Page 6 - Christie's Asia Week March 2024 Chinese Art

IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN

THURSDAY 21 MARCH 9.00AM
(Lots 801–1002)

A Tribute to Dorothy Tapper Goldman:

Collector Extraordinaire

高情遠致：杜麗芙．塔龐．高曼

by Robert D. Mowry 毛瑞

(Lots 801–904)

ollector, professor, connoisseur, philanthropist, world traveler… Wilton, CT, and of legendary Asian art dealer Robert H. Ellsworth
Dorothy Tapper Goldman was all of those and more. Best (1929–2014), who owned a home in New Fairfield, CT, in addition to
Cknown to the public as the collector of American foundational his well-known Fifth Avenue residence in New York, both of whom
documents who in November 2021 sold her print copy of the U.S. encouraged her not just to admire Chinese porcelains but to collect
Constitution—one of only fourteen known copies from the original them. And over the years she did, to the very last year of her life.
printing—Mrs. Goldman was also an esteemed collector of Chinese Diligently perusing all Chinese ceramics on offer in New York during
ceramics, particularly monochrome-glazed porcelains from the Ming every March and September Asia Week and buying from New York
and Qing dynasties (1368–1911). dealers and auction houses alike, she assembled a collection of more
than 100 Qing monochromes, acquiring the pieces one-by-one and
Born in Jacksonville, FL, Dorothy Elizabeth Tapper grew up in Shaker displaying them in her Park Avenue penthouse apartment. Chosen
Heights, OH, where visits in her youth to the nearby Cleveland with a discerning eye, Mrs. Goldman’s porcelains are the crème de la
Museum of Art with her parents, Irving and Jeanne Tapper, sparked an crème of Qing monochromes, evincing the potters’ consummate skill
enduring interest in the arts. Residence in Boston, where she completed in creating glazes in a rich, varied palette from subtle to bold. Mrs.
degrees in education—a B.S. at Tufts University and an M.S. at the Goldman grouped her porcelains by color, with those exhibited in
Massachusetts College of Art (now the Massachusetts College of Art the living room ranging, among others, from snow white and lemon
and Design)—and where, as a tenured professor, she subsequently yellow to emerald green and the palest of blues, known as clair-de-lune;
taught courses in the departments of Architecture and of Interior by contrast, she showcased her stunning array of Dehua porcelains,
Design at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, afforded ample including both vessels and sculptures, in the dining room. The
opportunities to visit the neighboring Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, porcelains featured in the living room came mostly from the celebrated
whose superb holdings of Asian art nurtured a deep and abiding love of kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, while those in the dining room—
Chinese art. i.e., the Dehua porcelains familiarly known in the West as Blanc de
Chine—came from the kilns in Dehua county, Fujian province. Always
Living in New Canaan, CT, Mrs. Goldman made the acquaintance delighting in the presence of Chinese monochromes, Mrs. Goldman
of Peter L. Rosenberg (1933–2013), owner of Vallin Gallery in nearby embellished her Paris apartment, where she spent several months each

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4 Dorothy Goldman. © GITTY DARUGAR - Paris, 2017.