清晚期 銅鑲仙人乘槎青玉牌方盒 the hinging box and cover chased with auspicious symbols about the sides, flanking a pair of dragons in confrontation across a coral-inset flaming pearl. The top set with a celadon jade box of rectangular form with chamfered corners, worked in laminated relief to show figures in a boat crossing turbulent waters.
Width 5 1/2 in., 14 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.
