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Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Single-Owner Estate Chinese Dynastic Ceramics
Every collection is to some extent a self-portrait. The collection that will form the centerpiece of our August 19th auction captures quite faithfully the intense curiosity, sense of adventure and charming humor of its founders and owners, Linda and her late husband Ronald (Ron) Williams. Intrepid globetrotters who were equally passionate, among other things, about the arcane roots and evolution of Chinese art and about the striking beauty of sundry varieties of orchids, they devoted much of their time and attention to a collection that would easily stir the envy of many museums. Imagine now a museum whose atmosphere is anything but stuffy or professorial, and which welcomes you with its understated, but unmistakable elegance, and is flanked by a large garden that is itself a feat of art and design, and an open-air museum / playground (a wonderland for Linda and Ron?s grandchildren). If you do so, you are beginning to get the picture of the ideal setting in which this collection was patiently and lovingly gathered over some five decades of marriage and of joint exploration.
There was certainly a method to this process, and you get the impression that Linda and Ron responded with remarkable consistency to artworks that revealed the spontaneous elegance of nature as well as to objects that permeate our everyday life and render it ? and us ? more graceful. You see this in things as varied as contemporary Italian paintings of autumnal landscapes or Asian carved wood panels, stunning majolica or fine cut glass. But there is also plenty of whimsy to go with that method, and you can spot it in a variety of lots, from prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, the master of whimsy, verging on the naughty, to the occasional ceremonial mask or ritual dagger!
The core of this collection, however, is a truly impressive homage to archaic and classical Chinese ceramic. We are talking about roughly two hundred cups, jars, pots etc. spanning more than two millennia, each of which could
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0001: Chinese Neolithic, Majiayao culture, 18 inch bichrome Banshan ware pottery jar. 18" H x 19" WEst. $1,000-$2,000
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0002: Chinese Neolithic, Majiayao culture, LARGE 17 inch pottery amphora urn vessel. 17" H x 7" W x 5 1/2"Est. $800-$1,200
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0003: Chinese Neolithic, Majiayao culture, 18 inch bichrome Banshan ware pottery storage jar. 18" H x 19"Est. $1,000-$1,500
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0004: Western Zhou Dynasty 16 inch terra cotta textured pottery storage jar, 10th C?, coil pottery 16" H xEst. $700-$900
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0005: Chinese Western Zhou Dynasty ancient earthenware clay pottery bowl/jar/pot, 900 BCE 4"H x 7"Diam.Est. $300-$500
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0006: Chinese Eastern Zhou Dynasty proto-porcelain pottery zoomorphic tripod kettle, He, Warring StatesEst. $700-$900
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0007: Chinese Han Dynasty archaic bronze TLV mirror 1/4"H x 6 1/2"Diam.Est. $300-$500
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0008: Chinese Han Dynasty bronze TLV mirror with mythical beasts in 4 directions and auspiciousEst. $300-$500
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0009: Chinese Han Dynasty archaic bronze TLV mirror 1/4"H x 5 1/2" Diam.Est. $300-$500
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0010: Chinese Han Dynasty Archaic bronze joined arcs patterned mirror with characters around the outside.Est. $400-$600
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0011: Chinese Han Dynasty pottery 14 inch granary jar with green glaze verdigris patina 13 3/4"H x 8Est. $600-$800
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0012: Chinese Han Dynasty LARGE 13 inch proto-porcelain pottery cocoon jar, 2nd-1st century BCE 13"H xEst. $800-$1,000
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0013: Chinese Han Dynasty painted polychrome pottery cocoon jar. 12"H x 13"W x 9"DEst. $600-$800
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0014: Chinese Han Dynasty green glazed 19 inch pottery jar with molded Taotie mask with ring; tall foot.Est. $800-$1,200
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0015: Chinese Han Dynasty 13 inch green glaze pottery jar with molded relief panel 13"H x 10"Diam.Est. $300-$500
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0016: Chinese Han Dynasty green glaze pottery ritual tripod ding censer with mountain peaks on lid 7"H x 9Est. $400-$600
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0017: Chinese Han Dynasty 11 inch terra cotta pottery burial stove. 4 3/4"H x 11"W x 9"DEst. $800-$1,200
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0018: Chinese Han Dynasty painted earthenware pottery 20 inch figure of a dancer. 20"H x 8"W x 11"DEst. $1,000-$2,000
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0020: Han Dynasty polychrome pottery 20.5 inch funerary female figure. 20 1/2" H x 8 1/2" WEst. $300-$500
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0021: Large 25 inch Chinese Han Dynasty polychrome painted terracotta horse figure. 20" H x 25" D x 10" WEst. $1,500-$2,500Lot Passed
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0022: Chinese Han Dynasty earthenware terracotta pottery figure of a drummer jester. 30"H x 20 1/2"W.Est. $1,200-$1,800
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0023: Chinese Han Dynasty 20 inch green glaze tall footed earthenware jar 20" H x 10" WEst. $400-$600
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0024: Chinese Han Dynasty group of 3 glazed pottery ear cups; 2"H x 6"W x 4 1/2"D (largest)Est. $400-$600
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