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Winter Fine Art & Antique Auction Saturday, January 23, 2016 9:00 am EST (Preview Friday, January 22, noon - 6pm) Case Antiques, Inc., Auctions & Appraisals www.caseantiques.com [email protected] www.facebook.com/caseantiques www.twitter.com/caseantiques Knoxville Ph: (865) 558-3033 Knoxville Fax: (865) 558-3032 Nashville Ph: (615) 812-6096 Kingsport/Tri-Cities: (865) 310-7718 Gallery and Auction located at The Historic Cherokee Mills Building 2240 Sutherland Avenue Knoxville, TN 37919 [Intentional Blank Page] Tennessee’s Leading Auction Gallery for investment quality art and antiques is now accepting consignments Anna Catherine Wiley (TN, 1879-1958) Sold $107,880 Philip Leslie Hale Sold $41,120 More Record Setting Sales From Past Auctions Our cataloged auctions include: Online Internet bidding Telephone-assisted bidding Absentee maximum bid offers In-person bidding at the event Over 2,000 registered bidders per auction Postal Mail & Emails to 20,000+ art & antique buyers Three accredited appraisers on staff Tennessee coin silver Consignors’ items get maximum worldwide exposure coffee pot, marked “W. H. under stewardship Calhoun Tenn.” Sold $7,150 Circa 1860 TN Redware Jar of knowledgeable by CA Haun. Sold $36,800 professionals. Civil War Tin Type East Miniature TN Soldier. Sold $5,290 Portrait by We offer a full range of estate appraisal and Winchester, VA Martin- John Wood liquidation services. Frye School late 18th Dodge Century Bookcase on (1807-1893). To submit items for consignment, email Bureau. Sold $93,600 Sold $22,000 photos and descriptions to: 2.99 carat [email protected] Fancy Yellow Diamond & www.caseantiques.com Platinum Ring. Knoxville: (865) 558-3033 Sold $29,000 Nashville: (615) 812-6096 CASE ANTIQUES, INC. - TNGL #5157 2240 Sutherland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37919 email: [email protected] www.caseantiques.com [Intentional Blank Page] January 23, 2016 1/23/2016 (1908-1995). Mr. Kennedy was a native of LOT # Rochester, Minnesota who was an avid mineral 1 3 Chinese Snuff Bottles inc. Cicada and snuff bottle collector throughout his life. He 1st item: Chinese bronze cicada form snuff donated many specimens to The Smithsonian bottle with applied carved jade disc having Institution in Washington, DC and upon his incised duck head decoration; red coral stopper. death, left most of his collection to Carleton 2 1/8" L. Late 19th century. 2nd item: Chinese College in Northfield, Minnesota. His obituary lavender blue agate or chalcedony snuff bottle, was featured in the publication "The flattened ovoid form with russet inclusions and Mineralogical Record" and he was a member of carved hydra decoration. 2 1/2" H. Early 20th the Chinese Snuff Bottle Society of America. century. 3rd item: Chinese soapstone snuff Condition: 1st item: Overall good condition. Old bottle, flattened ovoid form with carved gourd catalog number written in black marker to top of and castanets decoration. 2 5/8" H. Early 20th rim. 2nd item: Chip to coral stopper, otherwise century. Provenance: Collection of Fred C. overall very good condition. 3rd item: Slight Kennedy (1908-1995). Mr. Kennedy was a chipping to rim and on base. 4th item: Scattered native of Rochester, Minnesota who was an chipping to bodies, especially at shoulders. avid mineral and snuff bottle collector 400.00 - 500.00 throughout his life. He donated many specimens to The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and upon his death, left most of his collection to Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. His obituary was featured in the 3 Chinese Archaic Bronze Censer, Jade Finial publication "The Mineralogical Record" and he Chinese Archaic Bronze Censer or Ding, likely was a member of the Chinese Snuff Bottle Zhou Dynasty (1122 to 256 B.C.) and later Society of America. Condition: 1st item: Some cover with jade finial. Censer is of tripod form tarnishing to bronze. 2nd item: Slight chipping with loop handles at ends and geometric designs to rim. 3rd item: Overall very good condition. around the rim and upper legs. Later carved, 500.00 - 600.00 well-figured hardwood lid with carved and pierced jade finial depicting 4 deer in a landscape setting, and a pierced and carved hardwood stand. Ding - 8" H (including handles) x 7" diameter. Lid - 7" diameter, finial 1 1/4" H. 2 4 Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Snuff Bottles Provenance: The collection/estate of Mr. and 1st item: Chinese blue and white crackle glaze Mrs. W. Jeter Eason, Memphis, by descent to porcelain snuff bottle, flattened ovoid form with present consignor. Condition: Censer has worn dragon and flaming pearl decoration. Blue four verdigris surface, 3/4" crack to side rim, 1" character mark to the underside. 2 1/2" H. 19th repair to rim, 1/16" hole to side. 900.00 - century or earlier. 