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Summer Fine Art & Antique Auction Saturday, July 19, 2014 9:00 am EST (Preview Friday, July 18, noon - 6pm) Case Antiques, Inc., Auctions & Appraisals www.caseantiques.com [email protected] www.facebook.com/caseantiques Knoxville Ph: (865) 558-3033 Knoxville Fax: (865) 558-3032 Nashville Ph: (615) 812-6096 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] July 19 2014 Summer Estates Sale 7/19/2014 LOT # 3 Qing Silk Robe w/ Undergarments Chinese Qing dynasty men's blue silk robe with 1 Chinese Qing Official's Winter Hat w/ Spectacles, undergarments. Lot includes blue silk brocade Chinese Qing Manchu Official's Winter Hat, robe woven with all over auspicious symbols Braided Queue and Accessories. 1st and 2nd decoration and gilt buttons, white silk items: Black wool and silk skull cap with underjacket, cotton/linen trousers, silk and upturned brim, the crown covered with a red cotton embroidered pouch with tie and a square twine fringe bound by a coral colored ball or of muslin/linen with cotton tie. Robe measures finial bearing a shou (good luck) symbol, with a 52" L. Late 19th/early 20th century. single-eye peacock feather attached by a white Provenance: Collection of Milligan College, Peking glass cylindrical holder, together with a Tennessee. The Asian Cultural Exchange braided queue of hair. 3rd item: Pair of Foundation, Inc. in Washington D.C. presented spectacles with bronze mounts and the original these items to Milligan College in May of 1970. silk embroidered spectacle case. 6" L. 4th item: Condition: Some slight staining to neckline and Black lacquer cylindrical document holder with sleeves of robe. Slight staining to seams of the original silk cord. 16" L. Qing Dynasty, Late trousers. 600.00 - 900.00 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Milligan College, Tennessee. The Asian Cultural Exchange Foundation, Inc. in Washington D.C. presented these items to Milligan College in May of 1970. Condition: 4 Chinese Hardwood Export Settee Light wear to lacquer document holder. Other Elaborately carved Chinese export hardwood items very good condition. 500.00 - 700.00 settee, the crest with dragons flanking a central carved vignette of rats among berries, the back support with two fan-carved vignettes of monkeys, deer, cranes, and other birds flanking a central circular vignette of three scholars and a 2 Qing Civil Officer's Surcoat & Leggings horse. Carved bird finials atop rear stiles, dragon Chinese Qing Civil Officer's blue silk surcoat form arms, the openwork apron with bird and with Golden Pheasant rank badge to the front foliate carving, lion carved knees and claw and and back, navy silk outer robe lined with a ball feet. 41 3/4" H x 57 1/2" W x 29 3/4" D. lighter blue silk, and having gilt metal buttons. 20th century. Condition: Overall very good Badge with central Golden Pheasant above condition. Very slight losses to carving on back. waves with bat and shou (good luck) symbol 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 border. A pair of gold silk brocade leggings with allover shou decoration accompanies the robe. Robe measures 42 1/2" L. Leggings measure 30 3/4" L. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Milligan College, 5 Gilt Bronze Buddha Head Tennessee. The Asian Cultural Exchange Asian gilt bronze Buddha head fragment, Foundation, Inc. in Washington D.C. presented mounted on wood base, possibly 18th these items to Milligan College in May of 1970. century/Early 19th century. 6 1/4" H. Height Condition: Some light areas of discoloration to with stand - 9 3/4". Condition: Headdress finial robe around neck with some light scattered missing. Overall general wear/losses to gilt. interior stains. 700.00 - 1,000.00 350.00 - 450.00 Case Antiques, Inc. Page: 2 July 19 2014 Summer Estates Sale 7/19/2014 glazed. 400.00 - 500.00 LOT # 6 Polychrome Carved Seated Buddha Asian polychrome and carved wooden Buddha depicted in a seated position. 