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CLARKE’S COLLECTION AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH NEW YORK 4 s es ‘ f He 1, hea a, “ ‘ it ou "i . ‘} 4 . ; ; c ~— va * % ( t , ‘ . o. ’ "o_ ® i. ‘ ; r + ‘ 4 ; ’ “ts _ i ¥ wt ,* Ay * ¥ oi meh * ‘ ’ ain ENTURY POLONAISE RUG IXTEENTH C S ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK BEGINNING ON NEW YEAR’S DAY, 1916 AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE DATE OF PUBLIC SALE MR. THOMAS B. CLARKE’S REMARKABLE GATHERING OF RARE PLATES OF MANY NATIONS AND BEAUTIFUL OLD TEXTILES ake TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, JANUARY 57, 6TH, 7TH AND 8TH BEGINNING EACH AFTERNOON AT 2.30 O’CLOCK + = Q 9 O ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE MR. THOMAS B. CLARKE’S REMARKABLE GATHERING OF RARE PLATES OF MANY NATIONS AND BEAUTIFUL OLD TEXTILES TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. DANA H. CARROLL THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers 1916 = L J, ; a . ag) oN WS ia ‘ ° é Pe : ¥ 4 s ‘ to # : # 3s ee THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIA’ DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIREC ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION _ TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY - * 4 5 * . ' a = - ae ._ ~~ ~~ 4 ; ' Ms 7 a : ay, NORMAN T. A. MUNDER & CO. Baltimore =. /t MR. CLARKE’S OFFERING OF REMARKABLE COLOR N a high and picturesque country two strangers met in the darkness of night, travelers by a belated train, and had to seek the shelter of a moun- tain inn. One had passed that way before, and to his chance acquaintance he said with fervency: ‘‘I envy you your first sight of the morning!’’ It was a proper envy, a wish to experience again the thrill of a first glimpse of an expanse of remarkable beauty—and he, too, was up early for a renewal of his agreeable sensations. It were hardly too much for one to express a fraternal envy of first- viewers of the exhibition which this collection of Mr. Clarke’s will offer, the more so as it will have been assembled through the appreciative arrangement of one with discriminating judgment, which will enable its rare components to be seen and examined deservingly—evoking, without doubt, the wish to see again. The word extraordinary has sometimes been abused in connection with sales offered to the public, but extraordinary this collection is; and in its variety of productions difficult to obtain, and notably in its wonderful array of color, it is bound to make an impression not easily to be effaced, what- ever the catholic, definitive or discriminative taste of the spectator. Where, how, have all these scarce fabrics, fictile and textile, been found? Evidently Mr. Clarke has kept about his quiet quest characteristically, picking some- thing now here, now there—or all he could get of it at times—his singular prescience in the wide, inclusive range of art guiding him, as might be said, while some of us slept. It is a collection of plates and velvets—of wall pictures that are not canvas paintings or drawings; of remarkable fabrics of varied decorative utility. The plates—embracing plaques, dishes, saucers, bowls—are chiefly of the sixteenth century, extending also to the seventeenth and eighteenth ; the textiles begin a century earlier. All represent the Far and the Near East, and Southern Europe under the leadership of Renaissance Italy— until in velvets Ja belle France took her preeminence from her. There are Rhodian and Damascan plates, and plates of Bokhara, and other Turkish and Persian plates (also some tiles), and Hispano-Moresque plaques, and plates from the great ages of Chinese potters. These produc- tions, of the Nearer East, have never been plentiful, and the cult for them was later in reaching this country than it was in reaching England or France. London had an exhibition of this art in 1885, with a catalogue introduction written by Henry Wallis, whose two catalogues of the great F’. Du Cane God- man collection are well known, and in 1908 the Burlington Fine Arts Club arranged a second ‘‘Exhibition of the Faience of Persia and the Nearer East.”’ In the introduction to the catalogue of this latter exhibition, Charles Hercules Read referred to the fact that it was twenty-two years since an exhibition of Persian and Arab Art had been held by the club, as *‘a justi- fication for allowing the members and their friends an opportunity of renew- ing the pleasure and interest that was aroused by the collection of 1885.”° And he added: ‘Another reason is to be found in the fact that it is hardly possible for the amateurs in any other than og own country to bring together so superb a series of these Oriental wares. Yet America has accumulated these shown by Mr. Clarke at the Ameri- can Art Galleries. Even at the Metropolitan Museum, there are but few of the Eastern, or of the Italian plates. There are none of the Italian white faience plates at the museum; Mr. Clarke has found a number of them, as he has also of the Diruta and Urbino and other Italian plates. In Chaffers’s “‘Keramic Gallery,’’ (revised edition, by H. M. Cundall, I. 8. 0., F. 5. A., 1907 ; p. 45), it is recorded: that, ‘‘The bottega of Guido Durantino (at Urbino) was celebrated in the first half of the sixteenth century, for the Constable Montmorency, a great amateur, commanded a large service of maiolica in 1535, of which several pieces, bearing his arms, are still preserved. ”’ At least one of the plates in this collection is from the famous bottega patronized by the great Constable of France ; number 609 bears an under- glaze inscription reciting this origin. Of the Far Eastern—the Chinese—plates, it may perhaps be pointed out that their size makes them notable beyond plates of this provenience heretofore appearing even in this New York market of famous Chinese pro- ductions, while their color is characteristically fine. They include, too, some most unfamiliar and engaging ‘‘ butterfly plates,’’ whose ornamentation is both ‘‘bodiless’’—the paste excised, and translucent glaze flowed over the apertures—but penciled in color in direct relation to the excisions. Also, the Chinese plates are of porcelain, while the Nearer Eastern and Southern European plates are, of course, faience ; it follows, as those familiar with the softer potteries are aware, that the plates in the latter categories have not — withstood the siege of time with the intactness of the porcelaines—a fact in no way diminishing their rare facial beauty. If the Hispano-Moresque plaques are not dwelt upon, it 1s because they are perhaps less ‘‘strangers’’ to a public that has long acclaimed their lustre ; certainly some beautiful ones are here. And an eleventh hour line might be added, ‘‘for the ladies’’—of all political complexions—merely to say that there are also here laces, which only they may judge. DANA H. CARROLL New York, December, 1915 CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the purchasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and resold. Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of which the under- signed may either continue to hold the lots at the risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays—between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art Gal- leries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on presenting the bill of purchase. Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed by the Association for purchasers. ‘The Association will, however, afford to pur- chasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the purchaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of cata- loguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which it is sold ‘‘as is’’ and with- out recourse. ‘The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot correctly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper foundation. SPECIAL NOTICE Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faithfully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchase so made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, which cannot in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a purchaser who has not, through himself or his agent, been present at the exhibition or sale, will permit such lot to be returned within ten days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be returned, if the lot in any material manner differs from its cata- logue description. Orders for execution by the Association should be written and given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volume or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference submitted. Shipping directions should also be given. Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable charge. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION American Art Galleries Madison Square South New York City = q Z . sh ‘ ; ; 4 i % ) i 4% ri ; r ‘ \ F x y 734 a Yd i —*~ » ae of i ae : as j y: aed P ‘ ie ¥ i) . — Fm 7 A ie = ¥ ¥ ina 2 ya) ~~) s ¢ a tf 3 of 3 a a ve dive es oa a. ; . * . Ld f 3 q EK. pitts sae —- ~~ Ve i 4 oy. $5 a ‘ - , é. ny as - P haa! +? & — o yo 2 >a f f ' phen d pera of <, a 48 ie » e el = bd ’ a ad Se 7 ST APs. BA Ay : = ae: FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1916 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 1 to 186 Inclusive BEAUTIFUL OLD PLATES No. 1 RHODIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 5% inches Painted with a border of sprays and a rosette, in dark purple, light yel- low, copper and turquoise-green, on a creamy, crackled ground. No. 2 PERSIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Seventeenth Century) . Diameter, 61% inches Ovoidal with upright rim, the surface painted with conventional scrolls, a rosette and a formal border, in deep blue on a white ground. No. 3 PAIR RHODIAN MOSQUE PLATES (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 51% inches Painted in brilliant turquoise and canary yellow, copper and a dark plum color, with a border of sprays and a rosette, on a cream ground. No. 4 RHODIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 61% inches The small, deep bow] and narrow, flaring rim painted with conven- tional flower and leaf sprays in copper enamel, turquoise, light yellow, dark blue and a deep purple, on an ivory-white ground crackled in light brown. First Afternoon No. 5 ~ KUTAHIAN BOWL (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 7 inches E Small saucer-shaped bottom with deep, spreading rim. The saucer, reserved in white, is decorated with a small blossom medallion sur- rounded by leaf forms, and the rim is heavily painted with a conven- tional leaf and flower motive, all in a rich blue of sapphire quality. f N o. 6 KUTAHIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Sizteenth Century) Diameter, 7 inches Shallow bowl and deep, flaring rim. On the rim flowers and other conventional figures in blue, green, yellow, purple and a brownish- black, and in the bowl a star and blossoms in similar coloring, all on a white ground. NOs RHODIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 7 inches Decorated in copper-brown, bright green and yellow, and purplish tones, with floral sprays on the rim, and in the bowl with small flower forms surrounding a fish, all on a white ground. No. 8 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 714 inches Coated with a turquoise glaze which discloses a dark crackle, and dec- orated in black under the glaze. A medallion encloses a septagonal figure centered by a rosette, and around it is a deep border of tur- quoise reserves in a black ground, each painted with a depending fig in black, displaying a foliated reserve. No. 9 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 7% inches Painted in black with a conventional border and medallions, the inner one enclosing a formal figure of floral pattern, under a mottled tur- quoise glaze; the ground crackled. First Afternoon No. 10 RHODIAN MOSQUE PLATE herent Diameter, 714 inches Conventional floral decoration in the small bowl and on the flaring rim, in dark purplish-blue and turquoise-green, light yellow, plum- color and copper, on a creamy, crackled ground. No. 11 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 71% inches Decorated in black with a conventional border, outline medallions and a rosette, under a dark turquoise glaze. No. 12 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 7% inches Painted with petal and leaf forms and detached blossoms, in black on a clouded turquoise ground, in a medallion and a rim border. No. 18 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 7% inches Mottled turquoise glaze on all surfaces, with a dark crackle. The in- terior painted in black under the glaze with a conventional medallion, surrounded by a border of crude leaf forms and hatched petals. No. 14 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUES (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 7% inches Delicate white translucent porcelain, in large saucer form, invested with a luminous glaze of pure white. Marked with the six characters of the reign within a blue double ring. First Afternoon No. 15 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 734 inches Various flowers are painted in blue, green and brown, in an outline me- dallion in the bowl, and on the rim are formal blossoms in the same colors, all on a crackled ground of a brownish cream tone. No. 16 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 8 inches Blue and white. Conventional decoration of scrolls and blossom forms in border and medallion, in deep blue and reserve, the white ground being crackled in brown. No. 17 aa KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 8 inches Sundry blossoms and leaves make up the decoration, painted in blue, green, brown and yellow,on a creamy ground with brown crackle, and disposed about an outline medallion which also encloses a cluster of — them. No. 18 ITALIAN MAJOLICA PLATE (Eighteenth Century) Diameter, 8 inches Decorated with spirals radiating from a medallion, in orange and yel- low, and between them with strokes of turquoise-green, while the me- dallion encloses a blue disc and the edge is bordered in yellow. No. 19 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 8 inches A medallion in double outline of brown, in the bowl, encloses sprays in brown, brownish-yellow, blue and green, and from the perimeter of the medallion four diverging blue lines divide the remainder of bow] and rim into four compartments. In each compartment a branching spray is painted in the same colors. First Afternoon No. 20 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 814 inches Blue and white. On the rim a border of leaf forms in reserve with heavy blue outline, and in the bowl a rosette in blue on the white ground. No. 21 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 814 inches Resonant hard-paste coated with a brilliant glaze of powder-blue, of deep tone, the rim glazed in white. No. 22 CHINESE PO RCE LAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 814 inches Firm hard paste of clear tone, covered with a bleu fouetté glaze light in key and showing the lines of an early golden decoration of peony flow- ers and insects of the air. No. 23 DAMASCUS PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 81% inches In the ovoidal bow] tulips painted in aubergine, with leaves in tur- quoise-blue, spring up beside a blue palm sustaining a sprig of blos- soms in white reserve. On the rim flower forms are reserved in white, with aubergine centres, on a turquoise ground. The general ground is a pure white. No. 24 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 81% inches Blue and white. Blossoms of the wild plum tree, in white reserve, lie upon a ground of mottled cobalt, checked in dark lines in representa- tion of cracking ice, both on rim and bottom. First Afternoon No. 25 DAGHESTAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 834 inches Shallow ovoidal, with an upright rim. The upper surface is covered with a diaper of black spirals, and displays, in a large medallion, an ornamentation of leaves and flowers in white reserve, with a bird re- served in white amidst them, while encircling the medallion is a broad band or border in which foliate medallions and scrolls are reserved in white in the spiral ground. The back of the bowl is divided into sec- tions, each containing a foliated figure in black. No. 26 PERSIAN BOWL (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 834 inches Ovoidal on a low foot. White porcelain, the upper surface painted with a profuse leaf and blossom decoration in two shades of under- glaze blue on a white ground. The back of the bowl is glazed in a deep and brilliant blue of mirror properties, and within the foot is a white glaze, with a blue double ring enclosing a leaf. No. 27 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 834 inches 4 Large saucer-shape, coated with a monochrome glaze of brilliant pale turquoise, verging upon robin’s-egg blue, with a giant crackle. No. 28 PERSIAN PORCELAIN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 9% inches Decorated throughout in a light cobalt-blue, on white ground. With- in a minor border of small details the marly carries a delicately painted border of tulips and stems of small leaves, and in the cavetto a foliated medallion in outline encloses flower sprays which form a wreath about detached blossoms. First Afternoon No. 29 PERSIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Fourteenth Century) Diameter, 9% inches Basin-form; covered with a glaze of mottled turquoise, showing a coarse crackle in brown lines. No. 30 ITALIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 934 inches Heavy porcellanous stoneware; with shallow ovoidal bow! and spread- ing rim. Painted with a crown and sundry lanceolate, serrated and scrolling leaves, in blue and orange-yellow, on a pinkish flesh-color ground. No. 31 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 934 inches Unusual decoration of four sets of triangles, the apex of each triangle pointed toward the centre of the plate, and each set composed of alter- nating green and blue triangles, diminishing in size in “nest” fashion, on a white ground. No. 32 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 934 inches In the bow] a floral decoration in red, green and blue, and on the rim vermiculate ornamentation in black, with white reserves traced with serpentine lines. No. 33 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 934 inches Painted in black under a brilliant turquoise glaze, with looped and festooned borders, various medallion outlines, and a rosette at the centre. First Afternoon No. 34 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 10 inches Decoration a ewer with a flower spray at either side, in cobalt-blue, emerald-green, red, and white reserve; on the rim, blossoms and small sprays in similar coloring. No. 35 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 10 inches Decorated with various flowers in red, blue and pale green on a white ground; on the rim a chevron border enclosing half-flowers. No. 36 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 10 inches Old-fashioned “‘oyster plate’ form. The whole upper surface covered with an all-over decoration of conventional blossoms in yellow and brown with bluish centres, within irregular circular or oval reserves of white outlined with black, on a green ground which often overlaps the reserves. No. 37 SYRIAN BOWL (Eighteenth Century) Diameter, 10 inches A macerated greenish-yellow ground is splashed eccentrically with red-brown. On the inner side of the bowl the splashes are bold and generally vertical, in the bottom they swirl more or less, and on the back they take the form of crude foliations. No. 38 ITALIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 10 inches Flat with a very slight ridge at the rim. Decorated with a large me- dallion in which four birds are shown pecking at growing fruits, paint- ed in orange and a lighter yellow, with blue, on a cream ground finely crackled. Wreath border in the same colors. First Afternoon No. 39 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Coated with a turquoise glaze with a bold crackle, and decorated in underglaze painting in black with an erratic border of foliate sugges- tion and a medallion of blossoms and gracefully waving stems. No. 40 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches Decoration a crested bird, in the attitude of hopping, among flower clusters, all executed in blue, green, yellow and red on a pale greenish- white ground; rim border of leaves and blossoms. No. 41 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches A scrolling palm in turquoise-green and cobalt-blue is found among blue tulips, and other blooms in a brownish brick-red; on the rim is a leaf scroll in the same colors. No. 42 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Checker-board cavetto, defined in black, in green, blue, white reserve, and red enamel dots; rim bordered with chevrons and half-flowers in the same coloring. No. 43 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 10% inches Flowers in brown, green and blue, grouped as a rosette, occupy the bowl, beneath a blue border of serrated leaves; rim border of vesica shapes and half-flowers. First Afternoon No. 44 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches Within a festooned medallion a radiate design centring on a rosette, and on the rim detached flowers and leaf clusters, the colors blue, green, black and brown. No. 45 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 101% inches Blue and white. Brilliant powder-blue glaze over the entire upper surface, interrupted only by the seated figure of Pou-tai, in white re- serve, his maudlin features and revealing robes penciled in light co- balt. No. 46 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Roses in red enamel, tulips and hyacinths in blue and green under- glaze, are disposed so as to fill the bowl, and the rim carries a formal decoration in blue and black. No. 47 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches A garland of small blue flowers with green leaves, outlined in black, surrounds a brown enameled rose touched with blue, growing on a stem of green leaves. On the rim, chevrons and half-blossoms in green, blue, black, and white reserve. No. 48 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches In the bowl a medallion of conventional scrolls in copper enamel is re- lieved by touches of underglaze green and blue, and surrounded by a wreath of slender leaves in light and dark olive. On the rim, scrolls and spirals in green. First Afternoon No. 49 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Decoration, alternating bands of blossoms in white reserve, outlined in black on a turquoise-green ground, and of conventional blossoms or sprigs of berries in copper and black on a white ground. On the rim blue blossoms and green sprays. No. 50 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Sprays of blossoms expand about a conventional cartouche in the bowl, and on the rim leaf sprays alternate with other conventional or- naments, the decoration throughout accomplished in manganese and pale green, with black outline and a russet enamel. No. 51 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches In the centre a horse in cobalt-blue, with saddle and saddle cloth in white reserve, green and red; about him flower sprays. On the rim a chevron border with half-flowers, in blue, green and black with white reserve. No. 52 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 1024 inches Thin porcelain, glazed in a mottled powder-blue of brilliant surface. Marked under the foot with a conventional flower within a blue double ring. (Edge slightly nicked.) No. 53 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1034 inches Foliate medallions in blue with white reserve, and small pointed leaf forms in green, surround a blue and green rosette, all touched with an arenaceous enamel in light relief, which also forms festoons between the medallions. On rim a serpentine border. First Afternoon No. 54 ITALIAN FAIENCE DISH (Stateenth Century) Diameter, 1034 inches In the form of a plate with fluted bottom, and upturned, scalloped rim, on a low circular foot. Covered with a brilliant glaze of rich cream white. No. 55 PERSIAN MOSQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1024 inches On the rim a border of incomplete leaf forms, and in the bowl a large medallion of pointed leaves about a rosette, all painted in black be- neath a mottled turquoise glaze. No. 56 ) ITALIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1024 inches In the bottom a medallion within a sunburst and painted with human features is executed in light yellow and orange-brown on a white ground enclosed by blue clouds. The rim has a blue ground, traversed by scrolling foliations in green, yellow and brown. No. 57 ITALIAN MAJOLICA PLATE (Exghteenth Century) Diameter, 1034 inches Decorated in orange and a slaty gray, on a yellowish-cream ground, with foliar scrolls and six-petaled blossoms, in a medallion and in four compartments surrounding it. No. 58 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Blue and white, with brown crackle. Bordered with fan-shaped pat- terns in blue, separated by white reserve and enclosing sprays in blue on interior reserves. At the centre a six pointed star in blue with blossoms in reserve. First Afternoon No. 59 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Saucer-shape, with a bold floral decoration in brilliant blue, light green, brown, and pale yellow, on a crackled ground of ivory tones within a large medallion. No. 60 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1114 inches Blue tulips and red roses, with green leafage, spread over the white ground of the bowl, below a conventional rim border of leaf forms in white reserve, outlined in black, on a ground of pale sky blue. No. 61 TWO DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Dimensions, 7% inches by 734 inches Lozenge shape, with decoration of foliations in deep blue ona white ground. No. 62 RHODIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) Height, 5 inches; length, 9 inches Rosettes, blossoms and long serrated leaves in white reserve on a deep azure ground, the reserves ornamented in turquoise and dark blue, with details in enamel of tomato-red in light relief. No. 63 RHODIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) 91% inches square Decorated in rich sapphire, turquoise, white reserve and copper enam- el, with foliar scrolls, and a bouquet of flowers enwreathed, on a crackled white ground. First Afternoon No. 64 RHODIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) 91% inches square A long palm in pale turquoise crosses the square diagonally, amid scrolling flowers painted in blue and green with white reserve and cop- per enamel on a white ground. i No. 65 PERSIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) Dimensions, 1134 inches by 12 inches Glazed in a green of varying tone, with a brown crackle. No. 66 DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Outside measurements: Height, 15 inches; length, 191% inches Two tiles and two fragments in a single frame. Painted in deep blue, turquoise and manganese, on a white ground, in an angular mosaic pattern. No. 67 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches A sprig of small blue flowers and one of similar blossoms alternately blue and dull vermilion are seen among tulips and roses in blue, green and the vermilion enamel; on the rim a conventional border of black spirals. No. 68 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11% inches Two large palms in deep emerald and turquoise-green, flanked by fuchsia-like flowers in blue, enfold a green and blue cartouche touched with copper enamel. Rim bordered with leaves in white reserve, out- lined in black on a sky-blue and emerald ground. First Afternoon No. 69 PAIR CHINESE PLAQUES (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 1134 inches Dense porcellanous stoneware, coated on both inner and outer sur- faces with a monochrome glaze of turquoise-green minutely crackled. Rim glazed in brown. No. 70 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Four large tulips in blue and two small ones in copper enamel, with four large enameled roses are disposed about a tall green pineapple pat- tern, filling the bow]; rim of scrolls and spirals in blue, black and green. No. 71 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches A palm in blue, with white reserve, appears among tulips and roses in reddish-brown enamel; on the rim, vermiculate scrolls in black, with white reserves. Traces of gold remain in the decoration of both rim and bowl. No. 72 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches A curling palm in blue and green winds between swaying poppies, tulips and roses, in brown enamel, green and blue. Rim border of for- mal scrolls and spirals in black with white reserve. No. 73. RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Delicate flower stems supporting leaves and blossoms carry an ex- panding floral decoration in deep blue, turquoise-green and dull red across and about the white ground of the bowl, and the rim has the familiar spirals in black with white reserve. First Afternoon No. 74 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Tulips in cobalt-blue, a palm in cobalt and emerald, and large roses in aubergine-brown, with various dark green leaves and small detached blossoms, are spread upon a monochrome ground of pistache-green. The same ground extends to the rim, which has a border of detached flowers. f No. 75 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Decorated in cobalt-blue, dark red and two shades of green with tulips, a rose and other flowers; on the rim detached blossoms in blue alternating with green leaf sprays. No. 76 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Conventional decoration of flower and fruit designs in deep blue, lilac- gray and black on the rim vermiculate ornaments on a black pou with white reserves touched with blue. No. 77 DAMASCUS PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Conventional decoration of tulip and other flower forms, painted in a pale apple-green, slate-gray and seal-brown on a ground of dull yel- lowish white; border of white reserves, touched with green and brown, on a slate ground. No. 78 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Tao Kuang) Diameter, 12 inches Ovoidal bow] shape, glazed in a deep yellow of variable tone and bril- liant surface, revealing in shifting lights an incipient metallic irides- cence. First Afternoon No. 79 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches A foliated medallion in vermilion, blue, and white reserve, outlined in a vivid green, is embraced within sprays of hyacinths in brilliant blue on green stems. The rim is bordered with vermiculate scrolls and white reserves, with blue reenforcements and touches of the bright green. No. 80 RHODIAN PLATE (Szateenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Tulips and roses, in brilliant blue and dull brick red, their leafage a pale green, decorate the bowl, and on the rim red tulips appear in pairs, alternating with formal red blossoms, in compartments sepa- rated by double lines. No. 81 PERSIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Both surfaces thickly speckled in black with a soufflé decoration, beneath a monochrome glaze of brilliant turquoise having a giant crackle. No. 82 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches Invested throughout with a brilliant turquoise glaze, heavily crackled, over a speckled decoration of soufflé effect in black. No. 83 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1214 inches Tulips and roses on gracefully bending stems nod at each other in a swaying group covering the whole shallow bowl, executed in black and green, with brown enamel in relief, on a white ground. On the rim, spirals in black, and white reserves. First Afternoon No. 84 7 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Decorated in a pale red, turquoise-green and a grayish black with growing flowers and a palm; on the rim, spirals on a black ground, and white reserves marked by serpentine lines in black and green. \ No. 85 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches Tulips and roses on swaying stems spread themselves over the white ground, the stems and leaves in blue and green, the flowers in blue and in brown enamel. Border of black spirals and white reserves. No. 86 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Basin-shape with erect rim. Glazed in a rich, deep olive-green of lus- trous surface, with a giant crackle in black lines. No. 87 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Painted in black with floral motives and bold scrolls, in the bowl, and on the rim with a scrolling border of similar inspiration, under a glaze of mottled turquoise crackled in brown. No. 88 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 13 inches Blue and white. Ovoidal basin form, the superior surface decorated in a rich blue