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Property from the Dr. Shirley M. Mueller Collection

A Chinese Blue and White Double-Walled Five-Piece Garniture, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period | 清康熙 青花鏤空花卉紋瓶一組五件

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January 25, 07:17 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

comprising three vases and covers and two gu-shaped vases (8)


height of tallest overall 10 1/2 in.; 26.6 cm


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Christie's London, 9th May 1994, lot 81

A nearly identical four-piece garniture formerly in the Wolf Family Collection sold in these rooms, April 21st, 2023, lot 749.


Shirley M. Mueller, M.D., is a prominent collector and scholar of Chinese porcelain and a physician board-certified in neurology and psychiatry. Combining the disciplines, she authored Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play (2019) to help explain collectors' often mysterious and little-understood behavior. 


Dr. Mueller has held multiple prominent positions in important institutions, including serving on the board of Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art), Indianapolis, and the American Ceramic Circle. In 2017, she guest-curated an exhibition for the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Elegance from the East: New Insights into Old Porcelain. Her preeminent tea and coffee ware collection was also exhibited at the Museum in The Luxury of Tea and Coffee: Chinese Export Porcelain from The Shirley M. Mueller Collection from 2011 to 2017.