6 1/4" H. Possibly Late 18th/Early 19th century. Condition: 10 Grouping of Canton Porcelain Overall very good condition with some general Grouping of Chinese Export blue and white wear to paint and gilt. 350.00 - 450.00 Canton porcelain including reticulated platter, 10" x 11", (one old hairline on outer rim, less than .5"); helmet pitcher, also with cloud and swastika symbols, 4 3/4" H x 7 1/4" W x 3 7/8" D; double-handled covered sugar bowl with 7 Famille Verte Guan Yin Figure berry finial on lid, 4" H x 4 3/4" W x 3 3/8" W; Chinese Famille Verte or Famille Rose ceramic and lidded teapot with twist handle, 6" H x 8 figure of Guan-Yin, seated and attired in flowing 3/4" W x 4 3/4" D (2 small chips to interior of green robes, holding a lotus bud. The presence rim, lid non-matching to this form and of a later of other lotus buds around her skirts suggests date). Mid 19th century. Provenance; Knoxville, this may have been a fertility figure, since the TN collector. Condition: All items in very good Bodhisattva was associated with granting condition except where noted in description. All children. 6-1/4"H. Circa 1900. Condition: Some items examined under blacklight and no repairs light scattered surface wear; firing flaw at neck were detected. 500.00 - 600.00 (does not fluoresce under black light). Fingers do not fluoresce. Very small flake to underside of one lotus bud on skirt. 300.00 - 350.00 11 Famille Rose Butterfly Basket Chinese Famille Rose basket, reticulated sides with borders decorated in alternating panels 8 Chinese Turquoise Dragon Bowl depicting Mandarin figures and birds and Chinese turquoise glazed bowl with incised butterflies; gilt background with butterfly and dragons, pearls, and wave or cloud designs to floral motif. Bottom also features alternating the exterior, and a plain white interior. Six panels of figures and is centered by a medallion character Guangxu mark and possibly of the painted with a bird of paradise or phoenix. 4"H period (1875-1908). 2-5/8"H x 5-7/8" diameter. x 10-1/2"W x 9-1/2"D. Qing Dynasty, Early to Provenance: the estate of Marjorie Ann Yaple mid 19th century. Condition: Old repair to rim Compton, Nashville, Tennessee. Compton on one side, 1" hairline to rim on other side, old worked in the Institute of Far Eastern 1" repair to reticulated portion of side. 300.00 - Languages at Yale University in the 1950s. 400.00 Condition: Scattered glaze imperfections to interior bottom. 300.00 - 400.00 12 Imari Covered jar & 2 Bowls 1st item: Imari porcelain covered jar, baluster 9 Chinese Hawthorne Bowl form decorated with tree of life and bat motifs, Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl with 12"H. Meiji Period, late 19th century. 2nd item: prunus or "hawthorne" decoration, four Large scalloped edge Imari porcelain bowl with character Yongzheng mark to underside and tree and flower central reserve. 4 1/4" H x 12" possibly of the period (18th century, W. 3rd item: Oval scalloped edge Imari 1723-1735), 3-7/8"H x 10" W x 10-1/8" D. porcelain bowl with flower and fan central Provenance: the estate of Marjorie Ann Yaple reserve. 3 1/4" H x 10 1/2" L x 8" D. Both Compton, Nashville, Tennessee. Compton pieces late 19th century. Estate of Mary worked in the Institute of Far Eastern Johnson, Nashville, TN. 400.00 - 450.00 Languages at Yale University in the 1950s. Condition: Scattered dark glaze imperfections to center (most covered by design), one slight indention on bowl edge indicates an in-the-making imperfection, as it is completely Case Antiques, Inc. Page: 3 July 19 2014 Summer Estates Sale 7/19/2014 LOT # 16 5 Chinese Jade & Hardstone Items 1st item: Pair carved rose quartz scholar figures, 13 Chinese Sung & Ming Dynasty Bowls one standing with ruyi scepter (6" H) and the Two Chinese Sung and Ming Dynasty ceramic other standing holding a lotus blossom (5" H), bowls. 1st item: Chinese Sung Dynasty (960 - both fitted with hardwood stands. Both early 1279) ceramic bowl with light celadon glaze. 2" 20th century. 2nd item: Malachite carved H x 6 3/4" dia.