Five Chinese and Japanese Silver and Mixed Metal Salt Shakers
Status:
Closed
Estimate: $200 - $300
Estimate$200 – $300
Status
Closed
Five Chinese and Japanese Silver and Mixed Metal Salt Shakers
19TH-20TH CENTURY
comprising a pair of miniature Chinese enamel on metal incense burners, Japanese silver pagoda and lantern form salt shakers, and an American silver salt shaker.
Height of tallest 3 1/2 in., 9 cm.
Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund
The miniature incense burners, accessioned in 1975, are quite possibly from one of Margaret Woodbury Strong's famed dollhouses.
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.
