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 . gany 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 spr
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 . gany 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-ovoidal bodv with a tall wide neck and everted lip. Coveredwith a luminous glaze of delicate turquoise-blue, slightly mottled,a fine fish-roe crackle running throughout and the glaze over-flowing to a considerable distance the interior of the neck. Ilciffht. 1314 iiidief. 292—Brilll^kt PfRPLE Bottle (Cliicti-hing) Broad-shouldered ovoid body and large straight neck. Investedwith a deep, dark, intense purple glaze of mirror surface, gray-ing slightly about the rim and carried over and half-way down the interior of the neck. Height, 131,^ 293—Deep-blue Pear-shaped Vase {Cliicn-lung) With short neck, expanding in a trumpet lip, on a circular with a wavering glaze of Sevres-blue tone which ismarked by those straggling lines—as of a trickling waterfall—which were characteristic of the Lang monochromes of the pre-ceding century. (So much so that it has been hailed with the conscious anachronism, A blue Lang-yao!) Ileifjht. 1314 inches. 294—Turquoise Quadrilateral Censer with Cover (Chien-lung) Oblong, on four animal-head legs with outward-curving roundedfeet; two upright loop-handles; the cover surmounted by a Fu-lion on his haunches, with head turn
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