Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art

Sale Overview

Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art is led by two superb private collections of Chinese furniture including a group from Ming/Modern: Classical Chinese Furniture from a Distinguished Family Collection and a group from a distinguished American private collection. Highlights include a magnificent and extremely rare huanghuali ‘official’s hat’ armchair dated to the 17th century and a rare 12-panel huanghuali folding screen, dated to the 17th-18th century. The sale also features an exceptional selection of Ming and Qing ceramics, including a magnificent Qianlong mark-and-period (1736–95) blue and white and iron-red ‘dragon’ dish, a very rare and exceptional Yongzheng mark-and-period (1723–35) famille rose ‘daylily’ cup and a large and rare blue and white ‘chrysanthemum’ dish from the Yongle period (1403–25). Additional highlights include archaic bronze ritual vessels, imperial jade carvings and works from private collections including ceramics and works of art from Centuries of Taste: A Legacy of a Private Collection; early Chinese jades and works of art from the Collection of Dr. Ralph C. Marcove; a selection of Chinese ceramics from the Xiao Meng Lou Collection; a group of fine ceramics from the collection of Mineo Hata; and ceramics from a distinguished Japanese collection acquired from Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., between 1940 and 1990.

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Special Notice
From June 2025, EU regulations 2019/880 and 2021/1079 introduce new licensing requirements and regulations relating to the import of cultural goods into the EU. We recommend clients check ahead of the sale whether the lot they wish to purchase and its import into the EU could be impacted by the regulations.

Auction times

20 Mar 09:00 AM (EDT) Lots 801-908

21 Mar 09:00 AM (EDT) Lots 1001-1118

Our specialist’s selection

Brought to you by

Rufus Chen (陳嘉安)

Head of Sale, AVP, Specialist | Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

Rufus Chen joined Christie’s New York in January 2016. Mr. Chen was instrumental in establishing the department’s Ecommerce channel, and oversaw all the Chinese works of art online sales from 2017 to 2021. In 2019, he led the record-breaking sale, Contemporary Clay: Yixing Pottery from the Irving Collection, the first online sale of contemporary Yixing ware held by an international auction house. He was also responsible for researching and cataloging the Yixing pottery from the collection of Eileen and I.M. Pei which was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2019. During his tenure at Christie’s, Mr. Chen has worked on important single-owner collections such as the Fujita Museum Collection, the Virata Collection of Asian Art, the Junkunc Collection, and the Winston and C.Z. Guest Collection of Chinese art. Prior to joining Christie’s in 2016, Rufus worked at Sotheby’s, artnet and iGavel auctions. He received a B.A. in Art History from Wheaton College and furthered his education in Asian art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and English.