清中期 青白玉洒金素面鼻烟壶 the mossy stone softy streaked russet, carved to a slender columnar shape with a soft lip at the foot, the flush everted mouth rim supporting a metal mounted jadeite stopper.
Height 3 3/8 in., 8.5 cm.
Property from the Estate of Eliot A. Landau, Woodridge, Illinois
Acquired from Petit Musée, Montreal, Canada, February 19, 1990
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.
