Lot 121. Petite jarre, Grès à couverte paille, Chine, Zhejiang, Dynastie des Jin Occidentaux (265-316); 5 x 10,5 cm. Estimation: €150 - €300. © Cornette de Saint-Cyr.

L’épaule présente un décor moulé constitué d’une bande de croisillons et supporte quatre passants.

Provenance : Collection de M. et Mme L. (Paris) constituée dans les années 1970-2000.

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Pieter Claesz, Vanitas, Dated 1656, Oil on oak table, 39.5 cm × 60.5 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

Treviso confirms its presence on the stage of great art with an initiative of high cultural value and international scope.

From 30 November 2019 to 31 May 2020, the Santa Caterina Museum  hosts the NATURE IN POSA exhibition  . Masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in dialogue with contemporary photography ,  promoted by the  City of Treviso  and  Civita Tre Venezie , in collaboration with the  Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna .

The original exhibition documents how the Still Life subject, Still Life, developed between the end of the sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth century, inviting the viewer to look at one of the most evocative genres of European painting in a new light. 

Jan Brueghel the Elder, Bouquet of flowers in a blue vase, around 1608, Oil on oak table, 65.8 cm × 51 cm × 0.7 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

The prestigious collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna makes available , for the occasion,  50 masterpieces - presented for the first time in Italy - Francesco Bassano, Jan Brueghel, Pieter Claesz, Willem Claesz Heda, Jan Weenix, Gerard Dou, Evaristo Baschenis, Gasparo Lopez dei Fiori, Elisabetta Marchioni .

To these are added further loans from  important museums and foundations in the Veneto region , such as the  Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice , the  Museum of Medieval and Modern Art in Padua  and the  Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation in Treviso .

Attributed to Jan van den Hecke, Still life with fruit, 1650/1660, Oil on canvas, 81 cm × 59.5 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

The exhibition, curated for the ancient section by  Francesca Del Torre, with Gerlinde Gruber  and  Sabine Pénot  - responsible for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna for Italian, Flemish and Dutch painting respectively - and  Denis Curti , artistic director of the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice , for the photographic section, it is the first appointment of a large project of exhibitions and events, developed by the City of Treviso together with Civita Tre Venezie, Intesa Sanpaolo and important institutional partners, in order to enhance, in Italy and in the abroad, the extraordinary heritage of the Treviso area.

 Anonymous, Still life with fruit, around 1740/1750, Oil on canvas, 74.5 cm × 98 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

 "The wait is over - declares  Mario Conte,  Mayor of the City of Treviso - and we can raise the curtain on  Natura in Posa , the first major exhibition of our cultural programming with 50 magnificent works of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, a unique in the European panorama if not even worldwide. There is great emotion and a thread of pride for the beginning of this journey which intends to bring to Treviso works by the great artists of the late sixteenth century with an eye towards internationality in dialogue with the peculiarities of our territory. It is an ambitious project but we start with great enthusiasm". 

Attributed to Karel de Vogelaer, Still life with fruit, Last quarter of the 17th century, Oil on canvas, 112 cm × 84.2 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

"We are proud to host this great exhibition in Treviso - declares  Lavinia Colonna Preti ,  Councilor for Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the City of Treviso  - so unique and innovative from many points of view: if on the one hand it offers an unrepeatable opportunity to see up close such an important number of Flemish masterpieces from the 1500s and 1600s, on the other hand, for the first time ever, narrate the narrative power of objects, the so-called Still life genre, in a historical excursus from the Renaissance to the present day through the combination of absolute pictorial icons, such as the "bouquet of flowers in blue vase" by Brueghel the Elder, with the icons of contemporary photography, discovering them united by a single strong inspirational theme, that of Vanitas ".   

Ferdinand van Kessel, Allegory of Europe, Dated 1689, Oil on canvas, 52 x 72 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband. 

"The exceptional collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna - underlined  Emanuela Bassetti ,  President of Civita Tre Venezie and Marsilio Editori - testifies to the quality and internationality of this project.  Natura in Posa  is an original exhibition that allows us to grasp the evolution of the Still Life genre through the elegance and perfection of the unpublished works of Francesco Bassano, Jan Anton van der Baren, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Evaristo Baschenis, Elisabetta Marchioni, to name a few. The participation of the Casa dei Tre Oci allows to establish an interesting dialogue between painting and photography, providing a contemporary interpretation thanks to the shots of the greatest photographers".  

