Category: Antiquities

Vietnamese Ly-Tran Jar, Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

Auguste Rodin (France, 1840–1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) sculpture; Marble 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm. (71.5 × 44.3 × 46 in.) Executed in 1882 Collection of Musée Rodin, Paris, France This couple embracing, this woman abandoning herself, this hand that the man places, barely, like a touch, on the hip of the one he ...

Zhang Heng's Seismoscope, The Zhang Heng's Earthquake Recorder, Te Papa Collection, Museum of New Zealand. WHEN DRAGONS DETECTED EARTHQUAKES This interesting-looking pot is in fact a seismoscope, the first known in the world, invented in 132 CE by a Chinese scholar named Zhang Heng. It's a seismoscope, not a seismograph, which means it can detect ...

Rare Jar In White Blue Enamelled A Rare Blue and White Glazed Stoneware Peony's Storage Jar Vietnam, 15th Century The bulging globular belly is richly painted with blooming plovers. The shoulder is decorated with powerful Buddhist lions walking over the clouds. The collar is embellished with stylised flowers and the feet of a frieze of ...

A Stone Figure of Dancing Shiva Cham art, Tháp Mẫm Style, Bình Ðịnh, Vietnam, 11th – 12th Century stone 113 cm. (44 1/2 in.) high Provenance Collection of a French officer in Vietnam, brought to France in 1952 Acquired from the above in 1986 Private Collection, Europe Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2016 Price Realised ...

A Stone Figure of Ganesh Cham art, Tháp Mẫm style, Bình Ðịnh, Vietnam, 11-12th Century stone 51 cm. (20 in.) high Provenance Collection of a French officer in Vietnam, brought to France in 1952 Acquired from the above in 1986 Private Collection, Europe Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2016 Price Realised HKD 275,000 at Christie’s ...

Michelangelo (Italy, 1475-1564) David Marble sculpture 517 × 199 cm (17 × 6.5 ft) Executed circa 1501–1504 Collection of Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy At first glance, this statue doesn't seem to be hiding much. In fact, to say the least, it shows... everything. And yet, it conceals many secrets. First of all, do you know ...

A Bronze Situla Đông Sơn, Vietnam, 2nd – 1st Century B.C Bronze H x W: 50 x 48.5 cm. (19 5/8 x 19 in.) Provenance Collection of a French officer in Vietnam, brought to France in 1952 Acquired from the above in 1986 Private Collection, Europe Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2016 Price realised HKD ...

Firm of Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, ca. 1870-1920) Gatchina Palace Egg gold, enamel, silver-gilt, portrait diamonds, rock crystal and seed pearls executed in 1901 Provenance Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930 Collection of Walters Art Museum Fabergé And The Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire’s Legacy Gatchina Palace Egg House of Fabergé (Russian, est. 1842) (Manufacturer) Mikhail ...

Louis XVI, stamped AVISSE (Jean Avisse, Master 1745), Paris, France, The 18th Century, Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2008.