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- Sale 3388
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| Philadelphia
Oct 18 | 6:00 AM EDT
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 3388
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$1,500 – $2,000
The first a "Phoenix-tail" vase, Kangxi six-character mark but likely Republic period, decorated in predominantly iron red with mounted warriors in a landscape; the second a wucai-decorated beaker vase with dignitaries, attendants and antiques, Wanli six-character mark at the rim; the third a wucai-decorated small ovoid jar with Buddhist lions and peony scrolls, Wanli six-character mark at the neck.
H: 10 1/4 in. (tallest)PROVENANCE:
Property from the collection of Howard G. Rhoads and Ngan Chi-kit, acquired in Guangzhou, China, between 1945 to 1951, thence by descent.
Howard Rhoads graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a doctorate in English in 1934. He accepted a position teaching English at Lingnan University, Guangzhou in 1936, and married the daughter of a Chinese silk merchant the following year. As a result of the anti-Japanese war, Dr. Rhoads and his family were forced to flee several times, first to Hong Kong (where Dr. Rhoads was briefly detained in a Japanese internment camp in 1942), to northern Guangdong Province and finally to Chongqing, before returning to Guangzhou in 1945. Dr. Rhoads and his family left China for the United States in 1951, as the Korean war was heating up and Americans were no longer welcome in the country.
