Identifier: liu-31289009872427 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the important collection of antique Chinese porcelains, Sung and Ming potteries, ancient stone sculptures, carved jades and other hard stones, snuff bottles, Mandarin necklaces, bronzes, enamels, palace furniture and wall panels and a number of rare and fine ancient Chinese paintings of the Sung and Ming periods (electronic resource) : all of which are to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the Chinese expert, Lee Van Ching of Shanghai on the afternoons herein stated
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Lee, Van Ching Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 Bernet, Otto American Art Galleries
Subjects: Art objects
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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serves as the water holder. In one he is in a vellowrobe, the peach glazed in green and egg-plant brown, and in theother his robe is mottled in the various colors and the peach is inyellow (the latter peach repaired). Length, 6i/3 writes. 294— Shallow Circular Dish (Chien-lung) Rich coral glaze with soft lustre penciled with lotus sprays ingold and enclosing five medallions reserved in white and paintedwith landscapes of sea and shore. Seal mark. Puimeter. 10 , inrhts. 295— Shallow (meruit Dish (Kaiig-hsi) Brilliant cream-white glaze with enameled decoration of figuresat the waterside, in colors of the famiUc-vertc. Iiinmeter, 8% incite*. J.Hi 1)i-i:i> Howl ( htiit(/-lmi) Inverted bell shape. Brilliant white glaze with a bird and plumand bamboo trees in underglaze blue and peach-brown, the blos-soms of one plum tree represented by pellets in relief, and thoseof the other incised in the paste and filled in with a pale celadonunderglaze. Diameter. T-\ inches. Secon (I A fternoo n
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297—Famille-rose Stati*kite (Chicn-hing) Figure of the Moon Queen enthroned, in a brilliant robe of paleyellow decorated in purple-rose, coral, green and blue. Heiijht, S::i inches. 298 HrnniusTK Stati-kttk (Ming) Male figure seated on the ground, the upper body nude and glazedIn gray-white, the scant clothing glazed in green and yellow.Headdress of conical studdings, retaining traces of gilding.(Feet and hands restored.) Ilriijht. 7 In rln .:, inrhn ami 10 inrhr*. Second After noon :(()()—Pair Statukttes (Muty) Standing figures of boys each carrying a jar cont

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