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Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings
21 May 2009, Island Shangri-La Hong Kong Hotel, Admiralty, Hong Kong
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Fine Jewellery and Jadeite and Modern Wristwatches
21 May 2009, Island Shangri-La Hong Kong Hotel, Admiralty, Hong Kong
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Fine and Rare Wines
20 May 2009, Island Shangri-La Hong Kong Hotel, Admiralty, Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
Staff Biographies
Colin Sheaf -Chairman of Bonhams Asia
Born in 1952, Colin Sheaf was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he won a Double Exhibition to read Modern History. Graduating in 1974 with an established fascination for the art world, and an academic knowledge of European ceramics, he joined London auctioneers Christie’s and quickly became a specialist in the Chinese art department. During the next 25 years he worked at different times in the Chinese art departments in New York, Amsterdam, London and most importantly, Hong Kong, spotting the opportunity to build a start-up auction business there into the world leader. Having lectured, broadcast and written extensively about Asian art for nearly 30 years, he is widely known to many of those collectors and dealers who have emerged as the market for Asian art has exploded since the late 1980’s. Appointed in 2005 as Chairman of Bonhams Asia, Colin Sheaf brings to the Bonhams Hong Kong team a combination of professional skills unequalled in the global art world: twenty years experience as a business-building auctioneer in Asia, and thirty years as an academic specialist in Chinese art working as an auctioneer.
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Dessa Goddard - Vice President & Director of Asian Works of Art
Dessa Goddard is one of America’s leading experts in Asian art. Dessa joined the company in 1981 and has brought the department to world-class stature during her now 25-year tenure with the company. She received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Northwestern University in 1973. Her graduate training took place at Harvard University in Asian Studies, where she worked closely with Professor Max Loehr in Shang and Zhou Bronzes; she then entered the University of California, Berkeley graduate program in Chinese history, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate. She worked at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and later graduated from the Stanford programme in Advanced Japanese in Tokyo. She continued working in Japan, completing a research fellowship at the University of Tokyo in Chinese Archeology under the late scholar of Zhou dynasty history, Dr. Matsumaru Michio. She speaks both Mandarin and Japanese, and travels widely throughout North America and Asia as a specialist and lecturer in Chinese, Japanese and Korean works of art.
Carson Chan - Bonhams Managing Director and Watch Specialist, Hong Kong
Carson Chan graduated from the California State Polytechnic University with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business in 1995. He returned to Hong Kong in 1997 to start his own company specialising in injection manufacturing. Two years later he became Bonhams Hong Kong representative. In 2004 he became the General Manager for Asia for luxury watch brand Richard Mille. Now in January 2007 he has been appointed Bonhams Managing Director and Watch Specialist.
Carson is a great enthusiast for things mechanical. He was The Slalom Champion of the Porsche Owners Club Los Angeles in 1993. His passion for watches led him to study horology in depth and he completed several Complicated Mechanical Movement Repairing and Training courses at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Department of Engineering Management and Technology) as well as a number of training offered by top Swiss watch makers. Carson continues to study and train in the horological world both as a hobby and passion.
Edmond Chan - Head of Jewellery Department, Hong Kong
 Edmond Chan received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Seattle Pacific University, Washington in 1995. He received further training from Gemological Institute of America, New York and was awarded the Graduate Gemologist Diploma for Diamonds and Color- stones Grading in 1996. Edmond returned to Hong Kong and joined a leading international Auction House in Hong Kong, with his extensive skills and knowledge he had quickly became a Jewellery Specialist. Throughout his ten years of operation with in the auction industry, Edmond has accumulated valuable experience and profound knowledge in gemology, in addition, he had also built up a strong background for jadeite.
With his great passion and interest towards gemology Edmond had taken on further studies in jewellery design. He had received the Certificate of Jewellery Design from the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2001, and was appointed by the Hong Kong Jewellery Manufacturers Association to be the judge of the 2002 Hong Kong Jewellery Design Contest.
