Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable collection of ancient Chinese bronzes, beautiful old porcelains, amber and stone carvings, sumptuous eighteenth century brocades, interesting old paintings on glas and fine old carpets, rugs and furniture, from ancient palaces and temples of China comprising the private collection of a Chinese nobleman of Tien-Tsin . e, opaque. Imperial yellowglass with lustrous surface. Four-character mark of Chien-lungengraved on the foot. Height, 9/4 inches. 82—ANTiauE Glass Bottle-shaped Vase {Chien-lung) Ovoid, with tubular neck; fashioned of thick, opaque glass ofl
Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable collection of ancient Chinese bronzes, beautiful old porcelains, amber and stone carvings, sumptuous eighteenth century brocades, interesting old paintings on glas and fine old carpets, rugs and furniture, from ancient palaces and temples of China comprising the private collection of a Chinese nobleman of Tien-Tsin . e, opaque. Imperial yellowglass with lustrous surface. Four-character mark of Chien-lungengraved on the foot. Height, 9/4 inches. 82—ANTiauE Glass Bottle-shaped Vase {Chien-lung) Ovoid, with tubular neck; fashioned of thick, opaque glass oflight pistache-green color. Four-character mark of Chien-lungincised underneath tlie foot. Height. Oy, inches. 83 RE.^L\liKABLE RoCK CuYSTAL AaSE WITH ITS OwN Original Cover {Chien-lung) Fashioned in the form of ancient bronze and jade vases offlattened pear-shape, on a low foot, with loop-handles supportinglarge loose rings. Heavily and deeply carved with a liigh-reliefdecoration of numerous phoenixes in various attitudes among treepeonies and cloud scrolls, with details etclicd; handles intricatelycarved with the sacred fungus, the loose rings smoothly polished;at lip and foot an engraved fret-border. The cover carved witha shih-lung or earth dragon, and liaving at its lower edge a corresponding fret-border. Hiiglit. incites. ^ c^. _. 84—Tall White Jade Vase with Cover Flattened flask shape on a low foot. Of a soft, even, gray-whitetone throuffhoiit, translucent and with a texture revealing innerniottlings without change of color. Brilliantly polished, the broadfaces left unornamented and the narrow sides carved with ascend-ing four-clawed dragons in high relief, their necks and headsundercut and modeled in the round above the shoulder of the vase,forming side-handles sustaining each two loose rings. The highlypolislied cover, of the same perfection of texture and polish, issurmounted by another four-clawed dragon, undercut in fullrelief, supporting the pearl o
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