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                                             VARIOUS OWNERS
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                                             A REFERENCE LIBRARY OF NATIONAL   Rare Books and Historical Documents;
                                             PALACE MUSEUM BOOKS AND          Masterpieces of Chinese Calligraphy;
                                             A QUANTITY OF CHINESE ART        Masterpieces of Chinese Snuff Bottles; and
                                             CATALOGUES                       Masterpieces of Chinese Writing Materials;
                                             Comprising: Kuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty,  together with a large quantity of Chinese
                                             Kuan Ware of the Southern Sung Dynasty,   Art catalogues from Bonhams, Christies,
                                             Book I (Part 1), Book I (Part 2) and Book II;   Sotheby’s and Marchant, various locations
                                             Ju Ware of the Sung Dynasty; Chun Ware of   and dates from the 2000s.
                                             the Sung Dynasty from the series Porcelain   (qty).
                                             of the National Palace Museum, Cafa
                                             Company Ltd, Hong Kong (1961);   £2,000 - 3,000
                                             27 volumes from the series Masterworks   HK$20,000 - 30,000
                                             of (..) in the National Palace Museum,   CNY18,000 - 26,000
                                             published by the National Palace Museum,
                                             Taipei, 1969, and printed by Nikka, Japan,   89 •

                                             1970, comprising: Masterpieces of Chinese
                                             Miniature Crafts; Masterworks of Chinese   GIUSEPPE TUCCI
                                             Bronze; Masterworks of Chinese Bronze   Tibetan Painted Scrolls
                                             (supplement); Masterpieces of Chinese   La Libreria dello Stato, Roma, 1949. Three
                                             Enamel Ware; Masterworks of Chinese   volumes. (3).
                                             Porcelain; Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain
                                             (supplement); Masterpieces of Chinese   £1,500 - 2,000
                                             Tibetan Buddhist Altar Fittings; Masterpieces   HK$15,000 - 20,000
                                             of Chinese Portrait Painting; Masterpieces   CNY13,000 - 18,000
                                             of Chinese Figure Painting; Masterpieces
       89                                    of Chinese Inkstones; Masterpieces of   Guiseppe Tucci was an Italian scholar and
                                             Chinese Album Painting; Masterworks of   one of the founders of the field of Buddhist
                                             Chinese Jade; Masterworks of Chinese   Studies. Originally published in 1949, his
                                             Jade (supplement); Masterpieces of Chinese   anthology of Tibetan painting, Tibetan
                                             Calligraphy; Masterpieces of Chinese seals;   Painted Scrolls, is revered as the seminal
                                             Masterpieces of Chinese Bronze Mirrors;   work on Tibetan Buddhist painting. Another
                                             Masterpieces of Chinese Silk Tapestry and   set of this publication from the Collection of
                                             Embroidery; Masterpieces of Chinese Ju-i   Robert Hatfield Ellsworth sold at Christie’s
                                             Sceptres; Masterpieces of Chinese Carved   New York on 21 March 2015 for $25,000 (lot
                                             Lacquer Ware; Masterpieces of Chinese   1636).
                                             Painting and Masterpieces of Chinese
                                             Painting (supplement); Select Chinese




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