[ASIAN EROTIC ART] A group of works about Asian Erotic Art, comprising:

BEURDELEY, Michael. Chinese Erotic Art. Rutland & Tokyo,1969.—SWINTON, Elizabeth de Sabato. The Women of the Pleasure Quarter. Manchester, 1996.—Love in Asian Art & Culture. Washington, D.C., 1998.—FAGOLI, Marco. Shunga: the Erotic Art of Japan. New York, 1998.—BYRON, John. Portrait of a Chinese Paradise. London, 1987.—JACKSON, Beverly. Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of and Erotic Tradition. Berkely, 1998.—LEVY, Howard S. Chinese Footbinding, New York, 1966; The Lotus Lovers. Buffalo, 1992.—EVANS, Tom and Mary Anne. Shunga. The Art of Love in Japan. London, 1975.—KO, Dorothy. Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet. Berkely, 2001.—KAO, George. Chinese Wit & Humor. New York, 1974. With three others, together 16 works.

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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.