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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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n the exterior a scholar seated in a garden with an attendantat hand, in underglaze and ovcrglaze decoration of rich colorquality, within the rim a lattice border interrupted by butter-flies, and at the bottom of the interior a fungus branch. Diameter, 7% inches. 335— Pair Ovom Bowls On the exterior in brilliant underglaze and overglaze colors anelaborate decoration picturing waves, flying-fishes, shell-mon-sters, blossom scrolls and tlie eight trigrams of divination. Onthe interior a medallion with an inner wave border, enclosing theyang-yin symbol edged with flames. I ndcr foot: Ta Ming ChinChing nun chili. (Bim chipped.) Diameter, lyx inches. 336— Ovoid Fish Bowl (Kang-hsi) Decorated with a bold scroll in conventional lotus motive, in adeep and full-bodied peachbloom pink. Height, 7 inches. 337— Ovoin Fish Bowl ( Yung Cheng) Peachbloom decoration of imperial dragons amid the clouds andemerging from the sea, under a brilliant white glaze. Diameter, 10% inches. Second Afternoon
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33H—Pair Quadrilateral Flower Jars (Yung Clung) On four jit-i feet. Vamille-roxc decoration of sages and travel-ers, seated on rugs and mounted on asses and water huffnlos, andaccompanied by attendants. Ileiaht, 4% inches. 339— Small Porcelain Table ( Yung Clu ng) Oblong, tlie ends rounding down to solid feet and enclosing apanel pierced in scroll form. Pierced-scroll skirt which con-tinues down the leg. Brilliant white gla/e, the top painted witha landscape at the waterside, showing sailing boats, a fisher-man, a boy mounted on a buffalo and a figure within a house.From the Peking Palace during the Boxer uprising. Heiijht, 4 inches: lennlh. 13 inches. 340— Famille-vhrte Plaque (Ming) Ovoid and deep on low foot. The whole interior surface coveredwith the five color-decoration, at the center a large peony me-dallion and outside this successive borders. On the exterior,flower sprays and two borders. Diameter, 1314 inches, 341— Famii.i.k-vkrte Plaque (Ming) Ovoid with low foot. D

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