. Rare and beautiful Oriental art treasures of supreme quality. ward green, and a surface repre-sentative of the fruit-skin texture, with a reserve decora-tion of clusters of peaches, loquats, pomegranates and wildcherries beautifully penciled in notes of rich cobalt border of palmations, formal shoulder border, and onthe cover a pi-i scepter-head border, in the same the foot the imperial Chien-lung seal in brilliant under-glaze blue. (One jar slightly cracked.) Have carved teak-wood stands. Height, 12^4 inches.{Illustrated in Color) 83—Two Porcelain Table Screens {Cliien-l
. Rare and beautiful Oriental art treasures of supreme quality. ward green, and a surface repre-sentative of the fruit-skin texture, with a reserve decora-tion of clusters of peaches, loquats, pomegranates and wildcherries beautifully penciled in notes of rich cobalt border of palmations, formal shoulder border, and onthe cover a pi-i scepter-head border, in the same the foot the imperial Chien-lung seal in brilliant under-glaze blue. (One jar slightly cracked.) Have carved teak-wood stands. Height, 12^4 inches.{Illustrated in Color) 83—Two Porcelain Table Screens {Cliien-lung) Quadrilateral porcelain panels, set into teakwood stand-ards carved in relief and openwork with dragons, scepter-heads and scrolls. The panels, glazed in a pure turquoisetone which approaches robins-egg hue, are beautifully or-namented in gold with wooded and mountainous landscapescontaining pavilions and gardens, the designs being deli-cately etched and the gold laid in afterward. Dimensions of tile, I634 hy 11% inches: heif/hf of screen, 26y^ 84—Tall Mirror-black Club-shaped Vase (Kang-hsi) A superb example, in porcelain, glazequality and decoration; one of the tall-est known—one so tall has never been seenhere, or by some New York experts whohave traveled the world—and in perfectcondition. Pure white vibrant hard paste,in cylindrical club-shape with flattenedshoulder and flange lip, glazed in a deepand very rich pure black of most bril-liant mirror surface. The soft and richtone of the gold remaining of its pristinedecoration gives added charm. The or-namentation is more distinctly traceablethan in most of the mirror-blacks andshows great luxuriance. In panels andleaf medallions on the neck appear themei, chrysanthemum and bamboo, and thefamous twelfth century sage Tai KungMang, fishing, always fishing, with unbenthook, not to make a catch but to medi-tate, and to keep clear of a troublesomewife—an indulgence which brought himto honors as a counselor
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