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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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-lait Vase (Ming) Cylindrical, with high, steeply sloping shoulder, and short, contracted neck with spreading lip. Ming pottery, covered wdth a cafe-au-lait glaze of unctuous surface and dull luster, finely crackled throughout and carried to the interior of the lip and underneath the foot. Has five-legged carved teakwood stand. Height, 1614 inches. -Large Celadon Fish-bowl (Ming) Ovoid with a short molded lip. Dense stoneware, with abold relief decoration in the paste, embodied in a deep bandof conventionalized peony scroll with large flowers, betweenscepter-head borders, while a petal border encircles the foot.Both outer and inner surfaces coated with a brilliant cela-don glaze, grayish in tone over the higher reliefs, and ofpure sea-green tint elsewhere, the green deepening and in-tensifying in the more pronounced excavations or whereflowing against the reliefs. Bold brown crackle throughout,and a further larger, wandering crackle. Has stand. Diameter, 16 inches; depth, 10l^ inches.
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No. 178MING STATUETTE OF KUAN-YIN IN THREE COLORS 178—Statuette of Kuax-yix in Three Colors (Ming) A work of rare beauty in sculpture and in color. Potteryof the jNIing period. The goddess of mercy is seated, withknees spread and feet folded under, concealed by the robeswhich support her clasped hands. The face is most care-full) modeled, with an expression benign and humanly gra-cious, and of great dignity. There is the slightest inclina-tion of the head, and the quiet, reposeful glance is bentindulgently downward. The ample robes open low beforethe breast, and the cowl mounts over a high headdress.The garments are in rich and brilliant glazes of the deepest,fullest lapis-lazuli blue, and turquoise-green. Face, handsand breast, and the tiara, are gilded, in a ripe, subduedtone. The goddess is posed on a base exhibiting the sameglowing glazes as those in which her robes are represented,turquoise-green and lapis, the base being modeled in an un-usual form. Instead of rockery or a lot

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