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Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Single-Owner Estate Chinese Dynastic Ceramics
Every collection is to some extent a self-portrait. The collection that will form the centerpiece of our August 19th auction captures quite faithfully the intense curiosity, sense of adventure and charming humor of its founders and owners, Linda and her late husband Ronald (Ron) Williams. Intrepid globetrotters who were equally passionate, among other things, about the arcane roots and evolution of Chinese art and about the striking beauty of sundry varieties of orchids, they devoted much of their time and attention to a collection that would easily stir the envy of many museums. Imagine now a museum whose atmosphere is anything but stuffy or professorial, and which welcomes you with its understated, but unmistakable elegance, and is flanked by a large garden that is itself a feat of art and design, and an open-air museum / playground (a wonderland for Linda and Ron?s grandchildren). If you do so, you are beginning to get the picture of the ideal setting in which this collection was patiently and lovingly gathered over some five decades of marriage and of joint exploration.
There was certainly a method to this process, and you get the impression that Linda and Ron responded with remarkable consistency to artworks that revealed the spontaneous elegance of nature as well as to objects that permeate our everyday life and render it ? and us ? more graceful. You see this in things as varied as contemporary Italian paintings of autumnal landscapes or Asian carved wood panels, stunning majolica or fine cut glass. But there is also plenty of whimsy to go with that method, and you can spot it in a variety of lots, from prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, the master of whimsy, verging on the naughty, to the occasional ceremonial mask or ritual dagger!
The core of this collection, however, is a truly impressive homage to archaic and classical Chinese ceramic. We are talking about roughly two hundred cups, jars, pots etc. spanning more than two millennia, each of which could
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0095: Chinese Ming Dynasty Longquan Celadon glaze ceramic bowl with incised design; 15th century 3 1/2" HEst. $400-$600
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0096: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon Longquan lobed ceramic bowl with incised lotus floral in basin. 2 3/4"HEst. $400-$600
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0097: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon glaze Longquan ceramic bowl with carved design. 3"H x 6"Diam.Est. $300-$400
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0098: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon green glaze ceramic bowl. 2 3/4"H x 6"Diam.Est. $140-$200
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0099: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon green glaze ceramic bowl. 3"H x 7"Diam.Est. $140-$200
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0100: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon green glaze ceramic bowl with museum catalog number under base. 2 1/2"HEst. $200-$300
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0101: Chinese Longquan celadon pottery bowl / dish. 2"H x 10 3/4"Diam.Est. $140-$200
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0102: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon ceramic plate with floral lotus design 1 3/4"H x 8 1/2"Diam.Est. $300-$400
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0103: Chinese Ming Dynasty celadon ceramic plate with lotus floral design. 2"H x 10 3/8"Diam.Est. $400-$600
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0104: Chinese late Ming Dynasty celadon glaze Longquan ceramic plate with shaped rim and lotus floralEst. $500-$700
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0105: Chinese late Ming Dynasty celadon glaze ceramic plate with lotus floral design. 2 1/2"H x 10"Diam.Est. $400-$600
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0106: South China Ming Dynasty red clay? celadon Anamese style ceramic bowl with impressed floral center 2Est. $200-$300
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0107: Chinese Ming Dynasty? hand-painted Swatow phoenix bird pottery bowl. 3"H x 12"Diam.Est. $100-$200
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0108: Chinese Ming Dynasty glazed Swatow ware ceramic bowl. 2 1/2"H x 8"Diam.Est. $100-$200
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0109: Chinese Ming Dynasty Jiajing style yellow glazed porcelain pedestal bowl with incised dragon andEst. $800-$1,200
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0110: Chinese Qing Dynasty Yongzheng style green and yellow glazed porcelain dragon tea bowl, 19thEst. $100-$200
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0111: Chinese Ming Dynasty Chenghua style blue and white porcelain long neck bottle jar with stopper and 4Est. $300-$500
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0112: Chinese Ming Dynasty Kraak ware? blue and white porcelain dish with Daoist sages playing a boardEst. $800-$1,200
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0113: Lot of 2 Chinese Ming Dynasty Xuande style blue and white porcelain dishes, 19th-20th century 2Est. $300-$500
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0114: Chinese Ming Dynasty blue and white hand painted scenic figural porcelain bowl, Jiajing markEst. $400-$600
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0115: Lot of 2 Chinese Ming Dynasty Chenghua style fish motif porcelain jars with overglaze enamel andEst. $300-$400
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0116: LARGE Chinese Qing / Ming Dynasty bronze mirror with four characters inscription. 1/2"H x 10 1/2"Est. $300-$500
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0117: Chinese Ming Dynasty bronze Shisou mark tripod censer ding with inlaid silver banding leaf/cicadaEst. $1,000-$2,000
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0118: Chinese bronze tripod censer with zoomorphic figural frog handles. 5 1/2" x 4"x 3 1/2"Est. $500-$700Lot Passed
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