Eight Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Lanterns

20TH CENTURY

each with a thinly potted body of globular form raised upon a conforming stand, comprising four examples painted with ladies reading in a landscape scene between inky ornamental borders, and four examples with figural landscape lozenge-shaped medallions reserved on pink ground with scrolling leaves and lotus.

Height of tallest overall 6 3/4 in., 17 cm.

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

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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.