Most Expensive Collectibles Sold on Sotheby’s April 2014

At the Beginning of the Month we search Sotheby’s Auction Results and Post the TOP 5 Auction Highlights that Sold for the highest price. This listing was one of the Top 5 sales at Sotheby’s month, we hope you enjoy this information as much as we enjoy posting it! Please make sure you come back periodically to see the Top Collectibles that Sold at Sotheby’s.

#1. Doucai ‘Chicken Cup’ Mark and Period of Chenghua Sold for $36.3 Million

Description: Arguably the most celebrated porcelain throughout the centuries, delicately potted with flawless translucent sides flaring out from the countersunk base to a subtly everted rim, the exterior painted in faint outlines of cobalt blue under the glaze and picked out in overglaze enamels of yellow, green, light and dark olive green, and two tones of iron red with a lively continuous scene of a red rooster and his golden hen out in a garden with their chicks, one side of the cup depicting the rooster with his head turned back to see the hen pecking at a red-winged insect on the ground as one of the chicks looks on, while the other two chicks chase each other around a small patch of leaves, the reverse with the proud rooster arching his neck forward raising his head with his beak slightly opened as if to crow, while the hen tends to their.

 

 

#2. Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Sold for $$27,606,310.

Description: Composed of twenty-seven graduated jadeite beads of highly translucent bright emerald green colour, completed by a clasp set with calibré-cut rubies and baguette diamonds, mounted in platinum and 18 karat yellow gold, length approximately 30mm, unsigned.  Beads approximately 19.20 to 15.40mm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

#3. A Magnificently Carved Lobed Dingyao Basin Northern Song Dynasty Sold for $19 Million

Description: Sublimely potted with eight ethereal lobes rising from a flat base, the lobes delineated on the interior by sharp vertical lines of slip dividing the surface into eight panels, encircling the broad central medallion exquisitely carved with a full-bloom peony, the layers of the scalloped-edged petals accented with light combing,

 

 

 

 

#4. Zhang Xiaogang Painting Sold for $12,144,264.

Description: Signed in Chinese and Pinyin and dated 1995, framed,  oil on canvas, 179 by 229 cm.; 70½ by 90⅛ in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#5. Blue and White ‘Fruit’ Meiping Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period Sold for $6,225,706.

Description: Superbly potted with full rounded shoulders rising at a gently flaring angle from the base and sweeping to a short waisted neck, well painted in a lively style in washes of cobalt, the sides with a wide band of six fruit sprays arranged in an alternating double register, the upper register showing detached peach.