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 . —Antique Chinese Mat (Chien I<»ny) Short soft, silky pile. Trefoil edges at one end. Linedborder; pearl-gray ground with floral me<lallions. Cen-ter with circular reserve
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 . —Antique Chinese Mat (Chien I<»ny) Short soft, silky pile. Trefoil edges at one end. Linedborder; pearl-gray ground with floral me<lallions. Cen-ter with circular reserve; light and dark umber , principally in shades of blue with yellow. 2 feet 8 inrhe» square. i)47 - Antiqie Chinese Mat (CIiuii Lung) Thick soft pile. Brown-red ground; central medallion,angles and border of floral-scroll design in deep tones ofblue and yellow; edge outside border blue, with flower-petals. 2 feet 8 turtle* square. 548—Antique Chinese Mat (Cliini Limy) Soft silky pile. Subdued golden-yellow ground, with softbrown decoration of spear-heads ami floral scrolls, withSparse use of deep blue. Length. 2 feet 8 inches: Width, 2 feet 5 inrhen. Third Afternoon. 540—Antique Chinese Mat (Chicn Lung) Soft close pile. Corners shaped in trefoil edge. Olive-bronze ground; in center, full-faced hve-clawed dragon withtwo others rampant. Floral border around three sides; atbase, conventional wave and cloud design. Decoration inblues and yellows, and outline of design is accentuated bybeing indented. 2 feet ?) inches sqmire. 550— Antique Chinese -Mat (Chicn Lung) Thick long pile. Corners of top end cut with trefoil brown ground, with kiflin hearing sacred vase; bor-der at base; conventional crested waves. Decoration inblues and browns. Length, 2 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet % inches. 551— ANTIQUE Chinese Mat (C/jiVh Lung) Thick soft pile. Corners of one end cut in trefoil yellow ground. Decoration of two Dogs of Fo,with scroll bo
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