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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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0119: LARGE antique Thai bronze Buddha head on wood base, 17th / 18th Century. 21 1/2"H x 9"W x 8"DEst. US$800-US$1,200
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0120: Chinese fine example carved lacquer seal paste box, red and black alternating layers. 1"H x 3"Diam.Est. US$500-US$700
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0121: Chinese carved jade rhyton drinking vessel with relief and incised design 4" x 2"Est. US$800-US$1,200
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0122: Chinese Qing Dynasty? crude black glaze pottery bowl with painted botanical design 3"H x 6 1/2"Diam.Est. US$80-US$120
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0123: Chinese 14 inch brown glazed stoneware pottery bottle jar with sgrafitto lotus flowers carvedEst. US$140-US$200
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0124: Chinese Ming Dynasty? black glazed pottery bottle. 6 1/2"H x 3 1/2"Diam.Est. US$200-US$300
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0125: Chinese Cizhou? style 3 color glazed earthenware pottery jar with incised scroll decoration. 8 1/2"Est. US$200-US$400
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0126: Chinese Qing Dynasty LARGE 22 inch Cizhou ware pottery jar with brown painted slip decoration. 22" xEst. US$140-US$250
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0127: Pair of Chinese Qing Dynasty well carved white marble / quartz foo lion garden statues with dragonEst. US$1,200-US$1,800
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0128: Pair Chinese? archaic carved stone / hardstone architectural garden wall panels with stylized floralEst. US$500-US$700Lot Passed
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0129: Chinese Qing Dynasty landscape marble 'Dreamstone' framed stone table screen in hardwood stand andEst. US$600-US$800
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0130: Chinese Qing Dynasty? celadon glazed ceramic lion on ball figural pot or teapot 7" x 4 1/2" x 7"Est. US$300-US$500
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0131: Chinese Qing Dynasty dragon applied figure water pot with flecked turquoise and robin's egg biscuitEst. US$400-US$600
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0132: Chinese Qing Dynasty celadon Longquan glaze porcelain vase with dragon-head fixed ring handles,Est. US$400-US$600
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0133: Chinese Qing Dynasty large celadon charger bowl with museum catalog number, provincial kiln, floralEst. US$300-US$500
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0134: Chinese Qing Dynasty Longquan celadon glazed ceramic stem cup, 18th century 4 1/4"H x 3 7/8"Diam.Est. US$400-US$600
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0135: Chinese Qing Dynasty celadon provincial pottery bowl with impressed longevity symbol in basin. 2Est. US$100-US$200
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0136: Lot of 2 Chinese Qing Dynasty provincial celadon pottery bowls with impressed longevity symbol inEst. US$140-US$200
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0137: Chinese Qing Dynasty Qingbai glaze ceramic flat teapot / pot with lid; Mandarin duck molded / carvedEst. US$500-US$700
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0138: Chinese Qing Dynasty Dehua Blanc de Chine censer bowl, 18th Century. 4 1/4" H x 8 1/2" DEst. US$700-US$900
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0139: Chinese Qing Dynasty porcelain bowl with silver deposit phoenix bird floral decoration, lateEst. US$300-US$500
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0140: Chinese Qing Dynasty Guangxu style blue and white porcelain dragon dish / plate. 1 1/2" H x 8" DEst. US$400-US$600
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0141: Chinese Qing Dynasty Guangxu style porcelain bowl with overglaze enamel and underglaze blue 3"H xEst. US$300-US$500
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0142: Chinese Qing Dynasty porcelain seal paste box with figural scenic on top of lid, mid 19th centuryEst. US$200-US$400
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