaozhi biaoben [Specimens from ancient Chinese kiln sites in the collection of the Palace Museum], vol. 1: Henan juan [Henan volume], Beijing, 2005, passim.

The close connection between the three important Henan manufacturing centres, the Ru, Zhanggongxiang and Jun kilns, has been subject of an exhibition at the Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2009, which included monochrome blue dishes of related type, with low foot ring, but fired on spurs that left thick spur marks on the base, excavated in Ye county, south of Yuzhou and Baofeng; for two smaller dishes with circular everted rim fired on three spurs and one saucer-shaped dish of larger size supported on five spurs see Henan xinchu Song Jin mingyao ciqi tezhan [Special exhibition of porcelains recently excavated from famous Song and Jin kilns in Henan], Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2009, pp. 120-21 and 150-51.

Dishes of this type are in China sometimes called ‘Ru Jun’, see Liu Tao, Song Liao Jin jinian ciqi/Dated Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin Periods, Beijing, 2004, pp.149-50, where a blue-glazed (tianlan) saucer-shaped dish with similar foot and spurs excavated in Baofeng is illustrated, fig. 11-17.

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Two russet-splashed black-glazed bowls, Northern Song – Jin dynasty

June 29, 2017, 7:02 am

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Lot 539. Two russet-splashed black-glazed bowls, Northern Song – Jin dynasty, 13.9 and 10.1 cm, 5 1/2 and 4 in. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 25,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the first with gently rounded sides, decorated with cascading russet streaks; the second with straight sides, decorated with metallic russet spots

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A large russet-splashed black-glazed bowl, Northern Song – Jin dynasty

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Lot 541. A large russet-splashed black-glazed bowl, Northern Song – Jin dynasty, 18.5 cm, 7 1/4 in. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 HKD. Lot sold 18,750 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

covered overall with a lustrous black glaze accentuated with radiating russet splashes on the interior, the glaze falling short above the foot to reveal the buff-coloured body, the base with old ink markings.

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A persimmon and russet-splashed black-glazed bowl, Northern Song – Jin dynasty

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Lot 545. A persimmon and russet-splashed black-glazed bowl, Northern Song – Jin dynasty, 14.2 cm, 5 5/8 in. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 HKD. Lot sold 325,000HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the interior covered with a lustrous black glaze accentuated with radiating russet splashes, the exterior with a metallic russet glaze, stopping at the foot to reveal the buff-coloured stoneware body.

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A 'Jian' black-glazed 'hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty

June 29, 2017, 10:56 am

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Lot 540. A 'Jian' black-glazed 'hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty, 10.9 cm, 4 1/4 in. Estimate 18,000 — 25,000 HKD. Lot sold 22,500. Photo: Sotheby's.

with a flared rim and a short foot, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze, thinning at the rim with russet streaks extending downwards, the glaze falling short of the foot.

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A 'Jian' black-glazed 'hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty

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Lot 549. A 'Jian' black-glazed 'hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty, 11.3 cm, 4 1/2 in. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 HKD. Lot sold 68,750. Photo: Sotheby's.

with a flared rim, covered overall with a black glaze, thinning at the rim with russet streaks extending downwards, the glaze falling short above the foot to reveal the dark brown body, metal-bound rim.

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A 'Jian' black-glazed 'hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty

June 29, 2017, 11:32 am

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Lot 549. A 'Jian' black-glazed 'hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty, 12.1 cm, 4 3/4 in.. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 250,000. Photo: Sotheby's.

covered overall with a black glaze, thinning at the rim with russet streaks extending downwards, the glaze falling short above the foot to reveal the blackish-brown body.

