About The Myrna Myers Gallery
Sam and Myrna Myers are two Americans who fell in love with Paris in the 1960s and decided to move there. Over five decades, they amassed more than 5,000 works of art that offered a very personal vision of the world of Asian art, coherent and well documented. In 1977, Myrna opened her eponymous gallery at 11 Rue de Beaune on the Left Bank in Paris, where it operated for the next four decades. After Myrna passed away in 2012, Sam curated two exhibitions based on their collection with the help of Jean Paul Desroches, the former curator of the Musee Guimet. The first, From...Read More
The Myrna Myers Gallery
Established in 19771stDibs seller since 2022
Featured Pieces
Pair of 18th Century Teacups from the Nanking Cargo
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of blue and white Qing Dynasty teacups recovered from the Nanking Cargo. A large cache of porcelain and other merchandise was discovered on the wreck of a Dutch East India Com...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Teapot from Nanking Cargo Shipwreck
Located in Atlanta, GA
Blue and white teapot and cover from Nanking Cargo shipwreck, mid-18th century, painted with a willow tree on a fenced riverbank. The pattern is ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Han Dynasty Jade Bixie
Located in Atlanta, GA
Han Dynasty Bixie, circa 206 BC to 220 AD, muscularly carved. The creature is depicted crouching on its powerful paws, its head thrown back, jaws open to reveal fangs, wings folded a...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Chinese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Jade
Round Porcelain Box from the Hatcher Collection Decorated with Phoenix
Located in Atlanta, GA
17th century Chinese porcelain blue and white cosmetics box from the Hatcher Collection decorated with a phoenix. The phoenix is painted with its wings outstretched, its tail flutter...
Category
Antique 17th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Blue-Glazed Porcelain Box from Hatcher Collection
Located in Atlanta, GA
17th century Chinese porcelain blue-glazed circular pill box from the Hatcher Collection, painted in different tones of blue with a central prunus flower on a wave pattern ground tha...
Category
Antique 17th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Pair of Small Teapots from the Hatcher Collection
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare pair of blue and white globular teapots with covers from the Hatcher Collection, painted with a variety of scenes.
The teapots have short upright necks and cylindrical spout...
Category
Antique 17th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 17th Century blue and white covered bowls from Hatcher Collection
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 17th Century blue and white covered bowls from the Hatcher Collection painted with a river landscape. The bowls are shaped with steeply rounded sides, painted with a continuo...
Category
Antique 17th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 17th Century blue and white dragon wine cups from Hatcher Collection
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 17th Century blue and white wine cups from the Hatcher Collection painted with a dragon leaping through cloud scrolls to grasp a flaming pearl. The cups are delicately potted...
Category
Antique 17th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Civil Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck
Located in Atlanta, GA
Qing Dynasty silk embroidery rank badge decorated with a Mandarin duck, denoting an official of the Seventh Rank. Badges with ducks are re...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Textiles
Materials
Silk
19th Century Civil Rank Badge with Golden Pheasant
Located in Atlanta, GA
Qing Dynasty woven rank badge decorated with a Golden Pheasant, denoting a civil official of the Second Rank.
This badge depicts a pheasant against a dark blue background, its wing...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Textiles
Materials
Silk
Six Dynasties Jade Mythological Beast
Located in Atlanta, GA
Auspicious beast carved in green jade, Six Dynasties period (220 to 589 A.D.).
The Sixth Dynasties, the period immediately following the Han Dynasty, saw a shift from a profound be...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Chinese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Jade
Pair of Large "Leaping Boy" Plates from the Nanking Cargo Shipwreck
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of large blue and white Qing Dynasty plates recovered from the Nanking Cargo. A large cache of porcelain and other merchandise was discovered...
Category
Antique 1750s Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
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