銘「梶川」19世紀 with a kinji ground, lacquered on both sides in gold takamaki-e with three cranes underneath a blossoming prunus tree, the interior of nashiji, signed Kijikawa to the underside, with a blue glass ojime and a gilt lacquer netsuke in the form of a circular covered box.
Length 1 3/4 in., 4.5 cm.
Property from the Collection of Kevin Evensen, Chicago, Illinois
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.
