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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52+—Statuette ( Yuan) Seated figure of the God of Earth in the attitude of meditation.He is in a robe of rich and brilliant mottled emerald-green withyellow lining, and face and breast are coated with a brilliantcream; glaze of bright metallic bistre. His crown is adornedwith gilded figures in relief on a red ground. Owned hv lateDowager Kmpress: from her domestic temple during Revolu-tion. (Repair at base.) Heiiiht, 21 inrhet. Third Afternoon
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524a—Pais Animal Statuettes (Sung) Fu-liiins standing on hollow oblong buses, wearing blankets andbells, and supporting on their barks taper holders of lotusform. (Hazed in green, turquoise, and dark yellow. Height, If inches. STONE SCULPTURES 5*25—Moktiakv Statuette (Tatty) Effigy of a recumbent lady of dignified, patrician features, on aleaf-shaped base, carved in stone and of a brownish sandy-graycolor. She is in loose robes, with knees spread, left hand restingon knee and concealed by sleeve, and right hand raised to theside of her face. Li mjth. t) ; inches. 526—Stone Sculpture (Ttnty) Figure of a stout boy, nude but adorned with symbolic orna-ments, reclining on a quadrilateral base, his head pillowed on alotus branch. His eyes are wide open and he looks upward,smiling. On the sides of the base are depressed quatrefoil panels,with relief carvings in conventional lotus motives. The wholepainted in yellow, red and black, the greater part of the colorhaving disintegrated. Ihi

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