of cobalt quality with conventional lotus pattern of unusual design, depicting leaves, stems and foliations, and blossoms which disclose the seedpod. On the under side are Buddhistic em- blems. First Afternoon No. 89 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1314 inches Foliated figures interlaced, and small blossoms, supply the linear decoration of the whole plate, in a large medallion and wide border, the entire surface being then stippled in green, red, blue and a gray- ish-yellow. : No. 90 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Shallow ovoidal form. Glazed in a brilliant apple-green in mottled effect, which deepens almost to emerald where the glaze thickens. Crackled throughout in brown lines. No. 91 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 15 inches White. Ovoidal dish form on a low foot; coated with a monochrome glaze of luminous creamy white. No. 92 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Srxteenth Century) Diameter, 16 inches Depressed ornamentation of petal forms surrounding an embossed medallion; the rim convex and with a border of bosses. The whole glazed in a soft, luminous white of creamy aspect. No. 93 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 14 inches Blue and white, with brown crackle, the bowl decorated with four sets of blue scrolling leaves in a medallion, and on the rim a border of compartments in reserve, with varied ornament in blue. First Afternoon No. 94 PERSIAN BOWL (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1514 inches White porcelain, with a decoration in coral, green and turquoise showing Chinese influences. Flame scrolls and dragons appear around the sides, and birds and flower sprays in a large medallion in the bottom. No. 95 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15% inches Shallow ovoidal cavetto with broad flaring marly. Coated through- out with a monochrome glaze of soft gray-white, of unctuous qual- ity, with a fine crackle in delicate lines. No. 96 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 18% inches Modeled with exaggerated thumb-prints or petal-like depressions, in both rim and bowl, the bow! having a raised centre and the rim a wavy edge. Coated with a creamy white glaze, softly luminous. No. 97 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 18% inches Conventional decoration molded in the paste about a medallion centre; the rim molded with a chain border, the links enclosing oval bosses. Crackled glaze of creamy white. No. 98 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 181% inches Brilliant cream-white glaze over a conventional decoration molded in relief and depressed. First Afternoon No. 99 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1 814 inches Crackled glaze of gray-white, over a molded decoration in relief and depressed, in conventional patterns. No. 100 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1834 inches Decoration of conventional forms molded in the paste, the whole covered with a cream-white glaze broadly crackled. BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE TEXTILES No. 101 ESCUTCHEON Height, 31% inches The Spanish Royal coat of arms, finely worked and embroidered in gold and silver, red velvet, and blue and red silks. No. 102 RUSSIAN-GREEK RELIC (Sixteenth Century) Height, 634 inches; width, 5V4 inches A medallion with scroll border, embroidered in gold and silver and silk with the full-length figure of a seated man in ecclesiastical robes, wearing a crown, his head encircled by a nimbus. No. 103 VELVET POCKET (Seventeenth Century) Depth, 4 inches; width, 5 inches Velvet of garnet hue, embroidered on either side with a sunburst and a scroll border, in silver gilt, the sun on one face enclosing a cross and the letters “I H S,” and on the other side the letters “M RA.” It is in inverted crown shape. First Afternoon No. 104 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 6 inches; width, 5 inches Cloth of gold and of silver, the shield showing two gold lions under two gold stars and a silver crescent, on a ground of silver blue; bishop’s hat and tassels in, green silk and gold. No. 105 ECCLESIASTICAL ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 6 inches; width, 5 inches On a ground of drap d’argent, “I H S” under a cross, in gold; the shield draped with the cord and tassels depending from a bishop’s hat, all in gold. No. 106 ESCUTCHEON Height, 61% inches; width, 514 inches Red cloth with a Maltese cross and other embroideries in linen thread. No. 107 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 61% inches; width, 6 inches In cloth of silver and of gold, and red silks; the shield, under a cardi- nal’s hat, bearing three conventional fleurs-de-lys and other heraldic formalities. No. 108 THREE ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 634 inches; width, 54% inches In gold, the shield crossed by a band of silver bearing the initials “D.C.” in black silk, with another ‘‘C.” in black silk below, on a ground of peach-red silk and of gold. First Afternoon No. 109 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Seventeenth Century) Height, 91% inches; width, 7 inches Quartered shields, highly quilted, the charges including an eagle, three swords and other designs; surrounded by scrolling leaves and crested with a coronet; the whole in gold and silver and silver cloth, and in black, pink and green silk. No. 110 DECORATIVE PENDANT (Seventeenth Century) Length, 61% inches; width, 434 inches Woven in silver and gold, and rose and golden-yellow silk, in a figure formed of scrolling foliations, with interspaces further decorated with a lacing of small coral beads. No. 111 THREE ITALIAN ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 7 inches; width, 54% inches All alike, each with two shields posed side by side, one quartered, the other otherwise marked, the whole under a coronet and executed in gold and silver thread and copper-colored and brilliant blue silk. No. 112 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 7 inches; width, 6 inches Shield with fleurs-de-lys embroidered in gold on a cloth of gold ground, entouré with the cords and tassels depending from a bishop’s hat, in light emerald and gold. No. 113 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 714 inches; width, 6 inches Shield under a visored helmet and displaying a dove with an olive branch in its beak, all in yellow, white, blue, green and red silk, and yellow cordonnet. First Afternoon No. 126 CANDLE MAT (Eighteenth Century) 131% inches square Velvet of deep green hue with a rich yellowish-green lustre; edged with gilt braid. No. 127 ITALIAN VELVET SMALL MAT (Seventeenth Century) Length, 19 inches; width, 12 inches In deep red with a delicate purplish cast and a light, lustrous sheen; decorated with a linked ogival pattern lightly embossed, with en- closures of baskets of flowers. No. 128 CANDLE MAT (Highteenth Century) Length, 19 inches; width, 161% inches Velvet of deep green hue with a lustre of yellowish green; edged with gilt braid. No. 129 VENETIAN VELVET TABLE MAT » (Sixteenth Century) Length, 19 inches; width, 171% inches Wine-color velvet adorned with silver gilt embroidery in foliar scroll and other conventional patterns, including the Eastern tulip form and wheat ears and the interlaced triangles. No. 130 VENETIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding, differing only in the medallion at the centre, which shows an heraldic lion. No. 131 Fd ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) 18 inches square Dark green, with a slightly raised foliate scroll in the same color. First Afternoon No. 132 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) 19 inches square Green, with a slightly raised decoration of leaf and scroll pattern. No. 133 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) 19 inches square Dark green, with a lightly embossed scrolling grill of foliate design. Silver lace border. No. 134 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 20 inches; width, 161% inches Closely massed, luxuriant foliations, in dark olive shifting to light fawn, on a light green ground. No. 135 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT — (Stateenth Century) Length, 20% inches; width, 171% inches Rich garnet, with the sheen taking a purplish tinge; ogival decora- tion delicately drawn. No. 136 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 16 inches; width, 24 inches In rich deep red with ruby sheen, bordered with gold galloon. No. 137 ITALIAN VELVET FRAGMENT (Seventeenth Century) Length, 23 inches; width, 18 inches Bold foliations in broad line; green throughout. First Afternoon No. 138 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 22 inches; width, 20 inches In ruby tones, with soft sheen, the decoration a conventional scroll of leaf, stem and blossom patterns. Border of bright golden-yellow silk brocade. \ No. 139 VENETIAN FRAGMENT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 22 inches; width, 15 inches Aquatic plants embossed in silk velvet of cinnamon-garnet hue, with sheen changing to purpling rose, on pale green satin, the details of the ornament revealing Oriental influence. No. 140 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Siateenth Century) Length, 29 inches; width, 19 inches Against the light a deep forest-green; with the light falling in the direction of the nap a rich peridot green of soft brilliancy. Edged with varicolored cordonnet. No. 141 ANTIQUE CHINESE EMBROIDERED MAT Length, 25 inches; width, 14 inches Red silk ground that has ripened to golden hue in-its sheen, covered with a display of ivy and lanceolate leaves and sundry blossoms, embroidered in dark and light green, golden yellow, apricot, white and blue, springing and depending from scrolled and interlacing branches. | No. 142 SPANISH BROCADE TABLE MAT (Seventeenth Century) Length, 25 inches; width, 21 inches Bouquets of garden flowers of several varieties in varicolored silks on an olive ground, with rehaussements of palms and smaller leaf sprays in silver. Festooned border of galloon. First Afternoon No. 143 FRENCH VELVET TABLE MAT (Eighteenth Century) Length, 18 inches; width, 35 inches Fine velvet of a beautiful emerald hue and remarkably brilliant lus- tre. Edged with silver galloon. No. 144 VENETIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 25 inches; width, 221% inches Deep red, with a lighter, wine-hued sheen; peony decoration, with the addition of the Persian tulip form and other near Eastern mo- tives. Galloon border. No. 145 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 26 inches; width, 19 inches Leaves and scrolling foliations, in green on a green ground. No. 146 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE MAT (Seventeenth Century) Length, 2834 inches; width, 211% inches All-over conventional pattern of spiral scrolls and foliations, green on green ground. No. 147 VELVET WALL POCKET (Seventeenth Century) Length, 291% inches; width, 9 inches Garnet velvet, embossed in conventional pattern, and bordered with gold lacework; in four compartments. First Afternoon No. 148 ITALIAN VELVET BAG (Seventeenth Century) Depth, 12 inches; width, 91% inches Brilliant light emerald velvet, embroidered in silver; on one side with an heraldic eagle with wings displayed, within a large wreath and with the letters ‘‘LS” beside the neck, and on the other side with a cherub flying among sprays and scrolls which enclose the letters “I S,”’ the whole within another large wreath. No. 149 SPANISH ESCUTCHEON (Sixteenth Century) Height, 14 inches; width, 12 inches Shield with quarterings including a lamb under a tree and a Maltese cross, in red and green velvet and cloth of gold and cloth of silver. No. 150 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 12 inches; width, 8 inches Under a tasseled bishop’s hat in green, a shield with two lions ram- pant, facing one another, in yellow on red, enclosed in yellow. No. 151 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS _ (Seventeenth Century) Height, 11 inches; width, 934 inches The crossed keys of St. Peter in the midst of ornate scrolls, on a broad shield; the whole in blue and white silk and silver-gilt embroidery. No. 152 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Seventeenth Century) Companions to the preceding. No. 153 ESCUTCHEON Height, 211% inches; width, 15 inches Under a battlemented wall with three towers, the whole in relief, a shield of blue velvet bearing a lion in high relief holding up a sword, executed, as is the wall, in metal threads. First Afternoon No. 154 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 25 inches; width, 19 inches Shield of green and red velvet, showing a lion, and a human head sprinkling a plant, and surrounded by cornucopias and scrolling leaves in rococo effect, all in gold and silver with colored silks; sur- mounted by a crown. No. 155 VELVET TABLE MAT Length, 35 inches; width, 20 inches Crimson velvet with a soft purplish sheen, bordered with galloon in a continuous flower spray pattern. No. 156 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet Green and apricot velvet ornamentation on a light tan ground, the patterns an ellipsoidal medallion of formal structure and a border of blossoms, leaves and serpentine scrolls. No. 157 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 158 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Elaborate floral ornamentation with a certain elegance of design, in rich color. The ground is a light tan, with minute metal threads running through it, and fine threads of white floss silk which cause it to sparkle with a silvery light. On this are embossed bouquets and small blossom sprays, and a lanceolate floral medallion, within a rare border of sinuous course formed of reversing crescents, each of which is faced by a sprig of flowers, in velvet of ruby and emerald tones and soft, subdued sheen. First Afternoon No. 159 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 160 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Srateenth Century) Length, 40 inches; breadth, 19 inches Green; ornamented with an intricate leaf scroll, slightly raised. Edged with silver fringe. No. 161 VELVET TABLE MAT (Eighteenth Century) Length, 40 inches; width, 20 inches Rich red velvet with a deep purplish-pink sheen bordered with bright gilt braid. No. 162 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 44 inches; width, 19 inches Rich dark olive, cut in a trellis design of sinuous lines, enclosing double-pointed medallions (or apertures), each further ornamented with a basket of flowers delicately cut; the whole in solid color. Sil- ver lace border. No. 163 : ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 48 inches; width, 23 inches Conventional design of vases and flowers, slightly raised, the whole in dark green. No. 164 VELVET TABLE COVER Length, 40 inches; width, 38% inches Cardinal-red velvet bordered with brilliant galloon. First Afternoon No. 165 VELVET TABLE COVER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 41 inches; width, 40 inches Dark cardinal, with a soft sheen, trimmed and bordered with pas- sementerie. No. 166 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE COVER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 47 inches; breadth, 39 inches Dark green, with a scrolling vine design in slight relief. No. 167 ITALIAN VELVET TABLE COVER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches Brilliant chrysoberyl green with a shining lustre of gold. Galloon border. No. 168 ORNAMENTAL CATHEDRAL CROWN Of heavy silver braiding and embroideries, brilliantly studded in the hues of the sapphire, emerald, ruby, topaz and quartz crystal, and having at the centre of the front a female bust in white porcelain. No. 169 ITALIAN VELVET CHASUBLE (Seventeenth Century) Deep emerald velvet with soft sheen, trimmed with silver braid. No. 170 SPANISH CHASUBLE (Seventeenth Century) Heavily embroidered with foliar scrolls in white floss silk and cream cordonnet, on a yellow silk ground. First Afternoon No. 171 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Embossed ornamentation of green and red velvet on a corn-color ground; in the field a formal elongated medallion and floral corners, and in the border flower sprays and scrolls. No. 172 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the foregoing. No. 173 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Embossed ornamentation of green and red velvet on a corn-color ground; in the field a formal elongated medallion and floral corners, and in the border flower sprays and scrolls. | No. 174. SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the foregoing. No. 175 ; SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Embossed ornamentation of green and red velvet on a corn-color ground; in the field a formal elongated medallion and floral corners, and in the border flower sprays and S-scrolls. No. 176 SCUTARI RUG (Sirteenth Century) Companion to the foregoing. First Afternoon ING 17 ¢ ITALIAN FESTOONED VALANCE (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 5 inches; depth, 10 inches Ruby-red velvet, with broad and narrow bands of galloon following its wavy contour, and a fringe in accord. No. 178 RENAISSANCE VELVET HANGING Height, 3 feet 10 inches; length, 5 feet 10 inches Green, with elaborate decoration of foliations, flowers, palms, Per- sian cone forms and other conventional figures. Galloon border. No. 179 ITALIAN VELVET HANGING (Sixteenth Century) Height, 4 feet; length, 6 feet 8 inches Green, with galloon border; the decoration an ogival lattice pattern, with enclosures of baskets of flowers. No. 180 PORTUGUESE VELVET BORDER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 8 feet; depth, 12 inches Garnet-brown, decorated with stars and a repetition of eccentric C-scrolls of foliate construction, which were originally cloth-of-gold. Bottom festooned and hung with fringe. No. 181 RENAISSANCE DAMASK BORDER Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 11 inches Purplish-red ground, of brownish trend, threaded by ogival scrolls and exhibiting other conventional Eastern designs in yellow height- ened by metal applications. Edged with galloon. First Afternoon No. 182 PAIR RENAISSANCE VELVET PORTIERES Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet (each) Originally emerald, the fabric has taken on for the most part a tone of soft olive, exhibiting also tan and tawny notes, and time stains of olive- seal- and golden-brown. Too much weathered for curtain display; yet in the ensemble is a distinct and inescapable charm of color “‘quality,’’ and the amplitude of the pieces offers opportunities for the use or distribution of numerous “specimens” of the velvet from them. The pattern is one of elaborate foliations and con- ventional figures and the surface is lustrous throughout. Galloon border. No. 183 ANTIQUE COVERLET Length; 7 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches Damask of delicate wine color figured with varied leaf and blossom sprays in light golden yellow, green and pale blue. No. 184 PAIRITALIAN BROCATELLE CURTAINS (Seventeenth Century) Length, 9 feet; width, 4 feet 3 inches (each) Green, figured in bold, expansive floral patterns, and edged with deep yellow galloon. No. 185 ITALIAN BROCATELLE WALL HANGING (Seventeenth Century) Length, 10 feet; width, 9 feet Brilliant Nile-green ground, ornamented with extensive foliations in a light-brownish harvest-yellow. No. 186 CHINESE TEMPLE HANGING Length, 12 feet; depth, 6 feet Silk, with a ground of the deepest of bluish-black, strewn with in- numerable cloud forms in white, among which white storks are flying, bearing in their bills pomegranates, flower sprays and fungus branches—couriers of the immortals bearing symbolical and felici- tous gifts. Both the birds and their burdens are touched with green, yellow, light brown and flame-red. The bottom is festooned in in- verted ju-i sceptre-head pattern. SECOND AFTERNOON’S SALE THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 187 to 371 Inclusive BEAUTIFUL OLD PLATES No. 187 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 71% inches Decorated with a reticulate border lightly penciled in black and dotted with reddish-brown, enclosing a medallion centred with blossoms about a greenish-blue disc, the whole on an ivory ground running to a pale café-au-lait hue and boldly crackled. No. 188 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 734 inches The rim is bordered with overlapping blossoms in an imbricated effect, in black and a dull red on cream and pale blue ground. In the bowl a medallion outlined on a boldly crackled café-au-lait ground is painted in blue, green, brown and black with a variety of leaves and blossoms. No. 189 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Siarteenth Century) Diameter, 8 inches A rim border of conventional leaf forms in brown, chamois and dark moss-green, imposed on white reserves within a ground of cobalt- blue, extends well into the bowl, where the blue ground embraces a medallion outlined in brown and painted with flowers in low tones on a crackled café-au-lait ground. Second Afternoon | No. 190 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 8 inches Daisies painted in a rich, glowing blue and turquoise-green share the bowl with flowering trees, which display the additional colors of pale chamois, chocolate-brown and a deep brownish-black. On the rim, flowers with stems extended into scrolling fillets, in the several colors. No. 191 URBINO PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 9 inches With fluted surface and upturned rim lightly festooned, on a circu- lar and spreading foot. On a mounded centre is a medallion of eccen- tric brush strokes in a grayish-blue on a cream ground, surrounded by a scroll border in the same blue and a rich green and accented in copper lustre, on cream ground. No. 192 | KUTAHIAN TILE (Siateenth Century) 8 inches square On a rich and brilliant cream ground four cherubim are painted in the corners, in yellow, aubergine, green and blue, with cream reserve. The centre of the tile is occupied by a cartouche in the same colors, its ground penciled with a green trellis touched with blue, with shell patterns appearing above and below. No. 193 RHODIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) Height, 934 inches; width, 71% inches On a white enameled ground, branches of five-petaled flowers in two shades of blue, with centres in white reserve heightened with red enamel, and a grapevine and grapes in manganese, a rich green and touches of red enamel. No. 194 RHODIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) Height, 6 inches; length, 81% inches Decorated with a polyfoil arch and scrolls in white reserve on a deep lapis-blue ground, the reserves enlivened with tulips and small blossoms in vermilion enamel in light relief. Second Afternoon No. 195 RHODIAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) 934 inches square On a pure white ground a branch of five-petaled blossoms in two shades of blue, and large palms, one painted in delicate turquoise- blue and two in tomato-red enamel in sensible relief. The palms are in turn ornamented with tulips and carnations, in blue, deep green, and white reserve. No. 196 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 9 inches Blue and white; in the so-called hawthorn pattern. Sprigs of the mew adorn the rim, in white reserve on a solid cobalt ground, and the bottom is occupied by a medallion of the solid color, ornamented with a branch of the mei displaying blossoms and buds, all reserved in white. No. 197 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 1034 inches Blue and white. Delicate, resonant, translucent white porcelain, decorated on both rim and bottom with branches of the winter- blooming wild prunus tree on a clouded cobalt ground, their out- lines intensified in deeper color, and displays of the buds and blossoms in white reserve. On the back of the rim are bare branches of the same tree, and under the foot a seal mark in blue appears within a blue double ring. 2 No. 198 CHINESE PLAQUE (Ming) Diameter, 1034 inches Early sixteenth century porcellanous stoneware of grayish body, fashioned in shallow ovoidal plate form, the upper surface and the under side of the rim covered with an unctuous glaze of varying tur- quoise-green, marked by girdles of a deep bluish cast and the whole boldly crackled. Second Afternoon No. 199 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE — (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 11 inches Bowl shape, the interior with an imperial dragon in sapphire blue on a restless coral sea, the waves lightly etched in fine lines and defined in white reserve. The exterior in similar motive and color. Six-character mark of Hsuan Te (apochryphal). (Slight repair at i - rim). No. 200 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (Ch’ren-lung) Diameter, 1114 inches Fine, delicate, resonant white porcelain; the interior decorated solely with a peach of longevity, with stem and leaves, in green, yellow and warm peach-red on a pure white ground, and the exterior with three smaller peaches on their branches, each bearing a Shou mark in gold. K’ang-hsi mark (apochryphal). No. 201 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE ( Yung Cheng) Diameter, 11% inches Picturing a sage and attendants on a mountain side, in enamel colors and coral, with a coral bat flying overhead, the colors in the robes and landscape being blue, pink, yellow, white, aubergine and light pistache on a white ground. Rim border of lattice and sprays in similar coloring. No. 202 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches The bowl occupied by a quadrangular lattice crossed by diagonal lines, all lines being in black, and the open spaces showing shadings of green, yellow and blue, about small brown discs ona gray-white ground. Border of leaf forms and spirals in similar coloring. Second Afternoon No. 203 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches Conventional floral and leaf forms reserved in white on a soft meadow- green ground, and outlined in black, enclose similar motives in blue, with accents of reddish-brown enamel in slight relief. No. 204 ITALIAN FAIENCE DISH (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches In ovoidal bowl shape with flaring rim, on a low foot; the body pierced throughout except for a disc in the centre, with irregular apertures, circular or elongated. The disc is painted in blue, yellow and brown with the figure of an amorino, on a white ground glaze which shows a slight iridescence. No. 205 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1014 inches Shallow, with flat bottom; narrow rim. On the bottom an eight- pointed star in malachite-green and cerulean, on a gray-white crac- kled ground, with trefoil projections outlined in black with blue enclosures. Borders in vertical line, blue, green and black, on the white ground. : No. 206 RHODIAN PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Moderately deep bowl and flaring rim. Decoration, expanding sprays of leaves and flowers in two series, one painted a dark bluish-gray, the other enameled in a coppery orange and touched with green, the two enfolding a spray of the combined forms and all the colors. Ground a soft creamy white. On the rim vermiculate spirals and white reserves touched with green. Second Afternoon No. 207 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Painted in polychrome with a human figure seen nearly at half length, facing the left, three-quarters front, clad in a mantle adorned with imbrications and wearing a bonnet or headdress of rakish effect, amid surroundings of varied blossoms; border of imbrications. No. 208 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Decorated with shrubbery, fruits and scrolling leaves in two shades of blue, with details in tea-dust green, in a deep border, and with a rosette in blue within a medallion reserved in the crackled white ground in the bowl. No. 209 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Blue and white. Long spear-heads radiate in star shape from a reserved medallion enclosing a blue rosette. Detached sprays of blossoms between the spears form a border at the rim. Brown crackle. No. 210 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1114 inches Serpentine leaves and swaying sprigs of berries radiate from a dahlia-like rosette, and with it form the decoration of the cavetto, the whole being accomplished in green, a pale, soft, grayish-lilac, and a sort of mauve enamel, while the marly is dressed with vermicu- late spirals on a gray-black ground, in compartments separated by white reserves lined with sinuous scrolls. ) No. 211 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1114 inches Under a brilliant white glaze which reveals a pale café-au-lait crackle, is a decoration of coiling stems and leavesin turquoise-green and two tones of cobalt-blue, with blossoms of copper-colored enamel in slight relief. Border of large and lesser spirals in black on white reserve, with relieving touches of blue and yellowish-green. Second Afternoon No. 212 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1114 inches Deep bowl with narrow spreading rim. A complex decoration of palmate and conventional floral forms fills the bowl, accomplished in cobalt and emerald with white reserve and brown enamel. On the rim vermiculate spirals with black ground and white reserve. No. 213 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11% inches In the bowl, bold foliations reserved in white and outlined in black, on a ground of pale turquoise-green, the decoration heightened by touches of blue, and of brown enamel. Rim in sections of black ground and white reserve, ornamented with enroulements vermicules. Both surfaces crackled. No. 214 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11% inches Emerald leaves and gray-blue tulips, and brown enameled poppies in slight relief, some of the blooms touched with gold, are so dis- posed as to fill the white ground of the bowl, and the rim carries masses of black spirals and white reserve. No. 215 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches On a ground varying from emerald to turquoise, a bouquet of tulips and other flowers reserved in white and touched with blue, and orna- mented with brownish pellets in low relief; the whole overlain by a palm in white reserve, with the stem in relief. No. 216 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11% inches Deep bow] and narrow, slanting rim. The bowl decorated with a bouquet of fifteen tulips, in a rich blue and iron-rust brown, their stems and leaves a turquoise-green, on a white ground. Second Afternoon No. 217 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches The entire bowl occupied by a composite design of leaf forms, the major decoration in two sets of three figures each arranged about a rosette, and all supporting minor ornament. The colors used are a mottled cobalt, a variable green running from a melon hue to that of'a green turquoise, and a copper enamel, with generous white re- serves. On rim a formal border. No. 218 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Moderately deep ovoidal bowl with spreading rim. The bowl deco- rated with concentric rings of periwinkle shells, painted in blue and green, with one circle in copper-brown enamel; on the rim, S-scrolls in black, separating groups of small spirals lightly penciled within white reserves on a black ground. No. 219 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1124 inches Flowers in blossom spring from a clump of plant leaves, and a long stem of them in white reserve and pale cobalt, touched with copper, circles about a reserved palm, all within a medallion of light tur- quoise-green ground. On the rim vermiculate spirals in black, with white reserves. No. 220 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Clouds of spirals penciled in a brown black and outlined in blue, wander irregularly over the face of the plate, with various details executed in green, and heavy reenforcements in copper enamel. On the rim more spirals, with touches of blue and green, in a brown ground with white reserves. Second Afternoon No. 221 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Deep, rounding bowl, painted in green and blue with tulips and other flowers rising from a plant cluster, and a descending palm overlying them, various details being executed in copper color. Rim border of spirals in a black ground, with white reserves. No. 222 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Within a fringe border a deeper border of straight and wavy lines, surrounding a medallion defined in green and brown lines and occupy- ing the entire bottom. In this an eight-pointed star, with trefoil radiations in brown enclosing blue discs in groups of three, is executed in blue and green on an ivory white ground. No. 223 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches - A checkered band in blue and a yellowish white encloses a medallion latticed in a lighter blue, and is itself encircled by a chevron border in green which is repeated on the outer side of a band of blue