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 . verySoft- -SoKT-lASTK {Kang Hsi)Oviform with rounding shoulder,short neck, and tapering to foot,paste, which is however a dense hard por-celain, only slightly softer than
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 . verySoft- -SoKT-lASTK {Kang Hsi)Oviform with rounding shoulder,short neck, and tapering to foot,paste, which is however a dense hard por-celain, only slightly softer than the ordi-nary porcelain of the period. Decora-tion, in cobalt-blue with indigo-tinge oncreamy-white, one side only of vase, rocksand willow, under which are two fisher-men, painted in delicate lines with sparsethin washes of the color. Coated with thebrilliant, soft-looking glaze of this classand wonderfully crackled with marble ef-fect in light-brown lines: crackled glazecarried in interior of mouth and underbase. Height, 1\\ inches. Second Afternoon. No. 23(1 No. 229 No. 231 229— Blik and White Vase (Ktuig Hsi)Globular body with long Blender neck and bulbous white porcelain with B brilliant glaze; decoration, allover in rich cobalt-blue, of the conventional tigcr-lil vpattern. Exposed paste at rim of base shows tbe fine whitematerial tinged with brown from beat of furnace and underthe glaze of base, are the characters, Ta-ming-chcng-hua-nitn-chih. HeighI, Hinchi s. 230— Bu e ami White Bamstek-fokm Vase (Knng Hsi)Graceful ovoid body with gently receding curves to baseand short thick neck with expanding mouth. Pure whiteporcelain with a brilliant mirror-like glaze. Decoration,in deep cobalt-blue on white, flowing design of leaves andflowers and gadroon-border ut base; in lighter blue, scrolland hatched-lincd borders. Base, and inside mouth, glazedwhite. IIeight, H inelien. 231— Blue and White Bamsteh-korm Vase (Kuiig Hsi)Graceful ovoid body, short n
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