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Auction archive: Lot number 2

A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON 'PEONY' BOX AND COVER WITH 'FLORET' APPLIQUES...

Estimate
HK$1,800,000 - HK$2,500,000
ca. US$230,435 - US$320,049
Price realised:
HK$4,900,000
ca. US$627,296
Auction archive: Lot number 2

A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON 'PEONY' BOX AND COVER WITH 'FLORET' APPLIQUES...

Estimate
HK$1,800,000 - HK$2,500,000
ca. US$230,435 - US$320,049
Price realised:
HK$4,900,000
ca. US$627,296
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON 'PEONY' BOX AND COVER WITH 'FLORET' APPLIQUES NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY with a drum-form body rising from a flat base centred with a countersunk circular section, the exterior decorated around the foot with nine small 'floret' appliqués below a thin raised fillet, the cover similarly applied around the sides with nine small florets, the slightly domed top carved with a large peony bloom borne on a curling stem and wreathed by undulating foliage, the exterior applied overall save for the base with an unctuous sea-green celadon glaze pooling in the extremities and thinning along the raised edges 13.2 cm, 5 1/8 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
3 Oct 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
Hong Kong
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON 'PEONY' BOX AND COVER WITH 'FLORET' APPLIQUES NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY with a drum-form body rising from a flat base centred with a countersunk circular section, the exterior decorated around the foot with nine small 'floret' appliqués below a thin raised fillet, the cover similarly applied around the sides with nine small florets, the slightly domed top carved with a large peony bloom borne on a curling stem and wreathed by undulating foliage, the exterior applied overall save for the base with an unctuous sea-green celadon glaze pooling in the extremities and thinning along the raised edges 13.2 cm, 5 1/8 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
3 Oct 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
Hong Kong
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