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Soren Re PAYAL mm cose ti FB ap eee ns PCUN on ee Eta 7 Pepa g Mae Peay ” oy tama es Me oe fue ae rhe fe A Bettany i Fae + ae ie By oie ‘ye a Aue ee era No ele Toil bet i salsa tele 9 PRIS ng 4 Rana tls y sft ig at3eay ha Fg gh Hort tie dat ES ig ins our mae Sada Se ee SS ae eR eee ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK BEGINNING SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1914 AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE MORNING OF THE DATE OF SALE, INCLUSIVE A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT CHINESE ART IN BRONZE, PORCELAIN, POTTERY AMBER AND HARD STONES SUMPTUOUS BROCADES anp OTHER RARE OBJECTS UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS JANUARY 29th, 30th and 31st, 1914 BEGINNING EACH AFTERNOON AT 2.30 O’CLOCK | ‘ Cstalégue No 199 / "EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE Sexy BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL «|. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES BEAUTIFUL OLD PORCELAINS AMBER AND STONE CARVINGS SUMPTUOUS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BROCADES INTERESTING OLD PAINTINGS ON GLASS AND FINE OLD CARPETS, RUGS AND FURNITURE, FROM ANCIENT PALACES AND TEMPLES OF CHINA COMPRISING THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF A CHINESE NOBLEMAN OF TIEN-TSIN AND OBJECTS PROCURED BY THE SENIOR MEMBER OF _ MESSRS. YAMANAKA & CO. AND HIS STAFF DURING A RECENT VISIT TO ANCIENT CITIES OF CHINA, SOME OF WHICH HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN UNEXPLORED BY FOREIGNERS THE ENTIRE COLLECTION TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH ON THE DATES HEREIN STATED CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. DANA H. CARROLL THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY .. ASSISTED BY .MR. OTTO BERNET,..OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS NEW YORK Th aiieaeasloniarindiety: 1914 RE oe etter — ee a h /- 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 pur- chasers 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 re-sold. 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 undersigned 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 Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- senting 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 purchasers 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 pur- chaser. 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. 4. 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 cataloguing, 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 without recourse. The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- rectly, 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 faith- fully 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 pur- chaser 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 catalogue 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 volwme or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference sub- mitted. 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. PREFATORY NOTE Unwilling to depart from an habitual reticence that has charac- terized their several offerings of Oriental art productions for the widest public competition, in New York, wholly without restriction, the Messrs. Yamanaka have declined to authorize extended comment on the collection presented to public attention this year. It seems only fair, however, in good faith, to invite notice briefly to an assemblage of objects which only the “infinite capacity for taking pains,” sub- stantiated by a true “collector’s instinct,” could bring together at this date in the Occident. The variety enjoins-restraint, but it may be permissible to seg- regate a few of the bronzes which have appealed to a not altogether uninitiate observation. The animal sacrificial vessel of tapir sug- gestion may be the oldest bronze ever brought to America; its remark- able patina is its distinction. A beaker of ‘“mirror-metal” is overlaid with that “natural patina in malachite shades of green” which Dr. Bushell has noted as being regarded by the Celestial experts as the “sure guarantee of age” (of a bronze), and is one of the finest ex- amples which have reached these shores. Students may compare the bronzes of the different ages. There are a number of Chow date—the dynasty of Confucius, the bronzes of which Ch’ien-lung chose exclusively for his gift to the ancestral temple of Confucius in 1771, so that each piece should be at least two thou- sand years old. (Some may be three thousand years old.) Most of the ancient bronzes with inscriptions are attributed by modern Chinese archeologists to Chow—a smaller proportion to Shang, with inscrip- tions of archaic pictorial script embodying the name of the departed to whom the piece is dedicated. Dr. Bushell says that no inscribed piece in modern collections can certainly be referred to the earlier dynasty of Hsia. From immemorial times the accidental discovery of these vessels on mountain sides and in valleys was considered felicitous, and names of cities and even of reigns’were changed in honor of the event; and subsequent to the Swng, noble tombs no longer being regarded as sacred, they were excavated to enrich the repositories of native collectors. The collection comprehends both ancient and recent subterranean revelations, the patina authenticating the age of the metal and the differing surfaces offering interesting opportunities for comparison. Ambers of remote date appear in unaccustomed variety, eighteenth century brocades in a prodigal effulgence revealing the splendor of interior decoration of the palaces of the day, with accompanying rugs of lustrous surface and prolific imagery; some exquisite porcelains have been found, and uncommon potteries. With the exception of the ambers, all objects for which stands would naturally be appropriate have accompanying stands of cae teakwood, whether indicated in the catalogue or not. The dates of the various reigns mentioned in the descriptions follow in tabular form or in recapitulation. Dana H. Carrot, New York, January 5th, 1914. CHRONOLOGY The periods or reigns mentioned in the catalogue descriptions are here set down with their dates; and from the beginning of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the recent overthrow of the Ch’ing and last dynasty, two years ago, the names of all reigns are given, with their dates. The Three Early Dynasties (known always to the Chinese as “The ‘Three Dynasties”) : HSIA B.C. 2205-1767. Lastrrep 438 years. SHANG B.C. 1766-1122. Lasrep 644 years. CHOU B.C. 1122-255. Lastep 867 YEARS. It may be noted that, prior to about the middle of the ninth century B.C., Chinese dates are approximative, having been calculated backwards, but subsequent to that time the figures are accepted as accurate by scholars generally. Of the Chou rulers, Wei Lieh Wang reigned from B. C. 425 to B.C. 400. King Nan (Nan Wang), the last real monarch of the Chou— though Tung Chou Chiin reigned nominally till B.C. 249—surrendered to the ruler of the feudal state of Ch’in in B.C. 256. King Chéng, ascending the throne of Ch’in in B.C. 246, founded in B.C. 221 a real empire, on the destruction of the feudal system. This emperor-king— who was a burner of books and who ordered magnificently that his Ch’in successors should be recorded and known in numerical sequence to the ten-thousandth generation—was so baffled by fate that his son was murdered by a eunuch, and his grandson, a mere babe, was given into the hands of the founder of the house of Han, only to be with little delay despatched from this life. The Ch’in, beginning in B.C. 221, and the Han, beginning in B.C. 206, were succeeded by the Eastern Han (began A.D. 25) and the After-Han (began A.D. 221). The T’ang came in in A.D. 618, remaining on the records two hun- dred and eighty-nine years, till A.D. 907; the Northern Sung began A.D. 960, the Southern Sung A.D. 1127—lasting until the Mongolian ascendancy in 1280, the Yuan dynasty. This survived for eighty-eight years, until A.D. 1368, when it was followed by the Mings, who gov- erned China until the arrival in 1644 of the Manchu conquerors—the Ch’ing dynasty, which retained power for more than two and one-half centuries until its recent overthrow by the pseudo-democratic upheaval. It is to be remembered that, as the Emperor’s name was never to be spoken in China, each ruler adopted a designation by which his reign should be known; this “reign title,’ or Nien Hao, is given in the following table with an English translation of its meaning or significance. ‘The Chinese original is prefixed. The date first men- tioned is in each instance the beginning of the reign. EMPERORS OF THE 33] MING DYNASTY Dynastic TITLE TirLe or Reien 5 ° Reigned Miao Hao Nien Hao eure 7 x i if 1 1H. T’ai Tsu Y Hung Wu . 3 d » (Wonderful Bravery) A.D. 1368 ee ft. Chien Wen 4 Hui Ti Boney of Literature) A.D. z LS. aaa Cheng Tsu JK 46 Vung Lo 32 (Eternal Joy). A.D. 1403 Hung Hsi 1 @888 (Abounding Glory) A.D. 1425 Ads Hsiian Té 10 | ha (All-pervading Virtue) A.D. 1426 vr} Chéng T’ung 14 . (Correct Ruler) A.D. 1436 Y vik: Ching Ti =a Ching T’ai " r4 . (Great Brilliancy) A.D. 1450 K D7 Yén Tsung Hsiian Tsung Ying Tsung St Son set lo} Tp SS eat ab SH SE St Ht Et SH Ying ce government ) }) T’ien Shun 8 (Obedient to Heaven) A.D. 1457 — = Oo ony fox 5 (q°) jor Chveng Eines 23 (Perfected Influence) A.D. 1465 i rg Hsien Tsung ry Hung Chih 18 Hsiao Tsung Ve (Marvelous Administration) A.D. 1488 Wu Tsung iki Chéng Té 16 nw »> (Correct Virtue) A.D. 1506 ; Sx 26 Chia Chin A5 ‘| Shih Tsung oe LB (Rejoicing : Purity) A.D. 1522 ! : Lung Ch’ing 6 Mu Tsung [(e Z ‘2° Pali aches A. D. 1567 (at FR BH + - Wan Li AT Shén Tsung hy yee : 5 A (Ten Thousand Generations) 1 Jus A.D. 1573 8 yes 9 Kuang Tsung As T’ai Ch’ang 1 ~ = | (Great Abundance) A.D. 1620 ——a 3° 3° Hsi Tsun K Tien Ch’ i. 8 \ey = (Heaven Born) A.D. 1621 : wa ‘ch T; See aye Ch’ung Ché 1 iit Chuang Lieh Ti oe nial page ca 6 (Great Luxuriance) A.D. 1628 oor = MMP AE AG AG ME Nb sf 2a EMPERORS OF THE K if GREAT CH’ING DYNASTY Dynastic TITLE Miao Hao Shih Tsu = Shéng Tsu Shih Tsung Kao Tsung Jén T'sung Hsiian Tsung Wen Tsung Mu Tsung Ce et tol TP EEE SE SE AE YG SR Hg a = oa, 4 TirLte or REIGN , Reigned Nien Hao Shchee jis Vee Shun Chih il : (Original Obedience) A.D. 1644 = Kang Hsi 62 TINO (Vigorous Glory) A.D. 1661 13 Yung Ch’éng Signe and Uprightness) A.D. Fi TE Chien ane 60 Coating and Exalted) A.D. Chia Ch’ing 25 (Rejoicing and Excellence) A.D. 1796 4 ¥ Tao Kuang 30 (Truth and en A.D, 1821 Hsien Feng 11 Jide (Universal Prosperity) A.D. 1851 —F wy, Tung Chih 13 io (Perfect Ruler) A.D. 1862 Kuang Hsii 33 1: ~ } Shin Tung (Excellent) A.D. 1909. (Overpowering Light) A.D. 1875 Reigned 3 years. REPUBLICAN PERIOD FT AH. President Yuan-Shi-Kai (Triumphant Forever) A.D. 1912 FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’ CLOCK WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 1 TO 192 ~CARVINGS IN AMBER AND OTHER CABINET TREASURES 1— SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AMBER EGG-PLANT The fruit of the egg-plant and scrolled vines, carved and pierced in clouded brown and yellow amber, smoothly polished. 2—-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AMBER Doc Fu In recumbent position, with head turned to one side and back- ward toward a smaller, playful Fu, sprawling in low relief over his back. His head in pure, light brown amber of limpid depth and clarity, the body opaque in a thick, grayish-yellow cloud. 38—TwewtrtryH Century AMBER-MATRIX “FIsH”’ A broad and flat headed “fish,” reptile or aquatic creature of some kind, with forelegs and a curling tail, is carved in a sprawl- ing position with head on a rock—its body of translucent rich brown amber which overlies a beautifully marbled matrix of gray, yellow and olive-brown tones. Length, 2 inches. 4—Dark Brown AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE Ovoidal contour with short neck. Obverse and reverse carved in relief with full-length figures in ceremonial dress and the sides with rudi- mentary handles. Seventeenth century. 5—Brown AMBER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SNUFF BotrLE Ovate form with short, in-curving neck, well- defined foot and flattened faces. Carved in low relief with animal grotesques. 