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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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0071: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty celadon ceramic porcelain bowl with cloud motif. 2 3/4"H x 7 1/4"Diam.Est. US$200-US$300
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0072: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai ware ceramic dish with cloud motif. 1 1/4"H x 6" Diam.Est. US$200-US$300
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0073: Chinese late Southern Song Dynasty small celadon ceramic dish with carved lotus design 1"H x 5 1/4"Est. US$200-US$300
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0074: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty glazed celadon ceramic bowl with carved design. 1 3/4"H x 6 7/8"Diam.Est. US$200-US$300
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0075: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty glazed celadon ceramic lobed bowl 2"H x 6 5/8"Diam.Est. US$140-US$300
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0076: Chinese Southern Song Dynasty celadon ceramic bowl with combed design 2 1/4"H x 7 1/4"Diam.Est. US$140-US$250
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0077: Chinese late Song / Yuan Dynasty? white glaze pottery ewer with 2 lug handles 8 1/4" X 7"Est. US$700-US$900
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0078: Pair of Southern Song Dynasty ceramic pottery funerary celadon glaze jars with applied dragon motif.Est. US$200-US$400
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0079: Chinese Southern Song / Yuan Dynasty Celadon ceramic pottery funerary jar, 14th Century? withEst. US$200-US$400
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0080: Chinese Southern Song / Yuan Dynasty celadon funeral urn pottery vase. 8"H x 5"Diam.Est. US$140-US$200
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0081: Korean Yi Dynasty Celadon or Chinese Song? Dynasty Cizhou kiln carved floral bottle vase. 13 1/4"H xEst. US$700-US$900
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0082: Chinese Ge Yao crackle glaze lobed ceramic vase with zoomorphic mask and fixed ring handles. 8 1/2"Est. US$500-US$700
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0083: Chinese Song/Yuan Dynasty Jun glaze Junware porcelain bowl. 3 1/2"H x 7 3/4"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0084: Chinese Song/Yuan Dynasty Jun ware glazed ceramic pottery bowl. 2 1/2"H x 7"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0085: Chinese 7 Spurs mid Ming Dynasty Jun ware blue glaze tripod ceramic washer basin bowl. 3"H x 16Est. US$600-US$800
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0086: Chinese small Jun ware blue glaze ceramic tripod censer. 3" x 2 1/4"Est. US$200-US$300
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0087: Northern Song Dynasty style Longquan type celadon 5 spout urn vase 8 1/2"H x 5" Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0088: Chinese Yuan? Dynasty 11 inch Qingbai glaze ceramic Meiping jar vase. 11"H x 6 1/2"Diam.Est. US$400-US$600
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0089: Chinese Yuan Dynasty celadon pottery ceramic vase, late 1200s-1300s 6 1/2"H x 4 1/2"Diam.Est. US$200-US$400
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0090: Chinese Yuan Dynasty celadon glazed ceramic bowl with carved scallop design 2"H x 5"Diam.Est. US$120-US$200
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0091: Chinese Yuan Dynasty small qingbai glaze pottery jar with lid, incised decoration. 3" x 2 1/2"Est. US$100-US$200
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0092: Chinese Ming dynasty? celadon glaze covered pottery jar. 3" x 2 1/4"Est. US$140-US$200
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0093: Chinese Yuan Dynasty Longquan celadon glaze ceramic jar with lotus shaped lid and fluted motif; 14thEst. US$300-US$400
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0094: Chinese Yuan Dynasty celadon pottery shaped dish with molded twin fish design 1 3/4"H x 8 1/2"Diam.Est. US$140-US$300
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