Detail: The Asian Art Department of Bonhams and Butterfields provides one of the worlds most successful auction venues for selling Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art. Under the directorship of Dessa Goddard, the department is renown for its discoveries of long-lost masterpieces in these fields. San Francisco has become a destination of choice for both new and seasoned collectors and members of the trade for its consistent offerings of fresh objects from private collectors, estates and museums to the marketplace in two tiers of sales: bi-annual auctions of Fine Asian Works of Art and Asian Decorative Art. The experienced department staff is trained in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese language assistance.