Illustrated catalogue of a remarkable collection of antique Chinese porcelains, pottery, jades, screens, paintings on glass, rugs, carpets and many other objects of art and antiquity, formed by MrAWBahr, the well-known connoisseur and authority on the ancient arts of China [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, on the afternoons herein stated . distinctly superior to ordinary en-ameled snuff bottles. First Afternoon 58— Dee? Brown- Frou-shape Snuff Bottle {Chien Lung)Carved shape of a toad in brilliant deep-brown tran
Illustrated catalogue of a remarkable collection of antique Chinese porcelains, pottery, jades, screens, paintings on glass, rugs, carpets and many other objects of art and antiquity, formed by MrAWBahr, the well-known connoisseur and authority on the ancient arts of China [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, on the afternoons herein stated . distinctly superior to ordinary en-ameled snuff bottles. First Afternoon 58— Dee? Brown- Frou-shape Snuff Bottle {Chien Lung)Carved shape of a toad in brilliant deep-brown translucentamber showing opalescent flecks of lighter rich red-brown. 59— Golden Amber Snuff Bottle {Chien Lung)Flattened pilgrim-bottle shape. Rich golden-yellow withcloud effect, lightly carved one side with figure near bridgeand conventional pine tree. 60— Carved Porcelain Snuff Bottle {Chin Ching)Flattened, pilgrim-bottle shape. Porcelain, elaborately andminutely carved with open and reticulated work of numer-ous mythical Chinese lions in various playful attitudes,scroll background and scepter-head bands, neck and base,all in brilliant glaze and colors of the famille rose base, seal-characters of the reign. 61— Decorated Sni ff Bottle {Chid Ching) Ovoid section, pilgrim-bottle shape. Porcelain, each sidemodeled in flower form with butterflies; brilliant enamelcolors of the famille rose 62—Pair oe Decorated Snuff Bottles {Chin Citing) Flattened pilgrim-bottle shape. Porcelain, covered withfigures of sages and attendants, decorated in the brilliantcolored enamels of the famille rose class. 63—Gray ami Brown Agate Sniff Bottles {Chien Lung)Flattened pilgrim-bottle shape. Highly polished yellow*gray with dark-brown mottling, no ornament. First Afternoon 64—White and Brown Agate Snuff Bottle (Cliicn Lung)Flat pilgrim-bottle shape. Highly polished white agate withshaded vein of rich light-brown and black, no ornament. 65— Gray and Brown Agatk Sni f
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