Lot 572. A lobed cream-coloured craquelure plate, China, 18th-19th century. D. 20,7 cm. Estimate €400/600. Lot sold €400. Courtesy Nagel.
Short hairline crack
Property from a German private collection, to the current owner through inheritance
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 574. A Guan-glazed porcelain vase, China, 18th-19th century. H. 17,3 cm. Estimate €1800/2500. Lot sold €2200. Courtesy Nagel.
Mouth polished with small chip
Property from an old Austrian private collection
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 577. A celadon-glazed blossom-shaped porcelain plate, China, 18th-19th century. D. 29,5 cm. Estimate €800/1200. Lot sold €800. Courtesy Nagel.
Good condition.
Property from a North German private collection, assembled prior 2000.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 582. A triple-gourd-shaped teadust-glazed porcelain vase, China, 18th-19th century. D. H. 8,8 cm. Estimate €900/1200. Lot sold €3 600. Courtesy Nagel.
Good condition.
Property from a North German private collection, assembled prior 2000.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 583. A small teadust-glazed porcelain brushwasher, China, 18th-19th century. D. 6,4 cm. Estimate €600/1000. Lot sold €850. Courtesy Nagel.
With wood stand. Good condition.
Property from an old Austrian private collection.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence 1663 - 1744), Milo of Croton, 1740. Marble, 152 x 63 x 66 cms. Trinity Fine Art © 2017 London Art Week
Provenance: Marchesi Gerini
Francesco Righetti (Rome 1749 -1819), Apollo and Daphne, 1791. Bronze, signed and dated RIGHETT. F. ROMAE. 1791. Height: 41 cms, on marble, porphyry and gilt bronze base, Height overall 66 cms. Trinity Fine Art © 2017 London Art Week
Provenance: The Lloyd Collection, Betterton House, Oxfordshire
Giovanni Duprè (Siena 1817 - Florence 1882), The Temptation of Adam, 1853. Marble relief, 94 x 70 cms. Trinity Fine Art © 2017 London Art Week
Provenance: Mario Bianchi Bandinelli, Villa "Il Pavone", Siena Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (archaeologist), Siena From 1950 Alessandro Santucci (writer), Milan Private collection, Milan
Trinity Fine Art was founded in 1984 and specialises in European Sculpture, Works of Art, Paintings and Drawings from 15th to the 20th century. Having held regular exhibitions, principally in London and New York, it has earned a reputation as a leading destination for exceptional works of art, many of which have been acquired by great private collections and major museums worldwide. Carlo Orsi, along with associates Walter Padovani and Jonathan Mennell and director Alexandra Toscano, welcomes you to our new gallery space at Old Bond Street.
Contact information: Alexandra Toscano - info@trinityfineart.com - +44 207 493 4916 - www.trinityfineart.com
Address of Exhibition: 15 Old Bond Street, London, W1S 4AX
London Art Week. 1-8 December 2017
Claude Deruet (Nancy c . 1588 - 1660), Saint George and saint Theodore; Reverse: Temptation of Christ, 470 x 370 mm. Artur Ramon Art © 2017 London Art Week
Esteban March (Valencia, 1610 1668), Soldier on Horseback, 1650-1668. Pen and brown ink wash on laid paper, 205 x 250 mm. Artur Ramon Art © 2017 London Art Week
Juan Carreño de Miranda (Avilés, 1615 - Madrid, 1685), Study of three heads of cherubin, c. 1660. Black pencil, sanguine and white crayon highlights on laid paper pasted on a secondary support, 234 x 163 mm. Inscriptions and marks: “22” [crossed out] in brown ink, top centre. Artur Ramon Art © 2017 London Art Week
Anton Rafael Mengs (Aussig, 1728 - Rome, 1779), Study of male nude, 1774. Black pencil, charcoal and white chalk highlights on laid paper, prepared with grey base, 520 x 393 cm. Inscription and marks: 1774, lower left corner. Artur Ramon Art © 2017 London Art Week
Artur Ramon Art is a century-old family business devoted to the world of art. Soon Artur Ramon will open a new area dedicated to ancient art, especially old master drawings and old master paintings. The gallery is habitually present at the main international fairs dedicated to antique and modern artworks, like TEFAF Maastricht, the Salon du Dessin in Paris and the Master Drawings of New York and London.