lattice. Rim checkered in blue and white. No. 224 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches The narrow rim is traversed by a border of blue lattice. The cavetto displays a ground of creamy white marked by a pale café-au-lait crackle, and is variously decorated with scrolls and conventional or- nament in blue, green and brown, detached and in medallions. No. 225 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PLATE Diameter, 121% inches Found in Spain, but having a decoration in style and color suggest- ing near Eastern origin or influence. Porcellanous stoneware, the bow] painted in dark blue with a long-billed bird amongst aquatic plants, and the rim with a border of locusts and flower sprays. Second Afternoon No. 226 CHINESE PLAQUE (Ming) Diameter, 13 inches Porcellanous stoneware of the early sixteenth century, of grayish substance, shaped as a shallow dish, and coated except for the under surface of the bottom with a mottled greenish-turquoise glaze of dull lustre with fish-roe crackle. (Rim slightly chipped.) i No. 227 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (Ch’ven-lung) Diameter, 13 inches Ovoidal with a bold foot; dense, resonant porcelain, covered above and below, including the interior of the foot, with a brilliant mono- chrome glaze of rich, deep purple, with mirror properties. Under the foot the six-character mark of the reign, incised in the paste, beneath the glaze, within an incised double ring. No. 228 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 1314 inches Blue and white. Ovoidal, the interior occupied by an expansive decoration in transparent and opaque cobalt blue, with effective use of white reserve, depicting a pair of the feng-huang—emblem of the empress—on a mass of rockery beneath a tree peony in blos- som. No. 229 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 13% inches Blue and white. Deep ovoidal bowl-shape, the whole interior sur- face painted in a deep and clouded blue, with white reserve, with large blossoms of the nelumbian lotus opened to show the seed- pods, and leaves and scrolling stems, and with curling foliations, on a brilliant white ground. On the outside are various emblems. Second Afternoon No. 230 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (KC ang-hst) Diameter, 131% inches Blue and white. An uncommon example of the use of the so-called hawthorn pattern, on plates. The entire ground of the superior surface is marbled with a rich, yet delicate and variable wash of cobalt blue, and reserved in pure white is a gnarled and spreading wild prunus tree, its divergent branches laden with buds and blos- soms. Underneath the foot an artemisia leaf in blue within the blue double ring. No. 231 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (EK ang-hst) Diameter, 1334 inches Blue and white. Ovoidal basin form, painted in a rich blue of co- balt quality with three of the Fu-lions in pursuit of or guarding the brocaded ball. A ball, each differing from the others, appears ahead of each lion and a fourth forms a central medallion. White reserve 1s made use of in the brocading of the balls and in the lions’ features. Back of the rim are emblems, and under the foot are char- acters in the form of a six-character mark, but they are not the mark of the reign. No. 232 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 14 inches Blue and white. Broad bowl-shape on a bold foot; fine hard paste white porcelain of clear resonance. Painted in cobalt blue, deep and pale, with a kylin crossing a rocky landscape in which small shrubs and an ornamental banana tree appear. On the outside are symbols. Under the foot, a seal mark in blue within a blue double ring. No. 233 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches A sunflower medallion in manganese and blue on a cream ground is encircled by a band of fritillaries in the same colors, followed by a green lattice border, and the rim is edged in two shades of blue. Second Afternoon No. 234 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Pie-plate form; the bottom occupied by a foliated medallion with decorated compartments, the rim by a border of alternating blue and white cubes. The decoration all in blue and aubergine on a creamy white ground. \ No. 235 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Three designs more or less in the shape of long, curling leaves, yet suggesting bunches of grapes, cling about a lattice-work medallion, the entire decoration in blue, green and manganese on a light ground; on the rim a blue lattice. No. 236 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches The glaze varies from a grayish-turquoise near the rim through apple-green to the deep hue of dark green moss, and is everywhere crackled, the crackle also varying, from the giant size to one of moderate spaces. No. 237 ITALIAN FAIENCE DISH (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Cavetto with light fluting about a convex centre, or low mound; the marly broad with a bold convexity, and large flutings which give it an undulating edge. Brilliant cream-white glaze of even quality. No. 238 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Various flowers, springing from a cluster of leaves or in a flower pot, are disposed in such way as to spread over the entire surface of the bowl, their stems in black, the leaves and blossoms blue and green or done in brown enamel. Border of spirals on a dark blue ground with white reserves. Second Afternoon No. 239 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Within the cavetto erratic black scrolls fill the spaces between large daisy-like flowers, to the number of nine, which are alternately a rich royal blue and a variable turquoise-green, on a creamy ground. Two borders of scroll-like forms suggestive of bird heads display the same colors. No. 240 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Large coiled spirals in deep blue are worked into blossom forms which appear in four pairs in the cavetto, on a reticulate ground of onion green and manganese, about a circle of short blue scrolls on a cream ground. On the marly a conventional design effectively developed in bright blue and pale olive, with cream reserves. No. 241 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches A circular medallion enclosing a lattice is surrounded by others of irregular shape enclosing lesser medallions in blue and large folia- tions in white reserve; outlines and interspaces are in manganese and a soft green; pointed and checkered borders. No. 242 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Kidney-shaped medallions painted with palms and foliations in two shades of blue and outlined in manganese surround a circular medallion enclosing butterfly forms in blue, and white reserve, on a manganese ground; all of the decorations heightened by touches of a rich grass-green. Checkered border in blue and white. No. 243 PERSIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches A rosette within a medallion, in the bowl, is encompassed by two bands or borders of vine pattern, the rosette painted in black on a light green ground, the borders in green reserve with black ground. On the rim, whose edge is festooned, a border of diamonds in green reserve in a black ground. Second Afternoon No. 244 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches The entire upper surface of rim and bowl decorated with closely drawn concentric rings of small vine leaves in copper lustre on a buff ground. In the centre of the bowl a spray of four lilies in brilliant blue of sapphire quality. f No. 245 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 134% inches A rosette in two shades of blue on a creamy, crackled ground touched with brown, occupies the medallion of the bottom, which is outlined in blue and green and encircled by a narrow border of manganese and green; wide border of lattice in green, and a simple edge border of blue. No. 246 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Blue and white, with brown crackle. Two erect birds with long bills and rather long legs are painted in dark blue, with plants and pagoda-like forms, in a reserved medallion covering the entire bot- tom, and the rim carries a border of conventional fruits on scrolling branches. No. 247 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Painted in brilliant sapphire and delicate cobalt blue, with a medal- lion in which appear fruits, shrubs and two pelicans, and with a border of compartments displaying sprays in blue on white reserves. No. 248 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Deep form. In the bowl a large rosace of tracery, and on the rim a bold border of pomegranate-like fruits and long scrolling leaves, all the decoration being in a mottled blue. Second Afternoon No. 249 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1334 inches The marly carries a deep border of conventional forms, some of them presenting crudely foliated outlines, and in the cavetto is a large medallion displaying interlacing leaf-stems and long leaves of many points, about a rosette, all painted in black under a mottled tur- quoise glaze boldly crackled. No. 250 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 14 inches A ewer in blue and manganese is flanked by four detached blossoms in the same colors, and two blue knives, on a cream-white ground semé with minute blossoms represented in manganese dots, and heightened with touches of green. Green lattice border and a sim- ple edge border of blue. No. 251 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 1434 inches Shallow and broadly spreading. Sonorous porcelain, both surfaces invested with a monochrome glaze of rich green, almost deep as that of the camellia leaf, finely crackled and of unctuous surface, with modest lustre. The rim edge is lightly glazed in brown and the foot- rim discloses the paste. No. 252 DAMASCAN TILE (Siateenth Century) Dimensions, 11 inches by 114 inches Lozenge shape, with a decoration of tulips, carnations and other blossoms, in dark blue, turquoise, green and aubergine on a white ground within a foliar medallion described in turquoise and blue. This is surrounded by wavy starpoints in black on a white ground dotted with blossoms, and at the corners enter sections of rosettes in green, blue and reserve. Second Afternoon No. 253 DAMASCAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) 1114 inches square A palmate arch in purple, decorated with five-petaled blossoms in white reserve and aubergine and laurelled in turquoise, sustains on its point a rosette with floral ornament in the same colors. The white ground enclosed and above is precisely painted with grape leaves, grapes and tulips, in a light leaf-green, aubergine and tur- quoise. No. 254 FRAME OF DAMASCAN TILES (Siateenth Century) Outside measurements: Height, 111% inches; length, 241% inches One square and two oblong tiles. Decoration, conventional pine tree and tulip patterns in dark blue, turquoise and manganese on white ground. No. 255 TWO DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) 1224 inches square Decoration, Arabesques in turquoise, black and purplish-lilac on a white ground. | No. 256 FRAME OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Outside measurement: 2814 inches square Four tiles of the same dimensions and decoration as the foregoing, set in a solid frame. No. 257 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Siateenth Century) Outside measurements: Height, 1214 inches; length, 561% inches Four square and four oblong, with brilliant decoration in the pine tree and tulip motives in rich blue, turquoise, manganese and black on a white enamel ground. Second Afternoon No. 258 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches An embossed medallion centre is surrounded by petal-like depres- sions extending to the narrow, convex rim, which is bordered with oval bosses encircled by molded rings. Monochrome glaze of cream white with a soft luminosity. No. 259 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches The bottom molded with depressions like flower petals, radiating from an embossed centre, and the narrow rim, which is convex, studded with oval bosses surrounded by molded rings. The whole covered with a brilliant glaze of creamy white. No. 260 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Deep bow] and flaring rim. Covered with a luminous glaze-of rich cream white, with a giant crackle. On the rim a coat of arms in blue, white, canary-yellow and burnt orange. No. 261 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Cavetto in form of a small saucer, with very broad, flaring marly. Glazed in a soft white of unctuous quality, with a giant crackle in fine dark lines. On the marly an escutcheon in bright yellow, orange, blue and black, with a lion rampant. No. 262 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 151% inches Conventional decoration, depressed and in relief, molded in the paste, the entire piece glazed in a cream-white with a broad crackle. In a medallion at the centre is a religious painting in pale blue, light yellow and brown, with ground reserve, depicting the Child in the arms of a saint. Second Afternoon No. 263 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE | (Srxteenth Century) Diameter, 15% inches Shallow bowl and horizontal rim. The bowl has a raised medallion at the centre, from which radiate molded patterns like the petals of a daisy, and the rim is further molded. The whole covered with a luminous and unctuous glaze of gray or drab color, crackled. No. 264 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Ch’ven-lung) Diameter, 1534 inches Deep-dish form on a low foot. Etched in the paste a decoration of the lotus and other flowers, on the upper surface of the bottom and on both surfaces of the sides, and also scroll and key fret borders, under a cream-white glaze. No. 265 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 1534 inches Blue and white. Deep ovoidal bowl with broad flat bottom and narrow rim with molded edge. Decorated with lotus and peony scrolls and sprays, with sprigs of other flowers and stems of peaches and pomegranates, in mottled tones of rich blue. The decoration is lightly modeled or etched in a sensible relief under the clear white glaze. No. 266 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 16 inches Blue and white. Bowl shape with narrow flaring rim. The rim is decorated in a sea wave motive, below which a border of floral scroll surrounds the large medallion of the bottom, in which an interlace- ment of delicate scrolling stems supports large blossoms and varied leaves. Second Afternoon No. 267 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 16 inches Blue and white. Shallow bowl, with a raised medallion of inverted saucer shape at the centre, and a narrow, flaring rim, almost flat. The bowl has a soft and rich milk-white glaze, and the medallion is painted in blue, dark opaque and a lighter, transparent wash, with the corner of a garden pavilion overhung by pine trees, and five figures are observed seated within. On the rim are literary ladies, children, and other figures, amongst trees, in the same colors. No. 268 7 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Chéng) Diameter, 16 inches Blue and white. Deep ovoidal dish or basin form, the broad flat bot- tom penciled in mottled blues with a bouquet of lotus blossoms tied with a fillet. The lotus motive is continued in a scroll border about the side, and just beneath the rim is a border of sea waves. No. 269 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 16% inches Blue and white. Broad shallow bow! with narrow flaring rim. The rim decorated with sprays, the bowl with flowering peony trees in a large medallion, all in a delicate blue with white reserve. A fence or balcony railing near the trees is formed of repetitions of the swas- tika symbol. No. 270 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 16% inches Blue and white. Shallow, with broad flat rim, its edge festooned. Painted in light and dark cobalt blue, the bottom with a large peony branch in which the color is delicately modulated and white reserve is deftly used, and with a narrow border of spiral scroll; the rim with patches of spiral diaper, lattice, peony, and other blossoms fillets and broad leaves. Second Afternoon No. 271 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 16% inches Nearly flat, the broad bottom but slightly depressed below the almost horizontal and relatively narrow rim. Invested with a luminous glaze of creamy white having a coarse crackle. In the centre a pigeon on a stump from which a shoot of leaves issues, painted in yellow, orange, black and pale gray-blue. No. 272 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Scateenth Century) Diameter, 1614 inches Bottom molded in resemblance to a flower, with petal-like depressions about an embossed centre, and the rim molded with bosses and rings, Monochrome glaze of luminous white, through which a reddish biscuit is perceptible over the relief moldings. No. 273 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 17 inches Shallow cavetto with deep, flaring marly. Glazed in the dense but mottled green known as “scum of the pond,” the glaze deepening to form black rings at the rim-edge and in definition of the cavetto and a small medallion at its centre. No. 274 PERSIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 17 inches Shallow cavetto with flaring marly. The glaze is one of rich and varied beauty, playing upon soft and agreeable tones of green. Olive hues blend with deeper tones of delicate mosses, and on the sides of the cavetto the quiet olive-brown raises its lighter note between wide rings where the green glaze, thickening, returns an almost black hue. No. 275 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 17 inches In the bow] a fluting of depressed godroon forms modeled in the paste encircles a raised centre of inverted-saucer shape which is painted in yellow, blue, green and brown with an escutcheon bearing a dove perched upon a chalice. Luminous cream-white glaze with a light brown crackle. Second Afternoon No. 276 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 171% inches A conventional decoration is modeled in the paste in bowl and rim, the rim being flat and the bowl having a raised centre affording a medal- lion which is painted with a flowered escutcheon in blue, green, yellow, orange and brown. Creamy white monochrome glaze with a light brown crackle. No. 277 ITALIAN BLUE AND WHITE PLATE (Srxteenth Century) Diameter, 171% inches The fluted surfaces of bowl and rim are painted in blue on a white ground with a conventional decoration of floral motives, and in a cen- tral medallion with a bird and a rabbit among flowers. No. 278 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 1734 inches Shallow bowl, with a molded decoration of a small fluted plate re- versed, or bottom up; the rim is molded with curling petals in relief, encircled by a beaded border. Monochrome glaze of greenish-white, or greenish-moonlight hue. No. 279 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Szateenth Century) Diameter, 18 inches Shallow cavetto, the broad bottom almost flat, with moderate rim. Glazed in a creamy white with giant crackle, and painted in yellow, brown and two shades of blue with an escutcheon supported by two amorini. No. 280 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Szateenth Century) Diameter, 181% inches Broad, very shallow cavetto, with moderate rim, lightly flaring. Cream-white, luminous glaze, with a bold crackle. Painted in yellow, orange, deep brown and pale gray-blue with a checkered armorial shield supported by two female figures, one of whom extends an arm about a column, while the other holds up in one hand an oval mirror. Second Afternoon No. 281 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATTER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 19% inches; width, 141% inches Oval and shallow with flat rim. Cream-white glaze of a soft brilliancy, with a delicate, variable crackle. At the centre of one side of the rim, and extending into the bowl, is a coat of arms painted in yellow, blue, green and burnt orange, under the motto “In hoc signo.”’ No. 282 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATTER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 20 inches; width, 15°4 inches Oval, with deep, ovoidal bowl, and flaring rim, the rim fluted and hav- ing a sprocket edge. In the centre of the bowl the general form of the platter is reproduced on a smaller scale, in high relief. The whole coy- ered with a brilliant monochrome glaze of cream white. No. 283 ITALIAN. FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter 191% inches Depressed petal forms radiate from an embossed centre resembling an inverted saucer, forming the bottom of the plate, and the rim is molded with a chain border, the links enclosing bosses. Glaze, a lumi- nous gray-white. No. 284 LARGE DEEP DISH Diameter, 191% inches Reddish porcellanous stoneware, coated with a substantial, unctuous glaze of grayish-white with a pronounced crackle. The sides are ribbed, and the flat bottom is painted in cobalt blue with accents of light reserve with an eagle perched on a bar from which four pointed leaves project. No. 285 LARGE BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 20 inches Shallow saucer-form. The bowl occupied by a bold decoration of con- ventional floral forms in white reserve with well defined crackle, out- lined in manganese, on a ground in varying shades of cobalt-blue strewn with blossom or fruit forms in two shades of green. On therima leaf border in blue on the ground color. Second Afternoon No. 286 LARGE CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 231% inches Blue and white. Broad bowl shape with molded rim. Heavy sonor- ous white porcelain, decorated in two tones of blue with extensive floral scrolls under a brilliant white glaze. The flowers vary, and with their stems and leaves occupy the whole of the bottom within a nar- row foliated scroll border, and all of the deep ovoidal rim beneath a narrow border of geometrical lattice. The outer side of the rim is treated in the same motives, between narrow borders of spiral scroll. BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE TEXTILES : No. 287 PAIR SMALL ESCUTCHEONS (Highteenth Century) 3 inches square In gold and silk needlework on cloth of silver. The shield, in gold out- line, carries stars in gold and what appears to be a silver crescent moon, and below, a leg. At either side hang the tassels of a bishop’s hat which surmounts the whole, all in green silk and gold. No. 288 THREE SMALL ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) All alike. Under a bishop’s hat in green silk and gold, with tassels of the same workmanship, a shield in gold embroidery displaying a white ox lying on a green and yellow ground, with a blue sky background, all in silk needlework. Two are on cloth of silver; the third is on cloth of gold. No. 289 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 61% inches; width, 534 inches Heart shaped shield, adorned in varicolored needlework delicately shaded, with a tree and grasses, an eight pointed star, and a quarter- foil of endless-knot formation; edged and filletted in gold braid. Second Afternoon No. 290 ESCUTCHEON (Seventeenth Century) Height, 7% inches; width, 51% inches Brilliant drap d’or, coronetted and filletted, with further ornamenta- tion in gold appliqué; embroidered with an eagle in black silk above charges which include a two-headed animal rampant in red silk on drap d'argent, and an eagle on a tower, in drap d’argent and white silk, on drap dor of red ground. No. 291 PAIR ITALIAN ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 8 inches; width, 6 inches Two oval shields side by side, one with a black eagle displayed on a silver-cloth ground, above a curling dolphin in silver on a buff silk ground; the other exhibiting merely blue silk and silver-cloth; both on blue silk background with silver scroll embroideries, beneath a crown. No. 292 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 8 inches; width, 644 inches Elaborate foliations in silver cloth, appliqué on the same material, enclosing a heavily quilted shield of cloth of silver and cloth of gold; on the silver portion a human arm and hand holding some object, and on the gold part an eight-petaled blossom. No. 293 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 934 inches; width, 8 inches A gold shield on an eight pointed silver star depends from a cross attached to an archbishop’s hat in gold, the shield being handsomely embroidered in gold and its principal armorial ornament being the eagle, also in gold. No. 294 ECCLESIASTICAL ESCUTCHEON OR CARTOUCHE (Eighteenth Century) Height, 11% inches; width, 81% inches Under a papal crown and canopy, with Peter’s Keys, an oval shield or medallion pictured with a dove bearing an olive branch, all in gold and silver, red velvet, and blue, white, purplish and olive silks. Second Afternoon No. 295 DECORATED VELVET PANEL (Siateenth Century) Length, 211% inches; width, 16 inches One of the apparels from a dalmatic. Red velvet, with an applied decoration which was originally silver and gold, depicting a vase of flowers in a medallion, and holy water vessels upheld by scrolls run- ning to Gothic grotesques in animal and bird form. No. 296 PAIR ITALIAN VELVET PANELS (Stateenth Century) Length, 22% inches; width, 20% inches Garnet velvet, decorated with refined scrolls of formal design, with offshoots of leaf and berry sprigs, in a heavy applique with corded out- line. The decoration was originally all in gold, which is largely re- tained in the cording, while the body of the design stands in a green- ish-white underlay. No. 297 MEDICI VELVET TABLE MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 22 inches; width, 191% inches Conventional ornamentation in leaf and flower motives, embossed in two planes; the colors a richly mottled deep cherry, on lighter ground, with a sheen changing to crushed-strawberry hue. Galloon edge. No. 298 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) 21 inches square The decoration is a beautiful and lavish floral display, formally exe- cuted in a union of delicate blossoms and expansive foliations, cut and uncut in olive on a lighter green ground. No. 299 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Siateenth Century) Height, 22 inches; width, 20 inches In olive on a light green ground, a vigorously executed, boldly hand- some figure of branching leaves involved with blossoms, and details bespeaking Eastern influences. Second Afternoon No. 300 GENOESE VELVET TABLE MAT (Seventeenth Century) Length, 231% inches; width, 201% inches Cut and uncut design of heavy foliations and delicate flowers in rich olive, with pale golden sheen, on a bright green ground. f No. 301 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Srateenth century) Height, 251% inches; width, 22 inches Lightly embossed with an elaborately wrought all-over scroll pattern, in a rich green with brilliant sheen, on a ground of the same color. Metallic lace border. No 302 MEDICI VELVET FRAGMENT (Stateenth Century) 25 inches square Immense peonies and more modest floral beauties, amid luxuriant foli- ations, appear in deep wine color with a light and lustrous sheen, on a yellow ground of deep golden hue—originally cloth-of-gold, a few traces of the metal remaining distinguishable. Bordered with gold galloon. No. 303 GENOESE VELVET CUSHION COVER (Stxteenth Century) Length, 28 inches; breadth, 21 inches Florid ornamentation of rich exuberance, embossed in ruby tones with details in light green on yellow ground. No. 304 GENOESE VELVET PANEL (EHighteenth Century) Length 37 inches; width, 21 inches ) Purplish-red with light sheen, embossed with a bold peony pattern and bordered with cordonnet. Second Afternoon No. 305 FRENCH BROCADE CHAIR-BACK OR SCREEN PANEL (Eighteenth Century) Height, 32 inches; width, 271% inches Silk brocade of golden-buff ground, figured with floral forms in deli- cate colors. Completed at the sides with green damask of ornate pattern, and framed in gold galloon. No. 306 TABLE COVER OF MEDICI VELVET (Sixteenth Century) Length, 36 inches; width, 20 inches Formed of fragments of remarkably beautiful ruby velvet, with flower and leaf ornamentation, on a cloth-of-gold ground from which the pre- cious metal has disappeared but which retains the chastened yellow hue. Yellow silk fringe border. No. 307 SPANISH VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) Height, 37 inches; width, 21 inches Richly wrought decoration of graceful flowers and foliage in emerald and a soft dove-white velvet on a ground of cloth-of-gold. No. 308 BORDERED TABLE COVER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 48 inches; width, 221% inches Velvet; an oblong panel of emerald-green velvet cut in form of a quad- rilateral trellis, with a border of fret design in brown velvet with pur- plish metallic sheen on a light ground. No. 309 “CHINESE IMPERIAL BORDER Length, 23 feet; width, 16 inches The imperial five-clawed dragon, three times repeated, 1s embroidered in black, with white spinal ridge, his scales in shining gold, on a ground of imperial yellow silk. The flames which are his breath appear in red and pink scrolls about his body, and conventional cloud scrolls in red, pink, blue, black and green, outlined with gold, are above and below him, while the coveted flaming jewel is just ahead. Second Afternoon No. 310 CHINESE VELVET HANGING Length, 37 inches; depth, 34 inches Rich peach pink with golden sheen. Decorated with a peony-scroll medallion and corners, and three smaller medallions of similar motive, embroidered in blue and white silks. Second Afternoon No. 311 CHINESE VELVET HANGING Length, 38 inches; depth, 33 inches Rose and green. The ground a soft and rich rose, decorated in a ten- der green with peony sprays filling the ground about a large floral me- dallion, within a swastika-fret border. On the valance, amid leaves and flowers, is the shuang hst, the “double joy” character, emblem of wedded happiness, indicating the hanging as a bridal gift. Over all a soft sheen, a liquid lustre. No. 312 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet In the field, medallions one within another, in magenta and light emerald velvet on a straw-yellow ground, presenting the tulip and cornflower and other floral motives. The same colors are continued in the border, in similar design. No. 313 SCUTARI RUG (Siateenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 314 SCUTARI RUG (Siateenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet In the field, medallions one within another, in magenta and light emerald velvet on a straw-yellow ground, presenting the tulip and cornflower and other floral motives. The same colors are continued in the border, in similar design. No. 315 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. | No. 316 SCUTARI RUG (Srxteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 1 0 inches Branches of blossoms appear at the head and foot of the field, at either end of a central foliar ornament, and the field is bounded by a scroll of filletted palms and small sprays, all in purplish-red and light green on a ground of light buckskin color. Second Afternoon No. 317 SCUTARI RUG (Siateenth Century) Companion to the preceding. \ No. 318 VELVET CAP (Seventeenth Century) Of “‘mortar-board”’ type, in eight-pointed star shape, with two short streamers ending with tassels. Red velvet, with gimp ornamenta- tion in scroll and conventional leaf pattern. No. 319 SPANISH VELVET BODICE — (Seventeenth Century) Velvet of a warm-green hue with soft lustre. Trimmed with spangle braid. No. 320 7 SPANISH VELVET BODICE (Seventeenth Century) Emerald-green velvet trimmed with galloon. No. 321 PARTS OF A SPANISH COURT DRESS | (Early Exvghteenth Century) In two pieces. Rich plum color velvet with a lustrous bloom, heavily embroidered in silver with bold scrolls, leaves and flowers. No. 322 VENETIAN CAPE (Sixteenth Century) Depth, 2 feet 8 inches; spread, 4 feet Red velvet, with heavy metal embroidery in leaf forms and the tulip pattern borrowed from the East; gimp edge. Second Afternoon No. 323 GREEN VELVET LONG COAT (Eighteenth Century) Length, 50 inches With short sleeves, and short side slits at bottom of skirt. Emerald- green velvet, trimmed with silk and metal braid of golden hue and edged with cordonnet in trefoil and spiral pattern. No. 324 RED VELVET LONG COAT (Highteenth Century) Length, 50 inches With short sleeves and slit skirt; the velvet a rich red, edged with particolored gimp and trimmed in simple lines with brilliant silver braid embroidered with detached blossoms in green and lambent- flame color. No. 325 GREEN VELVET LONG COAT (Eighteenth Century) Length, 50 inches The velvet a deep, rich and glowing emerald, with modest lustre, edged with cordonnet in white and light golden-brown, and trimmed with metallic braid of the same colors. No. 326 GREEN VELVET LONG COAT (Highteenth Century) Length, 51 inches Short sleeves; slit skirt. Emerald with brilliant lustre and a downy softness, trimmed with metallic