Painter from the circle of Johannes Leemans, Still life with hunting tools, around 1660, Oil on canvas, 118 cm × 167 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

"Still lifes represent objects, animals and flowers familiar to all of us and which, however, do not know decay - explains  Francesca Del Torre ,  Curator of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the exhibition - They deceive the observer, stimulating at the same time the reflection on the transience of life. Herein lies their charm which we believe still has a strong attraction on the public today.”

“ Still life - declares  Denis Curti, Curator of the photographic section of the exhibition - is a photographic genre that continues to register a growing interest and that, with digital technology, has even exploded. The selection of images on display is the mirror of this passion and is the reflection of a photographic modality that intends to approach the same feelings of the pictorial practices."

Francesco da Ponte, known as Francesco Bassano, Summer, around 1585/1590, Oil on canvas, 111 cm × 145.5 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

" Natura in Posa  is only the first of the various initiatives that Intesa Sanpaolo has decided to support to support the City of Treviso in what is increasingly a wide-ranging collaboration aimed at its cultural enhancement - declares  Renzo Simonato ,  Regional Director for Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino Alto Adige by Intesa Sanpaolo - This is a four-year program that includes major art exhibitions and events for the Treviso community, in a logic of public-private collaboration. Intesa Sanpaolo is strongly committed to supporting the activity cultural heritage of the country and Veneto in particular where there are many initiatives promoted by the bank".

Francesco da Ponte, known as Francesco Bassano, Market scene, around 1580/1585, Oil on canvas, 125 cm × 280 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

Nature in pose  offers the visitor a surprising journey, both thematic and chronological, where the evolution of the still life genre will be told , which has its origins already in antiquity, but which conquers the attention of the Bassano family, in Veneto , and then rise to the rank of autonomous representation around the 17th century in the Netherlands where it reaches its peak, becoming one of the strongest sources of inspiration even for the  great contemporary artists  who reinvent and reinterpret the theme with personal and sometimes visionary suggestions. Extraordinary  vanitasfloral arrangements, refined market scenes, sumptuous tables laid out on display alongside portraits of interiors and seasons or precious iconic symbols that recall the transience of life and its pleasures, such as butterflies, books, watches, musical instruments.

Willem Claesz Heda, Table set, Dated 1634, Oil on board, 60.5 cm × 48.9 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

The works of artists such as  Francesco Bassano ,  Lodovico Pozzoserrato, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Pieter Claesz, Willem Claesz Heda, Jan Weenix, Gerard Dou,  Evaristo Baschenis, Gasparo Lopez dei Fiori, Elisabetta Marchioni  - which enchant for pomp, creativity and perfection of execution - dialogue with the most iconic contemporary photographs. Thus we move from the  vanitas  capable of misleading  David LaChapelle  to the raw and ironic reportages of  Martin Parr  on mass consumption, from the magnificent and sensual flowers of  Robert Mapplethorpe  to the  Flowers  of  Nobuyoshi  Araki , from the series dedicated to the soup tureens of Franco Vimercati to the  idea of ​​pictorial classicism by  Hans Op De Beeck , to the Herbarium project   by  Nino Best.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by  Marsilio Editori.

Evaristo Baschenis, Still life with musical instruments, globe and armillary sphere, 17th century. Oil on canvas, 78 cm × 118 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband

Anonymous, Still life with lobster, Second half of the 17th century, Oil on canvas, 48 ​​cm × 41.5 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

Attributed to Jan van den Hecke, Basket of flowers, 17th century, Oil on canvas, 35 cm × 49 cm, Courtesy KHM-Museumsverband.

David LaChapelle, Earth Laughs in Flowers (Springtime), 2008-2011, C-Print, 152x116 cm; Courtesy: Studio David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle, Earth Laughs in Flowers (Risk), 2008-2011, C-Print, 152x107 cm; Courtesy: Studio David LaChapelle.

Martin Parr, AUSTRALIA. Western Australia Roadhouse. 2011© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.

Martin Parr, SPAIN. Benidorm. 1997. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.

Hans Op De Beeck, Vanitas (1), 2011, 108.1 x 163.1 cm, Lambda print mounted on dibond back in wooden frame; Credit: Fabio Castelli Collection (Milan Italy); Courtesy Galleria Continua San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana.

