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In short, brothers Eugene and Paul Bernat broke new ground in the 1 Herbert Koshetz, “Garland Knits a Success Story”, The New York Times, Wednesday 19 October
1966, Business and Finance Section (Section L), pp. L 63 and 70.
United States by assembling comprehensive collections of Chinese
ceramics—one of early ceramics, the other of later porcelains. They not 2 “Seniors Thank Firefghters, Share Bernat Mill Tales”, Telegram.com (Worcester, Mass.),
17 August 2007.
only opened new arenas of collecting but set new standards of quality
3 Eugene and Paul Bernat, The History and Care of Tapestry (Jamaica Plain, Mass.: Emile Bernat), 1919.
and importance for the works collected. Perhaps their most lasting legacy,
however, was the establishment of a new model for collectors as scholars: 4 The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet), 7 November 1980.
they sought to advance knowledge through their own research, through 5 Rita Reif, “Antiques: A Bounty of Early Chinese Ceramics”, The New York Times, Sunday
2 November 1980, Arts and Leisure Section (Section D), p. D 32.
support of museums and universities, and through the creation of what
has become, by descent, America’s most important scholarly journal of 6 “Paul Bernat, 85, Headed Knitting Mills”, Obituary, The Boston Globe, 8 December 1987.
Asian art. 7 The Paul and Helen Bernat Collection (Hong Kong: Sotheby’s), 15 November 1988.
Thus, the exceptionally important ‘partridge-feather’ Ding bowl from
the Linyushanren Collection once was the treasured masterpiece of
an extraordinarily distinguished American collection of early Chinese
ceramics. Apart from its beauty and its rarity, the bowl carries with it the
story, the symbolism, and the legacy of renowned collectors that makes it
all the more special, all the more fascinating, and all the more compelling.

Lot 505 Lot 506
拍品505號 拍品506號

19 The Linyushanren Collection, Part III