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Chinese Art from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

Chinese Art from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts includes a selection of Chinese works of art from the personal collection of Walter and Lucie Rosen, purchased in the 1920s-40s to furnish Rosen House in Katonah, Westchester County and their New York townhouse on West 54^th Street. These pieces are now being sold to provide funding for the care of Rosen House at Caramoor, a performing arts venue founded by the Rosens in 1945. The 82-lot collection includes an exemplary selection of Imperial Chinese enamel wares, highlighted by an important Qianlong period five-piece cloisonné enamel temple garniture, formerly in the Samuel Avery collection at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and a pair of Qianlong mark and period Beijing enamel vases. The sale also features a magnificent pair of gilt ormolu and paste-set European-style lanterns, also from the Qianlong period, and other works of art including jade carvings, stone sculpture, porcelain and bronzes. The auction is presented alongside a second sale of European Decorative Arts from Caramoor to be held in on 12 April.