粉彩黃地礬紅彩龍紋罐 the globular jar painted to the exterior with shaped dragon panels interspersed with peach sprig, between a circle of ruyi heads and a band of lappet leaves, set above an iron red ground, the underside bearing an apocryphal Jiajing six-character mark in underglaze blue.
Height 4 in., 10.2 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.
