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 . 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. Flora
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 . 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 border and base of conventional waves In red,brown and blue. Length. 2 feet 4 inches; wullli. 2 feet 2 Inches. Third Afternoon. 552— Antique Mat (Chien Lung) Soft close silk v pile. Corners of one end cut in trefoil brown-red ground; decoration in l)lue and yellow,of a kylin surrounded by various symbols; floral border andcrested-wave pattern at base. 2 feel 0 hiche* square. 553— Active Chinesk Ri g {Chien Lung) Thick compact pile. Pearl-gray field, with decoration, in(dues, consisting of central medallion of key motif, withsimilar design at corners and filled in with floral by deep border of lines, Greek-fret and diaperbands, with flower-petal medallions. Lenqlh, 8 feel C> inches: xiiillh, 22 inches. 554— Antique
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