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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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0167: Chinese watercolor scroll painting on wavy lined paper, cherry blossoms and musician playing fluteEst. $200-$400Lot Passed
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0168: Chinese Qing Dynasty 19th Century botanical painting on silk, fruit tree branch and sparrow bird 8"HEst. $200-$400
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0169: Chinese late Qing Dynasty painting copy on silk after Wang Zhenpeng, artist of the Yuan dynasty,Est. $300-$500
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0170: C. C. Wang (1907-2003) hand painted Chinese calligraphy artist, book title, ink on rice paper,Est. $400-$600Lot Passed
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0171: Lot of 13 Chinese art books: including Later Chinese Porcelain, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 12Est. $80-$120
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0172: Set of 2 Chinese Jiaqing goldfish koi fish on black ground porcelain vases of basket and balusterEst. $140-$250
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0173: Chinese late Qing Dynasty gilt metal phoenix bird ornamental sculpture 16"H x 3 1/2"W x 5"D (withEst. $80-$120
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0174: Lot of 2 Asian bronze vessels: hand hammered singing bowl and Japanese tripod base censer/planter 3Est. $100-$200
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0176: Chinese carved hard stone auspicious seals, with dragon, and mythical beasts. 3"H x 3/4"W (largest)Est. $100-$200
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0177: Chinese carved hard stone zodiac figural zoomorphic seals, 20th century 3" x 3/4" eachEst. $100-$200
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0178: Lot of 7 Chinese miniature ceramic / pottery objects: 2 white glazed bowls, celadon bowl, celadonEst. $400-$600
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0179: Lot of 4 Chinese early 20th century porcelain dishes; calligraphy bowl, Wan Li Ming mark jar, ironEst. $140-$250
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0180: Chinese Lot of 4 19th Century blue and white porcelain dishes: small plate, bowl, teacup, and largeEst. $140-$300
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0181: 3 blue and white porcelain Tek Sing Treasures Chinese export plates. 1 1/2"H x 7 1/4"Diam. (largest)Est. $200-$300
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0182: Lot of 7 Annamese Hoi An Hoard blue and white pottery vessels 2 1/2"H x 4"Diam. (largest)Est. $300-$500
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0183: Lot of 3 South Chinese Annamese ware 10 inch ceramic stoneware bowls with painted Fu symbol andEst. $300-$400
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0184: Lot of 3 National Museum of the Philippines, Manila Annamese pottery blue and white porcelainEst. $200-$400
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0184A: Asian Ceramics 9pc.; Japanese studio pottery jar with lid, white glaze vase, Celadon stem cup?,Est. $140-$200
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0184B: Chinese and Annamese? antique blue and white ceramics 9pc.; 19th/20th Century and earlier, someEst. $200-$400
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0184C: Chinese and Annamese? antique blue and white ceramics 16pc.; 19th/20th Century and earlier, someEst. $200-$400
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0184D: Collection of Asian carved wood object stands for vases and sculpture 7pc. 8"Diam. x 3"H (largest)Est. $100-$200
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0185: Qingbai / Korean? Yuan spurs in basin or Ming fired upside down 3 1/2"H x 10"Diam.Est. $200-$400
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0186: Korean celadon meiping porcelain vase with cranes in flight medallion motif, 20th Century. 11" H xEst. $300-$500
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