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A rare Chinese blue and white porcelain

Schätzpreis
6.000 £ - 8.000 £
ca. 9.186 $ - 12.249 $
Zuschlagspreis:
43.000 £
ca. 65.838 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 850

A rare Chinese blue and white porcelain

Schätzpreis
6.000 £ - 8.000 £
ca. 9.186 $ - 12.249 $
Zuschlagspreis:
43.000 £
ca. 65.838 $
Beschreibung:

A rare Chinese blue and white porcelain 'windswept' jar, 'Guan', decorated with daoist immortals in a landscape, 13ins (330mm) high (Ming Dynasty - second half of 15th Century - hairline crack to rim and warped) and carved wood cover for same Provenance: Collection of W.Gedney Beatty (1869-1941) Note: A gift from Alfred Chester Beatty jnr. to T.H. Bradford (vendor's father) managing director of the Selection Trust mining company on his retirement in the late 1950s. Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, the son of an American banker with an Irish lineage, graduate from Columbia University, became a successful mining magnate and millionaire philanthropist. The youngest of three brothers, he established the Selection Trust mining company in London in the early 20th Century. Knighted for supplying the Allies with strategic raw materials during World War II , he retired in 1950, handing over the running of the company to his son Alfred Chester Beatty, who retired in 1968, the year his father died. Sir Alfred, a collector of minerals, Chinese snuff bottles and stamps since childhood, will be remembered for amassing an important group of oriental books, manuscripts and works of art. On his retirement in 1950 he decided to move to Dublin and built a library for his art collection on Shrewsbury Road which opened in 1954. On his death the collection was left in trust for the benefit of the public, and in the year 2000 was moved to Dublin Castle.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 850
Auktion:
Datum:
16.04.2013
Auktionshaus:
The Canterbury Auction Galleries
Station Road West 40
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8AN
Großbritannien und Nordirland
auctions@thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com
+44 (0)1227 763337
+44 (0)1227 456770
Beschreibung:

A rare Chinese blue and white porcelain 'windswept' jar, 'Guan', decorated with daoist immortals in a landscape, 13ins (330mm) high (Ming Dynasty - second half of 15th Century - hairline crack to rim and warped) and carved wood cover for same Provenance: Collection of W.Gedney Beatty (1869-1941) Note: A gift from Alfred Chester Beatty jnr. to T.H. Bradford (vendor's father) managing director of the Selection Trust mining company on his retirement in the late 1950s. Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, the son of an American banker with an Irish lineage, graduate from Columbia University, became a successful mining magnate and millionaire philanthropist. The youngest of three brothers, he established the Selection Trust mining company in London in the early 20th Century. Knighted for supplying the Allies with strategic raw materials during World War II , he retired in 1950, handing over the running of the company to his son Alfred Chester Beatty, who retired in 1968, the year his father died. Sir Alfred, a collector of minerals, Chinese snuff bottles and stamps since childhood, will be remembered for amassing an important group of oriental books, manuscripts and works of art. On his retirement in 1950 he decided to move to Dublin and built a library for his art collection on Shrewsbury Road which opened in 1954. On his death the collection was left in trust for the benefit of the public, and in the year 2000 was moved to Dublin Castle.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 850
Auktion:
Datum:
16.04.2013
Auktionshaus:
The Canterbury Auction Galleries
Station Road West 40
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8AN
Großbritannien und Nordirland
auctions@thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com
+44 (0)1227 763337
+44 (0)1227 456770
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