the first depicting a wolf with its front right paw on a monkey, signed 石川; the second showing two pigs with a cloth bag and a carrot, signed 石川; the third showing a recumbent dog, signed 山川; the third depicting a mouse carrying two silver ingots on its back, signed 吉川。
Length of largest 2 1/4 in, 5.7 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.
