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Title: Rare and beautiful Oriental art treasures of supreme quality
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Yamanaka & Company
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ub-shape with flattenedshoulder and flange lip, glazed in a deepand very rich pure black of most bril-liant mirror surface. The soft and richtone of the gold remaining of its pristinedecoration gives added charm. The or-namentation is more distinctly traceablethan in most of the mirror-blacks andshows great luxuriance. In panels andleaf medallions on the neck appear themei, chrysanthemum and bamboo, and thefamous twelfth century sage Tai KungMang, fishing, always fishing, with unbenthook, not to make a catch but to medi-tate, and to keep clear of a troublesomewife—an indulgence which brought himto honors as a counselor to the emperor.On the body, in sections of diflering formdefined within delicate lotus scrolls, are to be found apair of deer, the sparrow on the bamboo, the squirrel a,ndthe grapes, butterflies, a carp, an earth dragon, and apainting of the famous mountain scenery on the Yangtse-kiang, which has inspired so many Chinese artists andpoets. Has stand. Height, 28 inches.
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85—Pair Blue axd White Bowls (K\n)g-hsi) Ovoidal bodies springing from a low foot and very slightlyflaring at the rim. Fine white porcelain, light, firm andsonorous, decorated on all surfaces in two shades of cobaltblue, and white reserve, with a conventionalized peony mo-tive, in blossom, scroll and plant. Mark, in underglazeblue within a blue double ring: Ta-Ching-Kang-lisi-nien-chih (Made in the reign of Kang-hsi of the great Chingdynasty—which disintegrated in the recent revolution).Have carved teakwood five-legged table-stands. Diameter, 6^4 inches. 86—Blue and White Small Rose Jar with Cover (Kang-hsi)Oviform, the cover cap-shaped. The jar has an all-overdecoration in brilliant blue on the white ground, composedof rambling stems of lotus flowers and many blossoms,amidst a formal foliar scroll in fine lines, which is inter-rupted on two sides by figures of boys, seated and clingingto the stems as though swinging—sometimes called TheTwins. The motive, without the figures,

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