braid of a light cream-brown tone and edged with cordonnet in spiral and trefoil pattern in pale blue, white, light bronze and purple-pink. No. 327 GREEN VELVET LONG COAT (Highteenth Century) Length, 52 inches Short sleeves, the side slits short. Emerald-green velvet with rarely beautiful sheen, trimmed with metallic braid and edged with a cor- donnet scroll. Second Afternoon No. 328 ITALIAN GREEN VELVET COAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet 4 inches In the richest and softest of olive hues—the green and the yellow— changing and blending into the gem notes of the emerald and the pale topaz, and having a sheen as of candle light from prism’d sconces falling upon softly burnished gold. No. 329 GREEN VELVET LONG COAT (Eighteenth Century) Length, 4 feet 9 inches Velvet of brilliant emerald-green, with a shimmering lustre; edged all around with galloon. No. 330 CHINESE VELVET SKIRT Embossed ornamentation of full-blown peonies, conventional butter- flies, and sprigs of the Buddha’s-hand citron, in red velvet with ruby sheen on a sage-green ground. The panels are edged with black satin. No. 331 CHINESE CAPE In bold sceptre-head design, both in shape and ornamentation. Silk brocade, green and golden-orange, ornamented with four-clawed drag- ons, sceptre-heads and flaming jewels, in blue, heliotrope, brownish- red and yellow, enriched with gold. No. 332 CHINESE SILKEN COAT The shell only (without lining). Light bluish-green silk, brightly figured with baskets of flowers and fruit, butterflies, and sprays of the magnolia, prunus and lotus, in yellow-green, dark green, light pink, white, yellow, red and two shades of blue, with details in metal threads and added effects given with the brush. Dark neck border, also with floral ornamentation. Second Afternoon No. 333 CHINESE VELVET COAT A clear, light and delicate, soft green, with embossed ornamentation of foliate medallions and scrolls, interspersed with the eight Buddhis- tic emblems of happy augury. Neck border of floral forms in light and dark blue and white silk embroidery on black ground, and an inner border of the archaic dragon scroll in ecru and black. No. 334 CHINESE SILK EMBROIDERED COAT Shell only (without lining). Rich, glowing red, with satin finish, em- broidered in soft blues and greens, delicately blended, with a minimum of white and touches of bright golden yellow. The embroidering is in detached sprays of the mez; and other floral motives, amongst which small butterflies flutter. No. 335 SCUTARI RUG (Siateenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches Branches of blossoms appear at the head and foot of the field, at either end of a central foliar ornament, and the field is bounded by a scroll of filletted palms and small sprays, all in purplish-red and light green on a ground of light buckskin color. No. 336 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 337 SCUTARI RUG (Siateenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches, width, 2 feet 2 inches In the field, within formal corners, a pointed or leaf-shape medallion embraces a wreath about a central ornament, all executed in apricot and brilliant green velvet on a light tan ground, the patterns being leaf and flower forms. End borders in the same colors; the side border in apricot and cerulean, on the tan ground. No. 338 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. Second Afternoon No. 339 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches Branches of blossoms appear at the head and foot of the field, at either end of a central foliar ornament, and the field is bounded by a scroll of filletted palms and small sprays, all in purplish-red and light green on a ground of light buckskin color. \ No. 340 SCUTARI RUG (Stateenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 341 ITALIAN DAMASK TABLE COVER (Seventeenth Century) 45 inches square Brilliant green of light emerald hue, patterned with conventional leaf designs and coronets and edged in white. No. 342 ITALIAN BORDER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet 3 inches; depth, 12 inches Wine-red velvet, with a subsequent but early decoration of cloth-of- gold, applied, in the form of conventional figures, blossom sprays and a lateral chain effect. Bottom festooned and fringed. No. 343 VALANCE Length, two pieces, 5 feet, two pieces, 3 feet 5 inches; depth, 1 foot 5 inches Complete, in four hangings; purplish-red velvet with light sheen, each of the four pieces finished on all boundaries with galloon, the bottoms being festooned and hung with fringe. No. 344 ITALIAN ALTAR FRONTAL (Seventeenth Century) Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches Silk damask. Brilliant light emerald, with self-color ornamentation in conventional floral patterns freely designed. Paneled in a rich orange galloon. Second Afternoon No. 345 ORNAMENTAL PENDANT STRIP (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet & inches; width, 7 inches Velvet of brownish-garnet tone, with applied ornamentation of em- broidered and relief designs of conventional form in which the lyre- shape recurs, with spirals and foliations, in colored silks and gilded metal. Relief border of spiral molding at either side in metal over- cast. No. 346 MEDICI VALANCE (Sixteenth Century ) Length, 6 feet; depth, 12 inches Composed of six quadrilateral panels of velvet of deep wine-color and rich sheen, separated one from another and bordered above and below by gold galloon. The velvet is patterned in a peony design of great luxuriance combined with delicacy of detail; the bottom is fringed. No. 347 FLORENTINE VALENCE (Szateenth Century) Length, 7 feet 4 inches; depth, 19 inches Velvet; pattern of bold, characteristic scrolls and foliations in olive and garnet velvet, overlaid with details of golden-yellow satin. Bor- dered with green and yellow silk tassel-fringe. No. 348 THREE ITALIAN ECCLESIASTICAL BORDERS (Szxteenth Century) Totai length, 271% feet; width, 7 inches Velvet of rich golden-olive hue, with soft lustre, supporting five ap- plied shields of red-brown satin, corded with gold. The shields bear alternately the Agnus Dei and the cross and motto (or cryptogram) : A | N DO | RA Second Afternoon No. 349 ITALIAN BORDER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 9 feet, 3 inches; depth, 94% inches Garnet velvet with applied decoration in an ornate leaf-scroll outlined in gold, gold being further used for veining and additional details. Two additional strips of the same material, in which the design runs perpendicularly. Length, 1 foot 10 inches; depth, 10 inches No. 350 CHINESE BROCADE BORDER Totai length, 16 feet; depth, 26 inches Ground of deepest indigo blue, ornamented along the top with dragon heads and pendant chains, in flame color, blue and white, with threads of gold, along the centre with Buddhistic emblems of good omen in similar coloring, and at the bottom with a conventional wave motive in white and a line of grotesque masks. (In two pieces.) No. 351 VENETIAN VELVET PANEL (Fifteenth Century) Length, 62 inches; width, 23 inches The ground is a softly mottled olive with a brilliant sheen, cut in lines of Gothic tracery, the rambling enclosures thus formed supporting leaf figures applied in silver gilt thread. Edged with gold galloon. No. 352 GENOESE VELVET PANEL (Kighteenth Century) Height, 67 inches; width, 22 inches Massive foliations and other conventional motives, with details of blossom sprays, in almandite-garnet on a white ground. Edged with silver fringe. Second Afternoon No. 353 TWO CHINESE VELVET PANELS Herght, 5 feet; width, 20 inches (each) Peach-toned velvet, with a soft, light lustre resembling the down of the peach skin, embroidered in silk—white and two shades of blue— with a circular peony medallion, a foliate medallion of scrolls locked with sceptre-head forms, and blossoming trees growing among rocks, besides various sprays. No. 354 PAIR CHINESE VELVET PANELS Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width 21 inches (each) Coral pink of deep note, the field decorated with squares and oblongs formed of the archaic dragon scroll highly conventionalized, within borders of similar motive, and the whole bordered with a key-fret scroll, all in light green. Lustrous sheen over all. No. 355 ANTIQUE CHINESE VELVET PANEL Height, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 20 inches Pinkish-brown with a pale wild-rose sheen, ornamented with a four- clawed dragon, a Fu-lion and the endless-knot symbol, in an oblong field, which is surrounded by a border of medallions and scrolls. No. 356 PORTUGUESE VELVET AND GOLD TABLE COVER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch A richly elaborate decoration, in velvet, of highly conventionalized floral patterns, and geometrical figures modified by scrolls, is sewn with gold cording upon a cloth-of-gold ground. The velvet is a deep, rich garnet, with a slightly purplish sheen. Second Afternoon No. 357 PORTUGUESE CLOTH-OF-GOLD BORDER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 10 inches; depth, 18 inches The cloth-of-gold ground is adorned in a rich garnet velvet with elabo- rately scrolled foliations and three fleur-de-lis patterns. The bottom is festooned and hung with a long, full fringe. No. 358 PORTUGUESE CLOTH-OF-GOLD BORDER (Seventeenth Century) Of the same description and dimensions as the foregoing. No. 359 PORTUGUESE CLOTH-OF-GOLD BORDER (Seventeenth Century) Of the same measurements and description as the preceding, except that the velvet has taken a brownish-garnet hue. No. 360 CHINESE TEMPLE HANGING Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches Cloth-of-gold, barely revealing a jasper underlay, and woven with many small Shou medallions, while large medallions in gold and silver cloth are applied. The bottom is cut in sceptre-head pattern, and at the top is a fringed valance of silk damask with an ornamentation of bats and Shou medallions among gourd-vine scrolls. No. 361 CHINESE DOOR HANGING Length, 7 feet; depth, 2 feet 2 inches Brilliant red silk embroidered in gold with a Fu-lion poised on one foot on the brocaded ball, a smaller lion glaring up at him, and with blossoming rock peony, plum and magnolia trees, a branch of the sacred fungus, and flying bats. Second Afternoon No. 362 ITALIAN BROCADE HANGING (Srateenth Century) Length, 7 feet; width, 4 feet 8 inches Ground of pale rose satin, with a rich embellishment of various leaf and blossom forms in gold thread, and larger flowers in blue, white and mauve silks. No. 363 VELVET WALL HANGING Length (height), 7 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches Brilliant red velvet with softly lustrous sheen, bordered and fringed in gold galloon. No. 364 RENAISSANCE DAMASK WALL HANGING Length, 7 feet; width, 6 feet 6 inches Light green, with a luxuriant florescence in pale gold covering nearly the entire expanse. Three sides festooned. No. 365 ITALIAN VELVET HANGING (Szxteenth Century) Length, 8 feet, 2 inches; width, 3 feet, 9 inches Deep rose and ruby tones, varying with the light, and a sheen of a full- bodied crushed-strawberry red; the decoration, a lightly embossed leaf and vine pattern; gold galloon border. No. 366 PAIR OF SILK CURTAINS Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches (each) Heavy silk of greenish-golden hue, ribbed horizontally in a fine chev- ron pattern, and bordered on three sides with Renaissance damask displaying conventional flowers and foliate scrolls in light green on a bright golden-yellow ground. Second Afternoon No. 367 PAIR RENAISSANCE DAMASK PORTIERES Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet (each) Ground of light, soft green, with conventional flowers and scrolls forming coronetted medallions in golden bronze. Bordered with gal- loon and on the bottom with a silk tassel-fringe. No. 368 ITALIAN VELVET HANGING Length, 8 feet 3 inches; depth, 4 feet 4 inches Rich red, with a purplish wine-color sheen, the decoration a bold and precise foliated scroll in broad lines. Galloon border and fringed bottom. No. 369 LARGE PIECE ITALIAN VELVET (Sixteenth Century) Length, 9 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches Green of emerald and olive quality, varying to olive-yellow, with a changeable sheen of golden tones. In three breadths, sewn together. No. 370 PAIR FRENCH DAMASK WALL HANGINGS (Seventeenth Century) Length, 10 feet; width, 4 feet 8 inches (each) Yellow, of matt ground, resplendent with broad foliations and conven- tional floral designs in brilliant golden-yellow of deep tone. On all sides a wide galloon border. No. 371 ITALIAN BROCADE (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 21 inches The ground is a Pompeiian red silk, patterned with large leaves in a median line between long lines of serpentine scroll. Over this are spread numerous bouquets, woven in vari-colored silks and gold and silver threads. THIRD AFTERNOON’S SALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1916 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 372 to 570 Inclusive BEAUTIFUL OLD PLATES No. 372 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 71% inches A medallion of café-au-lait ground with a bold crackle is painted in a soft brown-black with the features of a large man, with hair parted in the middle and plastered over the forehead, and ringlets falling down the cheeks. Nearly twoscore star points spring from the perimeter of the medallion, giving the semblance of a sunburst. They are painted in blue, yellow and copper brown. No. 373 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 934 inches Ovoidal bow] with spreading rim. Within the bowl is a band of foliate medallions of white reserve, outlined in black on a ground of pale lettuce-green, about a circular medallion which displays convention- alized tulip forms and five-petaled flowers, in white reserve and copper enamel on a brilliant cobalt ground. Each of the foliate medallions encloses a similar ornament, defined in the copper-colored enamel in tangible relief, within which appears a bunch of leaves in white re- serve, having at its base a blue dot. Border of fewzllage in copper and white reserve, on a deep cobalt ground. On the back, cobalt leaves outlined in black. Third Afternoon No. 374 DAMASCUS TILE (Stateenth Century) 934 inches square A bunch of purple grapes hangs from a stem reserved in white, below two diverging green leaves veined in white reserve, against a ground of clouded sapphire blue. Below, a tulip springs up, between slender serrated leaves, and on the right a foliated me- dallion adorned with more flow- ers similarly colored comes into view, while above and below it parts of an outline band of the larger wall design appear in a light sky blue. No. 375 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Tulips in orange-brown enamel, their leaves green, appear in clusters about a rosette in the centre of the bowl, and elsewhere in cups, occu- pying the spaces between four foliated medallions which are outlined in cobalt blue and filled in with emerald imbrications. On the rim, spirals with black ground and white reserves. No. 376 RHODIAN PLATE (Staxteenth Century) Diameter 10 inches About a rosace of green, blue and rouge de cuivre, the latter in tangible relief, two narrow bands of vermiculate scrolls in pale olive enshrine a wide band of overlapping vesica shapes, in black, cobalt-blue and white reserve, semé with copper pellets. Border of vermiculate scrolls in pale and deep olive, touched with cobalt and relieved by expansive white reserves. Third Afternoon No. 377 KASCHAN BOWL (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 101% inches Decorated with a naive precision and confidence that add to the charm of the color and proportion employed by the painter in his ceramic masterwork. The decoration is in a brilliant sapphire and coal black, on a toned white ground with delicate crackle, and de- picts a king and consort seated on the ground amid branches of varied foliage. She holds a spray in one hand and the other rests on his crowned majesty’s shoulder, and one of his hands is extended toward a pendant hanging from a necklace which she wears. No. 378 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATES (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 10 inches Fine white hard paste porcelain, glazed in a royal purple of great rich- ness and brilliancy, over a decoration of five-clawed dragons amid cloud scrolls, most delicately etched in the paste. On the under part of the rim of one the purple glaze has not flowed all the way to the foot at one point, and the etched decoration may there be seen in its pri- mary form. Mark: the six characters of K’ang-hsi in brilliant under- glaze blue within the blue double ring, on a rich and luminous milk- white ground. No. 379 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 101% inches The bow] fluted, about a concavo-convex medallion; the rim flat, with festooned edge. The fluted portion bears a swastika lattice in gold on a ground of pale old-rose, interrupted by blossoms reserved in white. The rim and medallion are ornamented in colors of the famille verte, the former with flowers and butterflies on a stippled ground, the latter with a garden where small animals play, amongst decorative jars of flowers. Mark: a blue artemisia leaf within a blue double ring. No. 380 CHINESE CELADON PLATE (Ming) Diameter, 11 inches Of the early sixteenth century. Heavy, dense porcelain of clear tone, with a decoration engraved and modeled in the paste, both over the interior surface and on the under side of the rim. The decoration con- sists of a foliated lotus scroll, the flower appearing in a highly conven- tionalized form, and over all is a sea green glaze of soft brilliance. Third Afternoon No. 381 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 11 inches Ovoidal, with a reticulated border of formal pattern between the solid medallion of the bottom and a narrow solid strip at the rim. This strip is decorated on the inner side with a floral border of lotus motive, etched in the paste and painted in enamels of rich cerulean, varied ereens, light yellow, white, and deep and pale pink, and on the outer side with a border whose ground is hatched in the paste and supports etched cloud scrolls, interrupted by enameled blossoms. Within the bottom a spotted stag stands where the sacred fungus grows, near a tree which is both in blossom and bears peaches, and in the tree is a monkey (who plucks the magic peaches for Shou-lau whose emblem the stag is), and a swallow swoops toward the stag’s head. The bird and the animals are in gold. The border workmanship in this piece is that of the famous Yung Chéng and Ch’ien-lung lanterns. No. 382 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATES | (Yung Chéng) Diameter, 111% inches In the form of lotus blossoms broadly cupped, the petals modeled in the paste, the surface of the seedpod also, and the curling petals yield- + ing a festooned rim edge. Coated with a brilliant monochrome glaze in a fine yellow that now rarely turns up, a bright imperial yellow of canary quality. Under the foot in brilliant under-glaze blue the six character mark of the reign, in a double ring. (At rim of one a slight repair. ) No. 383 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Painted in cobalt, a faint green of dark tone, dull red and light gray, with blossoms and leaf scrolls encircling a rosette, and a rim border of conventional design, on a brownish-white ground having a brown crackle. No. 384 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches A deep border of broad leaf forms traced in wavy outline in brown, in such manner as to present a network, extends from rim to central medallion, the interspaces reserved in white and stippled in red- brown, a grayish-black and turquoise. In the medallion is a rosette in gray on a cream ground deeply crackled. Third Afternoon No. 385 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches Rim border of imbrications in green outline studded with pale tan. Within the bowl a medallion painted with leaves and flowers in pale blue, turquoise, tan and red-brown, on white ground. No. 386 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches A crested bird with long tail feathers, somewhat resembling the Chi- nese phoenix but of more fee outline, is painted in a rich cerulean amid flowers and foliage in deep green and other colors, on an ivory- toned ground crackled in brown. Border of imbrications in compart- ments separated by blue spool forms. No. 387 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches The white bow] is almost wholly occupied by a turquoise-green medal- lion framed in gadroons of brilliant blue, the medallion displaying two grotesque birds perched on a stand of flowers, in blue, copper enamel and white reserve. On the rim, spirals in black line within blue fillets, and serpentine reserves in white. On the back green tulips and blue blossoms. No. 388 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches Slender flower sprays of sinuous form, in blue and green with brown enamel, on a white ground, fill the small medallion that forms the shallow centre of the plate, whose wide and flaring rim is occupied by a border of leaf shapes in white reserve, outlined in black on an apple- green ground. The centres of the reserves are further decorated in brown enamel and blue. Third Afternoon No. 389 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1114 inches Within a wreath of delicately curling leaves of emerald green, two curling stems of five-petaled blossoms springing from among a group of long leaves and embracing a leaf medallion. The blossoms are in a delicate cobalt blue, with centres of brown enamel; the medallion, outlined in green, displays white reserved blossoms with blue centres, on a brown enamel ground. Clover leaf border. On the back tulips and flowerets. All surfaces reveal a pale café-au-lait crackle. No. 390 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 11% inches Shallow saucer-form. In the centre a medallion with cobalt ground is adorned with a cluster of six flower sprays in white reserve, touched with green, their centres dots of brown enamel. Encircling the me- dallion is a formal border in a design suggesting mosque roofs, out- lined in black and filled in with green and white reserve. No. 391 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 11 inches A hexagonal border drawn in greenish-brown, the enclosures dotted with light tan pellets, encloses a medallion reserved in a cream ground deeply crackled in brown. At the centre a rosette in brown enamel and reserve. No. 392 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1114 inches Decorated in a rich blue, warm brown, mottled greens and pale yel- low, with a segmental border of imbrications on the rim, and within the bowl an open border of leaf scroll encircling a medallion adorned with flowers. No. 393 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches Four groups of primrose-like flowers represented as growing plants, in coral, green and deep blue, are placed about a coral and blue rosette, and between them are sprays and formal ornaments with fillets in similar coloring. On the rim spirals and white reserves. Third Afternoon No. 394 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches A foliate medallion, outlined in brown enamel in low relief, is em- braced within sprigs of flowers which curl about it, springing from leaf clusters whence issue also long palmettes and sprays of five-petaled flowers. All are executed in blue and green and the brown enamel on a white ground. The medallion has a green ground, decorated with a cluster of flowers in white reserve and enamel, with blue leaves. On the rim are black spirals embraced in blue, with white reserve. No. 395 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Conventional floral forms united by festooned stems surround a ro- sette in the bowl, and are themselves embraced within a heavier fes- tooning which touches the rim. The whole executed in green and cobalt-blue, and a red-brown enamel which effects a low relief. Border of vermiculate spirals on a Aes ground, with white reserves in un- folding scroll form. No. 396 RHODIAN PLATE (Szxteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Two slender black stems, blossom-laden in blue, spring from a bunch of plants at the edge of the bowl and expand about a stand of flowers in blue and green with brown enamel. Blue tulips with green stems spring from the same source, and at either side are roses and other flowers in the several colors. Rim in compartments of white reserve, and vermiculate spirals on a black ground, touched with blue and green. No. 397 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches A twelve pointed green star, centred on a rosette in cobalt, white reserve and vermilion enamel, is imposed upon a floral medallion of similar coloring, with projecting crossed antennae in black. On the rim a leaf and flower border in white reserve, cobalt and green, within a ground of vermilion enamel in light relief. Third Afternoon No. 398 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Bowl and rim alike show a white ground. The rim is adorned with vermiculate spirals, penciled in black and enshrouded in brilliant blue relieved with deep emerald; the bowl is decorated with flower groups in blue and green, reinforced by enveloping enamels of copper-brown, about a formal floral centre. On the back are symbols of life and budding flowers. No. 399 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Shallow, with wide, spreading rim, the rim occupied by a border of gadroons in white reserve outlined in black on a ground of robin’s- egg blue, and the bottom carrying a large medallion centred by a rosette. The medallion ornamentation is in deep blue, pale turquoise and green, with brown enamel and white reserve; the enamel also appears in the rim border. No. 400 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1214 inches With narrow brim having a festooned edge, and shallow bowl. The brim carries, between blue fillets, a border of tulip clusters and de- tached blossoms in blue and green, with red enamel in light relief. Within the bowl are sprays and clusters of flowers and two long, rambling palms, springing from a common source and executed in the colors of the border. On the back are tulips and detached blossoms in blue. No. 401 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1244 inches Pointed leaves radiate from a small square which truncates their bases, and form an eight-pointed star within a medallion which occu- pies the entire bottom. The leaves are outlined in manganese and rice-color reserve on a dense blue ground, and support further orna- mentation. Wide border of green lattice and a simple narrow border in blue. Third Afternoon No. 402 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Moderately deep ovoidal bowl; rim flaring. Decoration, a generous disposition of tulips in blue outlined in black, and dark red roses; the leaves and stems in varying shades of green. Border of vermi- culate spirals in green enveloped in blue, on a white ground. On the back trefoils and sprouting seeds. No. 403 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Pointed leaves form a star spanning the bowl, the leaves radiating from a stellar medallion; within them are palmations and between them are detached blossoms and spirals, the decorations being in blue mainly, with reliefs in manganese and brilliant green, and reserved white ground. Checkered border in blue and white. No. 404 BOKHARA PLATE ) (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1234 inches Four pointed leaves outlined in black and enclosing palmations in blue and green radiate from a checker-board medallion similarly out- lined and in the same colors. In the intermediate ground are blue spirals with white reserve, and small medallions with ornamentation in white reserve, black and green, with serrated outline in black. Border of alternating white and blue squares. On the back, spirals in manganese and green on a cream-white crackled ground. No. 405 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches On a reserve of cream color in the form of a Greek cross, spanning the cavetto, two contiguous lines of small field flowers in blue form an- other cross, centring on a blossom medallion painted in manganese. The spaces between the arms of the cross are occupied by foliations and fine scrolls, the ground above them being touched with a rich green and warm manganese. ‘Two conventional borders of designs infrequently found. The back is glazed in a rich, mottled turquoise, with crackle. Third Afternoon No. 406 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1344 inches Deep with spreading rim. In the centre of the bowl a saucer-like medallion defined in green, displaying a sky-blue ground flushed with mauve and tinges of yellow, and with white cloudings, on which are superimposed swirling radiants in black. Encompassing this are suc- cessive borders of loops and diagonal lines, varicolored or in green, or _ black and white with manganese, the principal one on the flare of the marly being a conventional fern pattern in blue, interrupted by reserve dises with olive and manganese enclosures. No. 407 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1344 inches Exterior with a mottled turquoise glaze, with crackle, stopping short of the foot. In the interior a medallion defined in clouded blue en- closes a square decorated in blue and manganese on a cream-white ground. Springing from this are the tepee-like arms of a four-pointed star, in black outline enclosing pale bluish-white ground crackled in pale brown, the spaces between the star points displaying leaf-form reserves and manganese drippings on a blue-clouded ground. No. 408 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Occupying the flat of the bottom a medallion of foliar scrolls in blue, touched with green, on a creamy ground, interrupted by five small medallions enclosing clusters of discs. The same motives appear in the rim border, which is separated from the large-medallion by a nar- row ring of X-marks in café-au-lait on the ground color, defined by double green lines. No. 409 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1314 inches Shallow with broad flat bottom. A circular medallion of composite ornament in blue and brown on a creamy ground is surrounded by a band made up of an inscription and scrolls, which is followed by a border of detached forms suggestive of the Buddha’s-hand citron motive of the Chinese. At the edge is a fringe border. The medallion and the several borders are separated by green and brown rings. Third Afternoon No. 410 PERSIAN BOWL (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches A medallion whose principal decoration is a curling leaf is encom- passed by a deep trellis formed of the interlacing double outlines of long pointed leaves. The lines of the decoration are all in black, and the ground is a rich and brilliant cucumber-green, somewhat variable. No. 411 ITALIAN FAIENCE BOWL (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 13°4 inches Bell-shaped and deep, with melon-like fluting and festooned rim, on a low circular foot. Glazed throughout in a soft cream white of brilliant surface, with a crackle in fine dark lines. In the interior of the bot- tom a coat of arms in which a bucksaw and other tools appear 1s painted in green, blue and yellow, with white reserve. No. 412 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1334 inches Decorated in a series of borders, mainly bold or intricate foliations, which cover the upper surface of the plate from rim edge to a small reserved central medallion of soft creamy ground. In the rim border the foliations are reserved on a blue ground, as they are in a narrow border enclosing the medallion; a broad intermediate border dis- closes them in blue, almost obliterating the creamy ground. In this border are also leaf sprays, and large detached blossoms, in stellate reserves. The blue color throughout is of rich and brilliant quality and appears in two shades. 