Five Korean Celadon Ground Porcelain 'Crane and Cloud' MaeByong Vases
Status:
Closed
Estimate: $500 - $600
Estimate$500 – $600
Status
Closed
Five Korean Celadon Ground Porcelain 'Crane and Cloud' MaeByong Vases
intricately decorated with white cranes and clouds of that presumably float in the "sky" of the celadon glaze, design is common to Korean Goryeo ware from the twelfth century, each signed with a two-character qingguang mark.
Height of tallest 12 1/2 in., 31.8 cm.
This lot is located in Chicago.
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.