6—MELON-sHAPED AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE 4 Clear translucent brown, and opaque squash- yellow amber, carved in the form of an elongated melon grow- ing on its stem and surrounded by vines, flowers and smaller fruits. Highly polished. Seventeenth century. Height, 24, inches. “—SnurFr Borris 1n Burack AMBER AND Brown Profusely carved in high and low relief and engraved, the figure of a horse and two flying insects being worked in the opaque black portions of the amber, which take a fine ebony polish, and the clear, all but transparent amber-brown and pale-yellow parts carved with a rambling pine tree and a monkey, and brilliantly polished. Artist’s signature incised. Seventeenth century. Height, 21, inches. 8—Carvine In AMBER Representing a mouse on Buddha’s-hand fruit. Has teakwood stand. 9—Wuitrr Corat Miniature Coure Semi-globular, in the shape of a writer’s water-jar, with grotesque animals glaring at each other over the rim, from opposite sides of the orifice, their scrolled bodies carved in bold relief encircling the shoulder of the cup. 10—Sitver anv Croisonné Enamet Snurr Borriz (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoidal silver body enameled in royal blue of brilliant quality with conventional foliar scrolls, animal-head ornamental handles, a deep shoulder-band and delicate neck border. 11—Eec-sHarep Brown AmpBer Lonceviry Snurr Borriue Narrow foot and short neck. Bas-relief carvings of storks among waves and water plants, and the spotted deer under the pine- tree—repeated wishes of long life. Seventeenth century. 12—ExTREMELY Rare Brack AmpBer Snurr Borrie Ovoidal contour on all sides, with a lat- eral depth greater than half its width, on a miniature molded foot and with short cylindrical neck. Smooth, softly pol- ished surface with the deep hue of blackest ebony. On one face a calli- graphic inscription lightly etched in sey- _ eral characters. Height, 2% inches. 13—Crioupy AMBER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Snurr BorrLue with GREEN JADEITE STOPPER Ovoid contour, with flattened faces and short cylindrical neck, on a low foot. Smooth, polished surface throughout, with rudimentary side handles in bas-relief. Brilliantly polished opaque amber with the tone of clouded yellow agate. Height, 21% inches. 14—Brackx AmpBper SnurFF Borrrue Ovoidal, of thick body with flattened faces, and short straight neck; with stopper. Deepest of ebony-black hue, and uniformly polished, with a surface of mirror-like brilliancy. Seventeenth century. 15—Guass-InLAip GittT-BRonzE Snurr Botrre (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoidal, the entire surface covered with emerald-green and ruby- red brilliants; gilt-mounted stopper. 16— FIFTEENTH CENTURY AMBER PENDANT In irregular arrow-head or flattened conical-fruit form; beeswax- brown, semi-translucent. Intricately carved in intaglio-cameo with studious personages, temples above waves and overshadowed by trees, the waves, foliage and flowers being engraved. Length, 2 inches. 17—Carvep AMBER ORNAMENT WITH SERRATED Top Thin, reddish-brown, smoothly polished amber, carved on one side with the standing figure of a sage, on the other with a seated figure holding a book, an animal and a flying insect—the book bearing minute incised characters. Seventeenth century. Has stand. Length, 34%, inches. 18—Two MorHer-0F-PEARL SNuFF BOTTLES Ovoidal, of pale brownish hue and pearly quality, with subdued luster, and enamel mountings. 19—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CARVED AMBER FLOWER ORNAMENT Clear and brilliant red amber, of sparkling topaz-hued trans- lucency against the light, enfolding a fleecy cloud or mass like snow in distant mountain hollows; carved and engraved in trail- ing, sinuous floral forms, with a brilliant polish. Length, 31%, inches; with stand, 4 inches. | 4 d | , 20—Two ConitcaL GourD-sHAPED Brown AMBER SEVENTEENTH CentTurY Snurr Borrues Carved in relief with rounded double-gourds, vines and blossoms, on all surfaces, and pol- ished. Translucent. Height, 2%, inches. 21—Lumrp or AmBER 1N Natura Contour Roughly, in the form of an American In- dian stone hatchet-head standing upright, with a high protuberance extending along one face. ‘Translucent pale-yellow amber, part clear and limpid, part clouded with lighter yellow; finished with a soft polish. | 20 Height, 34, inches. 22—Rep Amper Covure Shallow circular form with expanding rounded sides and wide mouth, and a delicately defined foot. Clear, transparent amber, brightly polished in its entirety. Seventeenth century. Diameter, 3 inches. 93—TwewrryH Century Four-sipep AMBER CUP In hopper form, or inverted pyramid shape, with dragon side handles and four low pedestal feet, the tops of the sides alternately convex and concave. Transparent amber of rich tortoise-shell hue, and nashiji lacquer aspect due to sparkling crystalline struc- tural variations. Archaic dragons carved in the round for the handles, their bodies extended over incised Shou characters. The whole brightly polished without and within. Width, 31% inches. 94 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Carvep AmBER Lotus FLoweEeR OrwNa:- MENT A triangular piece of clear, rich brown translucent amber, in- geniously carved, worked and engraved in the form of a beauti- fully modeled lotus blossom in high relief, on a veined leaf, with stems. Length, 24% inches. 95—SeEATED Ficure Hoxipine CHriLp Clear, translucent brown amber, blackening at the base. Coro- neted seated-figure carved in the round, the folds in the robes engraved, holding a man-child. On amber-glass stand. Seven- teenth century. Height, 214 inches; with stand, 4 inches. 96—FIFTEENTH CenTURY Opaque Rep AmBer Ficure or Horer The happy, contented, portly god is reclining on his right elbow on a bag whose mouth he grasps in his _ hand. Carved in dense opaque amber of even, dark- coral red hue, with a light, soft polish. Has stand. Width, 3 inches. 97—Two Brown TRANSLUCENT AMBER STATUETTES OF KUAN-YIN ON AMBER-GLASS STANDS The goddess represented seated, in carved flowing robes; in one holding the infant Buddha across her breast, while in the other he is seated upright on her knee. Height (with stand), 3%, inches. 98—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CARVED AMBER HorsE Modeled in recumbent position, his legs doubled under, tail swirling and head turned around to nose a bundle of books bound with a scrolling ribbon which rests on his rump. Clear, semi- transparent light brown amber, turning to pure, brilliant topaz against the light. Bright, lustrous polish; mane and tail etched with fine scrolls. Length, 3% inches. 99—Carvine IN AMBER Translucent golden-yellow color; Buddha’s-hand fruit. Has teakwood stand. Height, 314 inches. 30—SPECIMEN OF AMBER Translucent flame-color. Has teakwood stand. Height, 2% inches; length, 3 inches. 31—Patrt TRANSPARENT AMBER ORNAMENT Carved in representation of a locust on a leaf, ingeniously ar- ranged with stems and indications of the veming. Seventeenth century. Length, 3%4 inches. 382—Rep AMBER ORNAMENTAL CARVING OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY Sages clasping the emblematic peach of longevity are seated in the cloudland where the peach tree grows, a deer at their feet and a flying stork overhead—further sym- low and high relief in clouded red amber, translucent and brilliantly polished. Height, 41, inches; with stand, 5 inches. 33—TwetrTtH Century AMBER ORNAMENT Clear, translucent brown amber of a pro- nounced reddish tone, in thin slab-form, carved in representation of the complete head and body of the fish-dragon, with bold features, and scales and fins in low relief and incised. Length, 434 inches. bols of a long life. Expressively carved in $4—Fine Carvinc In AMBER Golden yellow, in the form of a bunch of grapes, with stem and leaves and numerous squirrels. ; Length, 3 inches. 35—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Brown AMBER ORNAMENT Translucent, turning to brilliant yellows against the light, and smoothly polished. Carved in form of a robust man with full, contented face, seated and holding a small jar with swinging handle over his knees, wearing on his back as cloak and _head- covering in one the pelt of a spotted stag —emblem of longevity—with antlers and hoofs included as ornaments. The spots on the deer’s coat are indicated by finely in- cised stars. Height, 4 inches. 386—TwewrrH Century Carvep AMBER ORNa- MENT | Sparkling, translucent brown amber with briliant ruby reflections, carved with mythical monsters of the imaginative Chinese animal kingdom, with details in hair-line engraving. Length, 3%, inches. 37—TwewtrrH Century AMBER CARVING Rich brown amber, with a sparkling translucency of brilliant topaz hue when held to the light, carved in the form of seamed, waved and weathered rocks in a grotto or woodland dell, with a winged insect and a frog crawling over them—the entire piece with a brilliant, luminous polish. Length, 3% inches. 38—Carvep AmBeEer PrAcH or LONGEVITY A luscious specimen of the fabled fruit of long life, of the tree blossoming but once in three millenniums, which, eaten at the hand of Hsi Wang Mu, queen of the fairies, conferred a span of life of three thousand years; carved in a brilliantly polished, beautifully marked specimen of opaque and_semi-translucent tortoise-shell amber, partly encircled by leaves and branches in bold relief and undercut, near one of which is a flying bat emblem of happiness. An ornament for suspension. Seventeenth century. Height, 31, inches. 89—CtLoupepD AMBER Mountain RETREAT WITH SAGES Elaborately carved in high and low relief, pierced, undercut and en- graved, the substance in places clouded and opaque, in parts clear and translucent, almost transparent, the color ranging from pure amber- brown to a yellow-onyx note. Soft polish. A mountain retreat of the sages is pictured, with pagodas, rock peony trees, palms and other vege- tation abounding, and two of the Im- mortals playing chess at the head of a flight of steps which lead down to a billowy sea where a canopied boat with a figure in it is tossing. Carved teak base inlaid with the Greek fret. Fifteenth century. Height, 34% inches; with base, 5 inches. Width, 41, inches. 40—AmBer Crovucutine Doe Fu 1 FirreentH Century MopeLine Clear, translucent, resinous amber of even, brown tone, with: occasional pale yellow patches which have been utilized casually in the carving of the features and as markings of the dog. He crouches, all four legs doubled under him, with head turned over one shoulder and resting against the familiar ball, the head- protuberances and the bushy tail modeled in relief and traced with hair-line scrolls. Brilliant polish. A fungus branch curls over his back. Length, 3, inches. 41—FiFrTEENTH CENTURY CARVED AmBER Lotus Cup Translucent pale yellow and brown amber with notes deepening toward black and manifold crystalline, frost-like striations; in- tricately carved in lotus motives; engraved and highly polished. The body of the cup is a narrowed and elongated lotus bloom lying on a long stem curling in lateral convolutions, while other stems fold and entwine about it supporting buds, blossoms and a flower with pierced seed-pod. A frog, a duck and an insect appear among the accessories. Brilliantly polished. Length, 4 inches. | : . E 1 49—-FirpTEENTH CENTURY Opaque AMBER Lotus Cur witH HANDLE Carved in relief and engraved. The bowl an open lotus flower lying on an entwined bundle of stems whose open and closed blos- soms and seed-pods adorn and support the main body of the cup, the stem-ends and an extended petal forming a lateral handle. Dense amber of a dark jasper-red with broad patches of a pale yellow. Varied matt and lightly polished surfaces. Length, 44% inches. 43—AMBER ORNAMENTAL VASE WITH COVER Rich brown translucent amber with occasional light yellow veinings, and brilliantly polished throughout. Carved in representation of an ovi- form jar on a pedestal foot, with sloping shoulder and wide neck, the jar resting upon a base of carved rockery and upheld within the embracing arms of a peach tree in bearing, with the figures of a woman and a boy entwined within the branches, the boy apparently endeavoring to reach the fruit of long lfe. The carving is in bold relief and in the round, and the whole is in one piece of amber with a detached cover carved in continuation of the general motive. Seventeenth century. (Slight repair near lip.) Height, 51/4, inches. 44 TwetrtoH Century Carvep AMBER PicTURE OF SAGES BY A MowuntTAIN-SIDE In mottled red, dark mahogany-brown, dense opaque amber with a clear, transparent, nut-brown center which seen against the light is a brilliant topaz with a ruby-red streak. Carved in an abundance of imagery and virtuosity with bas-relief figures of genial and convivial sages in a mountain retreat, a stork flying among pine trees overhead—emblems of longevity. At the back of the mountain a fierce dragon with the fire-ball before him glowers upon a tiger, the king of the Chinese jungle, above leaping waves—symbolic of the eternal conflict between the supernal powers of the air and the mightiest of the earth. Width, 5 inches; height, 4 inches. 