Milanese school; circa 1600."Portrait of Pietro Mangrella".Oil on canvas. Re-drawn.Measurements: 177 x 100 cm.In the lower part of this portrait we can appreciate an inscription that designates the identity of the main character: Pietro Mangrella. This symbiosis between calligraphy and painting is distributed throughout the work, in fact, the man holds a book in his hands. On this document, which is open to the viewer, we can read: Noscere Se Dominari Sibi on one of its pages and Hoc opus Hic Labor est on the other. Latin phrases that mean something like; knowledge dominates it, and this work here is or here is the work, here begins the difficulty. This reference to Latin indicates that this is a depiction of a man of letters. This relationship between literature and painting experienced great splendour during the 17th century, bringing different artistic areas closer than ever before. The recognition of the liberal arts in the 1600s led to the development of portraiture, generating great interest in the pictorial capture of emblematic figures from the world of literature. For this reason, the aristocrats of the time expanded their collections of portraits of illustrious men, with the presence of culturally important figures. The pre-eminence achieved by the figure of the literary figure as a famous man is evidence of the great proliferation of such portraits and of the aristocrats' interest in portraits of themselves with elements from literature or linked to literary knowledge. With regard to the portrait, it is worth noting the sobriety of the artist, who inscribes the upright figure in the centre of the scene, in an austere, dark interior. The tones of the flesh tones, the skin that hangs over his shoulders and the bundle he holds in his hands stand out against the gloom. The Milanese school is a rarity in Italian painting as it does not have the characteristics that unify it with others such as the Roman or Venetian schools. Within this northern school various sub-schools can be distinguished, centred on the cities of Genoa, Genoa, Piedmont, Bologna, Cremona, Modena, Ferrara and Parma. However, the term Milanese school is often identified with the Lombard school.
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A LATE 19TH CENTURY INDIAN OR OTTOMAN CHOPPER, with a 32.5cm clipped back blade with a panel of calligraphy to one side and a stylised bird on the other, widest point of the blade 8.5cm, with characteristic brass trimmed hilt with two piece horn grips, contained within a metal mounted red cloth wrapped wooden scabbard, dagger overall 46cm long.
A pair of Chinese cinnabar on paper mounted scroll paintings of the eighteen Arhat. Attributed to Hong Yi: understood to be from the collection of Xu Pingyu; Xu Pingyu (1909-1986) former chief of Nan Jing Bureau of Education, former chief of Shanghai Bureau of Culture. Specialised in calligraphy, 53 x 218cm.
A COLLECTION OF OF KUTANI WAREComprising a large baluster vase decorated with panels of birds on a gilt red ground, unsigned, 39cm high; a slender flared cylindrical vase with similar decoration; two further vases, a pair of plates; a Kutani charger, the reserve decorated with figures at a calligraphy table; together with a bulbous vase decorated with sparrows, signed, 29.5cm high. (8).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Japanese Woodblock Books. 5 Japanese woodblock books, c.1905, containing calligraphy, emblems, tapestry, natural history, occasional light spotting and dust-soiling, all in original paper wrappers, some rubbed and worn to extremities, some chipped with slight marginal loss, 4to, 8vo and 12moQty: (5)
MAGAZINES, three boxes containing Mechanics 1930-1950's, Model Engineer 1950's, Golden Hands, Crimes and Punishment, The British Empire, a folder containing The Complete Do-it-Yourself Manual, five folders containing The Art of Calligraphy and two gift boxes of instruments, 60 - 70 editions of National Geographic, books and a DVD set on the Second World War (3 boxes)
Ann Symes - Chinese Calligraphy, mixed media collage, 61.5cm x 18.5cm, within a stained wood frame, together with two similar works by the same hand.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A FAMILLE ROSE ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’ PORCELAIN PLAQUE BY HU TAIMAO 胡泰茂China, 20th centuryPainted in the famille rose palette with the eight Daoist immortals below a pine tree in an outdoor landscape, bears a calligraphy completed by a red seal to the upper left. That inscriptions signs this piece Hu Taimao (胡泰茂) and also dates it cyclically to a jǐ chou year (己丑) corresponding to 1949. Wooden frame.Dimensions (the sole plaque as visible within the frame): 33 x 37 cm粉彩“八仙盘”中国，20世纪[INTERNET KEYWORDS] CHINA, CHINESE, QING, ANTIQUE, CERAMIC, PORCELAIN, PAINTING, SCROLL, JADE, DYNASTIE, JAPANESE, VIETNAMESECondition Report: Condition report: - UV / black light checked;- framed (we did not remove the frame, so we can not guarantee what may be to the back);- imperfection in the glaze / enamels in the tree to the upper right part.
A GROUP OF FOUR (4) CHINESE PIECESChina, Circa 1880s-1920sIt is comprised of:- a pair of likely Canton lacquer wooden panels;- a Qianjiang Cai ‘birds and flowers’ porcelain hat holder with calligraphy and an apocryphal Tongzhi mark;- a Qianjiang Cai type ‘ladies / beauties’ porcelain hat holder with calligraphy and an unmatching lid.H (the biggest hat holder, the one with no lid): 28,5 cmCondition Report: Condition report: - a filled crack starting from the rim; - the lid is not the original one.
