Property from the Dr. Shirley M. Mueller Collection
A Large Chinese Export Famille-Rose 'Masonic' and Initialed Jug and Cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period | 清乾隆 青花粉彩共濟會圖字母紋大蓋壺
Lot Closed
January 25, 07:19 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
inscribed with the initials RRC
height overall 11 1/8 in.; 28.5 cm
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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.