Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum: Sold Without Reserve

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Lot 518

Four Chinese Multi-Colored Overlay Translucent White Glass Articles

Lot 518

Four Chinese Multi-Colored Overlay Translucent White Glass Articles

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Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Estimate$2,500 – $3,500

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Four Chinese Multi-Colored Overlay Translucent White Glass Articles

18TH-19TH CENTURY

清中期白地套五彩料賞瓶及小罐一組四件
each of translucent body, overlaid in shades of green, yellow, red, blue, black, and pink. The first a bulbous jar, decorated with a band of ruyi heads about the wide mouth rim, the exterior showing bats flying amidst fruiting trees issuing from rockwork, the second a bottle vase with an applied opaque yellow foot, the pear-form body rising to narrow neck and slightly flaring mouth room, the overlay carved with details of flowering lotus beneath gourd vines; the third a covered jar, the covered terminating in a transparent green finial above fish swimming through lotus blossoms. The last a petite jar decorated with roosters and a cat teasing a butterfly.

Height of tallest 7 1/2 in., 19 cm.

Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum, Evanston, Illinois

The largest jar:

Ex. Ina & Gadient Sandford Collection no. 127 (adhesive label)

Asiantiques

Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection. Asiantiques, 2009, cat. no. 30.

The covered jar:

Ex. Ina & Gadient Sandford Collection no. 49 (adhesive label)

Illustrated: Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops. Asiantiques, 1997, cat. no. 49.

The smallest jar:

Ex. Ina & Gadient Sandford Collection

Illustrated: Chinese Qing Dynasty Glass Treasures: A Selection from the Gadient Collection. Asiantiques, 2009, cat. no. 60.

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve 本拍品不設底價

lidded jar with repaired rim, lotus with some losses; small jar missing cover; 2nd largest object no condition problems noted; large jar no condition problems noted

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Annie Wu

Senior Vice President, Head of Department, Asian Art

anniewu@freemansauction.com 312.447.3260

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.

Flora Zhang

Specialist, Asian Works of Art

florazhang@freemansauction.com 312.447.3290

Property from the Halim Time & Glass Museum: Sold Without Reserve

Four Chinese Multi-Colored Overlay Translucent White Glass Articles

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