Contact information: Artur Ramon - art@arturamon.com - +34 93 302 59 70 - www.arturamon.com
Address of Exhibition: 26 Bury St, London, SW1Y 6AL
London Art Week. 1-8 December 2017
Lot 647. A white-glazed chilong wine libation cup, China, 18th-19th century. H. 12 cm. Estimate €1500/2500. Lot sold €3300. Courtesy Nagel.
Good condition.
Property from an old German private collection, assembled between 1950 and 2000.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 652. A fine peachbloom-glazed beehive waterpot, mark and period of Kangxi (1662-1722). D. 12,8 cm. Estimate €15 000/25 000. Lot sold €14 000. Courtesy Nagel.
finely potted of classic domed 'taibai zun' form, the slightly tapering sides rising to a rounded shoulder and short waisted neck below a lipped mouthrim, the exterior decorated overall save for the rim and white base with an even crimson-red glaze characteristically suffused with beige and greyish-pink sprinkles imitating the skin of a ripening peach, the neck bordered with a further thin concentration of beige spots, the body faintly incised with three stylised archaistic dragon roundels, the recessed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark in three columns. Unglazed sections above the stand otherwise fine condition.
Note: Waterpots of this attractive glaze are known in important museums and collections around the world, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 142, pl. 125; another in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 206; a third from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the British Museum, London, published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, pl. 580; and a further waterpot, from the collections of William B. Jaffe and Evelyn Annenberd Hall, sold at Christie's New York, 29th March 2006.
Waterpots of this type are commonly referred to as taibai zun, after the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai (701-762), who was known as a notorious drinker. Depictions of the poet often show him leaning against a wine jar of this form, as seen with a porcelain sculpture, where the poet is also shown with a cup in hand, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong, op. cit., p. 106, pl. 89.
Waterpots of the form belong to a group of eight 'peachbloom' wares for the scholar's desk that became popular in the early Qing dynasty. For a complete set, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, London, 2010, p. 328
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 655. A pair of powderblue-ground gilt painted dragon dishes, Guangxu marks, Guangxu-Republic period. D. 34,3 cm. Estimate €800/1 200. Lot sold €2 800. Courtesy Nagel.
Minor wear
Property from a German private collection, acquired before 1995.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 662. A blue and white small wine pot and cover with silver mounts, Kangxi period (1662-1722). L. 9 cm. Estimate €500/800. Lot sold €900. Courtesy Nagel.
Very slightly chipped.
Provenance: Private collection Düsseldorf, assembled in Germany between 1985 and 2015.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 666. Three framed porcelain plaques with antiquities, flowers, fruits, and scholar's objects, 18th-19th century; 44,4x47cm. Estimate €8 000/12 000. Lot sold €8 500. Courtesy Nagel.
Minor wear, Frames slightly chipped.
Property from an old Italian private collection, assembled in the 1980s.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 673. Two 'zhadou' spittoons, each with nine peaches and a bat, Guangxu mark, Guangxu-Republic period. H. 10,4 cm. Estimate €600/1 000. Lot sold €1 300. Courtesy Nagel.
Good condition.
Property from a South German collection, acquired between 1970 and 1990.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 674. A fine puce-decorated five dragon porcelain hu-shaped vase, 19th century. H. 48,2 cm. Estimate €8 000/12 000. Lot sold €10 000. Courtesy Nagel.
Restored chip to mouth rim, one handle with re-stuck.
Property from an old Italian private collection, acquired in the 1980s.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 675. A well painted porcelain bottle vase with magpies above waves in copper-red and underglaze-blue, underglaze blue Qianlong seal mark, Guangxu period (1875-1908). H. 55,3 cm. Estimate €800/1 200. Lot sold €4 000. Courtesy Nagel.
Two cracks at the body.
Property from a German private collection, acquired before 1981.
Nagel. Fine Asian Art - Salzburg, 16./17.06.2017
Lot 9. Covered cup with a globe and a stem in the form of a Turk, Zick Workshop, Southern German, Nuremberg, second half 17th century; 51cm., 20 1/8 in. Estimate 70,000 — 100,000 GBP. Lot sold 125,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's
turned ivory, the figurative stem with metal inlay.
