Chinese Art from the Bao Gu Zhai Collection
Updated November 5, 2026
| Date | November 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM EST |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Sunburst Auction |
| Location | Pasadena, California, 91105 · more auctions in Pasadena |
| Lots | 360 |
| Estimates | $30 – $20,000 |
What's in this auction
360 lots, mostly fine art & prints (175), pottery, china & glass (29), antiques & furniture (3), vehicles & automotive (1). 360 lots have photos and 282 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $30–$20,000 across 360 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing November 21, 2026.
Highest-estimated lots
- The Bao Gu Zhai Collection: An Introduction — est. $10,000–$20,000
- Bao Gu Zhai Collection: Guan Liang (1900–1986), Chinese Figure Painting — est. $100–$300
- BAO GU ZHAI COLLECTION:Feng Zikai (1898–1975) Mark, Figures and Landscape with a Red Sunset, — est. $100–$300
- BAO GU ZHAI COLLECTION: Ding Yanyong (1902–1978), Figure Painting — est. $100–$300
- BAO GU ZHAI COLLECTION: Chen Shaomei (1909–1954) Mark, Landscape with Figures — est. $100–$300
From the auction house
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In this auction (360 lots)
Categories: Fine Art & Prints (175) · Pottery, China & Glass (29) · Antiques & Furniture (3) · Vehicles & Automotive (1)
- Lot 0001 — The Bao Gu Zhai Collection: An Introduction
- Lot 0002 — Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society
- Lot 0003 — The Chinese Purse Embroidered Purses of The Ch'ing Dynasty by Loretta H. Wang
- Lot 0004 — SHIWAN CERAMICS BEAUTY, COLOR, AND PASSION
- Lot 0005 — ORIENTAL CERAMICS The World's Great Collections PERCIVAL DAVID FOUNDATION OF CHINESE ART, LONDON
- Lot 0006 — CHINESE SCULPTURE IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART by ALAN PRIEST
- Lot 0007 — The Lotus Transcendent Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection
- Lot 0008 — THE BRUSH & THE STONE The Dr Dean Edell Collection of Chinese Art by CHRISTOPHER RANDALL
- Lot 0009 — The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art at Villa I Tatti
- Lot 0010 — CHINESE PAINTINGS OF THE MIDDLE OING DYNASTY
- Lot 0011 — THE PAINTING OF T'ANG YIN by The University of Chicago
- Lot 0012 — Paintings by Yangzhou Artists of the Qing Dynasty from the Palace Museum
- Lot 0013 — Hilight of Chinese Painting 1850--1950 by National Museum of History
- Lot 0014 — TRENDS IN MODERN CHINESE PAINTING ---THE C.A. DRENOWATZ COLLECTION
- Lot 0015 — ANCIENTS IN PROFILE ---- Ming and Qing Figure Paintings from The Shanghai Museum
- Lot 0016 — Landscapes Clear and Radiant The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) by THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
- Lot 0017 — A HISTORY OF CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY by TSENG YUHO
- Lot 0018 — 2 Reference Books Relating to Modern Chinese Paintings
- Lot 0019 — The Four Jens---Four Late 19th Century Masters
- Lot 0020 — Poetry On The Wind by Tseng Yu-ho Ecke
- Lot 0021 — Transcending Turmoil Painting at the Close of China's Empire 1796 -191l
- Lot 0022 — CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY BY JEFFREY HUNTER
- Lot 0023 — Beyond the Legacy ANNIVERSARY ACQUISITIONS FOR THE FREER GALLERY OF ART AND SACKLER GALLERY
- Lot 0024 — HEAVEN'S EMBROIDERED CLOTHS ----1000 YEARS OF CHINESE TEXTILES
- Lot 0025 — THE GRAMMAR OF CHINESE ORNAMENT BY OWEN JONES
- Lot 0026 — An lllustrated Guide Chinese Clothing
- Lot 0027 — TROCADERO KENNY & HIGGINS ASIAN ART 1984 CHINESE STONE SCULPTURE
- Lot 0028 — KENNY & HIGGINS ASIAN ART 1989 INDIAN STONE SCULPTURE
- Lot 0029 — ART TREASURES OF DUNHUANG
- Lot 0030 — FREER A Legacy of Art by THOMAS LAWTON & LINDA MERRILL
- Lot 0031 — 2 Volumes Michael B. Weisbrod, Inc. Chinese Art Exhibition Catalog
- Lot 0032 — De Verboden Stad The Forbidden City
- Lot 0033 — THE TAO OF CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING PRINCIPLES & METHODS
- Lot 0034 — Tales from the Land of Dragons : 1000 Years of Chinese Painting
- Lot 0035 — CHEN HONG SHOU( 1598--1652) ZUO PIN JI
- Lot 0036 — THE EXHIBITION OF C.C. WANG
- Lot 0037 — PAINTINGS OF THE MING DYNASTY FROM THE PALACE MUSUEM
- Lot 0038 — Paintings of the Ming & Qing Dasties from the Guangzhou Art Gallery