Nino Best, Herbarium, 1974, vintage C-print-unicum on wooden support, 100 x 70 cm© Fondazione Nino Best.

Nino Best, Herbarium, 1974, vintage-unicum C-print on wooden support, 140x100 cm© Fondazione Nino Best.

Nino Best, Herbarium, 1974, vintage-unicum C-print on wooden support, 100 x 70 cm© Fondazione Nino Best.

Nino Best, Herbarium, 1974, vintage-unicum C-print on wooden support, 140x100 cm© Fondazione Nino Best

Lot 225. A pair of moulded blue and white jars and covers, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 40.5cm., 15 7/8 in. Estimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 5,000 GBP. © Sotheby's

 each baluster body rising from a spreading foot with recessed base to a short straight neck with rolled rim, moulded around the body with three tiers of spiralling and overlapping petal-shaped panels enclosing leafy foliate scrolls reserved on a blue ground, all between chevron bands at the foot and shoulder, the neck with lotus scroll and chevron bands, the similarly painted domed cover with barbed rim and lotus bud finial.

Lot 226. A gilt-bronze mounted blue and white yen yen; the porcelain Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1622-1722), the European mounts later; 49.5cm., 19 1/2 in., including mount. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 GBP. Lot sold 23,750  GBP. © Sotheby's

the baluster body rising from a spreading foot to a tall trumpet neck, painted around the exterior with deer and cranes amidst pine trees and swirling mist.

Lot 228. A polychrome meiping, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644-1661); 31.7cm., 12 1/2 in. Estimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 2,500 GBP. © Sotheby's

the tapering body with rounded shoulder rising from a spreading foot to a short narrow waisted neck, enamelled around the exterior with a long-tailed bird perched on rockwork amidst magnolia and peony sprays reserved on an iron-red ring ground, all between chevron and lotus lappet bands at the foot and keyfret, wave and classic scroll at the shoulder.

Lot 229. A blue and white and later green enamelled fish jar, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1622-1722); 18cm., 7 1/8 in. Estimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 2,500 GBP. © Sotheby's

the rounded sides rising to a straight rim, painted with carp and dragon fish on a later green enamelled ground, the exterior base with an emblem in underglaze blue.

Lot 230. A famille-verte rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1622-1722); 46.3cm., 18 1/4 in. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 GBP. Lot sold 12,500 GBP. © Sotheby's

the cylindrical body rising from a short tapering foot to a tall ribbed neck with everted waisted rim, brightly enamelled around the exterior with military figures in a landscape, the neck with bamboo issuing from rockwork.

Lot 1325. A blue and white beaker vase, Transitional period, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high. Estimate 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised 30,000 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

Finely painted on the neck with two plump quail standing on a rock amidst bamboo and chrysanthemums, with a pair of birds, a butterfly and insects in flight below the sun on the reverse, the center section with fu symbols alternating with quatrefoil cartouches of lotus, and the bottom section with pendent leaf tips, all within incised line borders.

Note: The combination of pairs of quail (an) and chrysanthemums (juhua) stand for anju leye ('May you dwell in peace and enjoy your career'). See T. T. Bartholomew, "A Few Interesting Botanical Themes", JICSBS, Spring 2004, p. 9. A very similar design of quail amidst rocks and chrysanthemums can be seen on a blue and white brush pot dated c. 1645-60, in the Mr. and Mrs. Anthony du Boulay Collection, illustrated by M. Butler et al., Treasures from an Unknown Reign, Shunzhi Porcelain, 1644-1661, Honolulu Academy of Art, 2002, p. 95, no. 5. See, also, the slightly smaller (43.1 cm.) blue and white vase of the same form with similar decoration on the lower half of the body, but painted on the neck with a cockerel standing on a rock flanked by magnolia and peony, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qing Shunzi Kangxi Zhao Qinghua Ci, Beijing, 2005, no. 54.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 1329. A wucai baluster jar and cover, Transitional period, circa 1650; 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) high. Estimate 18,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised 37,500 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

Painted around the body with a scene of a maiden kneeling in tribute before male and female officials, their attendants to one side in front of a large screen and altar table, while a group of maidens play musical instruments on a terrace, all beneath a border of 'cracked-ice' pattern on the shoulder and rocks and flowers on the tapered neck, the cover painted with a scene of three boys playing in a rocky landscape.

