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 . lip by a raised and incisedband of scrolls and halbert-heads, with the tigei-s eye in lowrelief and two bold projecting animal masks. The motive is re-peated in a band about the base, with the ogre lineaments re-curring in low relief. Time h
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 . lip by a raised and incisedband of scrolls and halbert-heads, with the tigei-s eye in lowrelief and two bold projecting animal masks. The motive is re-peated in a band about the base, with the ogre lineaments re-curring in low relief. Time has invested both the exterior andinterior surfaces with a smooth, soft, dark patina, varyingfrom gun-metal hue through gray olives and rich browns to amatt black. An incised symbol in this piece signifies everythingin the universe, and apparently indicates the use of the vesselin the ritual of ancestor worship. Teak cover with green jadeknob handle. Iltii/ht. j;i ; diameter. inches. 154—Gilt Broxze Bottle-shaped Vase (After-Han) Squat-ovoidal body on a lightly-spreading flanged foot, with tall slender neck, bulbous in hexafoil expansion beneath the short lip and circled midway by a molded and flanged band. The smooth surface displaying an olive-brown patina and broad surfaces of its original Roman-gold splendor. Heiyhl. IT 155—Ancient Ovate Swinging Jar (Shang) Heavy sonorous bronze, of flattened, elonfrated nielon-forin, witha swinging handle in rope design and a low spreading base wliichis marked bj two rings. Otherwise plain, it is ornamented at theshoulder with a wide band of angular fret, incised between twonarrow borders of repeated small raised circles, the band inter-rupted by two aninial-niasks in relief. In the interior an incisedinscription containing the name of an animal, apparently the wildboar or sheep, and the symbols for spear, grandfather andfather—a formula used, it is said, as a godspeeding and ad-vance felicitation to those dep
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