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 . 181—Grkkn Jade Fei-tsi-i Bcckxjes (Chicn Lung) Brilliant green, polished jade with mottling and brightnecks. Square double-plate buckles with hasp and eye,upper portion of plat
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 . 181—Grkkn Jade Fei-tsi-i Bcckxjes (Chicn Lung) Brilliant green, polished jade with mottling and brightnecks. Square double-plate buckles with hasp and eye,upper portion of plates carved and pierced in low reliefwith the chili-lung or lizard-shape dragon and fungusscrolls. Length, 4;^ inchet. 122—White Jade Pierced Box and Cover (Chien Lung) Circular, flattened disc form, of pure white even-toned pol-ished jade of extreme thinness, surfaces of each part, ex-cept for rim, is entirely pierced with diagonal work andtwo curling fish are left in the material, slightly carved inlow relief. lUiiweter. i inrhea. 123—Dappled-rose Glass Mixiatire Vase {Chicn Lung) Pear-shape body and short neck with two lion-heads at sideof neck. Scmi-opa<|Uc, translucent and brilliant glu^, wi Hidappled surface of a bluish-rose tint. Height. 3_. inrhea. First Afternoon. —Pair ok White Jade Bixd-bhape Cups (Chien hung)Very quaintly carved in shape of a fowl; the upper part,with the boldly .sweeping tail and wings, forms the coverof a tiny cup, which is the body, and is supported on shortlegs with spreading feet. Kent/ill, 3, ill rIn s. 125— Semi-transm-cent Glass MixiATrre Vase (Chien Limy)Biheron shape with very short neck. Soft, opaque, yettranslucent, glass of deep sky-blue color. Height, 4/2 iiicht*. 126— Brown and Oraxge Oi>a«ie Glass Vase (Chien Lung)Tapering body with rounded shoulders to short expandingneck. Brilliant opaque glass of deep-umber, almost black,with very effective splashes of Indian-yellow and orange atshoulder of body. H right, a inches
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