LESLIE HINDMAN AUCTIONEERS
Chicago, Illinois THE STANLEY FIELD EARLY MING BOWL The September 17 Asian Works of Art auction at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers featured The Stanley Field Early Ming Bowl, a blue and white porcelain hexafoil bowl once belonging to Stanley Field of the iconic Field family. Among their many accomplishments, the Field family is responsible for developing the Field Museum of Natural History and its collection. The early Ming bowl, once in Stanley Field’s private collection, sold for $1,452,500 after a number of bidders competed by phone, eventually selling to a buyer in the United States. This is the highest price realized globally, outside of Hong Kong and Mainland China, for a bowl of this type offered at auction. A Rare Blue and White Porcelain Hexafoil Bowl. SOLD FOR $1,452,500.
Trusts and Estates Quarterly Update 2018 | Volume 4