Celebrating Asian Art

A Green-Laced Gomaido-Gusoku (Armor), Edo period (18th-19th century)
Provenance:
Hasegawa Kisaburo, Yamagata Prefecture
Literature:
Yamagata shi kyoiku iinkai, Yoroi kabuto ten (Armour, helmet exhibition) (Yamagata shi kyoiku iinkai, 1957), pp 13.
Exhibited:
"Yoroi kabuto ten" (Armour, helmet exhibition), Marukyu department store, Yamagata City, 23 May-2 July 1957
Estimate: $30,000-40,000
Japanese and Korean Art, September 20 at 10:00am EDT, Lot 113

A Rare and Fine Painting of a Shat Chakravaarti Mandala, Central Tibet,
15th-16th century, 28½ x 24 in. (72.4 cm. x 61 cm.)
Provenance:
William H. Wolff, New York, February 20, 1968
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Collection, Columbus, Ohio
Exhibited:
On loan to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (L.68.4), 1968-1970.
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art and Columbus Museum of Art, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, 5 October 2003- 9 May 2004, cat. no. 87.
Literature:
John C. Huntington and Dina Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, Columbus, 2003, pp. 313-316, cat. no. 87.
Estimate: $400,000-600,000, The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Collection, September 21 at 8:30am EDT, Lot 412

A Rare and Important Molded and Biscuit-Reserved Longquan Celadon Octagonal Vase, Meiping, Yuan dynasty (14th century), H. 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Provenance:
Chingwah Lee (1901-1980) Collection, San Francisco
Sotheby’s Los Angeles, June 8, 1981, lot 306
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia Collection, Singapore
An Important Private Collection of Chinese Celadons and Other Ceramics: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 611
Eskenazi, London
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie’s New York, 22 March 1999, lot 271
Exhibited:
Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, November 4, 2000-January 7, 2001; San Francisco, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 21-May 13, 2001.
Literature:
J. Thompson, Chinese Celadons: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chia, Arts of Asia, November-December 1993, p. 67, fig. 10 (right).
S. Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, 2000, p. 319, no. 117.
Estimate: $600,000-800,000, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, September 22 at 08:30am EDT – September 23 at 08:30am EDT, Lot 927