3 No. 413 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1334 inches On a blue net-work ground a reserve of old ivory in the form of an irregular Greek cross, crackled, carries an interior cross formed of two adjoining bands of blossoms of common flowers, the crossing occupied by a medallion. The sections between the arms display alternately bold foliations and fine scrolls in blue. Surrounding the bow] is a nar- row serpentine border in ivory reserve and blue, and the marly shows a foliar scroll reserved in a brilliant blue ground. Third Afternoon No. 414 DAMASCAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) ; Height, 8 inches; length, 10144 inches Decoration, interlacing foliate medallions in white reserve, whose lines form lesser medallions of similar pattern within them, these being painted in a grayish-purple, touched with manganese and turquoise, and enclosing reserved blossoms. No. 415 DAMASCAN TILE (Stateenth Century) Height, 8% inches; length, 9 inches Decorated with conventional tulips and larger flowers, disposed about a rosette, the colors being a deep purplish-blue, turquoise, light green and dark egg-plant hue, on a white ground. No. 416 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Outside measurement: 22 inches square Four square tiles set in a square. The ornament is in a‘rich blue of sapphire quality and a light turquoise of greenish cast, on a white crackled ground. It consists of foliate medallions, based on the pointed leaf form highly conventionalized, in blue with a white re- serve centre, imposed upon larger medallions of the same shape, in turquoise; these, beyond an outline of white reserve, are encompassed by painted loop-and-scroll decorative frames in blue. Around each of these are outlying lanceolate leaves or conventionalized date pods, in turquoise with pellets of white reserve. No. 417 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Szxteenth Century) Same as the preceding, in form, decoration and dimensions. No. 418 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Srxteenth Century) Same as the preceding, in form, decoration and dimensions. Third Afternoon No. 419 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Outside measurements: height, 1114 inches; length, 37 inches Four square tiles set laterally in a frame. Painted in a rich blue, mot- tled turquoise, manganese and black, with the conventional motive of pine trees alternating with tulip sprays, on a white ground. No. 420 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Of the same dimensions and decoration as the foregoing. No. 421 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Stateenth Century) Same decoration and dimensions as the preceding. No. 422 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Same decoration and dimensions as the preceding. Third Afternoon No. 423 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Same decoration and dimensions as the preceding. ' No. 424 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Siateenth Century) Same decoration and dimensions as the preceding. No. 425 DAMASCAN TILE (Sixteenth Century) 9 inches square A foliar medallion in white reserve is set within an eight-pointed star also in reserve, the intervening space being painted a light yellowish- green and dotted with detached blossoms in reserve. The medallion displays more elaborate blossoms, in reserve and in dark blue on a turquoise ground; and portions of eight other medallions enter the picture. No. 426 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATTERS (Ch’ien-lung) Length, 12 inches; width, 9 inches In the centre a Shou medallion, between two four-clawed dragons, the rest of the dish surface occupied by branches of the sacred fungus and delicate scrolling foliations, the colors blue, a purplish-pink, green, yellow, coral and mushroom-color. The rim is bordered with cloud scrolls in coral and white reserve, amidst them appearing ten bats in various colors. Under the rim are four more bats, emblems of happi- ness, in coral on the white ground. Third Afternoon No. 427 TING YAO DISH (Sung) Diameter, 12 inches Ovoidal on a low foot. The characteristic decoration in low relief in the interior presents two swimming carp in a medallion, the medallion surrounded by a wide border occupying most of the remaining space of the bowl, exhibiting the nelumbian lotus and other aquatic plants. These dishes being baked bottom upward, the rim was left unglazed, often afterward being covered with copper to protect it from injury; in the present example the rim, uncovered, exposes the biscuit. No. 428 FUCHIEN PLAQUE Diameter, 13% inches Shallow dish form, its only decoration leaf sprays etched lightly in the peculiar paste, beneath the characteristic lustrous creamy glaze. “Tt (Fuchien porcelain) differs widely from other oriental porcelain, the paste of smooth texture being of a creamy-white tint resembling ivory, while the rich thick glaze, which has a satiny aspect, like the surface of soft paste porcelain, blends closely with the paste underneath.’—Dr. Bushell. No. 429 CHINESE PORCELAIN BOWL (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 1434 inches; depth, 4% inches Deep, with a narrow flaring rim and molded edge. Reproduction of a Ming form. The decoration, which is continuous on the interior of the bottom, the sides and rim, is one of flowers and butterfles, painted in the characteristic enamel colors and underglaze rouge de cuwre. On the exterior are four symbolic bats in the copper red. No. 430 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (KC ang-hst) Diameter, 1434 inches Blue and white. Basin form, painted in two tones of rich blue, with white reserve, with a bold and brilliant lotus scroll, the blossoms showing the seedpods and the stems overlain by spreading leaves. Mark: Ta Ch’ing K’ang-hsi nien-chih, in underglaze blue within a blue double ring. Third Afternoon No. 431 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hsv) Blue and white. Companion to the preceding and with the same mark. No. 432 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hsi) Diameter, 1434 inches Blue and white. The bottom presents a medallion, encircled by a conventional petal border in blue with white reserve, occupying the short oblique, or shallow-ovoidal, upright leading to the flaring rim. The medallion is painted in light and dark blue with rocks at the water side, a willow tree, a pagoda, and the blossoming rock peony and other flora. The rim is patterned in basket work, in sixteen com- partments, in sensible relief under the glaze. No. 433 CHINESE CELADON PLAQUE (Chien-lung) Diameter, 1514 inches In the shape of a circular mushroom top, many times magnified, orna- mented at the centre with a double medallion of floral motive and around this with a broad band or border occupying the rest of the upper surface, exhibiting large blossoms and extensive scrolling folia- tions, all modeled in the paste under a brilliant glaze of pale sea green. No. 434 PERSIAN PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 14 inches With festooned rim. The decoration is in black and a brilliant olive. In a medallion at the centre are two sharks, swimming, painted in black, the ground being green. About it is a border of stems and blossoms reserved in green with a black ground. Around the curve of the bowl wavy, elongated medallions carry an inscription in cursive characters, written in black on green, and the rim bears a scroll border in the same colors. On the back of the bowl is a border of scrolling foliations in black, on a green ground. Third Afternoon No. 435 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 14 inches A scrolling palm of pale green and cobalt, with black stem, issues from a root cluster in company with graceful stems of tulips and carnations, and folds back its nodding head about the bending blossoms of the pinks, while a gracile tulip in blue reaches toward it. Interspersed are stems of hyacinths, in the dulled vermilion of the carnations, and the rim carries vermiculate scrolls in black, enshrouded in cobalt blue touched with green, amongst expansive white reserves. On the back, detached blossoms and clusters in blue, green and black. No. 436 PERSIAN BOWL (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 141% inches Ovoidal cavetto with lightly flaring marly. The marly is decorated in relief with nine cantering horses with erect ears, spinous manes and branching tails, glazed in a richly mottled deep moss-green with yel- low-cream reserves, both showing a fish-roe crackle. Alternating with the horses are wheel medallions and palms in low relief and similar coloring. Beginning on the foot of the marly a glaze of egg-plant hue flows down over the cream coating of the cavetto, presenting almost the effect of a deep tortoise-shell splash, an overflow of the green occasionally streaking it. No. 437 RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 141% inches Luxuriant peonies and long, scrolling, serrated leaves, are boldly exe- cuted in a rich sapphire-blue and emerald-green, with white reserve, on a ground of iron-rust hue in a large medallion which occupies nearly the whole surface of the bowl. The medallion is embraced within a festooned frame of blue, and the rim carries a border of spirals on blue ground, with scrolled reserves of white. Third Afternoon No. 438 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Deep and broadly expanding bowl, with upright rim. The bow! di- vided into eight compartments by the slender blades of split palms, radiating from a formal medallion, the interspaces being filled, alter- nately, with brown-dotted white reserves in a cerulean ground, and lattices in pale cobalt whose white ground-spaces are spangled with leaf forms in blue, green and manganese. Interior of rim with a fenc- ing of parallel upright and horizontal lines in manganese, the inter- stices disclosing an atmospheric blue over cloudings of white reserve. Back coated with a brilliant turquoise glaze, which stops short of the foot, with black interlacements forming a complex of pointed arches. No. 439 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century ) Diameter, 15 inches Deep bowl of inverted cone shape, with lightly flaring rim. Interior of rim with fence-work in manganese, pale cobalt and white reserve; below this a band of leaf and butterfly design in cobalt on a bluish- white ground, with reserves touched with manganese; the deeper de- pression of the bowl dotted with manganese within small white re- serves in a deep cerulean ground, which is interrupted by small geo- metrical medallions and a large fish, in blue, manganese and reserve. Exterior glazed in turquoise, with pointed-arch and diamond cross- ings in double lines of black. No. 440 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Shallow, with a border of white and dark blue alternating squares, the white ones carrying each a single black dot; on the bottom chrysan- themum-like flowers and eccentric scrolls in blue, with touches of manganese, about a six-pointed star enclosing a blossom, the star in manganese and its enclosure in blue, all on a creamy-white ground. No. 441 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 15 inches Blue and white. Basin form, decorated both in the interior and on the outer surface of the rim with lotus blossoms, leaves, and scrolling stems and foliations, the blossoms showing the seedpods, painted in a rich blue of cobalt quality, with white reserve, on a pure white ground. Six-character mark of the reign. Third Afternoon No. 442 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hsi) Blue and white. Companion to the preceding, with the same mark. No. 443 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE . (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 1514 inches Ovoidal bowl shape, glazed in a rich, even and luminous imperial yel- low, which shows a very delicate iridescence, scintillating, with a softened, mother-of-pearl brilliancy. Decorated under the glaze with a border in the sea wave motive and a large medallion displaying nine peaches, amongst their curling, pointed leaves, growing on a tree whose ramifying branches are bent even as its trunk is gnarled. Mark: the six characters of Yung Chéng within a double ring, in underglaze blue on the white ground of the foot. No. 444 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 15% inches Ovoidal bowl shape, all surfaces glazed in robin’s-egg soufflé of dull lustre. No. 445 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 1614 inches Broad and deep ovoidal bowl shape. Fine white porcelain of musical bell tone, coated with a rich glaze of the much prized rose du Barry hue, with peau d’orange surface. Foot glazed in white with the seal mark of the reign in underglaze blue. No. 446 ITALIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 16 inches Ovoidal cavetto with prominent umbo, and flaring marly; the deco- * ration in this plate is continuous, unheedful of the demarcation of the parts. It is entirely in a deep mottled blue on a cream-white ground and depicts a huge grotesque animal whose extremities reach the con- fines of the dish, together with a strange bird above it, all in blue, the body of the animal exhibiting white reserves. All around are blue spirals, and on the rim appear also some leaf or fruit forms. Third Afternoon No. 447 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 17 inches Dense porcelain, of rich sonorousness, fashioned in broad and graceful ovoidal bowl shape, and glazed in that fine turquoise blue seen in the famous wide-necked bottle in the J. P. Morgan collection, of which it was said in Mr. Morgan’s private catalogue: ‘This glaze more closely repeats the hue of the Eastern stone for which it was named than any other piece of porcelain known.”’ No. 448 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 17 inches Shallow, flaring cavetto and convex marly. The cream ground of the broad cavetto is all but obliterated by a luxuriant bouquet of peonies and flowers resembling dahlias, in a rich and brilliant variable blue, the obtruding stems being in manganese and the flower centres in emerald. On the marly bold scrolls in the same deep blue rise and descend alternately from bordering fillets following the contour of the plate. On the back are broad splashes of deep aubergine and a light cobalt blue. No. 449 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 17 inches The central ornament is in the form of a tall mosque window, with a decoration of foliar scrolls in white worked into three informal medal- lions, the central one with an olive and brown ground, the two ex- terior ones defined in the white scroll on a deep blue ground. ‘The window is flanked by a branch of blossoms in brilliant blue and a succession of formal spirals in blue and green, on white ground. Borders of conventional scrolls and palms in blue on the creamy-white crackled ground, the principal border with interruptions in a greenish- bronze or powdered-tea color. On the back, scrolls of brilliant blue and spirals in emerald green on a crackled creamy ground. Third Afternoon No. 450 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 17 inches A bar of conventionalized palms and fritallaries, with scrolling folia- tions, effected in deep blue, a tea-dust green and cream-white reserve, crosses the centre of the plate between branches of blossoms and leaf spirals, in blue and another shade of blue touched with green, on a cream ground. Border of foliations in blue and a powdered tea-green on cream ground. On the back looped and splashed scrolls and folia- tions in cobalt, emerald and manganese on a cream ground. No. 451 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1714 inches Moderately deep, flaring cavetto, and bold convex marly. The marly decorated with a succession of spiral scrolls in brilliant cobalt, re- lieved with a delicate moss-green, on a white ground; below it a nar- row border of bulbous scrolls in deeper blue, with foliations reserved in white. In the cavetto a heart shaped figure in double outline, from the median line of which issue diverging spirals whose inward coil terminates with a trefoil. The intermediate spaces are filled with con- ventional trefoil branches and daisy-like blossoms, in blue on a cream- white ground. On the back, brilliant blue and aubergine splashes on the cream ground. No. 452 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 171% inches A small garden of conventional flowers, enclosed within a diamond- bordered medallion, is encircled by successive borders of conven- tional design which with the medallion occupy the entire cavetto, the whole executed in cobalt-blue, green, olive-yellow and manganese, on acream-white ground. These are succeeded on the rim by a lattice border of olive tint and a border of trefoils in blue, manganese and yellow threaded by a reserve wave-line in the ground color, Fourth Afternoon No. 453 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1744 inches In the centre is a medallion outlined in light olive, decorated with four large blossoms in blue with emerald and manganese centres, in the midst of blue scrolls on a cream ground. Surrounding this is a double band of leaves and blossoms, which diverge from the central stem alternately to right and left, with manganese touches on the cream ‘round. Two further borders of leaf forms and scrolls in similar color- ing. On the back splashes of cobalt-blue and aubergine. No. 454 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 17% inches Presenting the form of a plate within a plate, the raised centre of the cavetto being in shape of an ovoidal plate with spreading rim, modeled in the paste in inverted position, its bottom affording a medallion for decoration. The medallion is painted in yellow, green, orange and two shades of blue with an escutcheon on which three fleurs-de-lis appear. The remainder of the cavetto is modeled with petal forms radiating from the raised plate and the marly shows a faint modeling. The glaze is a lustrous milk-white with delicate crackle. No. 455 ITALIAN DECORATED PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 17% inches Shallow bowl and horizontal rim, both fluted. The rim is painted with several monochrome borders in the form of narrow stripes and a wavy line and with one broad border of leaf motive in yellow, inter- rupted by blue and white blossoms. In the bowl eleven birds painted in yellow and orange are flying or perched among blue flowers on a white ground, and on the raised centre is painted a group in poly- chrome, picturing the Virgin and Child. No. 456 PERSIAN PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 1844 inches Marly decorated with a conventional border in blue on a white ground and a border of white spirals on black ground. Interior of bottom painted in cobalt blue, tea-dust green and a russet enamel, with stars, foliate patterns and palms, on a white ground; on the ex- terior a scrolling border of flowers and leaves in blue outline. Third Afternoon No. 457 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 18 inches Reproducing a Ming production, a characteristic of the Yung Chéng period. The superior surface is wholly occupied by a typical Ming five-color decoration, the rim with conventional cloud-scrolls of the fungus resemblance, the curve of the bowl with Shou medallions set within lotus flowers amongst scrolling foliations, and the bottom with a medallion containing an imperial dragon and a phoenix, emblems of the emperor and empress, amongst cloud scrolls amid which whirls the flaming jewel of omnipotence. On the exterior are bats and fun- gus forms above waves of the sea. Under the foot the six-character mark of the reign in blue within a blue double ring. No. 458 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Companion to the preceding (457) with slight differences in the color arrangement and the rim border, and with the same mark. No. 459 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 1814 inches Companion to the preceding (457 & 458) with a slight variation in the color distribution, and with the same mark. No. 460 , CHINESE CELADON PLAQUE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 184% inches Dense stoneweight porcelain, molded as a large and shallow plate broadly flaring, on a deep foot. Its ornamentation, vigorously exe- cuted, is in elaborate foliations in the peony motive, with gracefully scrolling stems and expansive blossoms, molded in bas-relief under a celadon glaze of grayish green. On the under side of the rim are con- ventional borders similarly modeled. Third Afternoon No. 470 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 21 inches Blue and white. Heavy, sonorous porcelain, in broad bowl shape. Painted in light cobalt blue, accented with denser notes, with four four-clawed dragons racing after one another, each grasping for a flaming jewel just ahead of him, amid fire scrolls and conventional cloud forms which are continued over the bottom of the plate, while — at the centre a larger dragon holds within his grasp a Shou seal. Under the bottom a conch shell in blue within a blue double ring. No. 471 LARGE BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) 21\% inches Deep ovoidal rim with broad flat bottom. Bottom occupied by a large medallion enclosed by several borders, presenting conventional leaf-forms gracefully executed in deep blue and manganese on a cream colored ground. On the rim the spaces between perpendicular ovals in manganese, blue and ground reserve are filled with horizontal her- ringbone borders alternately green and in the brownish manganese painting. SUMPTUOUS ANTIQUE TEXTILES No. 472 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 7% inches; width, 6 inches A lion rampant in brown silk and gold up- holds a silver fleur-de-lis on a gold and sil- ver shield, which is surmounted by an arch- bishop’s hat in green silk and gold, the tas- sels depending at either side. No. 473 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 8% inches; width, 61% inches On a bright gold cartouche elaborately embroidered, a shield in cloth of silver with gold and silver appliqué, and the whole under a bishop’s hat and decked with its tassels, in reddish gold and rose-pink silk. Third Afternoon No. 474 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 81% inches; width, 7 inches An archbishop’s hat in emerald-green silk and gold surmounts a Roman cross, the strings and tassels of the hat de- pending and enclosing a shield bordered with silver and gold. On the shield ap- pears an arm and hand supporting a dove, and below, an animal, both on a ground of silver and cerulean. No. 475 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 814 inches; width, 7% inches Embroidered in bright silver with scrolls and fillets supporting a shield in which three golden blossoms appear on a ground of delicate sky- blue silk brightened with silver, above a ground of palest green silk marked by wavy water lines in silvered white. No. 476 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Eighteenth Century) Height, 8 inches; width, 734 inches Embroidered cloth of gold enclosing a shield in cloth of silver of deli- cate sky-blue tone, embroidered in silver with a hand pouring water from a pitcher to the ground; below, on a ground of gilded green, are flowers em- broidered in pink silk. Archbishop’s hat and tassels in purple and gold. No. 477 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 101% inches; width, 8 inches The shield in silver cloth and green vel- vet shows a banner above trees, worked in gold and silver, and around it are foli- ations in heavy gold embroidery, topped by a crown. Third Afternoon No. 478 ESCUTCHEON (Kighteenth Century) Height, 8 inches; width, 8 inches Beneath and within a cardinal’s hat and dangling tassels—here in dark red, purple and gold—a large shield or cartouche, applique, in blue silk and heavy gold braiding. On the blue ground a radiant sun with a human face, and a hand holding the scales of justice, in gold and white and red silk. The whole on green damask. \ No. 479 ESCUTCHEON (Seventeenth Century) Height, 9 inches; width, 6 inches A coronetted shield in cloth of gold and colored silks, the coronet being topped by trefoils, sustains a lesser shield of cloth of silver, adorned on one side with sprays and devices in gold and silks on white, and on the other side with a sunburst and star on sky-blue, and a porcupine on brownish ground below, all in gold. | No. 480 SPANISH ESCUTCHEON (Siateenth Century) Height, 934 inches; width, 834 inches Shield with various quarterings, with a smaller shield implanted upon it charged with a lion rampant and an eagle displayed, all in red, yel- low, blue and purple velvets, cloth of gold and of silver, and silk em- broidery. From each of the four sides of the shield extends a fleur-de- lis in green velvet. No. 481 ESCUTCHEON (Eighteenth Century) Height, 11 inches; width, 8% inches Gold and silver embroidery, in fil- lets, tassels and foliar scrolls, em- braces a shield on which a man’s head in white silk appears on gold- en yellow, while opposite it two hu- man arms in red and yellow are shown with the hands wrenching apart the jaws of a wild boar in black, on a white ground. Third Afternoon No. 482 ESCUTCHEON _ (Seventeenth Century) Height, 15 inches; width, 10% inches Showing numerous armorial devices, in brilliant gold and silver embroideries, with silk embroidery, and silk and velvet as well as metal grounds. No. 483 PAIR ESCUTCHEONS (Highteenth Century) Height, 10 inches; width, 10 inches Two shields are set edge to edge beneath a crown, and supported at either side by a crowned eagle. Each is quartered, the charges on one being eagles with wings abaisé and lions rampant, and on the other eagles and scallop shells; the colors, black, blue and purple-pink on silvered white. The background is a rose-pink brightly silvered, and the supporting eagles are in black, with gold. No. 484 SPANISH ESCUTCHEON (Siateenth Century) Height, 11 inches; width, 9 inches Shield bearing numerous devices, including castles and lions (em- blems of the ancient Spanish royal houses), as well as other animals, trees, cauldrons and other designs, in green and red velvet, and cloth of silver and of gold. At each of the four sides of the shield, a fleur-de- lis extended in red velvet. No. 485 ESCUTCHEON Height, 19 inches; width, 19 inches Inverted shield, quartered and further divided, bearing devices in re- lief, applied in heavy silver embroidery on grounds of dull red and gray- green velvet andayellow material. They include various lions, three fleurs-de-lis, a harp and a galloping charger. Third Afternoon No. 486 FRENCH VELVET BAG (Eighteenth Century) Depth, 131% inches; width, 7% inches Coral-pink velvet of rare and exquisite tone, softer, smoother than the down of a peach, whose color and surface it suggests, and with a re- markable lustre, brilliant as sunshine on unruffled, limpid water. Embroidered in gold with leaves and flowers worked in an individual and distinguished design. Around the bottom a fret border, also in gold. No. 487 VELVET PORTFOLIO (Seventeenth Century) Height, 111% inches; width, 84% inches Bright emerald-green velvet of soft lustre, both front and back of the portfolio embroidered in gold, with leaf sprays and sinuous foliations. No. 488 VELVET PORTFOLIO WITH ESCUTCHEON (Seventeenth Century) Height, 11 inches; width, 8 inches Ruby-red velvet with delicate sheen; on each outer side of the cover an escutcheon under a cardinal’s hat, the shield bearing an upright ladder, in embroidery of brown, pink and blue silks, and gold thread. No. 489 VERY FINE FRENCH ESCUTCHEON (Fifteenth Century) Height, 4% inches; width, 234 inches Has been pronounced a royal relic, and declares itself a gem among its kind. The upper part of the shield is in the likeness of the early ban- ner of France (down to the time of Charles VI), covered with fleurs- de-lis, here in the slender and graceful form of St. Louis’ day, em- broidered in silver on a finely matted blue silk ground. Below, the ground color changes, and the ground bears a primitive sailing craft of Mediterranean type, embroidered in silver in relief, and resting in water. ‘The shield is crested with a crown of battlemented towers in silver. Third Afternoon No. 490 PAIR GRAND ESCUTCHEONS (Seventeenth Century) H eight, 29 inches; width, 22% inches An ermine drapery, with the ermine tails embroidered in black silk on white satin, is surrounded with gold trim- mings, lambrequins and tas- sels, and surmounted by a gold crown in the same lav- ish workmanship, touched with silver, and supports an armorial shield bearing the mitre and keys of St. Peter and various heraldic designs, in gold on silk and velvet grounds. No. 491 ITALIAN CHASUBLE FRONT (Sixteenth Century) Emerald-green velvet, cut with an ogival ornamentation, with a cen- tral panel of ruby velvet having a finely cut floral decoration and further adorned with silken leaves and foliations, appliqué. No. 492 ITALIAN VELVET AND BROCADE CHASUBLE (Siateenth Century) Central panel of deep green velvet, with an embossed vine and leaf scroll, set within white silk brocade whose ornamentation displays flowering trees in varicolored embroidery. No. 493 ITALIAN CHASUBLE (Sixteenth Century) Cloth of gold with embossing in floral scroll patterns; orphrey of gar- net velvet embroidered in gold, silver and silks, with foliations branch- ing from a vertical stem, and a coat of arms. Third Afternoon No. 494 ITALIAN VELVET CHASUBLE (Early Sixteenth Century) In yellow-olive, with soft, subdued sheen; unornamented. No. 495 SCUTARI MARCHEPIED (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Formed of a Scutari rug, cushioned, on a green velvet underbody. Embossed ornamentation of green and red velvet on a corn-color ground; in the field a formal elongated medallion, and floral corners, and in the border flower sprays and S-scrolls. No. 496 : SCUTARI MARCHEPIED (Siateenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Scutari velvet rug, topping a cushioned footstool firmly stuffed and having a green velvet bottom. The ornamentation of the rug is formed of luxuriant foliations in a field border, and an expansive cen- tral figure, and of further foliations and a lattice design in end bor- ders, all in chrysoprase and soft apricot velvet on a light fawn ground, while at the sides is another lattice border, in the same colors with the addition of sky blue. Third Afternoon No. 497 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot, 10 inches Branches of blossoms appear at the head and foot of the field, at either end of a central foliar ornament, and the field is bounded by a scroll of filletted palms and small sprays, all in purplish-red and light green on a ground of light buckskin color. No. 498 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 499 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches Branches of blossoms appear at the head and foot of the field, at either end of a central foliar ornament, and the field is bounded by a scroll of filletted palms and small sprays, all in purplish-red and light green on a ground of light buckskin color. No. 500 | SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 501 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 17 inches; length, 19 inches Roses and pansies with other flowers appear in wine color, golden yel- low and a rich, luscious brown amid spreading foliage of lustrous Nile green, on a silvery ground. No. 502 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 20 inches; width, 124% inches Embossed in rose des Alpes, olive, and pineapple shifting to palest fawn, on a light écru ground. Third Afternoon No. 503 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 17 inches; length, 19 inches In yellow, green, garnet and the rich brown of marigold centres, on a silvery-gray ground. No. 504 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) 181% inches by 191% inches In garnet and a garnet-brown, old-golden yellow and pale green on a light ground. No. 505 TWO ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET CHAIR-SEATS , (Sixteenth Century) Dimensions, 18 inches by 21 inches Profuse and varied ornamentation, including carnations and roses, grapes and acanthus-leaf foliations, in various soft colors. No. 506 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Siateenth Century) 18 inches by 19% inches The ornamentation in garnet hues, pale gold, flame, rich brown and soft green, with light ground. No. 507 | ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Siateenth Century) Height, 19 inches; length, 21 inches The decoration in garnet, golden-yellow, flame color and a delicately rich green on a silvery ground. Third Afternoon No. 508 | PAIR DECORATIVE SPANISH PANELS OR BORDERS (Sixteenth Century) Length, 261% inches; depth, 6 inches The wings of a lectern-cloth, of scroll formation. Blue velvet, deco- rated in red silk with gold embroidery in designs of scrolling leaves and two winged dragons supporting a medallion enclosing an escut- cheon. The shield is quartered, and shows a Roman cross flory, a three-towered castle and a group of the fleurs-de-lis. No. 509 ECCLESIASTICAL CARTOUCHE (Siavteenth Century) Height, 20 inches; width, 22 inches In a medallion of olive-yellow silk, the arms of St. Peter in silver and gold, with touches of silken color, appliqué. An inscription which en- circled the medallion is all but worn away. ‘The whole framed in bold scrolls and foliations in silvery embroidery on silk—the colors white, blue, olive and silver. No. 510 ESCUTCHEON (Seventeenth Century) Height, 17 inches; width, 121% inches Brilliant gold embroidery in foliate scrolls encompassing an armorial shield picturing lions rampant, Greek crosses, a crescent and other heraldic devices, the whole sur- mounted by a crown. Third Afternoon No. 511 ITALIAN ECCLESIASTICAL CARTOUCHE (Seventeenth Century) Height, 24 inches; width, 211% inches In a medallion embroidered in blue, yellow, white and green silk, is an ostensorium embroidered in gold, the whole being surrounded by flowers and foliar scrolls in embroideries both of silk and metal. No. 512 TWO ITALIAN ARMORIAL VELVET STRIPS (Siateenth Century) Length, 30 inches; depth, 10 inches Rose