New York: Lark Mason Associates’ auction of Asian, Ancient & Ethnographic Works of Art that closed on October 15th, 2013 had 828 sold lots with more than 4,500 bids, resulting in a total of over $2.2 million. This Asian sale represents a strong continuance of the company’s successful auction history and ability to navigate the Asian art and antiquities market.

Eight lots sold above $50,000 each, and the top four lots sold for approximately half a millon dollars. The high-value lot from this auction was a Chinese Landscape Decorated Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup, 17th Century, which sold for $180,000.

Other highlights include: a Chinese Porcelain Flambe Glazed Hu Form Vase, Qianlong Mark and Period, which sold for $138,000; a Chinese Parcel Gilt Lacquered Bronze Seated Figure with Wood Stand, Ming Dynasty, which sold for over $89,000; a Chinese Polychrome Wood Guanyin, which sold for over $86,000; a Chinese Carved Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup with Daoist Immortals, 17th Century, which sold for $69,000; and a Pair of Small Chinese Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Cabinets, 19th/20th Century, which sold for over $56,000.

Lark Mason Associates, the eponymous, Harlem-based auction house specializing in Asian and other works of art, was founded by Lark Mason after many years as an expert at Sotheby’s New York.

Mason served as a General Appraiser from 1979-1985, and as a Senior Vice President and specialist in Chinese art with Sotheby’s Chinese Works of Art Department from 1985-2003. From 2000-2003 he was a Director of Online Auctions for Sothebys.com, and served as a consulting curator at the Trammel and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas from 2003-2009. He is noted for his regular appearances on PBS series, The Antiques Roadshow. He is the owner and CEO of iGavel Auctions.
Lark Mason Associates regularly hosts sales on the iGavel Auctions platform and has an established history of record sales of Chinese and other works of art.

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