$JAPANESE SCHOOL, WITH SIGNATURETiger / ToraInk and colours on silk mounted as a kakejikuInscribed with a calligraphy on the upper left part together with two sealsApocryphal signature of Tang Yin 唐黃 (1470-1524)116,5 x 41 cm§Bidders should be advised that importation regulations of several countries, including the US, prohibits the importation of ivory and that of coral, or any goods containing same. Therefore Adams advises prospective purchasers who intend to ship lots containing either ivory or other specimen that fall under CITES regulation, to another country to familiarise themselves with the relevant importation regulations prior to bidding. Adams will not be responsible for shipping items herein and the onus will be on the buyer to organise shipping at their own behest.Condition Report: - A few losses, scratches etc.
A late 19th early 20th century glass mosque oil lamp, the hand-blown globular body and frustoconical neck with three loops etched in Ottoman and Islamic tradition, with the entire surface being covered in naskh calligraphy, height 28cm, diameter, 15cmCondition report: Hand blown, so irregular in form and air bubbles throughout, some signs of age but no obvious flaws
A Chinese painting, ink and colour on paper, figures and dwelling in a rocky landscape with pine trees, calligraphy inscription and seal mark, framed and unglazed, 70 cm wide x 55 cm to/w a Japanese bamboo scroll painting of a red crowned crane and a Chinese boxed bamboo scroll painting of a landscape with exotic birds (3)
A Chinese Porcelain Seal, 19th century, of shaped hexagonal form, painted in underglaze blue with calligraphy and figures, 8cm high; A Pair of Coffee Cups and A Saucer, Qianlong, painted in underglaze blue with river landscapes within gilt line rims; and A Similar Coffee Cup (5)Condition report: Seal handle lacking, glaze pitted.Saucer cracked.Pair of cups in good order.Single cup with chips and fitted.
Chinese School (19th century): A Fan Painting, depicting two ducks amongst bamboo and with calligraphy, seal mark in red, 55cm by 26cm, framed and glazed; and A Similar Fan Painting, depicting pine trees, 47cm by 23cm, framed and glazed (2)Condition report: Both removed from original sticks, with marks at the edges showing the previous bonding. Both with wear and staining to the creases, most evident in the first fan. Wear and discoloration. The second fan with some loss to the top-left edge.
A fine 19th century Chinese mother-of-pearl narrative shell, well-carved with a sage writing calligraphy, dignitaries holding fans, a lady of rank being wheeled in a garden, and further traditional figures, the landscape profuse with pagodas and further architecture and foliage, the base carved with a fish, 22cm wide, hardwood stand, Qing dynasty
ZAO WOU KI (Beijing, 1921 - Nyon, Switzerland, 2013).Untitled, from the Suite Olympic Centennial, 1992.Lithograph on 270 gsm Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 58/250.Signed and justified by hand.Size: 90 x 63 cm.Zao Wou Ki is the second most sought-after post-war artist in the world and is the sixth most expensive of all time. In the first half of 2018, his sales were only behind those of stars such as Picasso, Monet, Modigliani and Andy Warhol. At the end of 2018, one of his paintings was sold for 56.5 million euros at auction at Sotheby's. The work made Wou-Ki the most expensive Asian artist in history.Zao Wou Ki was born into a Franco-Chinese family and grew up in a highly cultured environment, interested in the arts and sciences. He studied calligraphy as a child, an aspect that would influence his mature work, and later trained in painting at the Hangzhou College of Fine Arts between 1935-1941. A few years later, in 1948, he settled in Paris, in the Montparnasse district, where he followed the artistic courses of Émile Othon Friesz and came into contact with the contemporary artistic avant-garde. He began to experiment with lithography, a technique which he eventually mastered, following his contact with Desjobert. He has a solo exhibition at the Galerie Creuze in May 1949, with a presentation written by Bernard Dorival, curator of the Musée National d'Art Moderne. In January 1951 Pierre Loeb visits Wou-Ki's studio with Henri Michaux, organising an exhibition at the Galerie Pierre for June, thus laying the foundations of a close collaborative relationship that would last six years. He held regular exhibitions at the Pierre Gallery and met I. M. Pei and his wife Eileen, opening his circle of exhibitions in Switzerland, London, Basel and Lausanne, as well as in New York, Washington and Chicago. His painting is eminently abstract and colourist, strongly influenced by the work of Paul Klee, for its expressionist and emotive abstraction. He tends to work with large masses of intense and contrasting colour, often creating works of large dimensions, as well as diptychs or triptychs. They are often explosions of colour, germinal "big bangs", the origin of a world in creation, as we can see in this lithograph. Delicate patches of blue and mauve intermingle with some grey tones.
AN ASSORTMENT OF COSTUME JEWELLERY, to include various watche (to include Sekonda and Pulsar), a white metal and abalone shell children's bangle, stamped 'Mexico', a white metal and abalone shell circular brooch, stamped 'Alpaca Mexico', also including a selection of beaded and metal jewellery, plated vanity set, travel clocks, perfume bottle, boxed calligraphy set, etc
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