velvet, embroidered with bold foliar scrolls branching at either side of an escutcheon, in silver and gold with details in silk. One of the shields bears fleurs-de-lis and the lettering ““Ave Maria gratia plena;” the other battle-axes and other armorial insignia. Third Afternoon No. 513 ITALIAN DECORATIVE PENDANT STRIP (Sixteenth Century) Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 9 inches Highly ornate. The foundation a rich, brilliant, glowing emerald velvet, bordered at both sides with galloon from which the metal has all but vanished. On this a versatile, applied decoration in yellow, blue, white and red silks, gold and silver threads, and various velvets. It comprehends, besides lesser ornament, a series of large and smaller medallions, enclosing rosettes and armorial displays in which appear eagles, crowns, battlemented towers and lions rampant. No. 514 MEDICI VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 20 inches; length, 22 inches Tones of ruby and garnet, and of the shadowed depths of wine, mingle in a lustrous sheen where pattern is an incident, or with sober pre- cision demarcate an ornamentation refined and beauteous, revealing curling leaves and palms, the tulip of the East and other floral forms, with chevrons and conventional foliations. No. 515 VELVET AND GOLD TABLE MAT (Louts Seize) Length, 31 inches; width, 26% inches ; In the most exquisite of French workmanship a graceful trellising in floral motives is carried in delicate velvet of rare sheen over a ground of cloth-of-gold, the whole resplendent field being bordered with bright silver braid. The velvet is in the form of irregular, serrate leaves, flesh-pink, each supporting a white leaf carrying a spray in green and pink, touched with gold; and the large leaves are linked by slender stems of velvet, which describe outline blossoms on the gold ground, these blossoms being centred with green dots. No. 516 ITALIAN VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Length, 39 inches; width, 211% inches Bold, embossed decoration, which shows Asiatic influences, probably indicating Venetian origin, in imposing floral figures formed of scrolled palms, with wheat ears in reserve, and bulbous conventionalized pome- granates, in rich wine-colored velvet with a light, slightly purplish sheen, on golden-yellow ground. Third Afternoon No. 517 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 27 inches; width, 23 inches Richly embossed with a variety of ornament, conspicuous elements being cornucopias entwined with fillets and overflowing with luxuri- ant peonies in flower and bud, executed in garnet-brown, rich green, and soft apricot, on a white ground. Edged with silver galloon. No. 518 PORTUGUESE BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Width, 23 inches; depth, 27 inches Cloth of gold, adorned with damask scrolls and foliations, highly con- ventionalized, the damask a purplish red. Gold galloon border all around, and metal fringe on the festooned bottom. No. 519 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) 22 inches square Embossed decoration in bril- liant emerald and lustrous ruby, with pinkish-buff, on drap d’argent ground. Edged with silver galloon. No. 520 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 23 inches; width, 20 inches The embossing in flame color, soft and rich greens, golden yellow and varying shades of garnet on drab ground. Third Afternoon No. 521 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Dimensions, 20 inches by 20 inches Cruciform. ‘The embossing in pale greenish-gold with a rare sheen, and dark wine tones, coral, and yellow-gold; the ground a light sil- very-gray. No. 522 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Dimensions, 20 inches by 20 inches In octagonal shape, the embossing in bold patterns in green, garnet, gold and rose-pink on light ground. No. 523 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) 20 inches by 21 inches Garnet, green and gold, with glowing flame, on a light ground. No. 524 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Siateenth Century) Height, 17 inches; length, 241% inches Embossed in bold patterns of flower and foliate design, in soft golden- brown and a purple-rose. No. 525 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches In the field, within formal corners, a pointed or leaf-shaped medallion embraces a wreath about a central ornament, all executed in apricot and brilliant green velvet on a light tan ground, the patterns being leaf and flower forms. End borders in the same colors; the side border in apricot and cerulean, on the tan ground. No. 526 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. Third Afternoon No.o27 ESCUTCHEON (Seventeenth Century) Height, 121% inches; width, 11% inches Showing a coronetted shield with flags draped at the sides, enclosing a battlemented tower and a ship, in silver on a silver-blue ground. No. 528 TWO CHASUBLES (Sixteenth Century) Centres of mottled green velvet with brilliant lustre. sides of silk dam- ask of olive hue, patterned with flower sprays disclosing Eastern mo- tives. No. 529 SPANISH CHASUBLE, STOLE AND MANIPLE (Seventeenth Century) Resplendent in gold and emerald. The ground is cloth-of-gold, its ornamentation a rich array of decorative motives of floral design, in lustrous emerald-green velvet, cut and uncut. Further adorned with broad gold braid, and a narrow gold braid border of chevron pattern. Third Afternoon No. 530 ITALIAN CHASUBLE (Sixteenth Century) Rich coral velvet, both back and front in three panels defined by gold galloon, which also borders the entire garment. No. 531 ITALIAN ALTAR FRONTAL (Siateenth Century) Length, 6 feet 4 inches; depth, 3 feet In four panels of rich coral velvet bounded by heavy galloon border- ing, and having a gold fringe at the bottom. No. 532 ITALIAN ALTAR FRONTAL (Sixteenth Century) Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet, 9 inches Formed of three panels of rich, deep red velvet, decorated with an in- terlacing lattice enclosing rosettes, all lightly cut, the panels sepa- rated and bounded by bands and a border of silk damask, whose or- namentation is in various soft colors and includes motives charac- teristic of the Near East. No. 533 ITALIAN VELVET COPE (Srateenth Century) Length, 8 feet, 6 inches; depth, 4 feet Dark red, trimmed with bright galloon. No. 534 SILK DAMASK COPE Spread, 9 feet; length, 4 feet 4 inches Renaissance damask of rich and soft olive notes, woven in a formal pattern of conventional figures in which vase forms, crowns, and elab- orate foliated scrolls appear. Bordered with galloon. No. 535 VELVET COPE (Kighteenth Century) Spread, 7 feet 11 inches; length, 3 feet 11 inches Velvet of deep, lustrous green, edged with galloon. Third Afternoon No. 536 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE VALANCE Length, 6 feet 4 inches; depth, 20 inches Thick red velvet with brilliant sheen, which shows in its brighter pristine hue the lines and pattern of an original applied decoration— doubtless heavy gold or silver braiding—in the form of heavy foliate scrolls and an enwreathed blossom figure. Gold fringe on three sides. | No. 537 MEDICI VALANCE (Siateenth Century) Length, 6 feet 10 inches; depth, 31 inches Broad leaves and foliations, and minor leaf sprays, are embossed in cut and uncut velvet of rich garnet hue with a purplish-red sheen, on a cloth-of-gold ground, and in the heavier figures branching wheat- ears appear in the ground reserve. The rectangular doorway arch is filled with silk damask of harmonious hue. The whole has a broad border of gold galloon, and on the bottom is long gold fringe. No. 538 ITALIAN GREEN VELVET HANGING (Early Sixteenth Century) Height, 34 inches; length, 57 inches Rich and luscious in color, at times olive with a silvery sheen, again revealing emerald depths, with the lustre of gems in sunlight. In earlier days it was embellished with ecclesiastical arms of august pro- portions, the crossed keys of St. Peter, surmounted by a cross, which have left their imprint for future ages. No. 539 SPANISH VELVET EMBROIDERED BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 75 inches; width, 34 inches Garnet velvet, embroidered in silver, oxidized to a grayish steel-blue, with delicate leaf-scroll borders and flower-sprays. Enwreathed at the center is a medallion or shield, applied, and plaited in relief in metal threads, displaying various heraldic devices. Third Afternoon No. 540 SPANISH ECCLESIASTICAL BANNER On a ground of drap d'argent, ornamented with sprays embroidered in greenish golden-yellow outlined in deep apricot silk, a dark wine-red velvet medallion of immense size embroidered in metals and spangled with brilliants. In the medallion a chalice surmounted by a cross is wreathed with palms, which lead to a conventional crown, while be- low the chalice is a coronet. Embroidered in silk on the back is the following inscription: ESTE ESTANDARTE fue hallado en Fez CAPITAL DE MARRUECOS y regalado AL SANTUARIO DE N. S. DE EUROPA por S. E. el ministro de Francia EN MARRUECOS Baron Aymé D’Aquin 1866 TRANSLATION: This standard was found in Fez, capital of Morocco, and presented to the sanctuary of Our Lady of Europe by his Excellency the Minister of France in Morocco, Baron Aymé D’Aquin; 1866. No. 541 ITALIAN EMBROIDERED VELVET BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 7 inches Green velvet, bordered with galloon, and decorated with braid and eordonnet in extensive scrolls and spirals. Applied in the centre is a scrolled panel of black velvet, spangled and ornamented in gold em- broidery with two eagles and a shield in which three crowns, a sword and serpent, and a palm branch appear. 3 No. 542 SPANISH SILK BROCADE (Seventeenth Century) Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches Brilliant ground of deep gold color, ornate with blossoms and leaves, detached and in chains and sprays, and with conventional figures in- geniously devised, all in soft and brilliant silks of golden-yellow, deep azure, palest sky-blue, light green, a faint pink, and silvery white. Third Afternoon No. 543 CHINESE SILK HANGING Height, 7 feet 10 inches, width, 6 feet 2 inches Ground of a gorgeous scarlet, finely embroidered with large flowers of the sacred lotus in a light, silvery blue. The seed pods are done in threads of gold, and the blossoms are enwreathed and connected by a finely executed scroll of stems and light foliations in the silver-blue. ‘At the bottom is hung a deep silken band of added splendor, its dec- oration blossom-sprays in red, outlined in golden-yellow on a bril- liant green ground which flushes crimson with every change of light,— with every movement of its magic surfaces. No. 544 CHINESE SILK HANGING Length, 10 feet; width, 5 feet Deep scarlet, embroidered in green, yellow, white, purple and blue, with small dragon medallions alternating with a complex conventional figure in which the sceptre motive is conspicuous. The dragons are distinguished by an interweaving of gold, and the ornamentation throughout is regularly aligned. No. 545 VELVET AND DAMASK WALL HANGING Height, 6 feet 7 inches; length, 19 feet 6 inches Formed of successive oblong panels of antique velvet—nine in all— ranged laterally in perpendicular position, between a dado of crimson silk damask woven in sprays and foliations, and an ornate frieze in the same material with additional applied decoration in olive and light golden yellow damask. The velvet panels are alternately ruby and emerald, and to each is given an arched effect by a sweeping foliation _ in damask, olive damask being used on the ruby velvet and a soft purplish-red damask on the emerald velvet. No. 546 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE GUIPURE TABLE COVER 41 inches square The decoration a fine leaf and scroll pattern. Third Afternoon No. 547 SICILIAN RENAISSANCE GUIPURE TABLE COVER 42 inches square Bold, conventional pattern of leaf, flower and scroll design. No. 548 MILANESE TABLE COVER 7 Length, 44 inches; width, 39 inches With broad lace border patterned in loop scrolls and bell and flower shapes. No. 549 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LACE CURTAIN Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 6 inches Worked with conventional designs, in conventional striped or paneled effect. No. 550 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LACE CURTAIN Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 8 inches In striped or paneled effect, with conventional designs and a scrolled edging. No. 551 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LACE CURTAIN Length, 6 feet; width, 5 feet 9 inches Worked in conventional designs in six lace panels alternating with solid panels; fine edging. No. 552 ITALIAN LACE VALANCE | Length, 10 feet; width, 2 feet 6 inches Ingeniously patterned, with a primitive, Gothic, but fertile imagina- tion, influenced by Asiatic forms, in figures of flowers and foliations, birds and animals in natural form or grotesque representation, and architectural elements. The decoration, at first glance indeterminate, resolves itself into well defined variety, birds and birdlings, small ani- mals and imaginary beasts, horses in motion, the Persian tulip pat- tern, and pagoda-like structures. Third Afternoon No. 553 FIVE STRIPS OF ITALIAN VELVET (Early Sixteenth Century) Length, (of each), 344 yards; width, 23 inches Rich, deep velvet of golden olive-yellow, of remarkable quality, and effulgent to the degree of splendor. No. 554 LOT OF PIECED ITALIAN VELVET (Seventeenth Century) Total length, 334 yards; width, 16 inches In two strips. Deep green, with a bright lustre in which yellowish- olive notes appear. No. 555 ROLL OF GENOESE VELVET (Eighteenth Century) Length, 53% yards; width, 24 inches Embossed decoration in majestically bold design, comprehending ex- panded blossoms, sweeping foliations, and huge vases or urns, in cut and uncut ruby velvet through which odd streaks of purplish-blue are woven, on a ground of greenish golden-bronze. No. 556 PIECE OF ITALIAN VELVET (Sixteenth Century) Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet Emerald green with brilliant lustre. No. 557 TWO LONG BANDS ITALIAN VELVET _ (Sixteenth Century) Length (each) 7 feet; width, 10 inches Variable green of emerald quality with a sheen of notable richness and lustre. At either end, corded knots and tassels in green and yellow. | No. 558 STRIP OF OLD ITALIAN VELVET (Kighteenth Century) Length, 3 yards; width, 191% inches Fine red. Third Afternoon No. 559 ROLL OF VELVET . (Seventeenth Century) Length, 414 yards; width, 24 inches Rich cherry red with a lustrous sheen of crushed strawberry tint. No. 560° LOT OF PIECED ITALIAN VELVET (Seventeenth Century) Total length, 534 yards; width, 201% inches and 21 inches In two strips. Ruby-red with lustrous sheen. No. 561 NARROW STRIP OF ITALIAN VELVET (Sizteenth Century) Length, 10 feet 2 inches; width, 11 inches Emerald green of mottled tones with a soft and lustrous golden sheen. No. 562 STRIP OF CHINESE SILK Length, 11 feet; width, 2 feet 6 inches Purplish-black, or deepest of purple, embroidered in various colors with two large medallions picturing four-clawed dragons emerging from waves of the sea and pursuing the flaming jewels of omnipotence amongst clouds where symbolic bats are flying also. Between the medallions are basket-shaped embroideries of the same motives and colors. No. 563 ROLL OF CHINESE VELVET Length, 102 yards; width, 28 inches Of palest, delicate azure, with silver lustre of remarkable quality. Its decoration, in keeping with the exquisite beauty of its color, is in delicate effect, and embodies conventional floral and geometrical de- signs, felicitous Buddhistic emblems, and dragon medallions,wrought in the “cut and uncut” method. Third Afternoon No. 564 ROLL OF CHINESE SILK Length, 5 yards; width, 16 inches A rich, deep and flaming pinkish-red, damasked in a conventional scroll of cloud-like formation involving the sacred fungus and sceptre- head motives. \ No. 565 ROLL OF CHINESE SILK Length, 5 yards; width, 15 inches Same as the preceding but of reduced width. No. 566 ROLL OF CHINESE SILK Length, 5 yards; width, 13 inches Same as the preceding but of reduced width. No. 567 LOT OF PIECED ITALIAN VELVET (Seventeenth Century) Total length, 12 yards; width, 19 inches In four strips. A deep, rich forest-green with soft lustre. No. 568 LOT OF PIECED ITALIAN VELVET (Seventeenth Century) Total length, 14% yards; width, 191% inches Rich deep green with a light and brilliant emerald sheen. Third Afternoon No. 569 VELVET THRONE-BACK AND CANOPY-PANELS Wall hanging: Length (height), 12 feet 10 inches; width, 8 feet 3 inches Canopy front: Length (width), 8 feet 3 inches; depth, 2 feet Canopy sides: Length, 3 feet 6 inches; depth, 2 feet Velvet of a rich, deep and brilliant red, adorned with a double bor- der of bright gold galloon and a fringe of the same metal. Four pieces—each complete, with border and fringe—the imposing wall hanging, and the front and two sides of the projecting canopy. No. 570 VELVET WALL HANGING Length, 8 feet 3 inches; depth, 3 feet 3 inches The velvet and the galloon match those of the preceding lot, but the galloon is differently applied. FOURTH AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1916 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 571 to 742 Inclusive BEAUTIFUL OLD PLATES No. 571 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 7% inches In the centre a rosette within a medallion, the medallion enclosed by a reticulated border which extends to the edge of the rim. The rosette is painted in greenish-blue and brown, the border in tea-dust green, all on a crackled ground of old ivory tone. No. 572 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 734 inches Blossoming trees and shrubs, painted in blue, dark green, a pale fawn and reddish-brown, spread over the whole surface of the bowl, and the rim is bordered with overlapping blossoms in three tiers, defined in green and having centres of reddish-brown enamel in slight relief. Ivory ground with café-au-lait crackle. No. 573 ITALIAN PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 9% inches Of very slight concavity. A broad border of scrolling oak branches with leaves and acorns, in yellow with details in brown, on a tur- quoise-green ground, extends from the rim edge to a medallion of yellow ground outlined in white. On the medallion appears a serpent coiled about a flower, with tail in mouth, done in two shades of blue with green, and around it is a wreath of delicate spiral sprays. Fourth Afternoon KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1034 inches A network of leaf forms in outline drawn in black, the white ground dotted in pale tan, cobalt, turquoise and dull red, encloses a reserved medallion painted in the same colors with a rosette formed of lanceo- late leaves. / Zz 2 “Or ~} or KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1034 inches In the bow! an irregular hexagonal lattice is drawn in black on a ground varying from old ivory to a pale café-au-lait, the spaces being dotted in blue, a grayish-green, iron-rust and sand color. In the border interlacing wavy leaf outlines supply a kindred design in simi- lar coloring. AIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATES (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 1014 inches “The Butterfly Plates,’ a rare pattern. When held to the light the rim shows the “lace” or “‘rice-grain”’ effect, as it has been not alto-— gether felicitously called, produced by the excision of the paste and flowing over the apertures with the translucent glaze. Here the pat- tern is not lace work but in the delicate ornamentation of butterflies’ wings, and the petals of blossoms amongst which the winged beauties » of the air are flying. There are seven of the butterflies in the rim, with sprays between them, and the decoration is so arranged that both sprays and flowers are duplicated on the under side about the same apertures. In addition the upper surface of the bottom carries another fly and more sprays, and under the bottom is the seal of the reign. No. 577 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (Ch’ien-lung) A “Butterfly Plate,’ companion to the rare pair of the preceding number. L L Kourth Afternoon RHODIAN TILE RHODIAN PLATE No. 578 No. 579 (Sixteenth Century) 1014 inches square In the centre a broad white re- serve pointed at the top and of scrolled outline is painted with flowers and leaf scrolls in green and light and dark blue, with accents of red enamel in slight relief. The surrounding ground is light turquoise blue, with foliations reserved in white and touched with sapphire blue and the red enamel. (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches Red enamel in slight relief furnishes the petals of large red roses which grow among blue painted tulips and smaller flowers, on black stems that send forth green leaves, some of them veined in enamel. Rim bordered with fritillaries in blue and detached blossom forms in green, with black outline. RHODIAN PLATE No. 580 (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches Painted with a brocade medallion of rich mottled blue ground, in deep tone, decorated with blossoms in white reserve with brown centres, and with double-pointed leaves reserved in white and tinted green. About the medallion a conventional border of enamel in a mottled russet hue. Fourth Afternoon No. 581 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches A plate of flowers. Detached blossoms alternate with pairs of fritil- laries on the rim; in the bow] a leaf medallion in the centre supports seven-petaled flowers and is poised upon a spray of different variety and surmounted by yet another, while larger blooms on slender stems rise on either side of it. The decoration is in deep blue, dark green, white reserve and coral enamel on a white ground. On the back fritil- laries and detached blossoms in blue and green. No. 582 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches A medallion outlined in open, spreading trefoils, blue and black, on a _white ground, encloses a rosette penciled in cobalt and green with white reserve and red enamel. Swirling tongues in series of three, in the red enamel, are projected from the perimeter of the medallion, upon the white ground, which is delimited by blue foliations beyond which are black spirals. On the rim a border of overlapping blossoms in reserve on a gray-blue ground. No. 583 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Carnations in full bloom, op- ening roses, and the tall, lili- form, conventional tulips, with more modest flowers, spring in a confident heterog- eny from a clump of lanceol- ate, serrated leaves bound with a scrolling fillet. These fill the cavetto, on whose creamy ground they are exe- cuted in an unusually delli- cate color combination, of palest cobalt, fair blue tur- quoise, an uninsistent black outline, and spreads and touches of a light tan enamel. The marly, with festooned edge, is bordered with a diaper of black spirals within pale cobalt outline, and irregular reserves of white. On the back a band of flowers. Fourth Afternoon No. 584 RHODIAN PLATE _ (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches The bowl is gay with floral life. Long, curling, serrate leaves of rich myrtle green, spreading open at the ends of their bending stems, display sprigs of small blossoms in white reserve, as though shielding them, like leaves of lilies of the valley protecting their white bells. Beneath them peep out blossoms of the composite, in russet enamel, deep blue, and white reserve; a rose appears in similar coloring. In addition are three large flowers or fruits on gracefully curling stems, blue and green leaves or petals enshrining bulbous centres of the rus- set enamel. On the rim black spirals outlined in blue, with white re- serves. On the back, flowerets. No. 585 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches Within a circular medallion bordered with gray and green festoons, a white reserve of foliate outline in a gray ground supports an eight- pointed star of coral-brown enamel radiating from a rosette. Border of half-blossoms reserved in a gray ground, with wavy lines of black, green, and white reserve running between them. Fourth Afternoon No. 586 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches The rim, lightly festooned, carries a border of spirals and white re- serves with blue ground. In the bow] are four bouquets of fritillaries in sapphire blue, apple green, and a brilliant coral enamel, disposed about a coral rosette. Intermediately placed are leaf ornaments in the same colors, and below them are pairs of small green leaves. On the back are fritillaries and detached blossoms in blue and green. No. 587 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches A checker-board medallion in blue, brown and white is wreathed with radiating pointed leaves in blue, implanted with ornament in white reserve and brown and displayed upon a moss-green ground. Leaf- point and lattice borders in the blue and brown. On the back, spirals in blue and manganese on a white ground, crackled. Fourth Afternoon No: 588 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 111% inches Two-pointed and curling leaves in white reserve, veined in a light brown enamel, appear on a ground of blue and green imbrications in a conventionally bordered medallion. On the rim detached blossoms and sprays of berries in the same colors. On the back are blossoms and berries in green and blue. No. 589 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Edge lightly festooned. Roses in vermilion enamel, tulips painted in blue, and smaller flowers similarly treated, with small green leaves and a large blue leaf penetrating in reverse curves among them, are spread over the white ground of the bowl, and on the rim are scrolls and spirals in blue and black, with white reserves. On the back, blossoms and sprays. No. 590 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches A covered vase or jar with two handles and a spreading foot occupies the centre of a medallioned bottom, the jar decorated with imbrica- tions in green and black with white reserve; flanking it are sprays in dull cobalt and black. Two conventional borders in the same color- ing. | No. 591 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches A medallion from which a sort of halo radiates in flame-like shoots re- poses upon a white reserve that is bordered with foliations outlined in black on a pale turquoise ground. The turquoise ground reap- pears within the medallion, supporting conventional ornaments in white reserve, deep blue, black outline and a brown enamel. Fourth Afternoon No. 592 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Pointed half-leaves executed in white reserve and turquoise-green, on a ground of copper enamel in light relief, radiate from a brocade me- dallion in cobalt and white reserve, and a circlet of similar leaves is poised upon their tips. The larger medallion thus formed is encircled by trefoils in cobalt and black, with copper touches and white reserve, na white ground, and on the rim are scrolls and spirals in the several colors. No. 593 BOKHARA PLATE (Seventeenth Century) 4 Diameter, 121% inches A covered ewer somewhat in hour-glass form is executed in deep blue and manganese on a creamy, crackled ground. On either side are leaves and what appear to be long, curved knives with pointed blades, in blue, and the ground is touched with dark green. Wide lattice border in green and a narrow, simple border in blue. L Fourth Afternoon No. 594 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches Five medallions in red, green and blue, each adorned with a spray of three five-petaled blossoms in white reserve touched with red enamel, are imposed upon the cream-white ground of the bowl, which is also strewn with small discs. Border of vermiculate scrolls in black with ‘a blue ground and white reserves. No. 595 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Rim bordered with overlapping blossoms in white reserve outlined in black and touched with enamel, on a cobalt ground. Bowl decorated in pale green, deep blue and enamel of a reddish iron-rust hue, with leaves and flowers on long, slender stems of black, and separate foli- ated designs. No. 596 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1134 inches On a ground of rich cream color a large medallion bordered with bril- liant green festoons displays a graceful floral decoration in cream re- serve, bright green, and coral enamel on a deep azure ground. On the rim a border of overlapping blossoms in reserve, with coral centres, on green and blue ground. On the back flowerets in green and blue. (Illustrated in color). - No. 597 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches The rim, with wavy edge, is decorated with a border of black spirals outlined with blue, and irregular white reserves, some touched with blue or green. The bowl is painted in green and blue and with thick red enamel with roses, tulips and hyacinths. On the back, fritil- laries, and blossoms of the composite. (Illustrated in color). Nos. 596 and 597—SIXTEENTH CENTURY RHODIAN PLATES ‘ Fourth Afternoon No. 598 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12 inches Within the bowl, a medallion of tulips and other flowers in green, pale pink, and white reserve, on a rich and deep blue ground, is wreathed with pointed leaves and detached blossoms in the same colors on a white ground. On the rim enroulements vermiculés and 5S-scrolls in black, blue, and white reserve. No. 599 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches Two palms in a rich and brilliant blue, springing from among emerald- green leaves and brown stems, diverge and recurving again embrace a bouquet of small flowers in blue and green and a tomato-red enamel. Sprays of similar blossoms in the enamel flank the palms, and across their stems are nodding blue tulips, all on a white ground. On the rim, vermiculate spirals in black, blue and white reserve, with green touches. No. 600 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Broad flaring marly and small cavetto. In the cavetto two conven- tional palms expanding from a trefoil blossom present an hour-glass effect, in green, copper enamel and cream-white reserve, and in the interspaces appear liliform foliations in the same colors on a pale sky-blue ground; the whole shaped as a medallion defined in black. On the marly a border of swaying flowers similarly colored on the same ground. | No. 601 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches Flowering shrubs growing about a pointed rock are painted in cobalt, green, buff and yellowish brown, in a medallion, on an ivory ground. ~ A double border of leaves in the same colors on a crackled café-au- lait ground surrounds the medallion, and the rim has an imbricated border. Fourth Afternoon No. 602 DIRUTA PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 12% inches In a medallion on a slightly raised centre, clasped hands supporting a crown are painted in blue and a light yellow lustre on a band of white reserve which also carries stems of small blossoms in the same lustre. Throughout the plate the lustre forms the principal decoration and reflects a brilliant iridescence. Relieved with blue, in the cavetto it forms a broad border of compartments displaying formal foliations and imbrications, the sections separated by white reserves bearing a line of blossoms of “‘sunflower” suggestion. The narrow marly has an interlaced ribbon border worked to form diamond shapes. No. 603 : ZL RHODIAN PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1234 inches The ground of the bowl is an expanse of the conventional small spirals in black on white, with foliated white reserves outlined in dark blue or light green and touched with copper enamel, and displaying also tulips and smaller flowers similarly treated. On the rim similar spirals with heavy blue outline, interrupted by large S-scrolls enclosing white re- serves touched with copper. Fourth Afternoon No. 604 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 121% inches Half-leaves in white reserve touched with a red-brown enamel, in a turquoise-green ground, radiate in star or whirling wheel shape from a blue disc, and their tips are joined by a circlet of similar leaves, the whole within a medallion which is further ornamented with touches of blue. Rim bordered with black spirals in blue clouds touched with green, and white reserves shot with black lines. On the back flowerets in green, blue and black. No. 605 RHODIAN PLATE (Sizteenth Century) Diameter, 1224 inches In the bowl a decoration of circular-fan shape, in fifteen leaves or sec- tions alternately turquoise-green and deep cerulean, each bearing a flower in white reserve with a centre in enamel of terra cotta hue. Scroll and spiral border in blue, white reserve and black. No. 606 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1234 inches Roses in red enamel and white reserve, their leaves painted in green with enamel veining, spring from a common base with blue tulips and hyacinths, and green and red flowers of fuchsia