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 . Jar (Yuan) Pear-shape, on low, circular foot, the body drawn up to a very small orifice at the top. Coated with a clair-de-lune glaze of bluish tinge, with a fine crackle in pale-brown lines and a few light splashes of purple. (Repaired.) He
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 . Jar (Yuan) Pear-shape, on low, circular foot, the body drawn up to a very small orifice at the top. Coated with a clair-de-lune glaze of bluish tinge, with a fine crackle in pale-brown lines and a few light splashes of purple. (Repaired.) Height, 9% inches. 299—Clair-de-lune Coupe [Yuan) Dense vibrant porcelain, covered with a thick, viscous glaze ofclair-de-lune suggestion, brilliant in surface, with grayish-bluetone, and marked with violet, purple and iron-rust patches, andwith a subtle crackle. Diameter, 3^ inches. 300—Two Writers Low Circular Peachbloom Water Cups(K(ing-hsi) Covcrcc! by a rich and lustrous peachbloom glaze, varying fromthe soft pink of the downy coat of a peach to the green oftender moss in the woods, with sundry fleckings and mottlings,and deepening in channels of the molded paste to tones of velvetblack. Covers of fei-fsui jade carved in representation of thepersimmon. One has a gilded water-spoon with a ducks headhandle. Dinmeterx, Sy^ inches and i% 301—Ru Laxg-vao Globular Jar (Earli/ Kang-hsi) Heavy, dense porcelain of early Kang-hsi, coated with a softapple-green glaze of subdued luster, flowing evenly to the lowfoot and marked by a heavy, bold crackle in brown lines. Theseapple-green vases are known in China as Ru Lang-yao. Mountedwith a gold mouth-rim. Height, 3% inches: diameter, ly, inches. 302—BoTTLE-FORM Peachbloom Aase {Kuug-hsi) With slender neck, and tapering gracefully from the roundedshoulder to its perfect foot. Covered Avith a mellifluousglaze of the merged and mingling hues of dried rose-leaves in thefluent, speckled, waning pink known as ashes-of-roses. Th
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