HOUSTON – A large Vietnamese and Asian antique collection from the Royal Wong (Hoang) family of a 19th century emperor of Vietnam will be sold at auction June 25 by Wayne Wheat Enterprises with management and consulting services by Brigitte Kruse of GWS Auctions LLC.
The sale will be conducted at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Objects in the sale date as far back as the 10th century and up through China’s Republic era. The nearly 150 lots consist of porcelain, ceramic, copper, 100-year-old jade, enamels, exotic compositions, snuff bottles and wood inlaid list stalks.
In the words of the owner: “This collection was accumulated from the ancestry of Tran. Tran, who was appointed Nhị Phẩm Bá Hộ during the reign of the Emperor Tu Duc (1842-1883). Tran was born in 1866 in Bình Lục, Phú Vang district, Vietnam and passed away in 1956, at the age of 90. He was the father of Mrs. Trần Thị Kính born in 1913. As an only child in the Tran family, she was sole beneficiary and has inherited all of the memorabilia. In 1973 Tran Thị Kính assigned sole custody of all her memorabilia to me, Hoàng Văn Lộc, her eldest son, born in 1929.”
The family fled communist Vietnam with the collection and resettled in the United States in 1980.
Wayne Wheat is a former president of the Texas Auctioneers Association and former national spokesperson for the National Auctioneers Association.
Brigitte Kruse is a fifth generation auctioneer and owns GWS Auctions LLC in Beverly Hills, Calif.
For more information contact Wayne Wheat at 713-715-9544.