In 2007, Edmond was appointed Head of Jewellery Asia for International Auctioneers Bonhams. Holding six different auctions at the introduction of Bonhams in Hong Kong in 2007, Bonhams had established itself as a strong growing company amongst is competitors in the market. With exceptional sale results exceeding high estimates, Edmond was optimistic that such promising results reflects that he had meticulously apprehend the taste and strengths of the Asian market.
Meilin Wang – Head of Chinese Paintings, 20th Century and Contemporary Asian Art
Meilin Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in Taipei in 1982 with a B.A. in History and Art History. From 1983 to 1985, she taught Chinese at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study administered by Stanford University while concurrently studying Chinese painting techniques under the artist Li Yihong.
After completing graduate training in Art History at the University of Kansas in 1986, she went on to receive a Master degree in Arts Administration in 1990 from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. The title of her Master's thesis was The Auction Market of Modern Chinese Painting, which was an attempt to utilise art history and statistic analyses to explain, prove and predict the market trends and life cycles of modern Chinese paintings. She was listed in “The Overseas Chinese Who's Who” in 1995.
Meilin has worked as a Chinese painting specialist with Bonhams and Butterfields in San Francisco since 1990. In 2008, she was appointed as Head of Chinese Paintings, 20th Century and Contemporary Asian Art for Bonhams. Her educational and professional experiences have given her the confidence to expand the potential of this exciting art market.
Julian King - Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Julian King studied Classical and Modern Chinese at Oxford University. After graduating in 1999, he worked briefly for a new Internet consultancy before joining Sotheby’s Chinese department in London as a cataloguer of ceramics and works of art. Trained under Julian Thompson, he worked on major biannual sales in London and assisted with the Hong Kong and New York auctions. Major achievements from 2000-2004 included the discovery of the only Chenghua ‘tian’ jar ever to appear at auction. After a break from the auction business, he joined Bonhams, London in 2005 where he assisted Colin Sheaf with the biannual sales in London and Hong Kong. In 2008, he was appointed Head of Ceramics and Works of Art in Hong Kong.
At Oxford, Julian’s main passion in Chinese art was for archaic material, particularly bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In addition to his love of Imperial porcelain, this passion has graduated to an interest in archaism as a concurrent influence on works of art from the Song through to the Qing dynasty. Having lived in the Himalayas in 1994-5 teaching English to Tibetan monks, he is also fascinated by Sino-Tibetan iconography and gilt-bronzes.
The biannual Hong Kong sales are broadly focused on high quality pieces from three major categories: Imperial porcelain and works of art, scholar's objects, and Buddhist devotional works of art.
Mabel Au-Yeung - Bonhams PR Consultant
Hong Kong born and bred, Mabel Au-Yeung brings with her a wealth of experience in communications and journalism, the two areas in which she spent most of her working life. She has been a staffer for the South China Morning Post and has represented Chanel in Hong Kong. Currently she runs her own marketing communications agency, M Communications, specialising in the luxury goods and hospitality sectors. Major clients include Chopard, Dior, Armani/Bar HK, Chanel, Harvey Nichols, The Imaginex Group (distributor of luxury brands such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Marc Jacobs, Hugo Boss and Coach), and others.
For more information and/or images, please contact Mabel Au-Yeung on Hong Kong 852 2523 9935 or mabelay@netvigator.com or contact Julian Roup at Bonhams Press Office in London on 020 7468 8259 or press@bonhams.com
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Bonhams Hong Kong
Suite 1508
Two Pacific Place
88 Queensway
Admiralty
Hong Kong
+852 2918 4321
+852 2918 4320 fax
Carson Chan
Managing Director
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3607 0021
Julian
King
Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3607 0010
Meilin Wang
Head of Chinese Paintings, 20th Century and Contemporary Asian Art
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2918 4321
+1 415 503 3397 San Francisco
Edmond Chan
Head of Jewellery
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3607 0007
Mabel
Au-Yeung
PR Consultant
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 9038 8939
United Kingdom
Colin
Sheaf
Director
London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7468 8237
United States
Dessa
Goddard
Director
San Francisco
Tel: +1 (415)861-7500 Ext. 3333 |
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