Identifier: liu-31289009871916 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the beautiful old Chinese porcelains comprising the extraordinary private collection formed by Mr. S. S. Carvalho of New York (electronic resource) : to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries on the dates herein stated
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Carvalho, S. S Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 Bernet, Otto American Art Galleries
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Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: William Randolph Hearst Archive, Long Island University
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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nd on interior surface a whiteglaZe, the foot penciled with the six-character mark of Kang-hsi in bright blue. The cover has a repousse floral scroll deco-ration in three expanded foliate medallions about a pierccd-blossom center. lias stand. Diameter. I1 inches. 748— Peachhloo.m Gallipot (( hien-htng) Dense white porcelain, coated with a glaze of the peachbloomfamily but differentiated from the peachbloom glaze of theearlier reigns—a crushed-strawberry hue, the color thinly spreadexcept at base of luck and foot, where it deepens, elsewhererunning in light or rosy mottling* and on some surfaces almostvanishing, leaving the body white. Has stand. IIfifth t. I> incite f. 749— Apmje-gkkkn Bottle ( Kting-hsi) Squat body on low circular foot, with short, full, very slightlyexpanding neck. Dense porcelain, with an a;iple-grcen crackledglaze, the glaze continued under the foot ; interior of neck havingn grav-white glaze with brown crackle. Has stand. Height. 5;, inches. (Ilhistmtcd)
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750—Writers Peachbj.oo.u Water Receptacle (Kang-hsi) Semi-globular, with flat foot, and narrow mouth with silver lip-rim. Dense porcelain of Kang-hsi, coated with a peachbloomglaze having a bolt! crackle. The glaze presents varied notes ofpink, with rosy fleckings, and in its transparency reveals threescrolling cloud medallions etched in the paste. Penciled in bril-liant blue beneath the white glaze under the foot, Ta-ChingKang-hsi nicn-chih (.Made in the reign of Kang-hsi of the greatChing dynasty—the dynasty overthrown in the late revolution).Has stand. Diameter. 5 inches. 751—Semi-gt.Obli,ar Peachbloom Jak (Kang-hsi) Writers water receptacle, on flat foot, with narrow mouth.Dense porcelain, with three scroll medallions etched in the pasteand barely distinguishable. The glaze presents a ground ofashes-of-roses hue, thickly bespread with deep pink and reddishspots or fleckings, which appear almost as though in swarms overit. White glazed foot with the six-character Kang-hsi mar

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