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Pair of rare Qianlong blue and yellow bowls – estimate: $12,000-$18,000. Cowan's Auctions Inc. image.

Cowan’s to auction museum-owned Asian art March 24

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Pair of rare Qianlong blue and yellow bowls – estimate: $12,000-$18,000. Cowan's Auctions Inc. image.

Pair of rare Qianlong blue and yellow bowls – estimate: $12,000-$18,000. Cowan’s Auctions Inc. image.

CINCINNATI – Cowan’s Auctions Inc. will host their live salesroom Asian Art Auction on Monday, March 24. The near 800-lot live sale will feature substantial collections from the Zanesville Museum of Art, including Chinese and Southeast Asian bronzes, imperial textiles and early porcelains.

LiveAucitoneers.com will facilitate Internet live bidding.

Also offered in the sale is a private collection of antique ivory carvings, fine selections of Japanese and Chinese export silver, and early Qing dynasty porcelains. The sale will begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.

“I am truly pleased to be offering this great material deaccessioned from the Zanesville Museum of Art at no reserve, which consisted of donations from the 1930s to the 1970s,” noted Graydon Sikes, director of Cowan’s Asian Art Department.

Among the items of note in the auction, porcelain pieces are expected to do well. A pair of rare Qianlong blue and yellow bowls are estimated to bring $12,000-$18,000, a rare 18th century Chinese famille rose vase is estimated to sell anywhere between $8,000 and $12,000, a rare Chinese Meiping double-fish vase is estimated at $7,000-$9,000, and a fine coral red reverse decorated bowl is expected to sell for $6,000-$8,000.

Fine jade items will also be featured. A fine Chinese Ming Period jade water buffalo carving is estimated anywhere between $9,000 and $10,000, a Chinese carved jade mythological beast is expected to bring $8,000-$10,000, a Chinese white jade archer’s ring is estimated at $5,000-$8,000, and a Japanese Celadon Square Vase is expected to sell anywhere between $6,000 and $8,000.

Ivory carvings are expected to perform well in the auction. A fine Chinese carved and inked figural grouping is estimated at $3,000-$5,000, a group of Japanese carved ivory figures is expected to bring $3,000-$5,000, a Chinese polychrome ivory figural group is estimated to bring anywhere between $3,000-$5,000, and a Chinese carved ivory arched bridge is estimated at $3,000-$5,000.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE

Pair of rare Qianlong blue and yellow bowls – estimate: $12,000-$18,000. Cowan's Auctions Inc. image.

Pair of rare Qianlong blue and yellow bowls – estimate: $12,000-$18,000. Cowan’s Auctions Inc. image.

Chinese carved jade mytholigical beast – estimate: $8,000-$10,000. Cowan's Auctions Inc. image.

Chinese carved jade mytholigical beast – estimate: $8,000-$10,000. Cowan’s Auctions Inc. image.

Chinese court robe – estimate: $500-$700. Cowan's Auctions Inc. image.

Chinese court robe – estimate: $500-$700. Cowan’s Auctions Inc. image.