semblance, and cover the white ground of the bow]; on the rim, blue detached blossoms and red fritillaries in pairs, on white ground. No. 607 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches On a grayish ground with a light brown stippling, ivy leaves are pen- ciled in black, and painted in turquoise or reserved in white and stippled with dark blue. Copper brown blossoms lie at their centres and a rosette of the same hue is at the centre of the plate. Fourth Afternoon No. 608 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 10% inches A display of flowers in which the conventional tulip is conspicuous is spread upon the creamy white ground of the bowl, worked in blue and turquoise-green, and a soft red enamel. Over the scattering mass is laid a frond of palm with serrate edges, done in blue and green, with a black stem. Rim with conventional border in green, black and red, with white reserve. No. 609 URBINO PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 934 inches With small saucer-shaped cavetto and broadly flaring marly. The surface is treated as a whole in the decoration, whose subject is the fateful pursuit of Daphne by Apollo, and her saving transformation into laurel. The scene is a glen, with woods and rocks on the left, where Apollo appears, nude with a flying mantle of old gold, and on the right Daphne, also nude, who looks back, frightened, while her fingers are already changing into laurel branches entwining a tree trunk. Between them her father, Pénée, dispenses his river flood, as if in protection, according to classical formula, and beyond him are broad reaches of landscape. Above, on clouds, appear Cupid with a sprung bow and Psyche holding his quiver. ‘The whole is in richly varied polychrome painting, under a brilliant glaze. As was custom- ary, the subject is inscribed on the back, here appearing in brilliant underglaze blue, together with the declaration that the piece is from the atelier of Guido Durantino, at Urbino. Guido Durantino was one of the most celebrated producers of the Urbino majolica of the first half of the sixteenth century. No. 610 URBINO PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1 O14 inches With upturned, festooned rim, the whole structure deftly modeled in fig-pattern and leaf forms. The subject of the decoration, announced in the customary way in an underglaze inscription on the back, is the famous visit of Alexander to Diogenes, when the Macedonian’s proffer of favors was met by the reminder that he might get out of the philosopher’s sunlight. Diogenes appears nude, with an orange mantle over his shoulder, and Alexander’s company are in orange, yellow, green and blue, with white horses. The background is a spacious landscape with palms, a river, city and mountains, under a brilliant sky, executed in softly glowing colors. Fourth Afternoon No. 611 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Soft creamy ground through- out, with a bold crackle in brown lines. Within the cavet- to a four-pointed figure of com- bined palmate forms, a large serrate leaf poised upon each point and enclosing a smaller leaf form; and issuing from the 44 centre of each side a large sun- flower with supporting leaves. The painting is in a rich blue, turquoise-green, pale straw, light chocolate and reddish sand color, the same pigments 7 being used on the marly, in a segmental border of imbrications, wherein the scaling is in the lighter hues and the demarcation of the sections is in hour-glass figures of the deep blue. No. 612 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Decorated in polychrome painting with flowering trees on a crackled ground, in a reserved medallion, and strewn leaves in reserve on a blue ground in the border. No. 613 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUES (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 131% inches Broad-bottomed dish form with oval sides. Brilliant glaze of a pure, soft white, over an incised decoration of lotus, chrysanthemum and other flowers, in a medallion within the bottom, and on both inner and outer sides of the rim. In addition there are lightly incised borders of spiral scroll just beneath the edge both outside and inside the rim, and on the outer side just above the foot is a border of key fret. Un- der the foot the six-character mark of Ch’ien-lung incised in the paste within an incised double ring. Fourth Afternoon No. 614 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Trees, shrubs and plants, flowering in a glen, are depicted in a large medallion outlined in brown on a crackled ground of cream color. Rocks pile up at the right, and the luxuriant vegetation blossoming at their foot and gracefully bending over them appears in brilliant sapphire-blue, a restrained turquoise-green, chocolate and pale yel- low-brown. On the rim a garland of small blossoms in the same colors. No. 615 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 134% inches Decorated in sapphire and cobalt blues on an ivory ground crackled in brown. The marly has a border of fan-shaped compartments, symmetrically spaced, each displaying a blossom spray, and in a me- dallion in the cavetto are baskets of flowers, plants, and two long- billed aquatic birds. Fourth Afternoon . No. 616 RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Moderately deep ovoidal bowl, decorated with a medallion wreathed in leaf forms and or- namented with other foliate designs executed in pale green- ish-blue and thick copper with white reserve; flaring rim with conventional border of scrolls and spirals in black, with white reserve and blue and green touches. No. 617 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches : ; Leaves and blossoms in red-brown, grayish sand color, black and two shades of blue, are disposed about a rosette of pale cobalt, black, and white reserve, on a white ground. Conventional border of blossom forms and scrolling fillets in similar coloring. No. 618 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 131% inches Six fan-shaped compartments with broad outlines in cobalt-blue ex- tend from the rim edge to a small loose spray at the centre of the bowl. In each compartment a larger spray of similar motives 1s painted, the colors everywhere being blue, green and a wan yellow, with iron-rust enamel. Fourth Afternoon No. 619 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Presenting a complex decoration carefully designed, on an ivory ground with a bold crackle in brown lines. In the centre a rosette of ivory reserve and blue supports bunches of the heavy green leaves of pineapple heads, above each leaf clump appearing a pineapple fig- ure in feuille morte enamel. Between them, at the edge of the cavetto, leaf sprays in pale buff branch from a blue disc toward the pine tips. On the marly a leaf border reserved within a blue ground is enriched with details in deep green, and in pale buff and fewille morte enamels. (Illustrated in color). No. 620 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Stateenth Century) Diameter, 13 inches Moderately deep bowl and flaring rim, the rim bordered with a run- ning garland of varied flowers, their stems gracefully twining. Within the bowl a medallion painted with larger flowers, in form of a wreath encompassing a bird snugly nested. The bird is reserved in the gen- eral ground—a rich cream with café-au-lait crackle—within a plot of brilliant deep blue. The encircling wreath and the border garland are painted in blue, turquoise-green, pale fawn and reddish sandy-brown. (Illustrated in color). No. 621 LARGE RHODIAN PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches A large medallion with a deep azure ground is surrounded by festoons of turquoise-green and white reserve, touched with copper enamel. Within the medallion are pomegranates in white reserve, carrying touches of the green and enamel, a long palm also reserved, and ser- — rated leaves in white reserve on which are imposed fritillaries in the copper enamel. On the rim serpentine scrolls and small spirals, with white reserves, in blue and black with touches of green. On the back, detached blossoms and sprays in blue and green. 7 No. 622 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches On the marly a hexagonal lattice border, which extends into the ca- vetto, encircling there a large medallion adorned with storks, plants, rocks and stunted trees, all the painting being in cobalt blue on an ivory ground with brown crackle. The border is crossed with a sec- ondary lattice in greenish-black. Nos. 619 and 620—SIXTEENTH CENTURY KOUBATCHA PLATES \ Fourth Afternoon No. 623 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 13% inches Blue and white, decorated in the so-called hawthorn pattern, the spring motive of sprays of the winter-blooming wild prunus floating on fields of disintegrating ice. Here the blossoms and branches are in white reserve, the ground is in a deep cobalt blue crossed by darker lines. Under the rim are emblems from the eight precious things; under the foot is a shell within a double ring, in blue. No. 624 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE - (K’ang-hsi) Blue and white. Companion to the last (623), with slight variations. No. 625 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) | Diameter, 131% inches Two storks, haughty and much puffed up, are pictured standing, in a medallion, amongst plants and pendant blossom sprays. Encircling the medallion is a border of eight compartments, each containing a fruit spray within a fan-shaped panel, and the rim has a brocaded border of blossom petals. All of the decoration is in a rich blue, in deep tones and mottled, on a creamy white ground with brown crackle. Fourth Afternoon No. 626 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Siateenth Century) Dies 131% inches Painted in brilliant blue, deep and mottled, on an ivory white ground with café-au-lait crackle. The decoration consists of a conventional border in twenty-four compartments and a medallion which is orna- mented with a pine tree, pomegranates, and other designs. | No. 627 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 13% inches Large daisies, and flowers of the lesser composite, appear on the rim in deep blue and turquoise-green, with sprays in brown and light buff, on a cream ground. The ground is crackled, and continuing into the cavetto the crackle forms an eccentric reticulation of brown lines in a broad band surrounding a medallion painted with flowers in the colors of the rim. No. 628 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1334 inches A stork, standing, is painted in cobalt blue, with black outline and legs, under a flowering tree and amid blossoming shrubs, executed in cobalt, buff, turquoise-green, and sand colored enamel, on an ivory white crackled ground. On the rim a leaf border in color and reserve. No. 629 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1324 inches A medallion of plants with large and small blossoms, painted in green, brown, buff and a grayish-black, is encircled by a border of inter- twining leaves in the same colors, with reserves of the creamy, crackled ground, and the rim has a border of five-petaled blossoms and scrolling leaves similarly colored. No. 630 KOUBATCHA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1334 inches From a blossom in the centre of a foliate medallion in the cavetto, deli- cate stems penciled in black radiate and support other blossoms or leaves, all painted in turquoise, a pale gray-blue, and red-brown and light sand colored enamel. Complex border of leaf forms in turquoise, black and the enamels with white reserve. Fourth Afternoon No. 631 DIRUTA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 14% inches Shallow cavetto painted with a full length standing figure of a fe- male devotee, who, with her right hand clasping a dagger which is thrust into her breast, holds out at arm’s length in her left hand the heart she has plucked out. With figure to the front she has turned her head to her right and her face is seen in profile. She is painted in turquoise-green, light yellow, orange and blue, with features in cream reserve, against a cream ground crackled in pale café-au-lart and shaded with deep blue. In the distance are buildings and flowers. Marly in the same colors, with foliated scrolls and imbrications. Fourth Afternoon No. 632 DIRUTA PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches The cavetto is painted in dark blue with the bust of an imperious, commanding figure, his brows bound in yellow, with green streamers at the nape of the neck. He wears an ornamented robe of yellow, brown and green. The ground is a cream-white, and the transparent blue painting gives a lustrous surface. In the marly cornucopias and elaborate conventional scrolls in gray-blue, green, yellow, and re- serve, form a bold, outstanding border on an orange-brown ground. No. 633 DIRUTA PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches The broad marly is painted with a handsome and graceful border of floral scroll, depicting bryony leaves and bell-shaped flowers in tur- quoise-green, with blue details, on a cream-white ground. The ca- vetto, with similar ground, is painted in cobalt blue and a light yel- low with a knightly figure on horseback. The horse is springing toward the left, and his rider, with lowered lance, glares ferociously ahead of him. He is garbed in loose, pleated apparel, with a broad collar and a high-crowned hat with deep rolling brim. No. 634 DIRUTA PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches A bearded knight in plate and scale armor, with a white plume and yellow shield, is painted in blue, seated in a green and aubergine saddle, on a light colored charger which in a mighty jump spans the cavetto, springing toward the left. The landscape is painted in blue and green, and a tree stands at either side. The marly is painted in compartments with imbrications and elaborate foliations in blue, yellow and green, with white reserve. Fourth Afternoon No. 635 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUES (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 15 inches Blue and white. Clear, sonorous hard paste, in circular deep-dish form. Penciled in fine precision with graceful lotus scrolls in two tones of clear cobalt blue, one transparent, one deepening toward sap- phire hue, on a pure white ground under a glaze of great brilliance. The scroll supports on the interior surface nine lotus blossoms, and on the exterior of the rim eight, all showing the seed pod. Under the foot the six-character mark of the reign in underglaze blue within a blue double ring. Fourth Afternoon No. 636 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATE (K’ang-hst) Diameter, 15 inches Glazed in rich sang-de-boeuf. The plate flares boldly from a deep cir- cular foot to a lightly molded rim, and the upper surface is modeled in relief with a huge four-clawed dragon encircling the cherished jewel, amid cloud and flame scrolls. On the under surface; similarly modeled in relief, are sea waves, bats and peaches. The glaze on both surfaces is of remarkable depth of tone, the richest, deepest sang-de-boeuf, lightly mottled and of peau-d’ orange surface; on the bottom the blood clots are conspicuous. On the heights of the relief the color is absent and the glaze, which is brilliant throughout, is white. Underneath the foot the glaze is but lightly spotted with red and displays the ash of roses of the kindred peachbloom family; it is also crackled, and at the centre is a peculiar mark modeled in the paste. (Slight repairs at rim with gold lacquer.) a ll a, i ee a _ =. — =. =. | Fourth Afternoon No. 637 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Decoration in copper-brown lustre and a dense cobalt blue. The marly, edged in blue with an inner band of lustre, bears a border of conventional blossoms of four elongated petals each, with smaller flowers, in copper lustre on a creamy ground, interrupted by pointed ovals in lustre within a deep penumbra of blue, further encircled by lustre. The raised centre, in a mottled copper lustre and blue, is surrounded by a border of lustre on a cream ground, in four sections, displaying pairs of elongated petals and small blossoms, which is succeeded by a band of mock-lettering. On the reverse, a rosette, a leaf border and rings, in lustre. No. 638 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 151% inches Lightly flaring marly, and deep cavetto with a raised and copper- lustred centre touched with blue. On the marly a border or wreath of bryony leaves, curled within scrolling stems, in copper lustre, on a buff ground, interrupted thrice by clusters of three blue flowers. The three-flower cluster, in blue, appears thrice again in the cavetto, amid foliations in copper lustre on buff ground, and the reverse of the plate is further decorated with lustre, including a rosette at the centre. No. 639 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Fifteenth Century) Diameter, 151% inches Copper lustre with brilliant yellow-gold reflections furnishes practi- cally all of the adornment, relieved only by three bands of blue—at the edge, at the boundary of the cavetto, and defining the small me- dallion formed on the raised centre. The medallion, reserved in buff, displays a five-petaled blossom in lustre, and the cavetto carries borders of scroll-fret and conventional designs in segments separated by upright sections, all in lustre on the buff ground, The marly is lightly molded in the fig pattern, the units alternately lustred and traced with lustre on buff, and bears, besides, a simulated inscrip- tion, also lustred. The back is decorated in a deep copper lustre. Fourth Afternoon No. 640 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1534 inches On the rim trilobate leaves in light copper lustre, heavily outlined in a soft, smoky bluish-gray, alternate with oblong panels set diagonally and ornamented with reserves, on a cream ground dotted concentri- cally with copper lustre. In the bowl similar oblongs alternate with star points directed toward the raised centre, the star points painted in the bluish-gray, on the same lustre and cream ground. No. 641 DIRUTA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 151% inches Ovoidal cavetto, with broad flaring marly. In the bowl is a painting of St. Francis, on a hillside before a large Romanesque building, kneeling and receiving the stigmata from a crucifix appearing in the heavens, at which he is gazing. The whole is painted in yellow-brown and rich blue, on a cream-white ground, all of the brown being bril- liantly lustred and exhibiting a mother-of-pearl iridescence. Rim bor- der in compartments of imbrications, foliate figures and conventional blossom designs in the same colors and lustre. (Illustrated in color). No. 642 URBINO PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 161% inches The plate has a very rich and elaborate decoration, which includes no less than fifteen human figures and completely covers the shallow cavetto and the broad, flat marly. The cavetto has a slightly convex centre. At the top is a crome yellow shield, touched with green, with six pellets—five red-brown and one blue—surmounted by a cross un- der a bishop’s hat in brown, the whole on a ground of majestic cur- tains in blue with white reserve, which are overhung by other dra- peries of burnt orange and pale olive. Below the shield is a cherubim on a cloud bank, and under the sweeping draperies are fifteen men, some in Greek helmets and varicolored robes, on one side, and on the other side some with yellow, red and white hair, without head cover- ing, who are for the most part nude. All are looking on as one brings forth from a carved white marble casket a large leather-bound vol- ume. The scene is from the legendary life of Alexander the Great, picturing the episode of the books of philosophy, and its caption is inscribed under the glaze beneath the foot. (Illustrated in color). a No. 641.—SIXTEENTH CENTURY DIRUTA PLATE No. 642—SIXTEENTH CENTURY URBINO PLATE Fourth Afternoon No. 643 DIRUTA PLATE (Early Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1524 inches In the cavetto the half-length figure of a martyr in priestly robes is painted in deep blue and lighter, transparent tones, with the use of reserve, on a creamy-white ground which discloses a faint crackle. He stands facing the front, with head turned toward his right and glanc- ing steadfastly in that direction, one hand holding a green branch and the other resting on a yellow book. A dagger is thrust through his blue robes into his shoulder, and another pierces his partly shorn head, below a bright yellow halo. Beside his head are the letters 5. P. In the background is a monastery, with crosses on the towers in its walls. On the marly is a wreath border of graceful foliations in turquoise- green with blue outline, interrupted by three rosettes in yellow and blue. No. 644 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sizteenth Century) Diameter, 161% inches Saucer-shaped bowl, shallow, with a broad flaring rim. Coated with a monochrome glaze of cream-white, having an eccentric crackle in fine lines. On the rim an escutcheon painted in yellow, orange, green and blue, with white reserve. No. 645 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE Companion to the preceding, of the same period and size. No. 646 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Srateenth Century) Diameter, 16 inches The copper lustre is of notable brilliancy, yields golden, garnet and violet lights, and on the raised centre is of mirror quality. The sides of the raised centre are of solid lustre, the top is interrupted by a highly conventional rosette in buff reserve. The ovoidal wall of the cavetto around it is adorned with leaf-clusters, and trees of abundant foliage, all in lustre on buff, and the trees reappear on the marly, in lustre on buff, in quadrilateral panels separated by triangles painted in pale, transparent cobalt. The back is generously decorated in lustre with leaves and other conventional forms. Fourth Afternoon No. 647 DIRUTA PLATE (Srxteenth Century) Diameter, 161% inches 5 In the deep cavetto St. Catherine pictured at three-quarter length, standing, with figure toward the right, three-quarters front, and face turned to the front and back toward her right shoulder. A golden nimbus encircles her head, in her right hand is a palm, and her left hand rests upon her peculiar emblem, the torture wheel: She is in loose robes and painted in a warm yellow touched with a soft green, and in reserve of soft creamy white lightly shaded with transparent blue, against a rich blue background relieved with white reserve. The marly is painted in the same colors with imbrications, foliated scrolls and other conventional forms. The whole surface has a character- istic and remarkably brilliant and varied iridescence. Fourth Afternoon No. 648 DIRUTA PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 16% inches Cavetto painted with a full length female figure facing the left, three- quarters front, resting against what seems to be a rock wall and over- looking the sea. In her hands the young woman holds an open book. She is painted in orange and blue, light yellow and green, with her features in reserve of creamy white, against a deep blue ground. Over the water is the same white reserve, which is lightly crackled in brown, and in the distance appear yellow and greenish buildings outlined in blue. The marly is painted in compartments with imbrications and scrolling foliations, in the same colors. Brilliant glaze. Fourth Afternoon No. 649 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 17% inches In the cavetto a fluting of petal-form depressions around an inverted saucer modeled with overlapping pointed leaves; flaring marly with small flutings. The whole coated with a soft cream-white glaze with broad crackle. At the centre an escutcheon painted in blue, green, yellow and orange, bearing on the white reserved shield the initials Loa No. 650 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) ; Diameter, 161% inches Saucer-shaped bowl, shallow, with a broad flaring rim. Coated with a monochrome glaze of cream-white, having an eccentric crackle in fine lines. On the rim an escutcheon painted in yellow, orange, green and blue, with white reserve. No. 651 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE Companion to the preceding, of the same period and size. Fourth Afternoon No. 652 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 17% inches | Glazed in white. The cavetto fluted in petal forms, with the centre raised in the shape of an inverted shallow dish. On the medallion thus presented an escutcheon is painted in cobalt blue, light yellow and burnt orange. On the shield are a star and crescent, with a pair of shears in white reserve between them, and below are the initials ““B. pei? No. 653 VALENCIA PLATE (Fifteenth Century) Diameter, 18 inches Rare. Broadly flaring, inverted-cone shape, with flat centre. The medallion of the centre, outlined in blue, is lightly painted in a pale gold lustre with a ground of blossom scroll, on which is laid a kite- shaped shield with a lion rampant and other heraldic markings, painted in dark blue and deep purple. The balance of the upper sur- face is penciled in the same lustre with an erratic scroll ground, on which a scroll of bryony leaves and six-petaled flowers is painted in two tones of rich blue and in a pattern which appears compartmental. Under the bottom there is further painting both in blue and in lustre. (See illustration in color on cover). Fourth Afternoon No. 654 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 19% inches In the marly, trilobate leaves, with stems, are modeled in the paste, and painted in deep blue on a creamy ground which is further pen- ciled with a scroll in copper lustre. In the cavetto, conventional foliated medallions are painted in blue and in lustre, on a scrolled ground that shows cone and cornflower patterns in lustre. The raised centre is modeled with a scrolled fluting and lustred, and carries a medallion outlined in blue. The under side of the bottom is further lustred. (Illustrated in color) No. 655 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 1834 inches On the broad marly bold leaf forms are modeled in relief in the paste, and copper lustred, and these alternate with palmate or Persian cone patterns, highly conventionalized, which are penciled in copper lustre, while intermingling are small sprays and scrolls similarly penciled, all on a cream-white ground. In the cavetto the leaves are painted in the flat in lustre, and the intervening lighter ornament is penciled, its form varying from that on the marly. At the centre is a bold con- vex medallion modeled in the fig pattern and in star shape, all lustred, with relief of the creamy ground color. The whole under-part of the plate is also decorated in the same lustre, which everywhere is of nota- ble brilliance and at times reflects purplish sunset lights. (Illustrated in color) Nos. 654 and 655—SIXTEENTH CENTURY HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATES Fourth Afternoon No. 656 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 161% inches Saucer-shaped bowl, shallow, with a broad flaring rim. Coated with a monochrome glaze of cream-white, having an eccentric crackle in fine lines. On ae rim an escutcheon painted in yellow, orange, green and blue, with white reserve. No. 657 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE Companion to the preceding, of the same period and size. No. 658 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 171% inches A lustrous creamy white glaze covers a conventional decoration molded in the paste of rim and bowl, and within a medallion on the protuberant centre of the ce is painted a shield, in blue, yellow, green and dark orange. No. 659 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1734 inches Shallow cavetto and flat marly with a conventional modeled decora- tion. In the centre a medallion painted with a cross, the letters IH S and festoons, in two shades of brown on a yellow ground, surrounded by a fringe-like border in brown and blue. The glaze a luminous creamy white with a varied crackle. No. 660 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Siateenth Century) Diameter, 17% inches Formal decoration modeled in the rim, and in the cavetto about an umbo, the whole glazed in a cream-white with brown crackle and the umbo painted with an oval shield within a garland. The shield is in blue, and bears a flower in green and yellow with white reserve, as well as two star forms in yellow, and the letters M Lin black. The wreath is brown, yellow and green on white ground. Fourth Afternoon No. 661 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 18% inches Shallow cavetto with broad, spreading marly; glazed in creamy white. In the cavetto a mermaid in bold relief, an arm around each of her upcurled tails; the marly modeled with two borders, of scrolled designs and imbrications. No. 662 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 18 inches With conventional decoration modeled in the paste. Cream-white glaze with a bold crackle. Painted in the centre in yellow, orange, green and blue, with white reserve, is a shield on either side of which stands a large female figure blowing a trumpet. The entire group is generously ornamented, and around it are the letters D P F A R in black. : a Fourth Afternoon No. 663 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 1814 inches Broad, shallow cavetto, with narrow marly lightly flaring, the entire surface smooth, without modeled decoration, and glazed in a soft and rich creamy white. At the centre a large coat of arms in underglaze and overglaze painting, with white reserves, the colors light and dark yellow, orange, green, black and two shades of blue. On the shield are blossoms, an heraldic animal and other devices, and above it is a crown surmounted by an eagle with wings displayed, over its head being a coronet. No. 664 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 18 inches Shallow, flaring bowl with a slightly raised centre, and narrow flaring rim. Conventional decoration modeled in the paste. Cream-white glaze broadly crackled. The centre is painted in blue, green, yellow and orange-brown with a shield adorned with a single large star and surrounded by branches and fillets. Beside it are the letters GV. Fourth Afternoon No. 665 ITALIAN FAIENCE PLATE (Sixteenth Century) Diameter, 18 inches Rim and bowl! modeled with depressed flutings. Cream-white glaze with a giant crackle in faint lines. The raised centre painted with a shield displaying a tree and surrounded by an ornamental frame and ribbon scrolls, in blue, green and gilt bronze. i No. 666 HISPANO-MORESQUE PLATE (Fifteenth Century) Diameter, 18% inches Shallow ovoidal cavetto, with a bold raised centre spirally molded; broadly flaring marly molded in the fig pattern. Decorated in bright golden-yellow and rich copper lustre, which is of dazzling brilliance in a full light, on a creamy buff ground. On the medallion of the centre is a lustre shield with three fleur-de-lis in reserve; the spirals about it are painted alternately with stalk-and-dot and reserved-rosette mo- tives; surrounding the centre, between narrow borders of reserved rosettes, the cavetto is adorned with a broad band in four sections, two with a flowered lattice or coarse diapering, and two with pointed leaves and highly conventionalized flower clusters. The marly deco- ration follows that of the cavetto, and the back is profusely decorated in deep copper lustre. No. 667 PANEL OF DAMASCAN TILES (Sixteenth Century) Outside measurement: 31 inches square Formed of nine tiles set in a square frame and completing a picture. An outer band of mottled, greenish turquoise, encloses a border of . lanceolate leaves in white reserve on a brilliant azure ground, with dots of white reserve placed between them. The field within displays three tall arches, two round and the third slightly palmate, on spirally fluted pillars, each arch surmounted by a crescent and in each hang- ing a mosque lamp. Below, in the side arches, are conventional trees, and in the central one is a vase of carnations, all the decoration being in azure, turquoise, green and manganese on white ground. Painted with inscriptions beginning with the dutiful and pious “Allah,” and reciting the names of Mahomet, first prophet and king; Berker, second king; Omer, third king; Elferen, fourth king; and recording further the names of Osman and Ali, kings, and the name Aboo. Fourth Afternoon No. 668 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Yung Cheng) Diameter, 1934 inches An imperial palace piece. Ovoidal bowl shape of regal proportions. Brilliant glaze of the remarkable, characteristic Yung Chéng white, with a decoration in enamel colors and a beautifully rich coral, pre- senting long stems of chrysanthemums, the flowers light yellow, coral, and white touched with purple-violet, the leaves in varying greens and the stems in aubergine. At one side are butterflies on the wing. The chrysanthemums are continued