45—Two OpaautE Tawny CLOUDED-AMBER SNUFF BOTTLES Flattened-ovoid form with thick cylin- drical necks, and stoppers. Carved in relief, one with sages and attendant and a Fu-lion and cub under pine trees, the other with a sage and votary under a pine and a Fu-lion under a peach tree; both with Fu-lion heads with ring, as ornamental handles. Seventeenth century. Height, 414, inches. 45A4—TripartTireE Bamspoo Fitower VASE IN Carvep YELLOW AMBER A section of a large bamboo trunk is flanked by a smaller limb on one side and a water jar on the other, carved in the round in a light, waxen-yellow clouded amber with dark orange markings. In bold relief are leaves and smaller branches, a phoenix and a frog. Seventeenth century. Height, 3 inches. 46—TwewrrH Century AMBER ORNAMENT Rich translucent reddish-brown amber, carved in representation of a recumbent Fu-lion with a smaller one playfully sprawling on his back, and variously engraved with scrolls. Length, 4 inches. 4%7—CLoOuUDED-AMBER COUPE In the hue of lightly-browned meerschaum, carved in the shape of a poppy flower forming the cup, embedded in a mass of leayes, stems and buds, all brightly polished. Fifteenth century. Length, 4%, inches. 48—Tatt AmBer Srupa Carved from a single stick of translucent amber in the form of a conical pagoda six stories high, with dome or lantern and torch, the walls etched in the form of regularly laid quadrangular stone blocks, with the cornices of the several stories successively receding toward the apex. In each of the first four stories are four recessed windows, a seated Buddha with clasped hands in alto-relievo in each. In the two upper stories the windows are blind. Amber of yellow-brown and deep red-brown tones and smooth soft polish. On a teakwood pedestal. Seventeenth century. Height, 8%/, inches; with pedestal, 1014 inches. 49—FirTeEENtTH CENTURY ImAcE or Kvan-yIn IN FLeckep anp Morritep AMBER WITH Marrix The goddess sits in Madonna-like attitude against a rock shrine or back, the infant Buddha on her knee upholding a book. Carved in dense opaque amber and “matrix” in the rich, mellow brown tones of a meerschaum pipe of long and honorable service, the back exhibit- ing a surface as of porcelain with a crackle- glaze in beautiful warm brown tones. With stand. Height, 44, inches; with stand, 5%4 inches. OBJECTS IN CARVED SOAPSTONE, JADE AND OTHER HARD STONES 50—Buppuistic Maponna (Sung) Seated figure of Kuan-yin, Chinese goddess of mercy, embrac- ing the Buddha as a mature infant who stands on her knee against her breast, holding a lotus blossom. Carved in soapstone of mottled gray, brown and amber tones, verging upon black in spots, with a predominant hue of deep brown. Mounted on a ~mahogany-brown thalamus. Height, 74%, inches. 51—Ficurre or an Emperor, Searep—Soapsrone (Ming) The “Son of Heaven” is represented seated on a rock, raised upon a rock base, his freely flowing robes adorned with delicately engraved, beautifully swirling cloud forms, with the wave motive and conventional lotus scrolls, and on the front below the belt with a large flying crane holding a branch of sacred fruit in its bill. The Emperor is in a high headdress, with the long ear- lobes of wisdom, his hair, whiskers and boots blacked with India ink. Carved in soapstone of dense texture and old-ivory tone. Height, 734 inches. (Illustrated) 52—Sratep Soapstone Freure or Kuan-yin (Ming) Elaborately carved in smooth, finely-polished soapstone of waxen surface and café-au-lait tone. The Chinese goddess of mercy is seated cross-legged, with hands resting on her knees, holding Buddhistic emblems. Her high headdress is overlapped by the cowl and she wears a diadem engraved with the lotus and scrolls, | and lotus jewels in low relief adorn her breast. Her gracefully draped robes are bordered with broad bands of beautiful tracery. ; Height, 7 inches. (Illustrated) 538—Kvan-yin with Inrant BuppHa—SoapsToneE (Ming) The “divine hearer of prayer” is seated, barefoot, with knees apart and one fore leg flexed, on a rock throne of carved teak- wood, holding on her knee the infant Buddha who clasps an emblem in his hands. The goddess’s robes are adorned with em- broideries of cloud-forms, scrolls and floral constellations, etched with delicate precision. Café-au-lait soapstone with a patch of red-agate hue which has been balanced by overlaying the Buddha’s garb with vermilion lacquer. Height, 61% inches; with base, 814 inches. (Illustrated) 54—Buppuistic Maponna—Sranpine (Ming) The figure, crowned and cowled, stands upright, holding the infant Buddha who carries a scepter. Her flowing robes, ruffled and waving to one side as in a breeze, are bordered with engraved lotus flowers and scrolls on a hatched ground. The cowl is edged with vermilion lacquer. Dark soapstone of reddish-brown mottled marble aspect, the brown deepening at the shoulders and face. Height, 7%, inches; on fixed stand, 8% inches. 55—SoarstonE Buppuistic Derry (Ming) A female deity in headdress and cowl, with great dignity of bearing and solemn expression, sits with one foot folded under and one knee upon a low rock base, a large lotus flower carved as an ornament to the inner garment across the partly exposed breast. Soapstone of dark onyx and old-ivory hue, deepening to rich mahogany browns shading almost to black. Height, 7 inches. 56—SratueEtre or Kuan-yin (Chien-lung) Carved in polished soapstone of café-au-lait hue, revealing in the back darker mottlings and at the crown a pale yellowish-brown. The goddess is seated upright, her left foot folded beneath her, holding in her right hand a sacred scroll, and facing slightly | toward the right with head gently inclined. Her abundant hair, colored with India ink, is dressed high upon her head within a sort of cowl. Her flowing robes falling low away from her breast | are finely engraved with cloud-scrolls and fillets and an intricate border. Height, 5%4 inches. 57—Sratruette oF Kuan-yin with Scrott—Soapstone (Ming) Seated with one foot folded under her and both hands on an upraised knee, the goddess of mercy faces the beholder, her head turned slightly toward the right, holding in one hand a scroll. Her robe, engraved with waves, cloud scrolls, and bat emblems of happiness in the skies, is painted in soft gray-blue and overlain with lacquer, the front of the headdress and back of the base lacquered in vermilion. Height, 51% inches. 58—JrEwrELED Denc-Ho ImaceE or Buppua, in CLosep Surine (Ming) The Buddha squats cross-legged on a lacquered throne against a fire-gilt back- ing with cloud-white, aubergine and tur- quoise enamels. One arm is bare, its hand covered by the cloak which com- pletely enfolds his other arm and hand. Delicately carved in yellow Deng-ho, the rare variety of soapstone which the Chinese treasure so highly that its com- merce is based on the ounce. The cloak minutely engraved in hatch, wave and lotus motives, with ruby-red jewels centering the blossoms. Artist’s signa- ture incised in the back. The carved teak ‘shrine is adorned in front with applied ornaments of mother- of pearl and ivory, and surmounting it is a carved dove in gold lacquer, with * wings outspread. Height, 234 inches; with shrine, 1414 inches. 59—Arnat Prayine with Froc—Soapstrone (Ming) One of the Arhats, with breast and abdomen exposed and robe bound behind his armpits by a rope girdle, is seated with one knee raised, holding up to his shoulder a frog—his admired and inseparable companion—that is biting the large ring in his deep-lobed ear. His mouth is opened in a merry smile. His black hair is tonsured and his robes are engraved with cloud forms and flowers and a border of waves. The stone has an | even, ivory-brown tone throughout. Height, 4 inches. 69 19 69 60—Soapsrone Recumbent Grovep—AruatT anv Lion (Ming) One of the Eighteen Arhats, his flowing and tasseled robes finely engraved with cloud-scroll ornamentation, reclines on a crouching Fu-lion upon whose upturned head he is looking down. The yel- lowish-brown stone, turned on some of the surfaces to a ripe meerschaum-brown, is marked on the lion’s shoulder by notes of red, and the engraved ornamentation which represents gold em- broidery on the robes retains in places the original gilding. Length, 5 inches. 61—SoarsTone STaTueTTe or Kvuan-yin (Ming) The Chinese Goddess of Mercy is seated with feet folded under her and hands lying one over the other palm-upward in her lap. She sits upright, head slightly inclined, with benignant ex- pression and carved with great dignity and refinement. Her robes are bordered with an ornate foliar scroll, finely engraved, retaining much of the gilding which originally embellished it. The stone of a light, pale yellowish-brown hue with waxen surface. Height, 6 inches. (Illustrated) 62—ArHAT AnD Fvu-LIon—Soarstone (Ming) Seated with one foot folded under him and one foot raised, the Arhat holds in his arm the Fu-lion, which climbs up his shoulder and has seized with its lips his large earring. His black beard, most delicately engraved, and his hair, are colored with India ink, and his robe is ornamented with fungus and cloud forms on cross-hatched grounds. The whole in the yellow tone of old ivory. Detached rock base bearing a foliate medallion in relief with a finely-traced arabesque border. Height, 444 inches. (Illustrated) 63—Seatep Arwuat oN Detracuep Rock Base—Soapstone (Ming) A being of powerful, dignified head, the Arhat sits cross-legged, holding a rosary over one knee. His elaborate robes are orna- mented with broad borders of acanthus scroll and waves, finely etched and overlaid with gold. The characteristic waxy-yellow soapstone is mottled with expansive streaks and patches of red- agate hue and quality. On the detached rock base, a foliate medallion in relief with finely etched floral border. Height, 5%, inches. (Illustrated) 64—Sierpine Roxan—SoarstTone (Ming) An old and partly bald man, enfolded in loose, plain robes, the Rokan or Arhat is represented lying on the ground, his sandalled feet projecting from beneath his cloak, his head and shoulders propped up on the back of a crouching Fu-lion over which he has folded his arms, dropping his chin upon them and composing himself for slumber. The lion remains alert and watchful. Carved in veined and mottled soapstone of gray and sandy-red aspect resembling carnelian. Height, 31%, inches. 65—Denc-no Ficurre or Monzu, CutneseE Goppress or WIsDOM AND IntEcritry (Ming) The goddess reclines on the ground, facing the spectator, hold- ing in one hand which clasps her upraised right knee a long- stemmed lotus-blossom, and in the other—whose elbow rests on a Fu-lion couchant at her side, looking up at her—a folded scroll. Her hair, bound over her forehead, hangs to the ground at her back; her flowing robes are without ornament. Faith- fully carved in translucent Deng-ho of topaz hue and waxen surface—a variety of soapstone so highly appreciated among the Chinese that in traffic it is sold per ounce. 'Two-character inscription on the back—the artist’s name, Yu Hsiian. Height, 2 inches. 66—Sratep Arnat—Soarstone (Ming) An Arhat with strongly marked features and knit brows is seated on a rock base, holding the Fu-lion in his arms, the lion undercut in full relief, its back showing a tawny hue against the gray, waxen surface of the main body of the stone. The Arhat’s eyebrows, hair, mustache and suggestion of a beard, and the wave-scroll border of his cloak are in hairline engraving, colored. Height, 3 inches. 67—Dene-no Seatrep Ficure (Ming) An Arhat seated on the. ground, one foot folded under him and the other knee raised, gazes downward in meditation, a hand on either knee and in one hand holding a book. He is dressed in loose, folded robes, unadorned. Carved in pale, yellowish-brown Deng-ho, a variety of soapstone so valued in China that when sold its weight is measured by the ounce. Height, 2% inches. 68—Monzu MovunTep on A Fu-1ti0on—Soarstone (Ch’ien-lung) The lion is represented walking on a fungus-scroll of openwork, on an up-shooting branch of which the goddess of wisdom and integrity rests one foot as she sits on the lion’s back, side-saddle fashion, with one foot brought up to the opposite knee. She holds to the lion’s mane with one hand and with the other proffers a rosary. Carved in detail in red and brown soapstone with an aspect of sard and jasper. Height, 3 inches. 69—Five Laceuer Trays Circular and shallow, with the rise of the bowl and the rim of woven texture and fluted. Variously decorated with landscapes and with figures afoot, ahorseback and in a boat, in numerous colors on a gold ground. Exterior of rim in vermilion lacquer. Inscriptions on bottom. Diameter, 536 inches. 