A Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Gourd-Form Vase
Status:
Closed
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
Status
Closed
A Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Gourd-Form Vase
in the form of a double gourd with the bulbous lobes divided by a narrow waist, decorated with a dense field of double gourd issuing from leafy vines bearing spiraled spring among soaring bats.
Height 4 1/2 in., 11.3 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.
