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Blue and white ewer with silver mounts, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Blue and white ewer with silver mounts, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Photo courtesy Vanderven Oriental Art.Height: 17 cm. Silver mounts: 19th century. Price: € 3.500,00Provenance: Stassen...
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Blue and white ewer with cover, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Blue and white ewer with cover, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Photo courtesy Vanderven Oriental Art.Height: 15 cm. Silver mounts of the period marked Amsterdam 1720. Price: € 7.500,-Provenance:...
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Royal Cartier pearl at the Biennale des Antiquaires 2014
Weighing 8.3 grams and measuring 21.82 x 17.6 x 16.4 mm, the royal Cartier pearl, which was once owned by Queen Mary of England, is said to be one of the most beautiful in existence thanks to its...
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Pair of soft paste ewers with Chinese characters, China, Late 18th century
Pair of soft paste ewers with Chinese characters, China, Late 18th century. Photo courtesy Vanderven Oriental Art.Height: 10,5 cm Width: 13 cm. Price on requestProvenance: Private Collection, UK...
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White monochrome vase with anhui dragon decoration, China, 18th Century
White monochrome vase with anhui dragon decoration, China, 18th Century. Photo courtesy Vanderven Oriental Art.Height: 21cm. Price on requestProvenance: Private Collection, UK purchased from Santos...
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Natural pearl and diamond ring
Natural pearl and diamond ring. Photo Sotheby'sSet with two button-shaped pearls, one of brownish grey colour, decorated with baguette diamonds, size 51. Estimate 85,000 — 120,000 CHF - LOT SOLD....
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Natural Pearl, Seed Pearl and Diamond Brooch
Natural Pearl, Seed Pearl and Diamond Brooch. Photo Sotheby'sSuspending on a slightly baroque drop-shaped natural pearl measuring approximately 12.95 - 13.60 x 15.90mm, to a stylised surmount set with...
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Ashmolean's summer exhibition displays objects from ancient Egypt’s Amarna...
Nose and lips of Akhenaten. Indurated limestone, 8.1 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm, about 1345-1335 B.C. © Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.OXFORD.- Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter’s excavation of the tomb of...
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Greenwich Collects: Wyeth, Italian Renaissance Drawings, Chinese Antiquities...
Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547–1627), Head of a Woman with Elaborate Headdress. From the collection of Helen-Mae and Seymour Askin.Greenwich, CT - Greenwich is fortunate to be the one of the most active...
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Back on René Lalique Art Nouveau's jewelry sold at Christie's, 15 October...
An exquisite Art Nouveau glass, enamel and baroque pearl "Salomé" brooch, by René Lalique. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012The shield-shaped plaque centering upon a sculpted and carved iridescent...
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Japanese "Still life" color woodcuts of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Wind Flowers in a porcelain bowl, Yashima Gakutei, Rokujuen, 1810 - 1819, color woodcut; line block in black with color blocks; metal pigments, h 211mm × 186mm. Bequest of JA Bierens de Haan,...
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"Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face" at The Frick Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- El Greco’s Vincenzo Anastagi, acquired a century ago by Henry Clay Frick, is one of The Frick Collection’s most celebrated paintings and one of only two full-length portraits by the...
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German museum announces it will not restitute 'The Lemon Slice' by Jacob...
Jacob Ochtervelt, ’Das Zitronenscheibchen’, n. d., c. 1667 © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek.MUNICH.- The restitution claim submitted by the descendents of banker Carl Hagen for the...
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Pinakothek der Moderne announces acquisition of painting by Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso, La Femme au Violon, 1911, oil on canvas, private collection. On long-term loan to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sammlung Moderne Kunst at the Pinakothek der Moderne© Succession...
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Sotheby's Auction in New York of the Private Collection Of Celebrated Los...
Vija Celmins, Burning Plane, signed and dated 1965 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 14⅜ by 24¼ in. 36.5 by 61.6 cm. Estimate: 900,000 – 1,200,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- On 24 September...
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'Christ was the greatest of all artists'. Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh, Pietà (After Delacroix), 1889, 16-1/2x13-1/2 inches, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. © Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamVincent van Gogh's Pietà (After Delacroix) was painted in 1889, shortly...
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A fine small wucai 'boys and offerings' bowl, Wanli six-character mark and of...
A fine small wucai'boys and offerings' bowl, Wanli six-character mark and of the period. Photo Bonhams.Potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a short slightly spreading foot, the exterior...
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A Langyao green-glazed bottle vase, Kangxi
A Langyao green-glazed bottle vase, Kangxi. Photo Bonhams.Sturdily potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a short spreading foot, surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, the exterior covered in a...
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A fine yellow-glazed bowl, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
A fine yellow-glazed bowl, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period. Photo BonhamsOf deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapering foot, covered inside and out in a rich and lustrous egg-yolk...
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A copper-red-glazed vase, meiping, Yongzheng
A copper-red-glazed vase, meiping, Yongzheng. Photo Bonhams.Elegantly potted with broad shoulders tapering down to a slightly flared base, with a short flared neck, covered in an attractive even deep...
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