70—Two Ivory Oprium-rires Each made from one solid piece of polished ivory, mellow-toned, and ornamented. only with a single seated figure, with acces sories, carved in relief and engraved. The bowl of one pot- tery, of the other porcelain, both ornamented in enamel colors. Length, 21% inches. 71—Ivory anp Laceuer Buppuistic Group (Ming) Standing long-robed figure of a divinity holding in her right arm the infant Buddha, who rests one hand on her shoulder. Both figures are carved in wood covered with vermilion and gold lacquer, the head of the goddess in ivory which about the face has taken on a rich, mellow-brown tone of age. Height, 914 inches. 72—RHINOCEROS-HORN ORNAMENT Hollowed underneath, the outside carved in rep- resentation of a bird in setting attitude with two smaller ones under one raised wing, the feathers of the larger bird finely engraved. ‘The whole in various tones of brown. Carved and tinted ivory stand. 71 Length, 4%, inches. te %38—RuInNOcEROS-HORN LiBpATION CuP Expanding from a rounded foot in lateral elongation and havy- iug a broad loop-handle, the form reproducing ancient bronze cups. Elaborately carved with numerous archaic dragons of varying form and features in bold relief and in the round, a dozen or more of them encircling the body and handle and a large four-clawed one sprawling at one end of the interior. Additional ornament of scrolls and palmations in low relief and engraving, and under the rim and on its surface incised borders of the Greek fret. Color, a rich, dark, reddish-brown. Tall carved teakwood stand. Height, 41% inches; length, 744, inches. 74—RHINOCEROS-HORN LiIBATION CuP With elliptical mouth, the sides contracting to a full, thick stem or trunk which acts as base and handle. Carved in low relief and undercutting with gnarled pines and other trees in a rocky landscape or grotto at the border of the sea, a boat transporting several persons appearing among billowing waves, the water and pine needles etched in fine lines. Color, a light fawn-brown. Tall carved teakwood stand. Height, 41%, inches; length, 74%, inches. 75—Two Peart anp Lacauer Taste Screens (K’ang-hsi) On lacquer panels of rich, dark mahogany tone, two female figures are delicately applied in mother-of-pearl and _ brilliant enamels—blue, vermilion, green—carved and engraved, the shawl- collar of one of the figures being of cinnabar lacquer with the wave motive minutely incised. On the reverse of each, in applied characters carved in mother-of-pearl, the artist has composed a poem, signing it with an incised seal. Height, 1234 inches. 76—BeavtTirut AmBER NECKLACE wITH FEr-T’sut JADE ORNAMENTS (Ch’ien-lung) Containing one hundred and eight evenly matched beads of pale yellow and brown translucent and clouded amber, with three in- tervening large beads of mottled green fei-t’sui jade besides the ornaments of the same stone, and pink coral beads in the pendant chains. In box of vermilion and black lacquer with a long inscription on top of cover and mirror on inner side. Length, 59 inches without pendants. 77—Manparin Neckuace or Fer-t’sur Jape anp Corat, In Biack LacevEer Box . Numbering one hundred and seventy-two beads of green jade and rosy pink coral, carved, pierced and engraved, and five green jade pendants pierced and carved with scrolling animal forms. Cover of box carved with a representation of the phoenix reaching toward a branch of a tree, and etched with an inscription in twelve characters. Length, without the pendants, 60 inches. 18—Two “Cuinest Rusy’” Snurr Borries / Pink tourmaline. Of flattened blossom form, obverse and reverse carved in low relief with Taoist Immortals at chess and other occupations, and the sides carved in bold relief with lotus flowers and carp. The stopper handles formed of pecking birds executed | in the round, with wing and tail feathers engraved. In teakwood | boxes with covers carved with Shou characters and bat symbols | of happiness among cloud scrolls. Height, 2°, inches. ”9—Smatt Brur Grass Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Dense opaque glass of starch-blue tone, painted in white with a blossoming wild plum tree with wide-spreading branches. Height, 334 inches. 80—InmrEeRtAL YELLow Grass Bown (Ci’ien-lung) Deep, with ovoidal contour and delicately everted lip, on low circular foot. Thin, translucent, sonorous glass of even, Im- perial yellow color, and brilliant surface, both exterior and in- terior. Etched underneath the foot, within a double square: “Chien-lung nien-chih” (Made in the reign of Ch’ien-lung). Diameter, 6 inches. 81—Antiave Guass Botrriz-rorm Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoidal with straight neck. Dense, opaque, Imperial yellow glass with lustrous surface. Four-character mark of Ch’ien-lung engraved on the foot. Height, 91%, inches. 82— Antique Grass Borrie-sHaPED Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid, with tubular neck; fashioned of thick, opaque glass of light pistache-green color. Four-character mark of Ch’ien-lung incised underneath the foot. Height, 91% inches. 83—REMARKABLE Carvep Rock Crystat VASE wITH ITs Own OricinaL Cover (Ch’ten-lung) Fashioned in the form of ancient bronze and jade vases of flattened pear-shape, on a low foot, with loop-handles supporting large loose rings. Heavily and deeply carved with a high-relief decoration of numerous phceenixes in various attitudes among tree peonies and cloud scrolls, with details etched; handles intricately carved with the sacred fungus, the loose rings smoothly polished ; at lip and foot an engraved fret-border. The cover carved with a shih-lung or earth dragon, and having at its lower edge a corresponding fret-border. Height, 15 inches. 3 84—Tatt Waite Jape VASE wITH COVER Flattened flask shape on a low foot. Of a soft, even, gray-white tone throughout, translucent and with a texture revealing inner ~mottlings without change of color. Brilliantly polished, the broad faces left unornamented and the narrow sides carved with ascend- ing four-clawed dragons in high relief, their necks and heads undercut and modeled in the round above the shoulder of the vase, forming side-handles sustaining each two loose rings. The highly polished cover, of the same perfection of texture and polish, is surmounted by another four-clawed dragon, undercut in full relief, supporting the pearl of omnipotence on his back, which is finely engraved with scales, and carrying also two small loose rings. The lip of the vase and the contiguous body of the cover ornamented with delicately traced, perfectly proportioned Greek fret. Height, 1214, inches; width, 5 inches. 85—WuitE JApE BuppHA—ENTHRONED A massive figure, seated, the hands folded on the crossed legs, boldly and freely sculptured in flowing robes, the breast orna- mented with jewels in low relief, the long ear-lobes of wisdom undercut. The jade is of pure, dense gray tone throughout— opaque, with translucence in the ear-lobes and other thin places— and smoothly polished. Mounted on a lacquer thalamus, gilded, the tall gilt back carrying a filigree border of Buddhistic emblems ornamented in turquoise enamel. Height, 9144 inches; width, 634 inches. Height, with throne, 1514 inches. 86—Transtucent Moss-GREEN JADE VASE WITH COVER Elongated flattened ovoid body on a low pedestal-foot, with sloping, flask-like shoulders and broad, shallow neck. Rare jade of a rich, dark moss-green, with the quality—unusual in this hue—of translucence. Elaborately carved in low relief on all sides with dragon motives and scrolls, the heads of two con- ventionalized dragons appearing on each broad face with a Shou character between them. Two scaled dragons carved in the round form side-handles on the neck, each sustaining a heavy loose ring. Another dragon, undercut in full relief, with two small loose rings, forms the handle of the cover, and both cover and the neck of the vase are surrounded by downward-pointing borders of conventional palm leaves. Height, 131%, inches; width, 5 inches. sateen etd GER Earnie ielinema “onan 87—Green Jape Vase with Cover ann Sranp (All of Jade) Dense gray-green jade in the form of a pilgrim-bottle body but with broad, elliptical neck, on an elliptical pedestal-foot, with two fixed side-handles on the neck. Both faces occupied by large circular medallions of floral motives, embracing lotus con- ventionalizations, surmounted on the neck by a deep palm-leaf border carved and engraved with fret and dragon scrolls. The pierced and undercut S-handles are carved with intaglio scrolls. The base and cover are in jade of a more pronounced green, though with grayish trend, the base carved and pierced with scrolls and floral borders, and the cover surmounted by an open- work handle formed of four dragons carved in the round and facing the four directions, their heads united and sustaining four loose rings and their scrolled tails forming a relief border encircling the body of the cover. An inscription incised within the foot declares the piece a Ch’ien-lung treasure. Height, complete, 18 inches. 88—Watt Vase or Lacauerep Pewrer (K’ang-hsi) In the form of the half of a globular pear-shape vase on a low foot and tapering to a short neck with spreading lip. The sub- stance is pewter, coated with a rich, full-bodied cherry-color lacquer, and the whole was made in imitation of the Lang-yao sang-de-beufs—successful in form though not in color, but quite interesting. Back lacquered in black. Height, 10 inches. 89—ImreriaL Enamet Vase (K’ang-hsi) Squat pear-shape with elongated and full neck, on low foot. Gilded bronze of resonant, musical tone, decorated in famille verte enamel colors on a gray and pearly-white enamel ground which discloses pinkish hues. The decoration consists of land- scapes and. water, with mountains, trees, a pavilion, rocks and a boat, distributed over the surface, in different tones of green with yellow, aubergine and coral-red. ‘The enamel foot bears a four-character mark declaring the piece to have been made at the order of the Emperor K’ang-hsi. Height, 7 inches. 90—Pair or Unusuar ILLumMINATED PEWTER JARS WITH COVERS These examples are rarely found. The jars, ovoid, of the familiar ginger-jar shape with mandarin covers, are formed of pewter and the entire surface is painted in oil-lacquers with castles, pagodas, landscape and figures in blue, green, vermilion, ivory-white, old-rose and gold, on a black ground. Eighteenth century. Height, 91 inches. a —— ANCIENT BRONZES. “Ancient bronzes are divided by Chinese archeologists into two great classes, the first class including the relics of the three ancient dynasties, Hsia, Shang and Chou; the second class those of the Ch’in, Han and later dynasties. The year B.C. 221, in which Ch’in Shih Huang proclaimed himself ‘the first Emperor,’ is the dividing line between the two classes. : “King Wu was the founder of the Chou dynasty (B.C. 1122-249), to which period most of the ancient bronzes with inscriptions are attributed by archeologists of the modern school in China. A smaller proportion is referred to the Shang dynasty with short inscriptions of archaic pictorial script, in which the name of the deceased to whom the piece was dedicated is generally one of the cyclical characters. The preceding Hsia dynasty is meanwhile left unrepresented, in that no inscribed piece in modern collections can certainly be referred to it.”—Chinese Art, by S. W. BusHett, C.M.G., B.Sc., M.D. The bronzes in this collection are all of the Shang, Chou and Han dynasties, "with a single exception belonging to the Sung and a few of the mirrors which date from the T’ang. HSIA B.C. 2205-1767 SHANG B.C. 1766-1122 ‘ CHOU B.C. 1122-255 CH’IN Began B.C. 221 HAN Began B.C. 206 TVANG A.D. 618-906 SUNG A.D. 960-1179 91—Prain Bronze Mirror (Han) Circular form; left unadorned save for molded lip and outline medallion ring; almost wholly covered on all surfaces with a dull malachite patina and brown earthy incrustations. Diameter, 514 inches. 92—Two Rounp Bronze Mirrors (Han) One, covered throughout with a brown patina, has a decoration of sea monsters, and birds perched and flying, among. bunches of grapes, vines and foliations, and a conventional foliate border. The other, its mirror surface thickly incrusted with green, is further coated and incrusted on its top with similar color, cover- ing its decoration of conventional relief and hatch. Diameters, respectively, 334 inches and 31, inches. 