清晚期 黃瑪瑙雕松下高仕圖鼻烟壺 the semi-translucent yellow stone of flattened spade form, carved throughout in relief, the front showing a scholar with his attendant underneath pine trees, the reverse a phoenix underneath a tree issuing from rockworks, the narrow sides carved with a pair of mock-ring handles, together with a pink glass stopper.
Height 2 3/4 in., 7 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.