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A 'Jian''hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty

June 29, 2017, 12:30 pm

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Lot 551. A 'Jian''hare's fur' bowl, Song dynasty, 11.8 cm, 4 5/8 in. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 HKD. Lot sold 37,500. Photo: Sotheby's.

stoutly potted with a narrow groove encircling the exterior below the rim, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze, thinning at the rim with short russet streaks extending downwards, the glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the dark brown stoneware body, the rim bound in white metal.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 01 Jun 2017

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A 'Jizhou''leaf' bowl, Song dynasty

June 29, 2017, 12:40 pm

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Lot 543. A 'Jizhou''leaf' bowl, Song dynasty, 14.9 cm, 5 7/8 in. Estimate 80,000 — 100,000 HKD. Lot sold 325,000. Photo: Sotheby's.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 01 Jun 2017

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Wallace Chan at Masterpiece London 2017

June 29, 2017, 1:05 pm

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Wallace Chan, Damas Silk. Created in 2016 DIF Diamond 54pcs 25.22ct Trillion-cut Pink Tourmaline 124pcs 21.38ct Fancy Colored Diamond, Pink Sapphire, White Agate. Wallace Chan, Stand D21 © 2017 MASTERPIECE LONDON LTD

Wallace Chan, Bliss and Peace (Necklace). An imperial snuff bottle from the Daoguang period (1821-1850) of Qing dynasty is turned into a carrier of auspicious meanings. Wallace Chan, Stand D21 © 2017 MASTERPIECE LONDON LTD

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Boghossian at Masterpiece London 2017

June 29, 2017, 1:19 pm

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A rhinoceros horn 'Squirrel and Grape' libation cup, Qing dynasty, 18th century

June 29, 2017, 1:29 pm

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Lot 630. A rhinoceros horn 'Squirrel and Grape' libation cup, Qing dynasty, 18th century, 14.5 cm, 5 3/4 in. Estimate 80,000 -- 120,000 HKD. Lot sold 325,000. Photo: Sotheby's

the exterior detailed with playful squirrels amidst gnarled vines issuing clusters of grapes and large leaves, the horn of a warm reddish-brown colour

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A carved full-tip rhinoceros horn 'Flower and Double Gourds' libation cup, Qing dynasty, 19th century

June 29, 2017, 1:34 pm

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Lot 631. A carved full-tip rhinoceros horn 'Flower and Double Gourds' libation cup, Qing dynasty, 19th century, 30.3 cm, 11 7/8 in. Estimate 80,000 -- 120,000 HKD. Lot sold 250,000. Photo: Sotheby's

the full length of the horn carved and pierced from the tip to the rim with gnarled branches and leafy long meandering stems bearing floral buds and double gourds, the cup modelled in the form of a five-petalled flower with a stamen on the interior, the horn of a warm honey-brown colour transmuting to a dark brown near the tip, wood stand

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 01 Jun 2017

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An archaistic rhinoceros horn 'Chilong' libation cup, 17th century

June 29, 2017, 1:42 pm

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Lot 641. An archaistic rhinoceros horn 'Chilong' libation cup, 17th century, 16 cm, 6 1/4 in. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 HKD. Lot sold 300,000. Photo: Sotheby's

of conical form, rising to a rim furled forming a spout, the body finely carved in low relief with a register of stylised taotie masks on a leiwen ground, set with two openwork handles modelled as a pair of chilong rendered with elongated bodies climbing up and peering over the interior of the vessel, the base with a two-character seal mark, the horn with a rich amber patina, stand

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 01 Jun 2017

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A rhinoceros horn 'Peony' libation cup, Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century

June 29, 2017, 1:49 pm

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Lot 644. A rhinoceros horn 'Peony' libation cup, Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century, 16 cm, 6 1/4 in. Estimate 400,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot sold 625,000. Photo: Sotheby's

the flared sides finely carved in various levels of relief depicting leafy branches of peony and prunus curling up and around the exterior from the base of the foot to the rim, set to one end with two branches of budding magnolia forming the handle, the horn patinated to a rich dark honey tone.

Note: Carved with a delicate scene of flowering peonies, the auspiciousness of the motif is captured in the branches of prunus which represent hope, as they are the first flowers to blossom as spring approaches, and the peonies which symbolise royalty and honour. The raised details of the flowers form a pleasing contrast with the smooth surface of the vessel to draw attention to the evenness of tone.

A rhinoceros horn cup carved with branches of blossoming prunus and camellia, in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, is illustrated in Jan Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, pl. 214; another was sold at Christie’s New York, 15th September 2011, lot 1266; one carved with prunus was sold twice in these rooms, 22nd May 1985, lot 281 and again, 8th October 2013, lot 3238, from the collection of Franklin Chow; and a fourth cup was sold in these rooms, 8th October 2014, lot 3790.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 01 Jun 2017

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