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 . 338—Cylindrical Club-shaped Powder-ulue Vase {Ka»g-hsi) With well-defined foot, flat shoulder, short wide neck and flangedlip. Smooth surface throughout, with a lightly molded bandaround the neck. Sonorous hard-paste white porcelain coveredw
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 . 338—Cylindrical Club-shaped Powder-ulue Vase {Ka»g-hsi) With well-defined foot, flat shoulder, short wide neck and flangedlip. Smooth surface throughout, with a lightly molded bandaround the neck. Sonorous hard-paste white porcelain coveredwith a luminous glaze of powder-blue of rich quality, a ring ofwhite reserved at the base of the lip and the interior glazed inwhite, ilark, the blue double ring. Htiqht. ITVi inches. 339—Roi!ixs-EGG Souffle Tall Vase {Chicii-huig) Of club-form with ovoidal body, narrow sloping shoulder, wideneck and flaring lip. Clear porcelain covered with a rich, unctu-ous glaze of robins-egg souffle with a dull luster, the glaze ex-tending to the interior of the neck and underneath the foot, andexhibiting in equable distribution the characteristic blue andgreen tones. Heiffht, 151/, 340—Remarkable Cylindrical Club-shaped Vase {Kang-hsi) Mirror-black, diconitcd with botli gold and silver. A veryrare decoration, these vases usually having only gold. Themirror-black glaze, which coats the exterior throughout exceptfor a white stripe at the upper and lower edges of the flangedlip, is of the ravens-wing variety, witli lustrous metallic reflec-tions. The rich abundance of the gold and silver ornamentationon the body includes blossoming tree peonies, magnolia flowers,birds perched and flying, singly and in pairs, among them thepheasant and the duck, and a leaf-scroll border—many blossomsbeing silver on golden stems and branches. A further border ofhexao-onal silver grill, with reserved medallions adorned withsprays in silver and gold, surrounils the shoulder, and the neckis encomp
Size: 959px × 2607px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidill, booksubjectartchinese