Provenance: Chait Galleries, New York.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 1330. A large wucai baluster vase, Transitional period, circa 1650; 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm.) high. Estimate 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised 8,125 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

Painted with an official seated in a terraced garden surrounded by attendants and tribute bearers, three kneeling in the foreground and presenting a jue, an ingot and a wine ewer, while a fourth approaches from the side bearing a wrapped gift, the neck painted with leafy chrystanthemum and peony sprays and ornamental rockwork above a 'cracked-ice' border encircling the shoulder.

Provenance: Chait Galleries, New York.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 1370. A blue and white sleeve vase, Transitional period, circa 1640; 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) high. Estimate 15,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised 18,750 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

Well painted in rich shades of blue at the waist with a wide band of overlapping ruyi-head lappets containing lotus blossoms amidst leafy scroll beneath five of the bajixiang, positioned beneath tasseled chimes and between further lappets containing lotus, camellia and beribboned pearls, the foot incised with a crosshatch border and the waisted neck incised with a simplified floral scroll beneath a border of upright ruyi heads.

Exhibited: On loan to the Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010; exhibited 2007-2010.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 1371. A blue and white sleeve vase, Transitional period, circa 1635-1650; 18 in. (45.8 cm.) high. Estimate 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised 68,500 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

Well painted with a scene of a soldier/official surrounded by attendants, three holding halberds and a banner standing behind him, while he faces a groom with a horse and two further attendants carrying gifts, all between incised borders and below pendent leaf tips on the waisted neck.

Exhibited: On loan to the Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010; exhibited 2007-2010.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 1372. A massive blue and white baluster vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 30¾ in. (78.1 cm.) high. Estimate 25,000 - USD 35,000. Price realised 60,000 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

The body well painted with phoenixes, cranes, and a peacock in a lush setting of peonies and trees, with numerous small birds nestled amidst their branches and in flight beneath a band of scrolling clouds and borders of bamboo and crosshatch designs at the base of the tapered neck, which is painted in similar fashion, the base with apocryphal six-character Jiajing mark within a double circle.

Provenance: William Rhinelander Stewart, New York.
Princess Miguel de Braganca, New York.
The late Bertram S. Boggis Collection; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 16-17 October 1958, lot 385

Exhibited: Brooklyn Museum, prior to 1958.
Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 53.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 1375. An early Ming-style blue and white deep bowl, 18th century; 6¾ in. (17 cm.) diam. Estimate 60,000 - USD 80,000. Price realised 290,500 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

With steep sides flaring in a curve to the rim, well painted in fifteenth-century style with a continuous lotus scroll above two bow-string bands and a border of lotus lappets above the short foot, the interior with apocryphal Xuande six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, box.

Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1966, lot 66.

Note: The unusual shape and decoration of this bowl are based on Xuande mark and period prototypes, such as the bowl with cover illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 156-7, no. 51.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010

Lot 249. Bol, Grès à décor incisé sous couverte céladon, Vietnam, Dynastie Trần, 13°-14° siècle; 12 x 15 cm. Estimation: €750 - €950. © Cornette de Saint-Cyr.

Un décor de pétales de lotus est incisé sous la couverte dans la partie inférieure.

Références: Crick :”Viêt Nam : Collection vietnamienne du musée Cernuschi ” 2006. p.140.

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Lot 251. Bol à décor extérieur cannelé, Grès à couverte céladon craquelée, Vietnam, Dynastie Trần, 13°-14° siècle; H. 7,5 cm. Estimation: €600 - €800. © Cornette de Saint-Cyr.

Références: Philippe Truong :”The Elephant and the Lotus, Vietnamese ceramics in the Museum of fine arts, Boston” 2008. n° 61 p. 93.

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Lot 252. Bol, Grès à couverte blanche, Vietnam, Dynastie Trần, 13°-14° siècle; 9 x 17 cm. Estimation: €400 - €600. © Cornette de Saint-Cyr.

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Lot 253. Bol, Grès à couverte blanche, Vietnam, Dynastie Trần, 13°-14° siècle; 8 x 19,5 cm. Estimation: €400 - €600. © Cornette de Saint-Cyr.

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