Special Exhibitions
CHINESE WORKS OF ART [click to view collection]
Hard cover catalogue, 118 artworks, 112 pp, full color illustrations, English text.
Catalogue available for purchase, $35 including domestic shipping, $45 international.
The catalogue can also be viewed online in pdf format.
We are pleased to present our 2009 Chinese Works of Art catalogue, which includes 118 fine pieces. We have divided the catalogue into six sections.
The first part encompasses nephrite and jadeite objects carved in Chinese
taste, mostly from the Qing dynasty, with a few pieces dating to the Ming
and earlier. The second section groups scholar’s items and a few decorative
pieces. An entire section has been reserved for a small group of very
good snuff bottles acquired since the publication of our last catalogue, A
Fascination for Miniature: the Linda F. Crawley Collection of Chinese Snuff
Bottles, in September 2008. We have also included a group of fine wood
furniture including two exceptional screens, one made of the precious zitan
wood, and the other of carved cinnabar lacquer. The ceramics section groups
both Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and pottery from the Song dynasty.
The statuary includes wood, stone, and earthenware from the Han to early
Qing dynasty. The final two sections are of archaeological nature, with
a group of metalwork, all purchased from American collection, and a small,
but fine selection of small archaic jade. [read more...]
CHINESE QING DYNASTY GLASS TREASURES: A SELECTION FROM THE GADIENT COLLECTION [click to view collection]
Hard cover catalogue, 64 glass artworks, 64 pp, full color illustrations, English text and Chinese captions.
Catalogue available for purchase, $35 including domestic shipping, $45 international.
The catalogue can also be viewed online in pdf format.
In 1994 the Lentz Center for Asian Culture, University of Nebraska Museum, Lincoln presented an exhibit entitled “Chinese Glass: Bounties of the Qing: The Hilmes-Gadient Collection of Chinese Glass.” Three years later, in our Winter Park Gallery, we organized the “Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops” exhibit displaying some sixty-two pieces of Chinese Qing dynasty glass from the Ina and Sandford Gadient collection and produced a full catalogue of the objects exhibited. Subsequently, the exhibit, increased first to one hundred nineteen, then to hundred forty-six pieces travelled to several museums in Florida (Museum of Arts and Science in Daytona Beach, Lowe Art Museum in Miami, and St Petersburg Art Museum). [read more...]
A FASCINATION FOR MINIATURES: THE LINDA F. CRAWLEY COLLECTION OF CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES [click to view collection]
Hard cover catalogue available, 110 snuff bottles, 88 pp, full color illustrations, English and Chinese text.
Catalogue available for purchase, $35 including domestic shipping, $45 international.
The catalogue can also be viewed online in pdf format.
We are pleased to offer the Linda F. Crawley Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles. Linda passed away three years ago after a short and painful fight with brain cancer. She and her husband Loyd retired in Palm Beach County some twelve years before when Loyd left his position as an executive for a major multinational company. They had travelled all other the world for professional reasons and had twice lived in Europe for several years, the first time in England and the second in Brussels, Belgium. [read more...]
SELECTED SNUFF BOTTLES FROM THE COLLECTION OF KENNETH GREENSTEIN [click to view collection]
About the Collector
Ken Greenstein is a New York attorney, recently retired as a partner from the law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP in Manhattan. He has been a long time collector of Chinese Snuff Bottles and Scholars Objects. In Ken's mind both collections are closely tied together. This is why he has always tried to acquire bottles which would have attracted Chinese scholars, systematically searching in particular for those characterized by simplicity of forms, materials or colors. Since 1985 Ken has purchased numerous snuff bottles from Asiantiques. Throughout the years he has grown to become a good friend and a great collector. [read more...]
A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF FINE JAPANESE NETSUKE [click to view collection]
We are pleased to present a selection of fine Japanese netsuke in ivory and wood. The exhibition does not focus on quantity, but rather on the quality of the pieces offered here for sale.
There has been many introduction on netsuke written and we thought a new one would not be necessary. The following introduction was written by Makiko Komada, a young Japanese lady with a great passion for netsuke. Her love for netsuke is born from her family since she is the daughter of Master carver Ryushi. Ms. Komada has created a website devoted to the appreciation of netsuke, which can be visited at the following link: http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~komada. [read more...]
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