Treasure trove of Asian art to be sold by Hindman auction house
(Artdaily.org)

Hindman LLC today announced the sale of Asian Works of Art, featuring property from the collections of Jane Davis Doggett and The Halim Time and Glass Museum, in addition to Chinese paintings from the estate of Mr. Julius Sih. Items from these collections, alongside numerous exceptional pieces of Chinese bronze and metalwork, will be sold at auction Monday, March 25, and will be on view in Chicago Thursday, March 21 through Monday, March 25. Several outstanding archaic Chinese bronzes are highlights of the March sale. The oldest piece in the sale is a rare bronze ritual food vessel dating from the Late Shang Dynasty (12th – 11th Century B.C.) from the Sackler Collections. The vessel bears an inscription of two kneeling figures flanking a ritual vessel above a gui character, which is illustrated in the accompanying text Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections by Robert Bagley. A second feature is a rare Ta