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 . d with a thickbrilliant glaze of the deepest ultramarine-blue, appearingfrom a little distance to be black, the glaze is of a Lang-yW nature, slightly pinholed and with thick c
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 . d with a thickbrilliant glaze of the deepest ultramarine-blue, appearingfrom a little distance to be black, the glaze is of a Lang-yW nature, slightly pinholed and with thick coagulationsof the heavy gla/.e where it finishes abruptly at the base. In-terior is of light bluish-green brilliant glaze. Rim finishedwith a brown ferruginous glaze. An unusually large pieceof a rare color. Hright. 2) inchet. 484—Large Yi-hsing Goldfish Cistern (Ming) Circular, of ovoid outline with short base, flanged andbeaded rim. Blue clay burnt to hard brown ware. Cov-ered with characteristic bright glaze of blue-gray and ex-hibiting the varying shades and streaks of a chitn-i/aovariety. Glaze is thin at top and gradually thickens tillat base it exhibits a clotted and rolled irregular edge. Anexceptionally large and fine piece. hinmrtrr. HI liirlnx: hritihl. l!i inches. THIRD AND LAST AFTERNOONS SALE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916AT THE AM KHIC AX AHT CALLKRIES BEGINNING AT OCLOCK YUAN AND MING POTTERY. 435—Ting-yao White Bottle-shape Vase (Sung) Bulging low body on short base, rounding shoulders to thinneck which expands to a fluted bulbous mouth. Slightlyhardened porcellanous ware approaching soft-paste. Curi-ous decoration, well modeled in low relief, in archaic formof sea-dragon rising from crested waves. Covered withbright mellowed ivory-white glaze, finely crackled. Height, 6 inches. Third Afternoon or TV TiMi-YAO Cream BOTTXE-shaie Vases (Yuan) Disc-shaped bodies on shortbases, graceful necks with,fluted bulbous mouths, onsides are two lion-headsand
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