93—Turee Smartt Rounp Bronze Mirrors (T”ang) One, coated with a black-brown patina and thickly incrusted in green and brown, carrying a decoration of young chickens in bas-relief with hatch and pointed borders; another, with a deco- ration of conventional birds in fine relief outline, bosses and a point border, exhibiting gray-olive patina and a mass of heavy incrustations in green, yellow, red and black. The third dis- plays a thin patina of light, silvery-gray tone, with malachite, gray and earthy-brown incrustations. Diameters, respectively, 334, inches, 34%, inches and 3 inches. 94—REMARKABLE SMALL Bronze Mirror (Han) Circular, its polished flat surface covered with one of the richest of black patinas, the true “mirror-black” of admirable quality. The rim rises in a flange, protective of the decoration on the top - surface, which consists of the grapevine in bearing and mythical sea monsters, arranged in a central medallion and border sep- arated by a molded ring, the design modeled in low and high relief. It is largely incrusted in pale green, some small patches of which attach to the opposite mirror surface. Diameter, 3 inches. 95—Smatt Rounp Bronze Mirror (Han) With beveled edge, and a decoration of four tigers in outline relief with geometrical and foliate designs, point, hatch and dot borders; coated with a gray-black and lead-colored patina, and pitted in malachite-hued disintegration. Diameter, 44/, inches. 96—Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) Decorated in light line-relief and incision with bird and dragon conventionalizations and hatch and serrated borders. Gray and malachite-green patina with heavy malachite incrustations. Diameter, 5 inches. 97—Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) Elaborately ornamented with the “Four Gods” decoration and accessories, the signs of the Chinese zodiac, a dragon and phoenix scroll border in archaic conventionalization, and an outer border of foliar scroll, variously modeled in high and low relief and incised. ‘The whole covered with a patina of dark steel-gray. Diameter, 434 inches. 98—GreEN Bronze Mirror (Han) Circular form, the mirror surface evenly coated with a brilliant olive patina of va- rious shadings. A _ similar patina, but with unctuous surface of dull luster, is al- most uniformly distributed over the decorative top of the disk, which is adorned with sea-horses and other animals and large birds, among bunches of grapes and vines, within a double point border. Diameter, 41/, inches. 99—Circutar Bronze Mirror (Han) Profusely decorated in high and low relief modeling with luxuri- ant bunches of grapes and rambling vines, among which sea monsters disport, song birds perch and fly, and butterflies are seen on the wing. Coated with a lustrous black patina, with slight greenish incrustations. Diameter, 434, inches. 100—Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) Thin, with beveled edge and depressed medallion upper surface, and coated throughout with a black patina tinged gray and pitted in malachite fracture. Decoration, conventional birds and geo- metrical forms in outline relief, with bosses and bold scrolls, point and hatch borders. Diameter, 51, inches. 101—Dark Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) Slightly convex, with beveled rim, and depressed-medallion upper surface within an inclined border or shoulder. Relief decoration involving the conventional dragon, tiger, turtle and bird, with an archaic animal-scroll border. The whole covered with a rich patina of deep tone verging upon black and of unctuous surface, ra with delicate malachite incrustation. Diameter, 6 inches. 102—Larcz Se niy Ae Convex Mrrror (Wet) Circular, its mirror. surface exhibiting a silver-gray Stir with patches of malachite, red and sandy-brown. The ornate deco- ration of the top, in cire perdu modeling with subsequent tooling, involves the dragon, pheenix and tiger, the turtle within the coils of a serpent, animal masks, sundry borders and an inscription informing the user that in it she may see herself as beautiful as the flowers, the stars in the sky—with other ex- quisite hyperbole. Even patina of silvery tone, with light in- crustations of malachite hue and the pale brown of dry earth. Diameter, 8 inches. 103—Bevet-ever Rovnp Bronze Mrrror (Han) Coated on both surfaces with an olive-gray patina of varying tone, incrusted and pitted in malachite; decoration, birds and geometrical devices in outline relief, with bosses, and hatch and successive and varied angular borders. Diameter, 6 inches. 104—Bronze Fourte Mirror (Tang) Round, the scalloped rim thickened as a narrow flat border for the upper surface, which carries a lion and peacock decoration in bas-relief, covered with a black patina and sundry malachite and rusty-red incrustations. Varied patina and incrustations on the mirror side. Diameter, 614, inches. 105—Larce Bronze Foriar Mirror (Tang) Circular, the foliated rim beveled and thickened at the top; the smooth upper surface decorated with peony sprays modeled in relief and engraved. Both upper and lower surface of mirror quality; the metal of clear, ringing tone. Luminous silvery patina, with incrustations manifold and varicolored. Diameter, 914 inches. 106—Sitvery Bronze Mirror (Han) Circular and heavy, and retaining much of its mirror quality amid incrustations of malachite-green and rusty brown hue, the light color of the metal resulting from the quantity of tin used in the alloy. On the top, within a central medallion of beaded outline, the favorite decoration of mythical sea-animals molded in bold relief among grapes and vines, the medallion surrounded by a band of various birds and flying insects also amid grapes, and within the rim a narrow conventional border of detached floral forms. Diameter, 6 inches. 107—Heavy Crrcurar Bronze Mirror (Han) Convex, with beveled rim, the upper surface sloping downward from a sharp edge to a large depressed medallion with elaborate ornamentation. The sloping surface carries a band of refined scroll, alternating and repetitive, and an inner serrated border. i The major decoration embodies in bold relief a representation | of Hsi Wang Mu, “Royal Mother of the West” and Queen of : the Fairies, and Tung Wang Kung (whose title as regnant in equally imaginative realms of the East is imitative), with at- tendants, besides an archaic dragon and a tree—possibly the peach tree of the genil, which grew in Hsi Wang Mu’s delect- able dominion in the Kun-lun Mountains and blossomed once in three thousand years, conferring that span of life on those who ate of its fruit. Rich olive-brown and grayish patina, verging upon black, with malachite pittings. Diameter, 74/ inches. 108—Larce Bronze Four Mirror (Tang) Circular, with foliate perimeter; a thin, flat disk, of sonorous quality, coated with a rich dark brown patina and gray-olive, malachite and dull reddish incrustations. The decoration, in bas-relief, includes an Arhat and a peacock, with trees, scrolls and symbols. Diameter, 81, inches. 109—Bronze Lization Cup (Sung) Tall form, of irregular horn-like aspect, the lip slightly pointed in leaf-shape. Lower body in the form of a seated pheenix, the head projecting forward and the long feathers modeled and carried almost to the top of the back of the cup. Rich, lustrous patina of deep, dark-olive green, with reddish earthy incrustations. Height, 61, inches. 110—Dark Bronze Beaker (Han) Narrow spreading foot, slender body and trumpet lip. Lateral flutings above and below the mid-section, which is adorned with ridges, bosses and incised scroll-fret ; similar ornamentation on the base, with- out the ridges. Lustrous patina with notes of verdigris, olive, malachite and moss and the green of boiled tea-leaves with gray and blue-gray fleckings, amid reflecting surfaces so deep and dark in tone as to be almost a luminous black. Height, 834 inches. J11—Bronze Rovunp Mirror (Han) Thin disk, slightly convex; steel-gray patina with pale-olive notes and roughish incrustations on the mirror side. On the top, within a depressed central medallion, the “red crow” and the signs of the zodiac, in light relief, with bosses and a hatch border; the medallion surrounded by a narrow point border and a wide band of bold scroll. Dark patina and thick, grayish- green incrustations. Diameter, 64, inches. 112—Bronze CAMEL-BELL Ovoidal, somewhat flattened, outlined in half-round ridges, which are further used as boundaries near the top for four small sec- tions or panels in form of a band, two holding four bosses and two three bosses each. Short quadrangular neck with cross-bar and chain for suspension. Rich, unctuous, thick patina of olive and malachite notes, with somber mottlings. Carved frame-stand. Height, 7 inches; with stand, 14 inches. -118—Uniave Ceremontat Bronze Cup wir Spout (Han) On three short monster-legs. Low, shallow, palmate form, the leaf-tip extended to-form the spout. Incised scroll-fret band beneath the lip, from it depending palmate medallions with in- cised scroll decoration. Under the spout two archaic dragons surmounting the ogre face. The legs are small monsters with human form and bird head, supporting the cup as caryatids. Cup form and medallions alike carry out and suggest the mon- ster’s bird head. Dark olive, brown, light green and mottled patina with iron-rust incrustation. Height, 3 inches; diameter, 6 inches. 114—Rep Bronze Beaker (Han) Base and mid-section with an elaborated, finely incised scroll-fret and bosses, with the addition to the midband of two vertical ridges. Smooth patina of light-bronze and dull cherry-red, with green-turquoise and gray fleckings, and rich green and dark olive notes in the denser parts. Height, 10 inches. 115—Bronze Trieop SacririciaL Vessex wirh Hanpie (Han) More or less in the shape of a small frying-pan, with deepened bottom, standing on three slightly curved spear-head legs with points downward. Long curved handle finishing with a dragon- head. 'Turquoise-green patina with patches of cobalt-blue. Height, 5 inches. 116—Bronze Vase or Fruarrenep Prar-sHaPe (Chow) With broad, truncated neck and deep foot. The neck is sur- rounded by a band of incised and relief ornament comprehending the fret and open scrolls, battle- axes and the symbolized features of the tiger or ogre. The “tiger’s eye” recurs in a narrow scroll band about the foot. The entire surface of the jar is covered by a thick patina of rich malachite tones, mingled with warm, red- dish-brown and iron-rust hue, and various incrustations. Height, 614 inches; width, 54%, inches. i 117—Bronze Beaker (Han) | Conventional form, with scarcely definition between the mud- section and the trumpet lip or mouth; in the size of a large drinking-cup easily handled. The flaring neck left plain, the lower sections displaying an archaic scroll ornament deeply in- cised. Olive-brown patina of dull luster, with dark-olive and grayish-malachite patches, overborne by a denser wrugo of cin- nabar-lacquer hue. Height, 9 inches. 118—Bronze Sacrirician Wine Jvuc with STRAIGHT SIDE-HANDLE (Han) Compressed-spherical form on three stocky legs, with hinged cover, and short spout in the model of a conventional dove’s-head, | the upper beak swinging on a hinge. Soft olive-brown and rich malachite-green patina. Height, 6 inches; width, 10% inches. 119—Bronze Incense Burner (Han) | Circular, with bulging body, everted lip and deep, slightly-spread- i | ing foot; two dragon-head loop-handles with quadrilateral drops. | Decoration, the lineaments of the t’ao t’ieh ogre in bold relief. Thickly incrusted in tones of dull brick-red and malachite- and turquoise-green from prolonged subterranean lodgment. Width, 10 inches. 120—Bronze Lisation Cur (Han) Helmet-shape bowl, with side handle, on three triangular spear-head feet. Two stems rismg from the rim termi- nate in knobs. On the body a band of fret-work and scrolls, with ring and bead borders. The entire ex- terior surface covered with a mottled green, dull-red and silver-gray patina, with green incrustations. Height, 8 inches; width, 71, inches. 121—Bronze Trivop Jar (Han) Small caldron on straight (solid) tubular legs with two loop handles rising-from the rim. Decoration, a single band of incised scroll with ridges and bosses. Patina of rich, dark moss- green with rusty and mahogany-brown mottlings. Has teakwood cover with carved white jade knob-handle. Height, 91% inches. 122—Semi-cLopuLtar Bronze OFFERING-sTAND (Ch'in) With slightly contracted lip and wide mouth, on a tall, gracefully curving and spreading foot. Two side-handles of cylindrical section. Adorned in bands of incised scroll fret. Patina of rich dark green with malachite tones and mahogany-brown. Height, 714, inches. 