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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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0025: Chinese Han Dynasty glazed pottery footed tray 9"Diam. x 1 3/4"HEst. US$100-US$200
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0026: Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty 13 inch celadon glazed stoneware pottery jar with rope pattern handlesEst. US$400-US$600
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0027: Chinese late Han Dynasty 19 inch celadon glaze pottery jar with rope form handles. 19"H x 16"Diam.Est. US$800-US$1,200
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0028: Chinese Western Jin Dynasty Yue celadon ochre glaze pottery bowl with Taotie mask with ring 3" H x 6Est. US$400-US$600
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0029: Chinese Western Jin Dynasty 14 inch early celadon proto porcelain jar with Taotie mask handles,Est. US$600-US$900
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0030: Chinese Western Jin Dynasty glazed celadon pottery jar with 4 lug handles 9"H x 10"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0031: Chinese Western Jin Dynasty celadon pottery pitcher jar with cup shaped spout 10"H x 8"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0032: Pair Archaic Dynastic Chinese carved stone / limestone monument megalith blocks with Dragon panelsEst. US$5,000-US$10,000Lot Passed
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0033: Chinese Tang Dynasty bronze shaped mirror with birds, fowl, and foliate relief designs. 4"Diam xEst. US$200-US$400
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0034: Chinese Tang style lion and grapevine mythical beast bronze mirror. 1/4"H x 4"DiamEst. US$200-US$400
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0035: Chinese Tang Dynasty style Sancai ware foo dog tripod footed jar with lid. 11 1/2"H x 11 1/2"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0036: Chinese Tang Dynasty Sancai glaze 27 inch pottery camel figure. 26 1/2"H x 18"W x 6"DEst. US$2,000-US$4,000
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0037: Chinese Tang Dynasty style 18 inch terra cotta plychrome pottery camel figure. 17 1/2" H x 12" D xEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0038: Chinese Tang Dynasty style 17 inch standing carved hardstone Bodhisattva Guanyin statue figure. 17"HEst. US$800-US$1,200Lot Passed
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0039: Chinese Tang Dynasty Changsha earthenware ewer waterdropper with lug handles and phoenix bird designEst. US$300-US$500
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0040: Chinese Tang Dynasty Changsha ware three loop pot with grapevine cluster 7"H x 5 1/2"Diam.Est. US$800-US$1,200
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0041: Chinese late Tang Dynasty Changsha ware pottery water pot, 9th century 3" X 2"Est. US$200-US$400
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0042: Chinese Tang Dynasty Changsha ware green splash pottery bowl vessel. 5" x 3"Est. US$200-US$300
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0043: Chinese Tang Dynasty Changsha green splash over white clear glaze pottery ewer wine pot. 7"H xEst. US$600-US$800
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0044: Chinese late Tang Dynasty Changsha ware lobed pottery ewer pot with molded paired fish under spout,Est. US$800-US$1,200
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0045: Chinese Tang Dynasty style glazed porcelain chicken headed ewer with dragon handle 15 1/2"H xEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0046: Chinese Five Dynasties style 16 inch glazed proto porcelain vase with lug handles. 16"H x 9"Diam.Est. US$600-US$900
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0047: Chinese Song Dynasty small ewer wine pot with clear / white glaze. 3" x 4 1/2" x 3 1/2"Est. US$300-US$400
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0048: Chinese Song Dynasty lobed ceramic ewer with clear celadon glaze. 5"H x 6 3/4"Diam.Est. US$600-US$900
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