Four Oracle Bones

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Chinese & Southeast Asian Works of Art

By Hindman

Mar 25, 2021

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• Lot Description
  Four Oracle Bones
  
  
  of varied sizes and forms, all inscribed with characters, some with cut hollows, burn marks and cracks.
  Length of the longest 6 3/4 in., 7.2 cm.
  Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection
  The Late Chingwah Lee Collection, San Francisco
  
  
  Perhaps most recognized for his performance in the Academy Award winning film adaption of The Good Earth, Chingwah Lee was an important scholar, collector, cultural ambassador, and community leader whose legacy endures throughout these many areas. As the industrious second-born son to a family of nine growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Lee was compelled from an early age to support his family and larger community. In addition to working odd jobs, he founded a Boy Scout Troup, volunteered with the YMCA, and established the first English language paper by Chinese-Americans, The China Digest. As a natural leader and skilled speaker, he quickly stepped into roles as a spokesperson for Chinatown, and founded a tour company that offered a positive image of his community in the face of the intense discrimination and stereotyping against Chinese-Americans endemic to the United States at the time. After graduating from Berkeley with a degree in anthropology, he began to devote himself more seriously to studying Chinese art. His father, descended from a long line of art collectors, left him his collection which provided the young Lee a solid foundation for his pursuits in Chinese art connoisseurship. His efforts, including his Saturday series of art history lectures, appraisals, and editorials on Chinese art, resonate throughout the field to this day. After Lee’s death in 1980, most of his collection was famously sold through public auction, with only select pieces requiring specialized audience offered to private parties. The present offering includes such examples, now returning to the market after 40 years.
  

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