123—AnciENT Bronze QuapRILATERAL Jar (Han) Swelling sides with sharp edges, short neck with thickened square lip, and slightly spreading quadrangular base. Two animal heads in relief on the shoulder. Rough, coarse patina of pale tur- quoise-blue and the green of the washed turquoise, interspersed with patches of iron-rust—the deposit from the disintegration of some adjacent object or material—and here and there outcrop- pings of the original metal little altered in surface or hue. Height, 11 inches; diameter, 6 inches. 124—Bronze Treasure Jar (Chou) Squat ovoid body with thick neck and wide, flaring mouth. On the neck a band of incised fret overlain by heavy raised scrolls has at opposite sides two animal heads in high relief, and below it are two sharp raised rings, which are repeated on the foot. Dull patina of pewter-like quality and gray tone, throughout, with heavy red and green incrustations. In the interior an in- cised inscription saying the jar is to hold the family’s treasures. Height, 5% inches; diameter, 51% inches. Almost the exact counterpart of this vase is recorded and illustrated in the Hsi Ch’ing Ku Chien, the catalogue of the Imperial collection of bronzes in the palace at Peking, published in forty-two folio volumes by the Emperor CWien-lung in 1751. 7 j ~125—Bronze Coverep Jar (Han) ~ Globular body, thick neck, slightly spreading mouth with inturned lip, and raised, almost straight foot. Body marked by two plain, narrow raised bands, that at the shoulder sustaining two small loop handles for suspension. On the cover a raised quatrefoil. Surface covered by a smooth patina intermingled with slight in- crustations—the whole of a predominant deep cherry-red tone, mottled with green, gray and black, the interior of the cover showing a solid green. Height, 8 inches; diameter, 534 inches. 126—Bronze Sacririciat Tripop Jar with Cover (Han) In the form of a small caldron on three conventional dragon-head legs spreading in concave curve, with two upright loop-handles and a cover having three upstanding loops and a loose-ring han- | ; dle. Incised ornamentation of archaic dragon and geometric scrolls. Olive and malachite patina with roughish incrustations. Height, 7%, inches. | 127—Heavy Bronze Tripop Jar (Chow) | Of bulbous form with two upright rim handles and plain cylin- H drical legs. A scroll-fret border beneath the slightly projecting rim, the scroll used further below to outline the bold relief decora- i tion which occupies almost the entire surface. This consists of the emblematic cow’s head with the detached horns, over each leg | of the tripod, and a pair of descending archaic dragons in each | of the spaces between the heads, the reliefs displaying sharply incised details. Above one of the heads appears in relief the character for “grandson,” indicating that the bronze was to be retained and handed down in the family as an heirloom. The | interior has the Chou mark and also an animal mark, apparently — q the elephant. Varying patina, largely of a celadon hue, with i touches of iron-red, and black patches. Teakwood cover, with jade handle carved and undercut with bird and animal forms and branches. ees bronze, 8 inches (with stand and cover, 12 inches); diameter, 634, inches. 128—Rare Bronze SacetrictaL WINE VesseL (Chou) Bulbous body on four slender columnar legs, with loop-handle springing from a dragon-head, and straight, tapering spout ; dome cover with small loop handle, the cover attached by links to the main handle. At the side beneath the rim, two animal heads in relief. Covered with a lustrous patina of dark olive- brown and greenish tone, spread with the characteristic mala- chite, earthen-gray and brown, blue and iron-rust red incrusta- tions of long interment, the patina and incrustations extending to the interior. On the body beneath the handle, an incised mark with the characters representing son and grandson, betokening family succession and ancestral devotion, the same inscription recurring in the interior of the attached cover. Height, 9 inches. 129—Wine Semi-cLropuLar Bronze Bown. (Han) Its top slightly contracted, with everted lip and three short thick cabriole feet. Body encircled by a single raised rope, below which is a detached fret band and pointed border; the detached fret | repeated in a band below the lip. Warm olive patina enhanced | by patches of rich black. Diameter, 10 inches; height, 51 inches. ' de ad 130—Ancrent Bronze Ceremoniat Vesset (Chow) Of squat beaker form with wide mouth, flaring lip and spreading foot. A singularly interesting specimen for study of the effects of time and inhumation. The jar is for the most part covered by a thick coating of massed incrustations, tufa-like in effect but green, the fecund green of dense pond-scum. In places the incrustations, disintegrating the metal, replace it with substance of their own verdant hue; elsewhere a fine black patina with soft malachite mottlings coats the surface; and again where incrusta- tion has been prevented or in course of time removed, as in the bottom of the interior, the purity of the original surface is revealed. A fret band above a bold ring, on the neck, containing four phenixes in bas-relief and accentuated by two outstanding monster-heads, forms the sole decoration. The maker’s name is incised in the interior of the bottom. The stand is inlaid with silver. | Height, 7 inches; width, 7 inches. - -\181—Bronzze Trivop Incense Burner or THE T'HOusAND Dracons (Han) With two loop side handles and short cabriole legs. Sonorous bronze with a clear ringing note. The chief decoration consists of a broad band bearing an intricate interlacement of an in- cised ribbon-scroll involving a conventionalized dragon form in innumerable repetitions, the same motive being repeated in a narrower band below a rope girdle. Soft patina of steel-gray and silvery tone, mingled with green; and green incrustations. Teak cover with jade knob. Height, 71, inches; diameter, 7 inches. 1382—Wine Circurar Bow. (Han) Of thin bronze with a clear ringing tone. The lip finishes with an upright sharp edge. The body is left plain but for a simple ridged band about the middle with two animal-head handles. En- tire exterior covered with a patina of turquoise-green, varying toward blue, in places smooth as the original metal, elsewhere overlain by green, blue and clay-yellow incrustations. Diameter, 111% inches. 133—Bronze SacririciaAL Jar witH Cover (Han) Spherical body on a deep foot; wide neck; flattened dome cover with ring handle; two animal-head loop-and-ring handles at the shoulder. Patina and thin incrustations in tones of mahogany- brown, russet, malachite and dark swamp-green. Height, 11% inches. ee eee 134—Tatt Bronze Beaxer (Han) Of slender stem with trum- pet neck and flaring lip and lightly spreading foot. An incised fret, interrupted by ancient animal symbols in relief, enwinds base and body, which, separated by a plain band bearing two rings, are each divided into sections by four vertical ridges. Conventional palm leaves in relief, outlined by the continued fret motive, spread up the neck. Com- pletely covered with a sil- very and brown patina and green incrustations. Teak- wood base-rim, in lieu of stand. Height, 1134 inches. 1385—Heavy Bronze Trreop Jar (Chou) Of deep globular form with thick everted lip, two upright loop side handles and plain cabriole feet. Encircled beneath the lip by a band of deeply chiseled bold ornament in lateral-scroll form, whose details are more or less obscured by heavy incrustations from long burial and the thick, rich, unctuous patina which covers both exterior and interior of the vessel. This brilliant patina is of a full-bodied, rich, deep green tone, mottled with paler green and sandy-brown and occasional spots and patches of the original metal. Interior bears an incised inscription in sixteen characters, the inscription reading as made by the emperor or king (prob- ably Ch’éng Wang, third monarch of the Chou), and indicating that the bronze was cast by the Duke of Chou for use as a sacrificial vessel in the worship of his ancestors. The Duke of Chou, one of the greatest statesmen of antiquity, was uncle and regent of King Ch’éng, who came to the throne at the age of thirteen years. Teak cover, with knob handle of jade carved in relief and undercut with cranes and lotus flowers and buds. Height, 7 inches; diameter, 7 inches. 136—Rare Bronze Water Borrie (Ch'in) In graceful bulbous gourd-form with full, elongated curving neck, capped by a cover modeled in the form of a pheenix with raised head, the beak hinged and forming the spout. The cover is attached by a chain to a movable vertical grip-handle swing- ing in fixed loops on the back of the bottle—or the side where the neck makes its concave curve. Orna- mented with depressed borders and bands in ovate or meander-grill pattern, the interspaces filled with incised angular and sinuous scrolls. Coated with a rich, unctuous and brilliant malachite erugo, mingled with its-lesser patina of brown, iron- rust and olive tones. This piece has not been buried. Height, 1234 inches. 137—Green Bronze PivcrRim-BoTrLe Vase (Han) With wide circular mouth and two animal-head loop-and-ring shoulder-handles; on quadrilateral foot. The broad faces molded in ovate form; without other ornament. The entire surface coated with a rich olive patina with notes of moss and brown fleckings. | Height, 11 inches; width, 121%, inches. 138—Bronze Semi-crosutar Derr Bown (Song-yi; Han) With everted lip; on deep spreading foot. Beneath lip and about the foot, wide bands of archaic dragon-scroll incised and in relief. Between them the body of the bowl is covered with a lattice of incised fret, with nipple-bosses issuing from the centers of the fretted squares. Under the lip are four animal-head masks in relief. Exterior and interior coated with an unctuous patina of olive tones, mingled with iron-rust brown. Ancient inscription in the interior. Diameter, 934, inches. | 139—Heavy Bronze Trreop Crrcutar Disu (Chou) | With thick quadrangular loop handles springing from the thin | everted lip, and elephantine legs. Bowl, encircled midway by | a plain narrow band left clear, is covered above and below with b| a band of angular fret incised and in relief, the pattern in the | lower band being the heavier, while bolder scroll forms appear | on the heavy rounded knees. Green patina and thick earthy | incrustations, the patina on one of the legs taking the hue of the glaze on a tea-dust vase. The carved teakwood cover has a carved coral-jade knob handle. Height, 6%, inches (with cover, 81%, inches); width, 8 inches. 140—UniaueE Bronze Sacriricirat Vesset (Han) | In spherical form, comprised of a bowl with equivalent cover. On the bowl are two looped side-handles and on the cover two similar ones, the cover being supplied also with three additional upstanding loops in a tier above its paired loops. Bowl and cover ornamented with bands of a bold scroll in broad surface- outline, the interspacing filled with a finely incised angular fret. Olive-green and yellow, earthy-brown, iron-rust and malachite patina and incrustations, with markings indicating that its burial was in watery precincts. Height, 7 inches; diameter, 11 inches. 141—Bronze AnimaL WINE VessEL (Han) _ Of ancient Chou type, in the form of a mythological rhinoceros known as hsi; used for holding ceremonial wine in sacrificial worship. The features are boldly modeled, and the body, legs and.tail are covered with wandering incised scrolls, the breast showing an incised ogre-mask. Covered with a smooth, fine patina of dark olive, relieved by brown touches and spots of brighter green. Height, 8%4 inches; length, 13% inches. 142— Bronze INcENsE Burner with Cover (Chou) Cireular, with two animal-head loop-and-drop handles, on a flanged foot; ovoidal bowl with everted lip. Decoration, the tao tieh ogre lineaments and archaic dragons in bold relief, with scrolled-fret interspacing. Variegated patina and incrusta- tions with predominant green tone. Carved teak cover with carved jade knob handle. Width, 1114 inches. 143—Fine Heavy Bronze Vase (Chou) With low swelling body tapering slowly to a short thick neck, on a spreading foot. Neck surrounded by a dragon band, raised and sculptured in relief with four land dragons facing each other in pairs, the band expanding into two plain loops or “handles” for suspension. On the body another band of scrolled land dragons in bold relief carving, below a raised loop border com- prehending within the ascending loops further bold relief scrolls —the interspaces in both bands and border occupied by fret | scrolls in hair-line relief. Beautiful patina of rich brown and | iron-red and a dark malachite-green, with thick incrustations. Inscription inside of bottom. z Height, 934, inches. 