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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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0048A: Chinese Northern Song Dynasty glazed earthenware jar with loop handles 5 1/2"H x 5 1/2"Diam.Est. US$200-US$400
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0049: Chinese Song Dynasty hand-painted brown floral white glaze pottery bottle, 12th century. 4" x 2 1/2"Est. US$100-US$200
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0050: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Jian ware ceramic tea bowl with hare's fur glaze, 12th Century 2 1/2"HEst. US$400-US$600
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0051: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Jian ware black glazed ceramic tea bowl 2"H x 4 3/4"Diam.Est. US$400-US$600
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0052: Southern China Song Dynasty Tenmoku? Jian brown glazed ceramic tea bowl with silver bamboo andEst. US$300-US$400
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0053: Southern China Song Dynasty Tenmoku? Jian brown glazed ceramic tea bowl. 2"H x 4"Diam.Est. US$200-US$400
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0054: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty black Jian ware glazed hare's fur ceramic tea bowl. 2"H x 4"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0055: Chinese Song Dynasty 2 handled Henan stoneware jar with black glaze 4" x 2 1/2"Est. US$300-US$500
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0056: Chinese Song Dynasty Henan ware brown / black drip glazed pottery jar with lug handles 2 1/2"H xEst. US$200-US$400
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0057: Two Chinese late Song Dynasty Celadon glazed 18 inch funerary pottery covered offering urns withEst. US$500-US$700
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0058: Chinese late Song Dynasty 20 inch Qingbai ceramic funerary offering urn with dragon detail, 1200s 20Est. US$300-US$500
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0059: Chinese late Song Dynasty 24 inch Qingbai pottery funerary urn with dragon detail, 1200s 24 3/4"H xEst. US$300-US$500
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0060: Chinese late Song Dynasty Qingbai pottery pillow with cracks and repairs 9 1/2" x 5 1/2"Est. US$100-US$200
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0061: Chinese late Song / Yuan Dynasty Cizhou ware carved glaze pottery bowl 2"H x 6 1/2"Diam.Est. US$200-US$400
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0062: Chinese Song / Yuan? Dynasty short granary jar base 4"H x 3 1/2"Diam.Est. US$100-US$200
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0063: Chinese Song Dynasty? Qilin dragon polychrome terracotta clay pottery tile plaque, architecturalEst. US$500-US$700
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0064: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai ware with phoenix bird and lotus motif 2 1/2"H x 7 1/2"Diam.Est. US$200-US$400
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0064A: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty celadon glazed ceramic bowl with chrysanthemum impressed basin andEst. US$200-US$400
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0065: Chinese late Song Dynasty celadon glaze round ceramic powder box with molded cover. 2 1/2" x 1 1/2"Est. US$140-US$250
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0066: Chinese late Song Dynasty celadon glaze round ceramic powder box with molded lotus motif on lid. 1Est. US$100-US$200
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0067: Chinese Song Dynasty Qingbai ware lobed bowl with fish and lotus motif 2 1/2"H x 6 1/2"Diam.Est. US$400-US$600
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0068: Chinese Song Dynasty? Qingbai ware white glaze bowl 3"H x 7"Diam.Est. US$100-US$200
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0069: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai ware bowl with incised floral panels 2"H x 6"Diam.Est. US$200-US$300
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0070: Lot of 4 Chinese Southern Song Dynasty celadon glaze ceramic pots and cups with stands. 2 1/2" xEst. US$200-US$400
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