晚清-民國 硨磲朝珠 strung of spherical white beads spaced with larger rose-stained examples, of which one is pierced to suspend a shaped examples modeling a double gourd, from which further descends a counterweight and teardrop-form pendant between subsidiary stands with similar terminals.
Length 56 in., 142 cm.
Property from a Private Collector, Florida
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.
