| Property from American museums highlight Asian decorative arts auction at Bonhams |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announces it held a highly successful auction of Asian Decorative Arts, November 15 in San Francisco, with more than 500 lots of Chinese art on offer, and with sales totaling more than $1.1 million. Leading the auction were two lots sold to benefit the Connor Prairie Museum of Fishers, Indiana: a pair of Chinese hexagonal porcelain garden seats from the Republic period (1911-1949) that sold for $18,750, far exceeding a pre-sale estimate of $2,000-3,000, and an 18th/19th century huanghuali brush pot with hardstone inlay which brought $17,500. Another highlight of the sale, sold to benefit the Harvard Art Museums, was a collection of five calligraphies by various artists from the Qing dynasty that brought $13,750 (pre-sale est. $1,200-1,500). Of the auction, Dessa Goddard, the Vice President and Director of Asian Art at Bonhams in San Francisco, commented, read full article
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