Provenance: Axel Vervoordt, Belgium, TEFAF 1991
Exhibited: Brussels, Musée de la Maison d'Erasme, Anatomie des Vanités, 2008
Literature: A. Vanautgaerden (ed.), Anatomie des Vanités, exh. cat., Musée Maison d'Erasme, Brussels, 2008, pp. 84, 90, 91
Sotheby's. Treasures, London, 05 Jul 2017
Lot 7. Covered cup with a globe and a stem in the form of a Turk, Zick Workshop, Southern German, Nuremberg, second half 17th century; 49cm., 9¾in. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 GBP. Lot sold 100,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's
turned ivory, the figurative stem with inlaid metal eyes.
Exhibited: Brussels, Musée de la Maison d'Erasme, Anatomie des Vanités, 2008
Literature: A. Vanautgaerden (ed.), Anatomie des Vanités, exh. cat., Musée Maison d'Erasme, Brussels, 2008, p. 88
Note: A related turned cup supported by a stem in the form of a Turk, ascribed to the Zick Workshop, is in the Danish Royal Kunstkammer Copenhagen (Gundestrup, op. cit., p. 265, no. 23/89) and two ivory handles for utensils, also in the distinctive form of a Turk, are in the Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main (Philippovich, op. cit., fig. 370) also by the Zick family.
Ivory goblet with bell, Nuremburg workshop, circa 1660, Royal Danish Kunstkammer, Copenhagen (DKK 23.89)
Turning was considered a noble hobby, and many gentlemen and kings worked lathes as a leisure activity. Lorenz Zick, the son of the turner Peter Zick, and grandson of the turner Martin Zick, was the most accomplished of the three brothers who all took up the family craft. He was called to Vienna in 1642-4 to instruct Emperor Ferdinand III and was appointed Kammerdrechsler of the imperial court. Peter Zick was the teacher of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague.
Concentric spheres with turned rays issuing from the circular apertures on the outer form, like the ones seen on the finial on this cup, were some of the most challenging and highly praised feats of the virtuoso turner.
RELATED LITERATURE: K. Maurice, Sovereigns as Turners, Zurich, 1985; E. v. Philippovich, Elfenbein, Munich, 1982, p. 420, fig. 370 and p. 426, fig. 378; B. Gundestrup, Det kongelige danske kunstkammer 1737, Copenhagen, 1991, pp. 261-262, DKK 23.89
Sotheby's. Treasures, London, 05 Jul 2017
Lot 182. A multi-gem pendant necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co. Estimate: $50,000-70,000. Price realised USD 271,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Suspending an articulated oval-cut sapphire pendant, with circular-cut emerald and yellow brown diamond accents, within a decorative enamel, circular-cut sapphire, emerald and colored diamond bouquet frame, also enameled at the reverse, to the neckchain and clasp of similar design, circa 1920, 24 1/4 ins., mounted in gold. Signed Tiffany & Co.
Lot 155. A nephrite, amethyst and sapphire necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co. Estimate: $30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 247,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
The freeform amethyst, carved at the reverse, set within a platinum and gold filigree and wirework surround, suspending nephrite and amethyst bead fringe, to the similarly set fringed neckchain, set with alternating nephrite and amethyst cabochons, with circular-cut sapphire detail, circa 1920, 18 1/4 ins., mounted in platinum and gold. Signed Tiffany & Co.
Formely in the Garden Museum Collection.
Literature: A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection,England, Antique Collectors' Club Limited, 2004, p. 513.
Christie's. Magnificent Jewels & the Rockefeller Emerald, 20 June 2017, New York, Rockefeller Center
Lot 134. An impressive set of moonstone and sapphire jewellery, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co. Estimate: $60,000-80,000. Price realised USD 211,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Comprising a necklace, designed as a series of graduated oval-shaped moonstone cabochons, trimmed by circular-cut sapphires, joined by circular-cut sapphire cluster links; and a pair of ear pendants en suite, circa 1910, 14 7/8 ins. (necklace), 2 3/4 ins. (ear pendants), mounted in platinum. Each signed Tiffany & Co.
Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's New York, Magnificent Jewels, 27-28 October 1997, Lot 46
Formely in the Garden Museum Collection.
Literature: A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection,England, Antique Collectors' Club Limited, 2004, p. 498-499.
Christie's. Magnificent Jewels & the Rockefeller Emerald, 20 June 2017, New York, Rockefeller Center