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 . ined veins; stands on shortpoints. Blue clay burnt to hard dense ware. Covered withn brilliant soft glaze of chiir-de-lnnt gray-green tint, atedges of leaves and veins; where t
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 . ined veins; stands on shortpoints. Blue clay burnt to hard dense ware. Covered withn brilliant soft glaze of chiir-de-lnnt gray-green tint, atedges of leaves and veins; where thin, the deep umber tonesof pottery intensify the outlines; where thick, at veins, inthe clots under base and in the flat of tray, the glaze deepensto shades of pure ultramarine and cobalt colors. An un-usual and very attractive specimen of this ware which wasmade at Yi-hsing near Soochow, Kiangsu province. Thisware is highly pri/.cd hv Chinese connoisseurs. Length, 10 inches. 456— Mottled Tugqioise-bue Bowi, (Karl// Ming)Rounded shoulder turning in at rim and tapering to wideflat base. Heavy earthenware. Exterior covered with abrilliant thick glaze, of a rich tone of turquoise-blue, fleckedor mottled with lighter and darker spots and terminates in thick masses of deepest blue under edgeof base, and patches of gla/.e are to be seen inside thebowl. Diameter, 6>/. inches; depth, 3</4 Third Afternoon 457— Rake Pair of Onion-green Bowls (Earl// Ming) Oval shape from a straight base. Hard heavy porcellanousware. Decoration of exterior, hold (lowing floral-patternslightly recessed into paste with fine fret-hand at rim andsame in interior, which has deeper rock-like pattern. Thepaste hody, a clay-yellow color, has a few lines of irregularcrackle and is coated with a particularly thick clear unc-tuous glaze of rich onion or shade-of-celadon tint; glazeis almost in masses or clotted in interior and of an exquisitetint ill deeper parts of howl. It has ne
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