144—Drrp Wine Bronze Bow. (Han) Semi-globular with everted sharp lip; on low foot. Circled by a tripartite molded band which sustains two animal-head loop- handles with loose rings. Exterior and interior covered with a patina of malachite-green in many tones, both small and rough, and carrying many incrustations. Diameter, 1114 inches. 145—Heavy Bronze Beaker (Shang) BE, With broad body, spreading lip and deep foot. The upper part, | marked only by two rings, is covered outside and inside with a : mottled patina of dark neutral tones, ranging from various dull greens to dark mahogany browns, with notes of rich, polished black. The lower body and foot, each divided into four sections by vertical ridges, are decorated with symbolic devices in bold relief over a ground of incised fret, and display a soft brown patina with many green and gray incrustations. Height, 10 inches; spread of lip, 7, inches. 146—Bronze Gropurtar Jar with Cover (Han) Short wide neck with a molded band about it, a broad flat band molded around the body; convex and cylindrical foot; archaic animal-heads in low relief sustaining two loose rings as side- handles. Dome-shaped cover with three upright handles. Patina and incrustations of dull brick red, reddish-brown and various greens, with exposed patches of dull golden-bronze with slight patina. Height, 13 inches. 147—Very Rare Mirror-BronzeE Braker oF ANCIENT CEREMONIAL AND Sacririciat Usace (Shang) Broad neck and body, wide, gracefully flaring mouth, and deep, slightly spreading foot which turns under and finishes with a sharp edge. The middle section is decorated with two bands of a bold and interesting scroll in sharp relief, the interspacing filled with a fine, incised scroll-fret. Each band carries eight small bosses and is divided into two sections by low vertical ridges. ‘The surface is otherwise plain except for two rings each on neck and foot. This unusual vessel, which probably was used for the holding of wine, is almost completely and uniformly covered by an erugo of marked smoothness and solidity of texture, of an opulent malachite-green with many modulations of rich hue. Where the substance of the vase is seen it presents a smooth, soft, pearl-gray and silvery surface, with a patina of elusive coloring—here touched with the light green of moss, there with a pale ethereal blue; again a smoky silver will appear, or the gray will mingle with black liked mottled marble. The rare gray hue is due to the greater admixture of tin in the alloy, this bronze being known as mirror-bronze or mirror-metal. Height, 9% inches; diameter, 8 inches. An inscription incised in the interior of the bottom tells us that the Prince Back Yee commanded the beaker to be made. The Prince Back Yee was a notable figure of the Shang dynasty. When that was overthrown by the Chou the conqueror offered the Prince preferment, but he could not take the bread of the new lord and voluntarily starved to death. Similar vases are recorded in the Hsi Ch’ing Ku Chien, the catalogue of the Imperial collection of bronzes in the palace at Peking, published in forty-two folio volumes by the Emperor Ch’ien-lung in 1751, and numerous pieces are illustrated there which were made at the command of this romantic martyr of Chinese an- tiquity. 148—Bronze Tripop Jar (Chou) Recently unearthed. Circular, on three tubular legs, the ovoidal bowl contracting slightly toward the rim; two upright loop handles. The shape of the bowl is a variation from the usual type found in tripod jars. Dark-brown, malachite and blue patina with earthy incrustations from burial in sacrificial service. Height, 10 inches. 149—Bronze QuapRiItaTERAL Vase (Han) From a square, slightly flaring base, the sides swell boldly and recede again to a short square neck with flanged lip. Two animal- mask handles in relief with loops and loose rings. Over the whole smooth, unornamented surface of the vase a thin, smooth patina of malachite and dark green and mellow brown. Height, 13 inches. 150—Gitpep Bronze Bortie-rorm Vase (Han) Body of spherical form, slightly compressed, encircled by a molded equatorial band, on a slightly- spreading foot and supporting a tall, straight, full neck with a molded lip. Heavy bronze, retaining con- siderable vestiges of its ancient, original gilding, and heavily coated with malachite, mellow-brown and olive-gray patina and incrustations. On the shoulder a long incised in- scription which reveals that the vase was made in the first year of Yung- shih of the Han dynasty, the year 16 A.D. of European reckoning. Height, 1214 inches. 151—Tautt Bronze Ovow Vase (Han) Thick, short neck, slightly spreading foot and two animal-head side han- dles. The surface is embellished with five decorative bands, lightly incised, involving cloud-scrolls, a meander and other designs, a ridge and furrows intervening. Brown and green patina, with rust and brown earth incrustations. Height, 121% inches. 152—Heavy Sonorovus Bronze Beaxer-sHarep Vase (Han) With spreading foot and wide-flaring mouth, each formal sec- tion—base, midband and neck—divided into four parts by broad and deep vertical ridges which are adorned with short incised scrolls. Decoration, the t’ao tieh ogre lineaments and archaic dragons in relief, and further embellished with carefully incised scroll-fret which is continued throughout the interspaces. On the neck the decoration is comprised within slightly raised broad palmations pointing upward. Height, 1114 inches. 153—Mirror-Bronze Crrcutar Jar (Han) Thick, spreading lip, two deer-head loop side handles with drop, and deep foot. Encircled beneath the lip by a raised and incised band of scrolls and halbert-heads, with the “tiger’s eye” in low relief and two bold projecting animal masks. The motive is re- peated in a band about the base, with the ogre lineaments re- curring in low relief. Time has invested both the exterior and interior surfaces with a smooth, soft, dark patina, varying from gun-metal hue through gray olives and rich browns to a matt black. An incised symbol in this piece signifies everything in the universe, and apparently indicates the use of the vessel in. the ritual of ancestor worship. Teak cover with green jade knob handle. Height, 5%, inches; diameter, 71/, inches. 154—Gitt Bronze Borrie-suaprep Vase (After-Han) Squat-ovoidal body on a lightly-spreading flanged foot, with tall slender neck, bulbous in hexafoil expansion beneath the short lip and circled midway by a molded and flanged band. The smooth surface displaying an olive-brown patina and broad surfaces of its original Roman-gold splendor. Height, 17 inches. aT 155—AnciEnt Ovare Swixerne Jar (Shang) Heavy sonorous bronze, of flattened, elongated melon-form, with a swinging handle in rope design and a low spreading base which is marked by two rings. Otherwise plain, it is ornamented at the shoulder with a wide band of angular fret, incised between two narrow borders of repeated small raised circles, the band inter- rupted by two animal-masks in relief. In the interior an incised inscription containing the name of an animal, apparently the wild boar or sheep, and the symbols for spear, grandfather and father—a formula used, it is said, as a godspeeding and ad- vance felicitation to those departing for the wars. Covered with a rich, unctuous patina of a deep, full malachite-green, mottled in red, brown, gray-olive and iron-rust hues, the patina and incrustations largely covering the interior also. The teakwood cover has a Chou carved jade handle in the form of a horse and a deer, the deer holding in its mouth branches of the sacred fungus—like itself emblematic of longevity. Height (with cover), 1014 inches. 156—Axciext Broxze Trirop Ixcexse Burner (Han) With silver-gilt ribbon-scroll openwork top. Looped side handles with dreps and pierced-scroll tops; the squat and hollow cabriole legs also formed of pierced scroll work. The low circular bowl, with slightly contracted neck and heavy everted lip, is adorned with a waistband of incised angular and scroll fret in two tiers, between two raised ropes, a pointed border below it—the band and border being repeated in reduced scale on the short neck. Enveloped in a caressing patina of rich and varied olive surface, with blackening patches and brilliant vivid green fleckings =>: Height. 54, inchez; diameter, $ inchez; width with handles, 11 inches. 157—Gitpep Bronze Granp Covre (Han) Deep, semi-globular bowl with everted lip, on a cylindrical stand- ard with a wide-spreading flat foot. Originally a sacrificial vessel. An incised inscription of thirty-five characters on the bowl records the date of its making—the first year of P’ai-Chu of the Han dynasty (144 B.C.)—the weight of the article and the maker’s name. Much of the original gilding is exposed amidst the patina of dark-olive and deep blue and the many earthy incrustations. Height, 74% inches: diameter, 9 inches. 158—Bronze Piterim-potrite Vase (Han) Elliptical with flattened faces, on an oblong foot, with bulbous neck in hexafoil expansion and shoulder-handles of low-relief animal-masks with loose rings. Luminous malachite, mahogany and gray-olive patina, all-pervading, smooth and crusted. Height and width, 124%, inches. (Illustrated) 159—Heavy Broxze Bett (Chou) Of deep sonority. Flattened cylindrical form, with a heavy _ serolled handle over the span of its greater diameter. The body exhibiting two vertical panels and successive narrow horizontal bands of ornament of which only bold bosses persist amid the fecund incrustations of long interment. The handle is formed of archaic scrolled dragons in quadrilateral molding, their sides carrying incised fret or hatch. The incrustations in turquoise- green and iron-rust brown. Height, 11 inches. (Illustrated) 160—Very Heavy Antievute Bronze CEReEmMontaAL Trieop KrEtTrTLe (Han) Long fixed loop-handle, heavy squat cabriole legs with elaborate bold relief ornamentation at the knee, and two animal-head loop side handles with dependent loose rings. The ornate embellish- ment includes a pheenix-head spout, balanced by coiling dragons, each in turn decorated with incised scrolls, and two bands of incised fret between raised ropes. The fret motive in larger pattern is continued over the handle. ‘Tea-leaf patina with masses of dull-green earthy accumulations. Height, 13 inches; length (spout-wise), 124% inches; cross-width, 101 inches. (Illustrated) 161—Bronze OFFeRING-sSTAND oR JAR (Han) With its own original cover. Clear, sonorous bronze that has never been buried. Fashioned in cylindrical form with rounded shoulders and flattened bottom on a circular, contracting pedestal with flaring foot. On the flattened top a broad flange handle for lifting the cover; on the body two small loop handles. Cover, body and pedestal are channeled in a succession of deep lateral grooves. ‘The entire vessel covered with a rich patina of brilliant malachite-green, mahogany-brown, gun-metal hue, the russet of corroded iron and tones of indigo-blue, the varied enrichments extending to the interior. Height, 1014 inches. so tenets, 162—VENERABLE Bronze RING-HANDLED Dracon JAR WITH COVER (Han) Original cover and original ring handles—these original bronze ring handles being very rarely retained by the hoary vessels coming down to to-day; on the shoulder two animal-head loops supporting the large free rings. Low circular form on a shallow, slightly spreading base resting on three short straight legs with animal-head cappings. Tapering cover finishing in a plain cir- cular flanged handle. Around the shoulder of the bowl and the base of the cover a deeply chiseled, strongly drawn dragon-scroll motive in a primitive conventionalization, both cover and bowl marked above and below by horizontal flutings. A vessel used for the preparation of sacrificial food in ancient ancestor worship. Gun-metal and olive patina with heavy green incrustations. Height, 8 inches; width, 10 inches. am 7 — ™ ) eg SRI Eee ee m 163—Anxcrext Cuivese Teavetixe Berr Conventional bi-convex shape, with tubular handle to wi pertains a small loop, molded in connection with a studd around the neck (or handle). for convenience of suspens the camel’s back or otherwise. Decorated on ather two series of nie nipple-bosses, of extended prot lines of three each, with mtervenmg lateral bands « scroll. The two series on each side are separated by band, which on one side is plain and on the other ¢ D inscription in incised characters. Below the bosse | side i an clephant’s head in bold axchaie acest the bell is further scrolled. Lustrous malachite zr rust patches. The mtegrity of the metal is_pre: tone is deep and sonorous. The inscription tells t is a traveling bell made at the order of the great Duke of Chon. uncle of the third Emperor of that dynasty and for seven | 3 regent, to be treasured by the generations of his de — 2 The bell figures in the Hsi Ch°tng Ku Chien, the magnificent 1 (a trated catalogue of the Imperial collection of sronzes | in ‘the palace at Pekm, published m 1751 im forty-iwe folio volumes by the Emperor Ch°len-lung. Carved teakwood stand, with int ic a silver inlay, made probably during the reign of Ch'jen-lunz- ‘The bell, of course, is of the Chou period, and, like all of the ancient — Chinese bronzes, was made by the cire perdu process. Height. 