CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions joins Asia Week previews in New York. The firm will present highlights from three March auctions: Japanese and Korean Works of Art (March 25), Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play (March 28) and Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art (March 29). Auction highlights will be available to preview from March 16 to 18 from 10am to 4pm EST at the Concorde Hotel at 127 East 55th Street.

Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play will offer items from The Strong National Museum of Play’s collections and its founder, Margaret Woodbury Strong. Strong was a prominent collector and philanthropist, whose passions developed early in life through her unconventional upbringing.

Highlights from The Strong Museum collection that will be previewed in New York include 28 Japanese inros, cases for holding small objects. The most noteworthy of the selection is a rare, large, gold, red and black lacquer three-case inro (lot 460; estimate: $10,000-15,000). Japanese yatate, portable writing sets, will also be in the preview. A Chinese copper red glazed porcelain bowl, from the Yongzheng Period (lot 394; estimate: $8,000-12,000) will also be among Strong Museum highlights on view. The lustrous, smooth and even toned ruddy glaze on this bowl is exceptional due to how difficult it was to form a glaze this radiant.

Hindman’s Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art auction features extraordinary Chinese archaic bronze vessels. Most notable among these is a Chinese archaic bronze ceremonial fangding vessel, called a Sanji Fangding (lot 1216; estimate: $150,000- $200,000) that was once owned by Liu Tizhi, an important official and collector. Owned by Tzhi until the 1930s, the vessel’s exact whereabouts after then remains uncertain. The inscriptions on this vessel have been illustrated in many publications, but this marks the first time the piece will be viewable by the public in almost a century.

Beautiful jade items considered to be final objects from the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, an esteemed collector and connoisseur of Asian works of art, will also be previewed. Highlights include a carved yellow jade covered vase, a distinct object from the late 19th/early 20th century (lot 1134; estimate: $15,000-25,000), which is naturalistically carved in the round with a dragon cumbering on one side.