A Cinnabar Lacquer Bottle Vase

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

清中期剔紅雕高士圖長頸瓶
the slightly tapering ovoid body and tall neck, the main panel deeply carved to depict scholars and attendants in a mountainous landscape reserved on a dense diaper ground, all between a band filled with lotus vines at the shoulder and a row of lappets above the foot rim, the neck decorated with blossoms between a small ruyi band and leaves.

Height 10 in., 25.4 cm.

Property from a Private Chicago Estate

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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.