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Rosalind Ching Pastor 1920-2019

Bonhams is delighted to present the Chinese Art Collection of This collection represents the objects and paintings she surrounded
Rosalind Ching Pastor to the international collecting community. herself with in her last years. A stunningly attractive woman, she
Born in Shanghai and raised in a family of collectors and foreign loved depictions of women in social settings, from the magnificent
diplomats, Rosalind Ching travelled by herself to Chicago in 1950 Twelve Beauties of the Honglou Meng that greeted a visitor upon
as part of a world tour to visit a trade show at the Navy Pier. She entry to her residence on Lake Shore Drive, to the 18th and 19th
was captivated by the city and established herself there as an century enameled porcelains depicting women enjoying leisurely
entrepreneur and businesswoman, residing in Chicago for the rest pursuits and each other’s company. Rosalind Ching Pastor is
of her life. Under the guidance of Zhuang Yan and Na Zhiliang of remembered and commemorated in countless newspapers, press,
the Taipei National Palace Museum, and her uncle, C. F. Yao, the and by her friends as a vibrant socialite and philanthropist, a staunch,
owner of the prestigious Tonying & Company, Rosalind Ching Pastor generous friend and a beloved Chicago figure.
formed her sizable art collection which later became the subject
of a published exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Art in 2005.

Highlights from Mrs. Pastor’s collection include a monumental
painting attributed to Zhenran (1816-1884), Twelve Beauties from the
Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng) (estimate: US$40,000-
60,000), which was also featured in an exhibition at the Art Institute
of Chicago in the late 1990s; and an exquisite jadeite covered censer
(estimate: US$30,000-50,000) and an impressive painting by the
master artist Qi Baishi, Shrimps (estimate: US$70,000-90,000). In
1959 she married Gregory Silvano Pastor, an executive of Tiffany’s,
who died in 1991.

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