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 . a bold foot, with full neck and fiaring lip:covered with a mirror-glaze of a dense, opaque blue with mixedpurplish and cobalt suggestion. Chien-lung seal mark in blue on the white glazed foot. Height, \i inches 335—Pair of Goi,d-decorated Mi
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 . a bold foot, with full neck and fiaring lip:covered with a mirror-glaze of a dense, opaque blue with mixedpurplish and cobalt suggestion. Chien-lung seal mark in blue on the white glazed foot. Height, \i inches 335—Pair of Goi,d-decorated Bottles (Kang-hsi) Spherical bodies, tapering into tall,slender necks which finish with metalrims. Invested with a tliick. deep,brilliant glaze of mirror-black penciledwith an atHiience of floral decorationin gold. Springing from a base borderof stems and scrolls, a luxuriance ofgracefully bending sprigs and blos-soms of chrysanthemum in gold over-spreads the bodies, connecting abovewith a shoulder band of four foliatemedallions on a ground of hexagonallattice, tlie medallions enclosing eachan active animal, in different this again an alternating borderof long and shorter conventional palmleaves, pointing upward, surroinids theneck, which bears anotlier narrowscrolled border beneath the rim. He I (flit. Hi VI. 336—Large Ti-rqfoise Vase (Chien-hmg) Ovoidal-globular body and full neck with slightly flaring with a finely crackled glaze in the hue of the green orwashed turquoise, which extends for a considerable way downthe interior of the neck. (Lip slightly cracked.) Heif/ht. 13% inches. S3!—Wide I:mperial Yellow Bowl {Koiig-hsi) Ovoid, on a short cylindrical foot, the graceful contour recurv-ing to a lightly spreading thin lip. Sonorous white porcelain,glowing in a glaze of Lnperial-yellow glory, pure, lustrous,covering uniformly tlie exterior and interior surfaces, which arewithout other adornment. On the whit
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