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 . odeling with luxuri-ant bundles of grapes and rambling vines, among which seamonsters disport, song birds perch and fly, and butterflies areseen on the wing. Coated with a lustrous black patina, with slight greenish incrustations. Diameter,
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 . odeling with luxuri-ant bundles of grapes and rambling vines, among which seamonsters disport, song birds perch and fly, and butterflies areseen on the wing. Coated with a lustrous black patina, with slight greenish incrustations. Diameter, i% inches. 100—Bronze Round ^Mirror (Han) Thin, with bevcletl edge and depressed medallion upper surface,and coated throughout with a black patina tinged gray and pittedin malachite fracture. Decoration, conventional birds and geo-metrical forms in outline relief, with bosses and bold scrolls,point and hatch borders. Diameter, S/j inches. 101—Dark Bronze Round Mirror (Han) Slightly convex, with beveled rim, and depressed-medallion uppec surface within an inclined border or shoulder. Relief decoration involving the conventional dragon, tiger, turtle and bird, with an archaic animal-scroll border. The whole covered with a rich patina of deep tone verging upon black and of unctuous surface, with delicate malachite incrustation. Diameter, 6 102—Large Silvery Bronze Convex Mikkor ( Wei) Circular, its mirror surface exhibiting a silver-gray patina withpatches of malachite, red and sandy-brown. The ornate deco-ration of the top, in lire perdu modeling with subsequenttooling, involves the dragon, phoenix and tiger, the turtle witliinthe coils of a serpent, animal masks, sundry borders and aninscription informing the user that in it she may see herself asbeautiful as the flowers, the stars in the sky—with otiicr ex-quisite hyperbole. Even patina of silvery tone, with light in-crustations of malachite hue and the pale brown of dry earth. Diameter, 8 inches. 103—Bevel-e
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