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 . form, with porcelain, and evenly coated with the lustrous cop-per-red tone of the iron-rust glaze which shows the char-acteristic minute flecking or souffle of this
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 . form, with porcelain, and evenly coated with the lustrous cop-per-red tone of the iron-rust glaze which shows the char-acteristic minute flecking or souffle of this glaze. Interior of iar, glazed, of cover, unglazed. • H Height, 5jj inches. 840— Wine Ewer {Kang Hsi) Elegant wine vessel with perfect handle, curved spout con-nected bv a delicate branch to neck, flanged mouth andflat cover. Coated with a deep brilliant glaze of the colorknown as powder-blue. This is probably an early piece,traces of the original gilt ornament remain. Interior andbase glazed white. A rare example of the class. Height, 7% inches. 341—MAZARixE-m-i E Vase (Tung Clung) Graceful elongated pear-shape, covered with an even coat-ing of brilliant deep-blue of the shade known as mazarine-blue. Rim of mouth shows the white interior glaze and *tonce merges into the blue. Base is glazed and has theImperial mark of six characters in double lined circle. Height, 9/4 inches. Second A fternoon. M—Laxc-yao Sano-sk-bkuf Dish with Mi:tai, Moi xtixg(Kaiig Hki) Shallow dish with wide rim mounted on three hold dragonSupports finely chased which, with rim and under dish, aremade of gilt brass. Contemporary metal mountings ofporcelain made by Chinese are very scarce, though oftenmade in Europe. Hani porcelain, covered with brilliantglaze of the sany-de-baeuf variety known as crushed straw-berry and with pleasing suggestion of ashes of rosesor peach-bloom. The exterior is of a deeper and richerred more resembling ox-blood and fades under rim to almostthe greenish-wh
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