- Lot 0039 — Xubaizhai Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy -----ALBUM
- Lot 0040 — Xubaizhai Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy -----FAN
- Lot 0041 — C.C.WANG LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS BY JAMES CAHILL
- Lot 0042 — Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties 14th--20th Centuries
- Lot 0043 — LI KUNG-LIN'S Classic of Filial Piety by THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
- Lot 0044 — 2 Reference Books Relating to Chinese Painting
- Lot 0045 — EIGHT DYNASTIES OF CHINESE PAINTING The Collections of theNelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
- Lot 0046 — AN INDEX OF EARLY CHINESE PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS BY JAMES CAHILL
- Lot 0047 — Studies in Chinese Calligraphy TRACES OF THE BRUSH
- Lot 0048 — Blessings for the New Year--- Special Exhibition of Paintings of Chung K'uei
- Lot 0049 — Calligraphy of the Ming Dynasty Collection of the Palace Museum
- Lot 0050 — Calligraphy of the Qing Dynasty Collection of the Palace Museum
- Lot 0051 — CHINESE FESTIVALS by Wolfram Eberhard
- Lot 0052 — ARTISTS AND PATRONS Some Social and Economic Aspects of Chinese Painting
- Lot 0053 — Lok Tsai Hsien Collection of Calligraphy in Couplets
- Lot 0054 — CHINESE WATERCOLORS by JOSEF HEIZLAR
- Lot 0055 — Masterworks of Shanghai School Painters from Shanghai Museum Collection
- Lot 0056 — THE SHANGHAI MUSEUM OF ART
- Lot 0057 — THE ART OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN CHINA Symbols of Eternity by Michael Sullivan
- Lot 0058 — Chinese Art and Desiqn ART OBJECTS IN RITUAL AND DAILY LIFE by ROSE KERR
- Lot 0059 — 2 Books Relating to Chinese Jade
- Lot 0060 — Later Chinese Jades Ming Dynasty to Early 20th Century FROM THE ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO
- Lot 0061 — CHINESE ART from the Collection of H. M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
- Lot 0062 — A HANDBOOK OF CHINESE CERAMICS by SUZANNE G. VALENSTEIN
- Lot 0063 — RITUAL VESSELS OF BRONZE AGE CHINA by MAX LOEHR
- Lot 0064 — Pathways to the Afterlife Early Chinese Art from the Sze Hong Collection
- Lot 0065 — IMPERIAL WARDROBE by Gary Dickinson & Linda Wrigglesworth
- Lot 0066 — Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome IN THE PERCIVAL DAVID FOUNDATION OF CHINESE ART
- Lot 0067 — SONG AND YUAN PORCELAINS FROM THE HALL OF THE TWENTY RARITIES
- Lot 0068 — CHINESE JADE THROUGHOUT THE AGES BY STANLEY CHARLES NOTT
- Lot 0069 — Views from Jade Terrace Chinese Women Artists 1300---1912
- Lot 0070 — WORSHIPING THE ANCESTORS CHINESE COMMEMORATIVE PORTRAITS
- Lot 0071 — Chinese Blue&White Porcelain by Duncan Macintosh
- Lot 0072 — Wood From the Scholar's Table Chinese Hardwood Carvings and Scholar's Articles
- Lot 0073 — WU GUANG ZHONG A Contemporary Chinese Artist
- Lot 0074 — Painters of the Great Ming The Imperial Court and the Zhe School
- Lot 0075 — TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING by Mayching Kao
- Lot 0076 — PRINCIPLES OF Chinese Painting By GEORGE ROWLEY
- Lot 0077 — THE IADE STUDIO Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy from Wong Nan-p'ing Collection
- Lot 0078 — A HISTORY OF THE ART OF CHINA ---CHINESE PAINTING
- Lot 0079 — CHINESE WATERCOLOURS
- Lot 0080 — Six Masters of Early Qing and Wu Li
- Lot 0081 — In Pursuit of Antiquity
- Lot 0082 — MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND The Landscape Painting of Wang Chi-ch'ien
- Lot 0083 — Painting of Children at Play
- Lot 0084 — Glimpses into the Hidden Quarters: Paintings of Women from the Middle Kingdom
- Lot 0085 — Paintings by the Famous Artists in Shanghai Region Collection of the Palace Museum
- Lot 0086 — The Art of Wen Cheng-ming by Richard Edwards
- Lot 0087 — Peach Blossom Spring by RICHARD M. BARNHIART
- Lot 0088 — FRAGRANT SPACE Chinese Flower and Bird Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Lot 0089 — Masters of Landscape Painting;Yuan Chiang & Yuan Yao
- Lot 0090 — THE TEN BAMBOO STUDIO A Chinese Masterpiece
- Lot 0091 — MING QING HUA JIA YIN JIAN BY Victoria Contag und Wang Chi-ch'ian
- Lot 0092 — 2 Volumes ZHONG GUO SHU HUA JIA YIN JIAN KUAN SHI
- Lot 0093 — Catalogue to the Special Exhibition of Hanging Scrolls by Wang Yuan-Ch'i ( 1642--1715)
- Lot 0094 — Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting by Judith G Smith and Wen C Fong