on the exterior around most of its surface, in the same colors and greater profusion. Under the foot, in an intense and glowing underglaze blue, the twin circles enclosing the calligraphic imperial mark: Ta Ch’ing Yung Cheng nien-chih (made in the reign of Yung Chéng of the Great Ch’ing dynasty). (Repaired at one spot on the rim; no piece missing, and nothing supplied.) No. 669 CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUE (Ch’ien-lung) Diameter, 251% inches Mammoth size. Porcelain sonorous as a bronze temple gong, modeled as a very wide, broadly conical bowl. The ample, expansive surface of the interior, or face, is glazed in a deep, full-bodied lapis-lazuli blue, which is continued on the outside down to the foot, with a deli- cate refinement of the peau-d’orange surface and of mirror quality. Both in its size and the rich dignity of its color the piece is command- ing, possessed of a high decorative potency to which many lesser elements of form and color could be effectively subordinated. Fourth Afternoon SUMPTUOUS ANTIQUE TEXTILES No. 670 ESCUTCHEON ON RED DAMASK Height, 211% inches; width, 12 inches Heart-shaped shield, quartered, with the devices of heraldry executed in gold and silver threads on a green silk ground, within a wreath of Renaissance leaf scroll, appliqué, in heavy gold and silver embroidery outlined with silk cord; crested; the whole laid upon a damask panel. No. 671 TWO SPANISH ESCUTCHEONS (Sixteenth Century) Height, 151% and 16 inches; width, 11 inches Heart-shaped shields with gold lions rampant on brilliant green vel- vet, and castle towers in silver on gilded ground, embraced within extensive scrolls worked in gold and silver. # ‘ourth Afternoon Se ee ee eae SUMPTUOUS . No, 670 ae ESCUTCHEON ON RED DAMASK | as Height, 2114 inches; width, 12 incheo Heart-shaped shield, quartered, with the devices am io gold and silver threads on @ green silk aay Honuissance leaf scroll, appliqué. in heavy ieee 1 eutlined with silk cord; crested; the whole ‘a No. 671 :#'O SPANISH ESCUTCHEONS . Height, 1514 and 16 inches; width, 11 a ean et araped shields with gold lions rampant on “i, So! eaatle towers in silver on gilded viexerte serolis worked in gold and silver. No. 716—ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET CHASUBLE Fourth Afternoon No. 672 PAIR GRAND ESCUTCHEONS (Seventeenth Century) Height, 30 inches; width, 13 inches Red velvet on which is implanted a shield quartered with lions ram- pant and three conical trees in gold on silver and red silk grounds, the velvet supporting also heavy applied decorations of leaves, scrolls and bird or animal grotesques, in gold braiding; the whole surmounted by a crown. . No. 673 GOTHIC VELVET—SPECIMEN (Fifteenth Century) Length, 26 inches; width, 15 inches Against the light a soft emerald; with the light on it, a shimmering pale-green, with faint bluish striations,—a light silvery lustre over all. Patterned with Gothic tracery and various floral figures, delicately cut. ; No. 674 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 201% inches; width, 1634 inches Composed of two fragments of a very beautiful border. Embossed ornamentation of bell-shaped floral figures in a rich, golden olive, alternating with sprays of flowers in the same color and a soft old- rose, on a delicate sky-blue ground. In addition, a minor border of detached blossoms and scrolling lanceolate leaves on a fine lattice ground, the colors here being only the rose and olive. Fourth Afternoon No. 675 GOTHIC VELVET—SPECIMEN (Fifteenth Century) Length, 34 inches; width, 27% inches Glowing green of emerald tone, its varied traceries revealing a light greenish-yellow ground. : No. 676 GOTHIC VELVET PANEL (Fifteenth Century) Height, 32 inches; width, 91% inches In emerald with a lustrous sheen, cut in figures of trees, blossoms, leaves, and lines of characteristic tracery. Border of gold galloon dis- playing a vine leaf scroll with bunches of the grapes. No. 677 VALANCE (Highteenth Century) Length, 12 feet 11 inches; depth, 12 inches Deep velvet of brownish-red hue, with an applied ornamentation in bold relief, presenting foliated medallions enclosing sunflower rosettes, executed in gold and silver threads. Edged with galloon and the bot- tom bordered with a silk tassel fringe. No. 678 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet In the field, medallions one within another, in magenta and light emerald velvet on a straw-yellow ground, presenting the tulip and cornflower and other floral motives. The same colors are continued in the border, in similar design. (Illustrated). No. 679 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 680 | SCUTARI RUG (Siateenth Century) Companion to the preceding. ie TES Te oo eR Sad SET: run walle” ae. 4h No. 678 SIXTEENTH CENTURY SCUTARI RUG Fourth Afternoon No. 681 GOTHIC VELVET—SPECIMEN (Fifteenth Century) Length, 29 inches; width, 21 inches Velvet of emerald notes and the green of deep forests, brightened with a soft, variable sheen. The tracery, and detached decorative units which reveal Eastern conventional forms surrounded by leafage, are cut to green and greenish-gold grounds. No. 682 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Length, 22 inches; depth, 22 inches Shield shape, bordered with gold galloon. Decoration, a lavish dis- play of flowers, with a conventional central ornament, in an exquisite coloring of dancing, musical tones, their brilliance that of gems, their variable sheen kaleidoscopic in the inconstant shifting of its delicate tints. No. 683 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) 21 inches square Adorned in flamboyant style with a munificence of floral display in emerald, old-rose and a warm brown with reddish inclination, on a light gray ground. No. 684 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) 211% inches square Brilliant emerald, ecru, a creamy old-rose, the soft purplish hue of the freshly trodden vintage and a deeper, brownish-red wine color, all mingle in an evanescent satiny sheen on a silvery ground. Fourth Afternoon No. 685 SCUTARI MARCHEPIED (Siateenth Century) Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches Scutari velvet rug used as the top of a long floor cushion, with green velvet bottom. The ornamentation of the rug is unusually profuse, among Scutari productions, and embraces a medallion, formal corners and large and small blossom sprays, in the field, a border of flowers and serrate leaves, and at the ends an additional border also in floral motives. All of the decoration is in ruby and chrysoprase velvet of delicate sheen, on a very light tan ground. No. 686 GENOESE VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Height, 23 inches; width, 22 inches Resplendent in ruby and silver. Pomegranate and peony design in- volved with small blossom sprays and massive conventional scrolls, embossed in ruby velvet on a silver ground. Silver galloon edging. No. 687 GENOESE VELVET PANEL (Early Sixteenth Century) Height, 22 inches; length, 29 inches Olive-green and tawny embossing, changing with the shifting light to greenish-gold and golden-yellow, on a silvered ground, and presenting a repetitive design of bold leaf and branch motive, with many curls. Gold galloon border of leaf-scroll with bunches of grapes. Fourth Afternoon No. 688 ITALIAN VELVET LECTERN MAT (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 211% inches Brilliant, lustrous, emerald-green velvet, in three oblong panels, and end drops shaped in a serpentine scroll. Applied decoration in gold and silver braid and red, blue and white silk, in broad and fine line scrolls, leaves, blossoms and foliations; in the-central panel an angel. No. 689 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) 23 inches square Expansive flowers in deep cherry and steel-gray, amid green foliations elaborately scrolled, and other details in rose-pink, on a silvery-gray ground. Gold lace border in shell pattern. No. 690 GOTHIC VELVET—SPECIMEN (Fifteenth Century) Length, 37% inches; width, 211% inches A panel formed of four fragments. A rare and delicate green, scarcely to be designated by a single color-word, a resultant of green, bluish and yellowish threads deftly aligned. With the light on it, bringing out its sheen of silvery lustre, the color tone is a pale sea-green, sensi- tive and wavering, flecked with golden sunshine. Ornamentation of tracery and foliage conventionalizations, cut to a light ground. Fourth Afternoon No. 691 GOTHIC VELVET—SPECIMEN (Fifteenth Century) Length, 36 inches; width, 23 inches In the color of a rich, green tourmaline, with a warm lustre, and with characteristic Gothic tracery and tree and blossom forms cut to a ground of dull gold. No. 692 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) Height, 331% inches; width 20 inches Shield-shape. Flowers, fruits and foliations in prodigal luxuriance are embossed in a soft and brilliant beryl green, changing to dark olive, a confused brownish-purple, goldenrod-yellow, bleu de ciel, rose-cream, and heliotrope, commingling and shifting their tonal qualities in a remarkable sheen. | No. 693 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches In the field, within formal corners, a pointed or leaf-shape medallion embraces a wreath about a central ornament, all executed in apricot and brilliant green velvet on a light tan ground, the patterns being leaf and flower forms. End borders in the same colors; the side border in apricot and cerulean, on the tan ground. No. 694 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. No. 695 SCUTARI RUG (Sixteenth Century) Companion to the preceding. Fourth Afternoon No. 696 ITALIAN ORNAMENTED VELVET PANEL (Sixteenth Century) Length, 21 inches; width, 18 inches One of the apparels from a dalmatic. Rich olive velvet, the decora- tion appliqué in silver and gold thread worked in leaf forms and scroll- ing foliations. ; No. 697 GOTHIC VELVET—SPECIMEN (Fifteenth Century) Length, 35 inches; width, 31 inches With the light against the nap, the green is dense and has a feeling of atmospheric distance, as of secluded forest depths where sunlight barely pierces the manifold leafy canopy; with the light on, there springs forth a softly brilliant lustre of fine chrysolite green. Charac- teristic traceries and conventional units cut to a greenish-gold ground. Fourth Afternoon No. 698 GENOESE VELVET TABLE COVER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 39 inches; width, 31 inches With jardiniere velvet border. The field or panel proper is a spark- ling expanse of emerald with radiant variations harmonious and be- guiling, the design of its ornamentation, though perfect, yet sub- merged in the shimmering brilliance of the expanse. The pattern is foliar, conventional, and of exquisite accomplishment; but makes obeisance to the blithe, dancing color. In the garden border, sunlight plays upon a kindred emerald, and on ruby and a joyous golden yel- low, in flowers and leaves and scrolling stems on a white silk ground. No. 699 SCUTARI MARCHEPIED (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet Its top a Scutari rug; the bottom green velvet. The ornamentation of the rug is elaborate and of elegant design, in ruby and emerald velvet on a light tan ground, and is comprised of flowers with their leaves and stems, in central medallion, formal corners, and a sinuous border formed of reversing crescents. Fourth Afternoon No. 700 PAIR OF SCUTARI MARCHEPIEDS (Sixteenth Century) Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet Scutari velvet rugs made into large, firm floor cushions, with green velvet underbody. Their ornamentation, on a light tan ground made slightly lustrous by threads of white floss silk, is in floral and scroll patterns in border and corners, about a formal! medallion, all executed in, light emerald and apricot velvet which has a light sheen. No. 701 GENOESE VELVET TABLE COVER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 381% inches; width, 36 inches Broad branching leaf or tree forms, ingeniously constructed of pointed leaves and scrolling foliations of conventional design, and delicately veined with tracery, are laid arris-wise in lustrous emerald on a satiny field of light fawn. Fringe border of emerald silk. } No. 702 GENOESE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) Height, 461% inches; width, 23 inches With an affluence of decoration comprising conventional patterns, and noble leaves gracefully scrolling, majestic peonies, mounting and pendent sprays of smaller flowers, all richly embossed, and embracing detached blossoms and other details delicately cut; the whole in a luxurious peridot green on ground of the same color, with an effulgent sheen. No. 703 ELABORATE ITALIAN BORDER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 9 feet 9 inches; width, 84 inches Richly mottled emerald velvet with lustrous sheen, on which a spiral- scroll with leaf enclosures is laid in cloth-of-gold, with offshoots of pomegranates embroidered in white and a bronze red to represent the exposed fruit. The quality of the emerald tones in the velvet is nota- ble, and the scarcely definable hue which has been called bronze red for want of a readier designation for its soft fire, is as unusual as it is remarkably effective in this combination. Fourth Afternoon No. 704 EXAMPLE OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE VELVET (Probably Early Sixteenth Century) Length, 36 inches; width, 18 inches Embossed ornamentation of loosely intertwined ropes, in chain-like formation and linked at intervals, describing a pattern of diamond- shaped figures or open lattice-work, enclosing conventional designs founded upon leaf motives. The whole in a delicate olive of pecu- liarly fascinating quality, with greenish-golden sheen. No. 705 ITALIAN VELVET (Fifteenth Century) Length, 52 inches; width, 20 inches So richly glowing in its wondrous emerald light that it exerts the power of fascination, as the eye wanders over the soft effulgence of the rutilant sheen. In the mystery of the ancient weave, the fabric, without losing the emerald glow, shifts with the light to a golden olive, with golden-brown suggestion, this newer tone being set off and en- hanced by the persisting green gleam of the gem. No. 706 VENETIAN TABLE COVER | (Sixteenth Century) 46 inches square Rich ruby velvet with delicate sheen, with an affluent ornamentation of embroideries in gold and silver thread, and silks of soft colors, largely in Persian motives. (The influence of the Near East, in the ingenuity of its decorative motives, impressed itself upon the Venetian textile art of the time.) The decoration is one of joyous leaf scrolls and flower blossoms, with birds perched lightly on bending stems; of narrow leaf-scroll borders, and wider borders of elongated Persian cone forms and detached sprays. No. 707 ITALIAN VELVET AND GOLD BORDER (Early Sixteenth Century) Length, 10 feet 4 inches; depth, 13 inches A piece of rare magnificence, fascinating in age to a degree it perhaps could not have reached in its pristine splendor. Ruby velvet, adorned with a ribbon-scroll in gold braid, which also borders the festooned bottom, while a broader braid borders the top; that at the-top has been overlaid at some subsequent period with a heavy band of gold galloon. Gold fringe on the bottom, five inches in length. Fourth Afternoon No. 708 GENOESE VELVET PANEL (Seventeenth Century) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet Garnet and a greenish old-gold, the color quality of either shifting with the light; the design a luxuriant scroll of flowers and foliations, embossed, in cut and uncut velvet on the silken gold ground. Edged with silk cordonnet. SIXTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET HANGING No. 718 - VENETIAN VELVET COPE a€d00 LHAATHA GH AYOINAD HLINGYLH OM 061 “ON ee — Fourth Afternoon No. 709 FRIEZE IN VELVET AND CLOTH-OF-GOLD (Siazteenth Century) Length, 5 feet 8 inches; depth, 16 inches Along the top runs a border of grapevine scroll, the main stem robust and entwined by lesser offshoots from which spring delicate spiral tendrils and broad-spreading leaves, all embroidered in metals and silks on a lustrous reddish-brown velvet ground of rich depths. Below, the fabric runs to cloth-of-gold, its basis a finely ribbed rich yellow silk, on which is imposed a most unusual decoration of vari- ous flowers, foliations, and composite angular and sinuous scrolls, embroidered in varicolored silks and silver thread, and laid on in velvet yielding garnet, lustrous-copper and pinkish-purple notes, dense or in soft sheen. No. 710 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET HANGING (Sixteenth Century) Length, 49 inches; depth, 33 inches Panels of jardiniere velvet with characteristically rich embossing in ruby, emerald, ecru and deep aubergine, on white ground; with inter- vening panels of cut velvet in a trellis design, their hue a soft grayish- olive on bluish ground and their surface having a silvery-grayish sheen with the purring softness of a Maltese kitten’s ear. Trimmed with varicolored silk fringe; bottom festooned. (Illustrated). No. 711 ITALIAN GOTHIC VELVET CHASUBLE _ (Fifteenth Century) Rich, fine velvet of a deep, imposing red, with soft lustre verging toward a purplish hue, cut in delicate patterns of Gothic tracery enclosing conventionalizations of the pomegranate. No. 712 ITALIAN CHASUBLE (Fifteenth Century) Gothic velvet of a soft, lustrous red, cut with delicate rosacées partly enclosed by tracery scrolls. Orphreys embroidered in silver and silks with a crucifix and figures of saints, and the apparels with other saints and with scrolls. Trimmed with galloon. (Illustrated). LVET CHASUBLE E 712 N ENTURY GOTHIC V O FIFTEENTH C Fourth Afternoon No. 713 VELVET BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches Red velvet, ornamented in silver and gold with broad foliate scrolls, and an armorial shield in which battle-axes appear, the shield sup- porting a crown surmounted by across. Silk and gold tassels. Fourth Afternoon No. 714 VELVET BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet Rich velvet of amethystine purple, with lustrous sheen, bearing an armorial decoration in gold and silver, and an extensive decoration of scrolls in braid and cordonnet. No. 715 ITALIAN CHASUBLE, STOLE AND MANIPLE (Early Sixteenth Century) Velvet of soft and beautiful sheen, ever shifting from light emerald to greenish-gold, embossed in a fine trellis pattern. Fourth Afternoon No. 716 ITALIAN CHASUBLE (Seventeenth Century) Jardiniere velvet, gorgeous in its display of flowers of several varieties, amid delicate leaf stems and huge conventional foliations, some of the floral figures springing from Renaissance vases; all in brilliant emer- ald, deep ruby and pale rose-pink, on a cloth of silver ground. Bor- dered with silver galloon. (Illustrated in color). No. 717 VENETIAN CHASUBLE (Sixteenth Century) The orphreys are of rich wine-red velvet, adorned with liliform scrolls which occupy the spaces between large medallions,—of which there are seven,—picturing the Madonna and Child, and saints, all in gold, silver and silk embroideries, applied. The surrounding ground is of silk brocade, its ornamentation in pale old-gold and white on a blown- rose ground. (Illustrated in color). No. 718 ITALIAN COPE (Sixteenth Century) Length, 9 feet 4 inches; depth, 4 feet 6 inches Venetian velvet with drap d'argent ground. From much of the ground the metal has disappeared, leaving the fabric a soft silver gray, ever twinkling with the glint of the surviving precious coating. The em- bossing, in velvet yielding garnet and ruby tones according to the light on the fine nap, presents a profusion of expansive floral forms and refined Italian foliations, with smaller flowers favored of the Persian and Turkish designers. Trimmed with silver galloon. (Illustrated). No. 719 CHASUBLE, STOLE, MANIPLE AND CHALICE-CLOTH (Probably Eighteenth Century) A rich production in gold and silver, and copper-colored silk. The ground is woven of gold and silver threads, and the decoration, con- sisting of varied branches of leaves and blossoms, outlined in the cop- per-colored silk, is effected with the ground threads, the leaves and blossoms being in gold and the flower-centres in silver. The leaves are worked in a light relief and the blossoms in pronounced relief. On the back a cross is defined in the same precious metals, with a glory at the centre. No. 717—SIXTEENTH CENTURY VENETIAN CHASUBLE ddOO NVILANHA AUOOINAO HOINHHLIXIS AUVNIGHUOVULXA 66L “ON Fourth Afternoon No. 720 VELVET COPE (Eighteenth Century) Rich ruby red velvet. Ornamented with arabesques and other designs in gold bullion threads. In the center a cross. Banded and bordered with gold galloon. (Illustrated). No. 721 ITALIAN COPE AND TWO DALMATICS (Sixteenth Century) Velvet of rich, golden-olive, its radiant sheen brilliant as liquid gems in sunshine, purling in an atmospheric shimmer. The apparels, on vel- vet of blue-green display conventional palms and other leaves, with varied scrolls and foliations, applied in soft textiles of yellow, white, red and blue, veined and attached with golden threads. ‘Those on the body of the vestment are bordered with a leaf and stem scroll of similar workmanship, and strips of the same character are used for the further ornamentation of the body. The hood of the cope, en- tirely in the wonderful golden-olive, is adorned similarly but without the red, and has a more elaborate border, in which blossoms appear; encircled at its centre are the letters: I HS. The orphreys are of the blue-green velvet, with palm-leaf and scroll applied ornamentation. No. 722 EXTRAORDINARY VENETIAN COPE (Sixteenth Century) Spread, 9 feet 10 inches; depth (or length), 4 feet 10 inches Heavy velvet of deep emerald hue, with a beautiful lustre, the entire surface cut, in two planes. The ornamentation appears in the higher plane, or embossed, and is exquisitely worked out in twining, inter- lacing, and conventionally scrolled branches, with pointed leaves and conventional palms, with reminiscences of the Eastern tulip pattern, and with pomegranates and other fruit forms. The hood is heavily embroidered in gold and soft-colored silks with an angel addressing a haloed figure,—apparently the Annunciation. The orphreys, in the same workmanship, portray six saintly figures, with chalice, staff or holy volume, each in an architectural niche. (Illustrated). 723 No. PAIR SIXTEENTH CENTURY VENETIAN DALMATICS == Srrocourccce Siete PITT TOTP TT LIE PETITE # 4 % = ‘ NETIAN DALMATICS = be ee 2 = ma oa 5) an) = Z. = ro ENT y E PAIR S 4 ENTH CENTURY JARDINIERE VALANC 1 4 K No. 726—SEVENT * w Fourth Afternoon No. 723 TWO VENETIAN DALMATICS (Sixteenth Century) Of the same rich, remarkable velvet as the cope just sold. The ap- parels are cloth-of-gold, ornamented with conventional patterns in silver outlined with gold cord, in palmate medallions and scrolls. (Illustrated). No. 724 RARE GOTHIC VELVET COPE (Fifteenth Century) Length, 9 feet 9 inches; depth, 4 feet Richest of coral, and most delicate of old-rose, according to the light, with a dense, firm pile having the softest of lustrous sheen. Orna- mented in lines of delicate tracery forming more or less elliptical and . palmate figures, in repetitive design, enclosing flowers and foliage, and in ranks or tiers overhung by garlands. Bordered with galloon. No. 725 PAIR VENETIAN DALMA TICS (Seventeenth Century) Length, 4.324 inches Velvet of deep and brilliant ruby tone, with quiet lustre, adorned with neck and shoulder borders of a highly conventionalized tulip scroll— a motive borrowed from Ottoman design—long pendants of the same scroll terminating in foliate drops. On sleeves and skirts, apparels of purplish-red satin adorned with brilliant yellow foliations varied with white, embroideries in metals and turquoise-blue silk. (Illustrated). No. 726 JARDINIERE VALANCE (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 6 inches; depth, 3 feet On a white silk ground of satiny surface, a floral display of variety and splendor is embossed in silk velvet of cut and uncut pile, in olive green, rich garnet, pineapple, and a bright flame color. The sheen is soft and lustrous throughout. On the bottom is a fringe of silk and silver. (Illustrated in color). Fourth Afternoon No. 727 SPANISH ECCLESIASTICAL BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 62 inches; width, 36 inches Velvet of a fine, reticent green-blue color, heavily embroidered with silver now oxidized to a steel-gray hue, in bold foliate scrolls and filleted sprays of blossoms. Laid on the centre is a canvas medallion, painted in oil, picturing the Madonna in ascension, surrounded by cherubim. The medallion is inscribed: “‘Dada a costa y devocion de D. J P H de Elias Romero.’’* (The velvet is of Italian origin.) *TRANSLATION: Given with devotion by (literally at the cost and devotion of) Don J. P. roe de Elias Romero. (Or possibly—though with an unusual Spanish modesty—Don J. son of Elias Romero.) No. 728 GOTHIC VELVET WALL HANGING (Fifteenth Century) Height, 30 inches; length, 7 feet 1 inch Rich green, with a brilliant lustre. Delicate scrolls finely cut to green and golden-yellow grounds, enclosing conventional floral and leaf de- signs, and supporting and interrupted by lesser blossoms and foliar elements. No. 729 LARGE FRAGMENT OF GOTHIC VELVET (Fifteenth Century) Length, 7 feet; width, 23 inches Deep forest-green, the lustre bright; Gothic scrolls and conventional blossom and foliage patterns cut to a dulled yellow gold ground of matt surface. No. 730 EXAMPLE OF ANCIENT ITALIAN VELVET (Fifteenth Century) Length, 10 feet 5 inches; 20 inches In richest tones of soft olive, with emerald notes, and a glowing golden sheen; the fabric itself of remarkable softness of texture. No. 731 SPANISH BANNER (Seventeenth Century) Length, 4 feet 7 inches Dark red velvet with a purplish wine color trend and soft lustre, sup- porting an armorial shield on which a castle and a lion and other devices appear, applied and worked in silk, silver and gold, within a wreath of gold lace. Gold galloon border of shell or fan pattern, and three gold tassels. (Illustrated in color). ENTEENTH CENTURY SPANISH BANNER 731—SEV O. N . 734 No SIXTEENTH CENTURY IT ER ELVET BANN ALIAN V Fourth Afternoon No. 732 POLONAISE RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 4 feet, 7 inches One of the rare gems of rug weaving. And gem-like it truly is, pre- senting in its ample oblong field an alluring emerald expanse, lighten- ing betimes to beryl hue and at one end varying to a bluish, lapis note. On this ground are displayed conventional patterns of foliate outline, enshrined in graceful scrolls of floral and pomegranate motives, and themselves enclosing other flower and leaf designs, while scrolled pal- mations and curling serrate leaves occupy the interspaces. All these are executed in a deep lapis blue and sapphire, a bright cerulean, light grayish-turquoise, dove-white, apricot, light seal, deep ruby and golden-yellow silks, with broad embellishments of silver and gold threads interwoven. Border of alternating and reversing trefoils out- lined in brilliant sapphire on grounds of tan silk and silver, between guard stripes of minute floral ornamentation. Sides overcast in silk; ends fringed. In fine condition. (See Frontispiece for illustration in color). No. 733 ISPAHAN RUG (Sixteenth Century) Length, 11 feet; width, 4 feet 7 inches In the oblong field are numerous palms and other foliar forms, to- gether with various conventional figures characteristic of the Ispahan . weaves. They are worked in dark blue and light turquoise, a pale apple-green, olive-yellow and a dark orange, sky-blue and emerald, and seal-brown, on a groundof old-rose and a purplish-red wine color. In the border a conventional form of the pine tree motive, enwreathed in blossom stems, alternates with another conventional figure, all in sundry yellows, blues, browns and reds on a deep blue ground. The outer guard stripe shows a floral scroll in green, yellow and blue on a dull red ground, and the inner one a succession of dots in a pinkish- orange and brown on a ground of olive, emerald, and yellow. (Illustrated in color). No. 733—SIXTEENTH CENTURY ISPAHAN RUG pit, > done @ = * No. 735 SIXTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN \V ELVET BANNER Fourth Afternoon No. 734 ITALIAN VELVET BANNER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches Velvet of a deep bluish green, embroidered in silver and colored silks with a large medallion containing the letters “I H S” and sur- mounted by a coronet, and with heavy supporting scrolls in silver. Silver fringe at bottom. (Illustrated). f No. 735 ITALIAN VELVET EMBROIDERED BANNER (Sixteenth Century) Length, 5 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches Rich yellowish-green velvet with a soft sheen, delicately cut with an ogival lattice, and embroidered in gold and colored silk with a coat of arms embraced within heavy foliate scrolls. Silk border embossed with heraldic eagles and coronetted shields. (Illustrated). No. 736 MEDICI VELVET PORTIERE (Sixteenth Century) Length, 9 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches Rose and richest coral, a baffling blend; a composite of variations, of red magnificence; the cheer of wine of delicate sparkle; the delectable bloom of flower petals in sunshine,—all and always red, of bewildering, evanescent quality and fleeting shimmer; the ground disclosing, with reticence, a submerged yellow. The pattern, embossed, is of the same royal affluence as the color—a majestic display of superb floral orna- ment, in bold figures, with exquisite details. Jardiniere border; silk fringe at the bottom. No. 737 ITALIAN VELVET ALTAR FRONTAL (Sixteenth Century) Length, 9 feet 5 inches; width 3 feet Rich, dark, cinnamon-red velvet, embellished with galloon and light gold embroidery; on the centre a shield in gold embroidery and silk needlework, picturing a bishop enthroned, holding a crosier and holy volume in one hand and raising his other hand in the sign of blessing. ONIONVH GHYHCIOUGWA HSINVdS AYNLINHO HINAHINAHAXS No. 739 PORTUGUESE RENAISSANCE VELVET PORTIERE No. 740 SPANISH ANTIQUE VELVET HANGING Fourth Afternoon No. 738 SPANISH EMBROIDERED SILK HANGING (Seventeenth Century) Length, 6 feet 6 inches; depth, 3 feet 3 inches White silk, ornamented with a prodigality of rich and brilliant color, in silk embroideries which glow as a garden in sunshine, where golden blooms enhance the beauty of the gorgeous floral variety. Flowers of several sort are entwined by gracefully scrolling foliations, and the whole magnificent florescence frames an equally bright escutcheon in which a lion and an eagle appear. (Illustrated). No. 739 PORTUGUESE RENAISSANCE VELVET PORTIERE Length, 11 feet; width, 5 feet 6 inches On a ground of pale old-gold, an abundant appliqué ornamentation of magnified lilies and bold conventional foliations in velvet of grayish- green with olive notes, and silk embroidery of various colors, with corded outlines. Trimmed with broad gold galloon; long gold fringe. (Illustrated). No. 740 SPANISH ANTIQUE VELVET HANGING Height, 10 feet; width, 6 feet With coat of arms. Rare old velvet of rich and glowing emerald green, with the arms and crown applied in red, green, white, black and light yellow silks. Bordered with heavy gold galloon and hung at the bottom with silk fringe. : (Illustrated). T41 O N SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PORTAL i~ ( Fourth Afternoon No. 741 ITALIAN JARDINIERE VELVET PORTAL (Seventeenth Century) Lambrequin: Length, 7 feet 7 inches; depth, 22 inches Curtains: Length, 8 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches Consisting of a lambrequin and two curtains. It is rarely that such a quantity of this velvet, of characteristic fine quality and in good con- dition, is now found. The lambrequin, which is scalloped at both top and bottom, is trimmed with a border all around and at the lower end with a silk fringe and tassels. The curtains, without trimming, are of richly embossed ornamentation, in cut and uncut velvet of brilliant emerald, a flame-pink or rose-coral, lustrous purple, and an ecru or deeper yellow, on a brilliant white ground and display a profusion of various flowers with heavy foliations and conventional designs. (Illustrated). No. 742 FLEMISH RENAISSANCE TAPESTRY (Sixteenth Century) Height, 9 feet 3 inches; width, 7 feet 5 inches The chief ornamentation of the large field is an immense coat of arms, crested, the conventional shield showing a number of devices, includ- ing an animal carrying a smaller one in its mouth, a winged lion hold- ing a sword, groups of trees and of pellets, and a battlemented tower. The remainder of the field is occupied by boldly elaborated foliations. Surrounding it is a wide border of other foliations and scrolls, inter- mingled with which are found conventional palms, and the Eastern tulip design which reached western Europe by way of Venice. The colors throughout are blue, green, yellow, brown and white, on a tawny ground. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION MANAGERS THOMAS E. KIRBY AUCTIONEER 89 95929 Eieis Jan °& NeAmC.c.1 a It. Thon as B. Clarke's HI