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Across more than half a century, the collectors Guy and Marie-Hélène Weill engaged in an inspired deeply shared journey in fine art. Early patrons of Abstract Expressionism, the couple expanded their connoisseurship over time to encompass a diversity of categories and media. From masterful examples of Chinese painting to exquisite works of Southeast Asian sculpture, their private collection stood as a tangible expression of the curiosity and zeal with which they lived. In the late 1960s, Guy and Marie-Hélène Weill discovered the rich history and beauty of Asian art. While visiting one of their daughters in California, they happened upon the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Having so fervently embraced Abstract Expressionism’s sense of boldness and spontaneity, the Weills were overwhelmed by the simple forms and graceful lines of Chinese painting, porcelain, and bronzes. When they returned to Manhattan, the collectors began what they later described as a “lifelong process of self-education,” honing their united connoisseurial eye through involvement with the Asia Society, the China Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Marie-Hélène Weill served as a lecturer while they both worked closely with members of the Department of Asian Art. Together they studied, traveled extensively and learned everything they could about their new passion, and from the 1970s onward, Guy and Marie-Hélène Weill carefully built what would become one of New York’s premier assemblages of Asian art. PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GUY AND MARIE-HÉLÈNE WEILL
AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE, COPPER-RED AND CELADON-GLAZED CARVED JAR
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE, COPPER-RED AND CELADON-GLAZED CARVED JAR
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The sides taper from the rounded shoulder to the splayed foot, and are carved in shallow relief with a river landscape detailed with a lone fisherman in a boat beside rocky cliffs, and on the reverse with a farm compound nestled amidst trees, all highlighted with celadon glaze contrasting with the underglaze cobalt-blue and copper-red.
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The sides taper from the rounded shoulder to the splayed foot, and are carved in shallow relief with a river landscape detailed with a lone fisherman in a boat beside rocky cliffs, and on the reverse with a farm compound nestled amidst trees, all highlighted with celadon glaze contrasting with the underglaze cobalt-blue and copper-red.
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high
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