- Lot 0095 — THE CHENG XUN TANG COLLECTION OF PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY ON FAN
- Lot 0096 — Sydney L MOSS 1986 THE LITERATI MODE Chinese Scholar Paintings,Calligraphy and Desk Objects
- Lot 0097 — Sydney L MOSS 1995 OLD LEAVES TURNING (ALBUMS AND ALBUM LEAVES, FANS)
- Lot 0098 — Sydney L MOSS 1988 BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH
- Lot 0099 — QING DAI GONG TING HUI HUA COLLECTION OF THE PALACE MUSEUM
- Lot 0100 — Chinese Popular Prints
- Lot 0101 — Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950 by Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield
- Lot 0102 — Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century
- Lot 0103 — THE ART OF CHEN SHUREN
- Lot 0104 — THE AUSTERE LANDSCAPE:THE PAINTINGS OF HUNG-JEN BY JASON C. KUO
- Lot 0105 — THE GREAT PAINTERS OF CHINA by MAX LOEHR
- Lot 0106 — SILENT POETRY Chinese Paintings in the Douglas Dillon Galleries
- Lot 0107 — The Translation OF ART Essays on Chinese Painting and Poetry
- Lot 0108 — FANTASTICS AND ECCENTRICS IN CHINESE PAINTING
- Lot 0109 — CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING in the Sui and Tang Dynasties by MICHAEL SULLIVAN
- Lot 0110 — Old Masters.Repainted by Joan Stanley-Baker
- Lot 0111 — AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CHINESE PAINTING BY ARTHUR WALEY
- Lot 0112 — A SELECTION OF ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES
- Lot 0113 — 5000 YEARS OF CHINESE COSTUMES
- Lot 0114 — ALONG THE ANCIENT SILK ROUTES Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums
- Lot 0115 — CHINESE JADE CARVING by IP YEE
- Lot 0116 — ON CHINESE GARDENS by CHEN CONGZHOU
- Lot 0117 — The Spirit of Gongshi: Chinese Scholar's Rocks
- Lot 0118 — The Art of Traditional Chinese Flower Arranging by HUANG YUNG-CHUAN
- Lot 0119 — Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives
- Lot 0120 — THE CERAMIC ART OF CHINA by THE ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCIETY
- Lot 0121 — PICTURING CHINATOWN Art and Orientalism in San Francisco BY Anthony W. Lee
- Lot 0122 — Ten Thousand Things Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose
- Lot 0123 — ZHONG GUO WEN WU JING HUA DA QUAN ------SHU HUA JUAN
- Lot 0124 — INK PLUM The Making.of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre by Maggie Bickford
- Lot 0125 — Calligraphy of the Yuan Dynasty ----Collection of the Palace Museum
- Lot 0126 — THE ART OF THE CHINESE PICTURE-SCROLL BY Shane McCausland
- Lot 0127 — Chinese Furniture A GUIDE TO COLLECTING ANTIQUES by Karen Mazurkewich
- Lot 0128 — ARTISTS AND TRADITIONS USES OF THE PAST IN CHINESE CULTURE
- Lot 0129 — The Chinese Scholar's Studio ARTISTIC LIFE IN THE LATE MING PERIOD
- Lot 0130 — Masterworks of Ming and Qing Painting from the Forbidden City
- Lot 0131 — SHANGHAI GIRL GETS ALL DRESSED UP BY Beverley Jackson
- Lot 0132 — The Art of Xu Beihong
- Lot 0133 — THE CHARMING CICADA STUDIO Masterworks by Chao Shao-an
- Lot 0134 — The Elegant Brush Chinese Painting Under the Qianlong Emperor 1735-1795
- Lot 0135 — Gao Qipei I660-I734 DISCARDING THE BRUSH
- Lot 0136 — Challenging the Past THE PAINTINGS OF Chang Dai-chien
- Lot 0137 — The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien
- Lot 0138 — CH'I PAI-SHIH'S PAINTINGS BY KAI-YUHSU FANG-YUWANG
- Lot 0139 — Paintings and Calligraphy by Ming l-min from the Chih-lo Lou Collection
- Lot 0140 — THE WAY OF THE BRUSH PAINTING TECHNIQUES OF CHINA AND JAPAN by FRITZ VAN BRIESSEN
- Lot 0141 — Lion among painters . Chinese Master. CHANG DAI CHIEN
- Lot 0142 — The Compelling Image Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting by JAMES CAHILL
- Lot 0143 — Hlills Beyond a River CHINESE PAINTING OF THE YUAN DYNASTY,1279-1368 by JAMES CAHILL
- Lot 0144 — CHINESE CALLIGRAPHERS AND THEIR ART BY CH'EN CHIH-MAI
- Lot 0145 — INSCRIBED LANDSCAPES Travel Writing from Imperial China by RICHARD E.STRASSBERG
- Lot 0146 — Spirit and Ritual The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art
- Lot 0147 — Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Lot 0148 — KERNELS OF ENERGY, BONES OF EARTH , THE ROCK IN CHINESE ART
- Lot 0149 — TRIBUTES FROM GUANGDONG TO THE QING COURT
- Lot 0150 — CHINESE CARPETS by Charles I. ROSTOV
- … and 210 more lots
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