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Property from the

Collection of Rosalind

Ching Pastor

Lot 86

Born in Shanghai and raised in a family of collectors and
foreign diplomats, Rosalind Ching travelled by herself to
Chicago in 1950 as part of a world tour to visit a trade
show at the Navy Pier. She was captivated by the city
and established herself there as an entrepreneur and
businesswoman, residing in Chicago for the rest of her life.
Under the guidance of Zhuang Yan and Na Zhiliang of the
Taipei National Palace Museum, and her uncle, C. F. Yao,
the owner of the prestigious Tonying & Company, Rosalind
Ching Pastor formed her sizable art collection which later
became the subject of a published exhibition at the Honolulu
Academy of Art in 2005.
Rosalind Ching Pastor is remembered and commemorated
in countless newspapers, press, and by her friends as a
vibrant socialite and philanthropist, a staunch, generous
friend and a beloved Chicago figure.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
ROSALIND CHING PASTOR
86
A RARE IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED WHITE-GLAZED Provenance
INGOT-SHAPED PILLOW Yamanaka & Company, Inc, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943, lot 715
The Pillow Song Dynasty (960-1279), the inscribed poem The Rosalind Ching Pastor Collection, Chicago
dated 1746
The Cizhou-type pillow molded in two halves along its length, the Literature
join visible as a simple molded line that runs entirely around the Parke-Bernet Galleries, ‘Yamanaka & Company, Inc.’ Catalogue, 1943,
pillow, the pottery washed with a cream slip and then covered in a illustrated on 3rd shelf (center) of six shelves
lightly crackled glaze that thins and frits at the edges of the square
ends and at a few points on the longer edges, one end with four Stephen Little, Masterworks of Chinese Art, The Rosalind Ching Pastor
kiln spur marks, one face very carefully and neatly engraved through Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005, pp. 12-13, full page illustration
the fragile glaze in clerical script with a one-hundred-character
poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor and split into twelve Exhibited
eight-character lines and one four-character line followed by the Art Institute of Chicago, Loan exhibition, 1997
inscription Qianlong Bingyin Yuzhi followed by two seals Qian and Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005

Long, some glaze staining. 來源
8 5/16in (21.2cm) across
Yamanaka & Company, Inc., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1943年, 拍品編號715
The Rosalind Ching Pastor Collection, 芝加哥
$50,000 - 80,000
出版
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, ‘Yamanaka & Company, Inc.,’ Catalogue, 1943
宋 白瓷錠形枕 年, 圖錄拍品編號715
1746年 乾隆御製詩詞
Stephen Little, Masterworks of Chinese Art, The Rosalind Ching Pastor
Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005年, 頁12-13

展覽
Art Institute of Chicago，芝加哥，1997年
Honolulu Academy of Arts，夏威夷檀香山，2005年

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