Ashley Asian Art is a leading appraisal firm offering USPAP-compliant appraisals, collection management, and specialist research to clients around the globe. Ashley Innes founded Ashley Asian Art while living between the US and UK and discovering the lack of USPAP-compliant appraisers available in Europe and knowledgeable in both markets.
We serve a range of clients globally, including private and institutional collectors, fellow appraisers and researchers, insurance companies, estates, museums, and galleries. As one of the only USPAP-compliant appraisal businesses in the region, we are particularly well-placed to assist clients based in the UK and Europe.
Although Asian art and musical instruments will always be our first loves, we are also experienced in many other areas of art and personal property.
About our logo
Ashley Asian Art's logo (designed by the talented Cynn Wang) emphasizes our passion for Buddhist art. Ashley's favorite Buddhist figure is Avalokiteshvara, Mahayana Buddhism's most popular deity, whose values of compassion, protection, and forgiveness have been widely celebrated since the first anthropomorphic Buddhist art appeared during the Kushan Dynasty two millennia ago. Avalokiteshvara is recognizable with an elevated headdress, often showing a seated Buddha Amitabha at the center. For this reason, our logo features a Buddha Amitabha sitting in the "headdress" of the A, which represents Avalokiteshvara.