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 . translucent material when a light isplaced within the vessel. A border of Greek fret separatesthe upper gourd from the larger body below, and a similarborder is found beneath the lip: both, like the rest of the orna-mentation, etched in the
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 . translucent material when a light isplaced within the vessel. A border of Greek fret separatesthe upper gourd from the larger body below, and a similarborder is found beneath the lip: both, like the rest of the orna-mentation, etched in the paste and uncolored. Interior of neck and the foot also glazed. Height, 13 inches. 288—Mirror-black Bottle (Kang-hsi) With ovoid body and short, wide neck. Clear, dense porcelainof Kang-hsi, covered with a mirror glaze with the depth andblackness of night. Within the foot and tlie intirior of theneck, white glaze with a brown crackle. //(iffhl, 11 inches. 289—RoBixs-EGG Souffle V.^se (Chkn-hing) Of bottle form, with portly ovoid low body^ and graceful neck very slightly in-curved. Covered evenly with a fine robins-egg blue or mingled sky-blue and turquoise-green souffle glaze of dull luster and unctuous surface, the glaze carried over to the int(rif)r of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, IS/i inches. ^ ^.*l i: [the KTPUBLIC I TlLBtN FCi. 290—Metallic Soukfle Bottle-form Aase {Chicn-lung) Ovoiclal body, sliglitly compressed, on ;i circular foot, with wideneck and expanding lip. Coated with a curious glaze of mottledmaliogany and olive tones at the lip, which streams downward inw-ayward, confused striations and finely comminuted fleckingsover the neck and the broad shoulder, in the hue of iron-rust, thesmall ferruginous cascade merging finally in tenuous sprays ina rich, dark seal-brown flood which covers underbody and foot. Hiiffht. 13% inches. 291—Large Tirqtoise Bottle-shaped Vase {Chicn-lung) Light, resonant porcelain, gracefully fashioned in a globular-ovoida
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