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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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0143: Chinese Ming / late Qing Dynasty Alum red and white porcelain Xuande style Zun / Gu form trumpetEst. US$700-US$900
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0144: Chinese Qing Dynasty Tongzhi style blue and white porcelain floral dish. 1 3/8"H x 6 1/4"Diam.Est. US$500-US$700
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0145: Chinese Qing Dynasty Yongzheng style porcelain plate with floral motif and scalloped shape, earlyEst. US$300-US$500
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0146: Chinese Qing Dynasty Yongzheng style blue and white porcelain landscape tea cup 3 1/2"H x 3Est. US$200-US$400
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0147: Chinese Qing Dynasty Kangxi style blue and white porcelain seal paste box 1"H x 3 1/4"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0148: Chinese Qing Dynasty Kangxi style blue and white brush wash porcelain jar, C. 1800 1 1/2"H x 4"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0149: Chinese Kangxi Qing Dynasty Shou symbol porcelain teapot, late 19th century, yellow glaze, greenEst. US$200-US$400
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0150: Chinese Kangxi mark blue and white porcelain bowl with five red fish. 3"H x 14 1/2"Diam.Est. US$300-US$500
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0151: Chinese Qing Dynasty hand-painted porcelain blue white and iron red goldfish motif dish / bowl. 1Est. US$100-US$200
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0152: Chinese Qing Dynasty blue and white porcelain dish with 3 blossoms floral spray, 18th century. 1Est. US$300-US$500
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0153: Chinese Qing Dynasty blue and white porcelain dish with birds and flowers, 19th century 2"H xEst. US$200-US$300
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0154: Chinese blue and white porcelain 4 lobed footed planter, 19th century. 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 2"Est. US$200-US$400
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0155: Chinese blue and white porcelain calligraphy pedestal bowl, Buddhist temple piece/Daoist?, 18thEst. US$200-US$400
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0156: Lot of 2 Chinese late Qing blue and white porcelain pot with lid and bottle 11"H x 6"Diam. (largest)Est. US$140-US$200
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0157: Chinese Early 20th Century Jiajing mark iron red and white porcelain baluster vase with longevityEst. US$400-US$600
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0158: Chinese porcelain iron red underglaze small jar, late 1800s 4" x 3 3/4"Est. US$80-US$120
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0159: Lot of 2 Chinese porcelain bowls: Late Qing Dynasty yellow bowl with floral motif and Qian Long-MingEst. US$100-US$200
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0160: Chinese celadon glaze porcelain charger plate with Manji Japanese reign mark (1658-1661) blue andEst. US$300-US$500
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0161: Ohara Shoson (Koson), Japanese (1877 - 1945), 2 woodblock coi fish prints, 9 3/4"H x 10"WEst. US$400-US$600Lot Passed
0162: Shodo Kawarazaki, Japanese (1889 - 1973), Irises, woodblock print, 15"H x 10 1/4"W (sight), 24 3/4"HEst. US$160-US$250Lot Passed
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0163: Chinese printed decorative scroll with bamboo and flowers after the master painter. 56"L x 16 1/4"WEst. US$100-US$200
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0164: Chinese watercolor ink wash scroll painting on paper, bamboo signed Tian Yong. 61 1/2"H x 23 1/2"WEst. US$300-US$500Lot Passed
0165: Asian Japanese 1903 Meiji framed watercolor scroll painting on paper, ducks/geese water fowl withEst. US$300-US$500Lot Passed
0166: Asian Japanese 1924 watercolor ink scroll painting on rice paper, black bird; crow, raven,Est. US$400-US$600Lot Passed
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