
Heart of glass: why the world fell in love with Lalique
Lucy Scovell
Event Date12 September 2019 | Live auction 17646
Sold to benefit The Art Institute of Chicago’s Asian Art Acquisition Fund, the sale features 84 lots with a focus on Ming and Qing porcelains, and offers a rare insight into the taste for collecting Chinese ceramics and works of art in the Midwest from the end of the 19th century through the 1980s. Highlights include two Wanli wucai garlic-head vases, a Qianlong mark and period, blue and white dragon vase, tianqiuping, and a Qianlong mark and period, blue and yellow stem bowl.
Lucy Scovell