Rare Collection of Chinese Archaic Jades and Southeast Asian Art Associated with Jim Thompson Headline Lark Mason Associates Two-part Sale of Asian, Ancient, and Ethnographic Works of Art on iGavelAuctions.com
A Chinese Brown Jade Huang with Dragon Head Terminals (Estimate: $30,000/50,000)New York: Lark Mason Associates is pleased to announce that the first part of their fall sale of Asian, Ancient, and Ethnographic Works of Art opens for bidding on October 6th to 25th on iGavelAuctions.com. Over 500 lots from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia represent a range of categories, including fifty Chinese archaic jades from the property of Sam and Myrna Myers, the renowned Parisian dealer and collector, who gifted the Musée Guimet. Several of these pieces have been exhibited at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, the Pointe-A-Calliere Museum, in Montreal, the Fondation Baur Musee des Arts D’Extreme-Orient, in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Asian Art Museum in Nice, France.Among the archaic jades are a Chinese Brown Jade Huang with Dragon Head Terminals (Estimate: $30,000/50,000); a Yellow Chinese Jade Dragon Pendant (Estimate: $15,000/20,000); a Brown and Black Chinese Jade Tiger Form Pendant (Estimate: $30,000/50,000); a pair of Jade Dragon Form Pendants (Estimate: $35,000/45,000); a Brown Chinese Jade Dragon Form Pendant (Estimate: $20,000/30,000); and a Chinese Brown Jade Carved Pendant (Estimate: $20,000/40,000); a set of four Chinese Bronze Knives with Jade Pommels, (Estimate: $60,000/90,000); and a Chinese Carved Green Jade Huang, (Estimate: $10,000/15,000). The second sale, Asian Works of Art, will open for bidding on October 11th to27th and includes a large selection of works from the collection of George Barrie, the business partner of Jim Thompson, who mysteriously disappeared in the jungles of Southeast Asia, leaving Barrie to take over the company, expanding it to become the largest producer of raw silk in Southeast Asia. Included in the sale from his collection is the important Portrait of Merchant Howqua, School of Lamqua (Chinese 1801-1860) (Estimate: $30,000/50,000); a 16th/17th century Burmese Sandstone Buddha Footprint Buddhapada, carved with 108 Buddhist symbols; and a pair of Thai Carved Wood