2nd item: Chinese blue and 1,100.00 white porcelain snuff bottle, vase form with immortal figure decoration and coral stopper. Blue four character mark to base. 2 1/4" H.19th century or earlier. 3rd item: Chinese blue and iron red porcelain snuff bottle, Mei Ping form 4 White Jade Bowl, Ch'ien Lung with dragon, cloud and wave decoration. 2 1/8" Chinese White Jade Bowl, inverted bowl shaped H. Possibly late 18th/mid-19th century. 4th form atop a short, slightly splayed foot ring. 6 item: Chinese blue and white porcelain snuff 5/8" diameter by 2 3/4" H. Qing Dynasty, bottles, conjoined form with dragon decoration Ch'ien Lung Period, mid to late 18th century. and fitted hardwood stand. 1 7/8" H w/out Provenance: The collection/estate of Mr. and stand. Possibly late 18th/mid-19th century. Mrs. W. Jeter Eason, Memphis, by descent to Provenance: Collection of Fred C. Kennedy present consignor. Condition: Excellent Case Antiques, Inc. Page: 2 January 23, 2016 1/23/2016 condition. 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 scenes. Provenance: collection of Gilbert Fox of Nashville, acquired in 1972 from Chinese Arts & Crafts Ltd., Hong Kong (original receipt retained, along with 1972 certificate of antiquity from the Hong Kong Art Craft Merchants 5 Carved Jade Crab Association, both of which will be furnished to Chinese carved jade figure of a crab with crossed the winning bidder). A copy of a 1973 appraisal pinchers. 4" H x 2 1/4" W. Chinese, early 20th by Allain Ramsey, Member of the Appraisers century. Provenance: The collection/estate of Association of America, also accompanies this Mr. and Mrs. W. Jeter Eason, Memphis, by lot; it states that the white jade plaques depict descent to present consignor. Condition: the life and work of a famous Chinese poet and Excellent condition 400.00 - 450.00 were carved during the Kang Hsu period (1690-1712) and attributes the inlaid rosewood scepter to the late Chia Ch'ing or early Tau Kuang period (1790-1840). 21-1/4"L. Condition: Overall very good condition with a 6 3 Chinese Porcelain Items, Cups & Vase few minor natural imperfections to jade, some 1st item: Chinese Blanc de Chine libation cup tiny light abrasions to rosewood. 5,000.00 - with applied molded decoration including stag, 7,000.00 foo dog, dragon, and pine tree branch. 3" H x 5 3/8" W x 4" D. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 2nd item: Chinese dark pink or rose glazed porcelain cup with gilt rim and hardwood stand. Base with blue four character Yongzheng mark. 9 Chinese Table Screen w/ Sancai Plaque 2" H. 19th century. 3rd item: Chinese Te-Hua Chinese Scholar's hardwood table screen with Ware censer, twin handles and tripod feet, light elaborate pierced and scrolling carved openwork blue glaze. 4 3/8" H x 3 3/8" dia. Late 19th/Early design, inset with a Sancai glazed earthenware 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Bill plaque having relief decoration including a pine Zarnon, Gatlinburg, Tenn. Condition: 1st item: tree, cranes, chrysanthemum and other foliate Overall good condition, light craquelure to glaze elements. Plaque sight measures 8 3/4" H x 7" on base. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. W. Overall 18 7/8" H x 14" W x 5 5/8" D.19th 3rd item: Some slight chipping for two of the century. Condition: Losses to screen, especially feet. Glaze imperfection to base. 600.00 - 800.00 around the plaque, some separation of screen joints. 500.00 - 600.00 7 Chinese Sweetmeat Set, Puzzle Form, 6 pcs Chinese Famille Rose yellow ground porcelain 10 Chinese Famille Rose Plaque Screen sectional sweet meat dishes, 6 total, various Chinese famille rose porcelain table screen with geometric shapes with floral and foliate 16 famille rose pictorial and 26 blue and white enameled decoration, designed to fit together as porcelain plaques inset within eight black a puzzle. Each piece fitted with a hardwood lacquer and gilt wood panels. Plaques with stand. Each piece measures 3" H. Late 19th landscape, figural, foliate, and household century. Condition: Slight chipping to a couple objects. The whole mounted on a carved and of sections, one section with hairline cracks near pierced base and cornice crest with gilt carved corner. Some light wear/losses to hardwood foliate designs. Late Qing or Republic period. 40 bases. 700.00 - 900.00 7/8" H x 51 3/4" W. Provenance - The Estate of Eddie Jack Miller, Johnson City, TN. Condition: Break to one narrow side pictorial plaque/tile, one center pictorial plaque/tile with break and 1 small pictorial plaque/tile on bottom 8 White Jade Ruyi Scepter, Qing row with break. Overall general wear to plaques Chinese inlaid rosewood and white jade Ruyi and frame. 2,800.00 - 3,200.00 scepter; the rosewood frame inlaid with silver wire decoration of flowers, and inset with three white jade plaques of graduated size, each profusely carved with landscape and figural Case Antiques, Inc.