comprising a brass flower-filled basket-form box, a silvered bonze inlaid circular 'floral' covered box, a fan-shaped pin, cast to show cranes amongst flowering prunus trees in a landscape, a small bronze basket with an overhanging handle and a small rectangular box engraved with gilt highlighted bamboo leaves.
Height of the largest 11 in., 28 cm.
Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.
