. Illustrated catalogue of the beautiful old Chinese porcelains comprising the extraordinary private collection formed by Mr. S. S. Carvalho of New York [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries on the dates herein stated. beaming countenances. They are clad in pale blue andlight yellow, lavender-pink, gray-blue, coral, green and black,and the mens apparel and the horses trappings involve thesame colors. On the neck is a reclining figure to whom a mancomes offering a cup. Has carved tcakwood stand. Ih if/ht, Hi1/;, fmekti. 570— e Va
. Illustrated catalogue of the beautiful old Chinese porcelains comprising the extraordinary private collection formed by Mr. S. S. Carvalho of New York [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries on the dates herein stated. beaming countenances. They are clad in pale blue andlight yellow, lavender-pink, gray-blue, coral, green and black,and the mens apparel and the horses trappings involve thesame colors. On the neck is a reclining figure to whom a mancomes offering a cup. Has carved tcakwood stand. Ih if/ht, Hi1/;, fmekti. 570— e Vase with ; (Kang-hti) Cylindrical club-shape, contracting slightly at the base to alow foot; with rounded and sloping shoulder, full neck slightlytapering, and flanged lip. With the exception of the whiteriots of the lip, coated with a luminous glaze of the powder-blue variety, adorned in gold. The major portion of the bodyis occupied with an inscription in twenty lines, running fromshoulder to base. The remaining surface reveals palatial pilesof Oriental architecture in gold, between base and shoulderborders, and the neck holds further landscapes and inscrip-tions—considerable sections of the gilding having vanished withthe centuries. Bright, 17% 571—Pair Three-color Tall Vases with Original MandarinCovers (Chien-lung) Oviform, with lightly spreading foot and short neck. Clearwhite, heavy, sonorous porcelain, decorated under the lustrousglaze in two tones of blue and white reserve with a base-borderof tossing billows—bubbles of spray in the air above them—-and masses of scrolling clouds. Among the clouds, his enor-mous body almost encircling the vase, a fierce five-clawed dragonis boldly penciled in shaded rougc-de-cuivre over the glaze,reaching amid coral fire-scrolls for the flaming jewel, the jeweland the interior of the monsters mouth appearing in aubergineenamel. On the cover a border of blue swastika-fret and coralhats flying among blue scrolling
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