清晚期 銅嵌銀絲觀音坐像 款識：天門中斷楚江開，碧水東流至此回。兩岸青山相對出，孤帆一片日邊來。（李白《望天門山》） cast seated wearing a beaded necklace and loose robes that spread gracefully around the figure, inlaid in silver with a design of swirling clouds, and a poem by Li Bai: Mount Heaven's Gate Viewed from Afar.
Height 12 1/2 x width 10 x depth 7 3/4 in., 32 x 25.4 x 19.2 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.
