BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers will conduct an Asian and international fine arts auction May 18. The auction will begin at 1 p.m. Pacific. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding for the 521-lot auction.

The auction will feature:

– Important jewels and jewelry including a selection of fine, paired jadeite plaques together with watches and unique mineral pieces from several Southern California collections;

– Collection of snuff bottles in various unusual materials, many antique, from a Montana estate;

– Fine offering of netsuke in carved ivory and wood, including contemporary pieces by Brad Blakely and David Carlin; from local California and New York collections;

– Collection of Fabergé-style carved precious stone figurines; along with fine art pieces, including an important bronze nude by Harriet Frishmuth, and two rare antique sketchbooks by Johann-Konrad Fasi-Gessner;

– Large selection of old Chinese Beijing glass pieces from an Arizona estate; with antique Chinese scholarly items, carved jades and furnishings from several collections;

– Pre-Columbian pottery encompassing several cultures, from an Orange County, Calif., collection;

– Chinese dynastic pottery, including Han and Tang, from several estates in Arizona, California and Florida; with Chinese scrolls from a private Taiwanese Collection;

– Antique Southeast Asian Buddhist temple figures from a Los Angeles collection; together with several important gilt bronze Buddhist figures.

For details contact I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers, email chait@chait.com or phone at 310-285-0182.

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.

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