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 . slightly mottled like tortoise-shell;outer, deep ruby-red, cut away and leaving carved spraysof peaches, vine and fruit; jtt-i head band at shoulder. 15— Crystal Snuff Bottle,
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 . slightly mottled like tortoise-shell;outer, deep ruby-red, cut away and leaving carved spraysof peaches, vine and fruit; jtt-i head band at shoulder. 15— Crystal Snuff Bottle, Painted Inside {Chien Lung) Oval section, pilgrim-bottle shape. Crystal; painted fromthe inside, in rosy smoke-shades and black, is seen a mi-nutely finished landscape of mountainous scenery with twohorses and attendant, and man in a boat. 16— Crystal Snuff Bottle, Painted Ixsiiu: {Chien Lung)Flattened section, straight sides. Crystal: painted from theinside, in colors, are pheasant, birds and flowers, most mi-nutely and delicately finished. 17— Agate Sniff Bottle {Chien Lung) Flattened club-shape, body of agate is of lilac-tint, whitewith deep rich-brown skin, cleverly cut away to form onone side, branch of primus with flowers and three birds finelycarved. 18— Mirror-black SnuFF Bottle {Cltien Lung)Flattened pilgrim-bottle shape. Porcelain, covered withbrilliant deep mirror-black glaze. First Afternoon. No. 1!) No. 20 No. 21 19— Peking Enamel Sntkk Bottle (Chicn Lung)Shell-shape. Oval, cockle-shell shape, with metal ribs atedges as it in two parts, and with two eyelets for chain. Knanielcd on yellow ground, u riot of emblems, flowers, fruitand arabesques; around neck, collar of leaf pattern; allin bright and vivid-colored enamels of the period. 20— Cloisonne Sntkk Bottle (Chien Lung) Drum shape. Decoration: one side with house by waterside and distant mountains, other, with phoenix; aroundedge, archaic symbols and arabesques all in perfect andsubdued enamel colors.
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