13°4 imches (with sfand_ 19°, imchkes)> weight. 17% pounds. : The Hsi Ch'ing Ku Chien records the weight of Ge bell in the Tmpeial esl _ lection as 219 loung. equivalent in English measure to just under epbic ie pounds. (Illustrated) 7 164— Bronze Sacaziriciat Bown (Shang) Shallow, with a wide flat brim, on a deep circular foot which is a pierced with three quadrilateral openings. The interior of the basin has a turtle incised in the center. with farther decoration of crustaceans im relief and tooled, about the sides, and on the exterior is a relief band of angular scroll-fret. The foot also carries a scroll band. Blue, green, gray, brown and iron-rust patina, with rich malachite incrustations. } Diameter. 17 imchesxw : (Illustrated) an “= Nt aN mt! mY i\ (J) ; A Ne: (@/ ii | b Fly, yer: = | ( Oy Wi j (Hf Tico} ( \ ) ( he ? HOM Wie) Ol ae Tt eC ee ee ee 165—Rare Bronze Incense Burner (Chou) Deep ovoid body with wide mouth and thick, everted short lip, on a circular foot, with heavy dragon-head loop-and-drop side- handles. Raised band beneath the lip ornamented with a finely incised scroll-fret and bosses, and interrupted by three sheep’s- heads in relief, two on one side and one on the other. Similar band on the foot with lineaments of the t’ao tieh ogre. Rarely beautiful, rich, lustrous, malachite xrugo, enhancing the steel- gray, iron-rust and mottled-mahogany patina of lesser depth, which, with various incrustations, coats both exterior and interior of the vessel. Incised mark in the interior of the bottom. Height, 7 inches; width, 141% inches. 166—Heavy Bronze Creremoniat Coverep Disu (Chow) Of oblong shape with rounded corners, molded foot and two animal-head side handles, with its own original bronze cover. A sacrificial vessel for the offering of cooked vegetables or cereals, elaborately decorated, with the dragon scroll predominant. Sur- rounding the lower body and repeated on the shoulder of the cover, a series of horizontal flutings, while both dish and cover are bordered by a broad band of the dragon scroll in strong relief. Another scroll adorns the foot. The top of the cover is wholly occupied by a bold dragon scroll deeply cut, surround- ing a small oblong finial, and the long sides of the cover are sur- mounted by heavy upright handles running the length of the sides, each formed by the bodies of two dragons extended in opposite directions. The rich patina which with many incrusta- tions covers the entire vessel varies from a gray-olive to verdigris- green and cobalt-blue, and deepens below the handles to the smooth blackish-brown of a well-smoked meerschaum pipe. An eight-character inscription in the interior of the cover is re- peated on the interior of the bottom. Height, 8 inches; length, 15 inches; width, 7 inches. 167—Larce “Trirop or Tree Victims” (Han) Sacrificial bronze jar with cover, for meat offerings. Spherical form with broadly flattened poles and raised equatorial girdle, hexagonal legs with monster-head knees, and side handles of mythical monsters. Encircled below the middle by a band of incised fret and scroll pattern that is repeated on the cover, which supports near its outer rim three recumbent animals, perhaps oxen or sheep, symbolic of the worship of “the three animals”—the cow, the sheep and the wild boar. Entire exterior surface covered with a rich patina, varying from a dark olive to a pale gray-green—here of solid, there of mottled aspect— with incrustations, the incrusted interior presenting tones of deep cobalt. Height, 81% inches; diameter, 934 inches. 168—Bronze Ovirorm Vase with Dracon Hanpues. (Han) H | Wide, slightly-spreading neck. Encircled by three bands of angular and sinuous incised scroll, and carrying two fixed handles in the form of highly conventionalized dragons modeled in the | round, the decoration executed with considerable distinction. ia Lustrous patina of rich mahogany, olive-brown, dark green, yel- | . low and deep blue mottling, with thin incrustations. Height, 14 inches. 169—GuosuLar Bronze Vase (Han) ii With short contracted neck and banded lip, on short circular : foot; two loose-ring handles depending from loops sustained by animal-masks in low relief. Coated over its entire surface with an olive, turquoise and mahogany richly mottled patina. Height, 1314 inches. 170—Laree Heavy Bronze Grosurar Jar (Chow) With short neck and narrow everted lip, on a deep circular foot, the neck marked by two rings. Body and foot are divided into three equal sections by pronounced ridges which are really the noses of grotesque “devil heads’”—or the t’ao t’ieh ogre linea- ments—that form the chief decorative motive of the piece, pierced bosses on either side of the ridges being the monster’s eyes and the horns being ingeniously worked into a bold incised scroll holding the decorative scheme together. Interspaces filled with fret-scrolls of lighter incision, so that the whole body of the vase is occupied by decorations, excepting a depressed channel encircling it laterally. ‘The entire expansive surface is covered with a soft patina of gray-olive tone with silvery notes, and bright green incrustations. Height, 91% inches; diameter, 1134 inches. Two similar jars are in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. ee i ee | 171—Ricu Green Bronze Bett (Chow) | Bi-convex, lightly spreading toward its two-pointed base, with a \ tapering tubular handle or neck for suspension. On either face i two series of nine conical protuberances or nipples, arranged in HI | rows of three within bands outlined by small bosses. On the | flat top-surface a deeply-incised conventional scroll. Rich patina of dark olive-green, olive-yellow and brown notes, and even dis- i tribution. In carved teakwood frame-stand. Height, 151% inches; with stand, 2314 inches. 172—Larce Grosutrar Bronze Coranver (Han) Open-topped, with two loop handles of thick rope design spring- ing from the heavy everted rim, and short foot. Used in pre- paring cooked foods in the ancient ceremonial ritual. The bot- tom is perforated in numerous slits for the passage of steam. Only ornamentation besides the handles three rings. Both sur- _faces covered thickly with blue, green and iron-rust red patina involved with heavy earthy incrustations from long burial. Height, 101% inches; diameter, 1334 inches; width with handles, 1514 inches. 173—GReEEN Bronze QuapRILATERAL Jar (Han) With expanded sides, square base and mouth and two loose-ring handles depending from animal-masks in low relief; faces other- wise plain. Russet and malachite patina, mottled and rich, with gray and blue notes and widespread incrustation. Height, 13% inches. | 174—Bronze SacririciaL VesseL (Chou) ia Quadrilateral, the oblong mouth of full dimensions, the bottom ia rounding; deep, bell-shaped foot; upright loop handles on the long sides. Used for food offerings in the ritual ceremonies of i | ancestor worship. Exterior and interior surfaces coated with i dull malachite and dark olive and washed-turquoise patina and | incrustations, with rambling expanses of a warm iron-rust hue of an unctuous luster. The elaborated stand includes the figures of two pheenixes with spread wings, carved in the round and perched upon their own long tail-feathers curled under in con- ventional scrolls. Height, 13 inches; length, 1514 inches. ae aye 175—Bronze Circurar Jar (Han) Broad, full body, high shoulder, short neck marked by two raised rings; rounded lip and low circular foot. Elaborate decoration in a series of bands and borders from shoulder to base, compre- hending involved scrolls and fret, halberd heads, the small re- peated circle as a border motive, ridges and bosses in the ad- monitory ogre lineaments, with unornamented channels demarca- ting the raised and incised bands. Thickly incrusted variegated patina in sundry tones of green, blue, black and iron-rust brown, with the green dominant and pervasive. Height, 10 inches; diameter, 131%. inches. 176—Larce AncieNT CeremontaL Dracon WrxeE Jar (Chow) Of heavy sonorous bronze, with its own original bronze cover. Ovoid form with contracted neck, deep, slightly spreading foot, two animal-head looped shoulder-handles, and a third looped handle at the base of the face of the jar for assistance in pouring out the contents. Below the plain neck, which is marked by a single ring, the jar is luxuriantly embellished with incised and bold relief massive ornamentation over the entire surface, the cover (which has a neck-handle) included, the dragon motive prevailing. On cover and shoulder archaic fire-breathing dragons, boldly carved, face each other; other dragons encircle the base; while on the lower body appear in large form, four times repeated, the features of one of the mythological, symbolic animals—the interspaces everywhere engraved with intricate fret and scroll work. Brown patina throughout, of varying tone and deepening to rich, dark notes. Height, 16 inches; width, 1314 inches. The patina and condition of this fine bronze show it to have been excavated or to have accidentally come to the surface in very ancient times. The dis- covery or coming to light of these vessels in hills and valleys in early an- tiquity was always regarded as of good omen, and names of cities and of reigns were changed in their honor. After the Sung dynasty, as Dr. Bushell points out, old bronzes being no longer held sacred, noble tombs were excavated for the enrichment of private collections and royal museums, and for the study of the ancient objects. 177—Remarxasrte Trivop Incense Burner (Chow) Semi-globular bowl, of heavy, sonorous bronze, with thick, quadri- lateral upright loop handles and tall, unadorned, massive cabriole legs. The bowl is encircled by a plain molding and wide bands of an unusually bold dragon scroll in relief, outlined by deep cutting. Other dragon scrolls of varied form and differing from each other are carved in the handles. Entire jar covered with a rarely beautiful, unctuous patina and incrustations of many tones of malachite and olive-green, of gray, brown, black and brownish- red, with the deep lustrous greens predominating. On the in- terior an extended inscription in incised characters. The in- scription tells that the bronze was produced under the order of Ching-Moo-Kung, who during the Chou dynasty was Goy- ernor of oné of the eighteen provinces, about the year 600 B. C. The carved and pierced cover, of the Ch’ien-lung period, is sur- mounted by a jade handle with the five-clawed Imperial dragon, and lotus flowers carved in full relief and undercut. Height, 121, inches; diameter, 12 inches. 178—Bronze QuapRILATERAL Jar witH Cover (Han) On a square base from which the sides swell freely, recurring in a short neck finishing in a thickened square lip; cover in the form | of a low, truncated pyramid, surmounted by a thin, upright, — goose-neck handle with modeled head and beak, at each of its — four corners and all the handles incised on both their flat sides. — Two animal-masks in low relief, with loops and loose rings as — shoulder-handles. Without other ornament. Red-brown patina — with rose and turquoise, olive and mottled brown notes. Height, 16% inches. d 179—Exrraorpinary Antieve Bronze Rrrvuat Vesser (Shang) Ee In the form of an ancient gigantic beast somewhat of the out- line of the Malayan tapir, carefully modeled with a remarkable sense of proportion, making the ugly and unwieldy animal-bulk artistic and highly interesting. The beast, of enormous body and short, stumpy legs, is modeled in the round—the interior hollow—standing squarely on all four feet and with head raised ~ so that the long but truncated proboscis points straight forward ‘4 well above the level of its back, while the huge ears are ex- — tended backward high over the shoulders. The tail curls under, forming a loop handle. The oldest and most convincingly unique bronze of the collection, and probably of any collection ever brought to this country. This curious relic of artistic antiquity has been so acted upon — by the elements during its age-long interment that the bronze texture is almost wholly replaced by the strange exrugo and | wonderful incrustations, until the piece resembles more a carving | from a block of rich and mellow-hued malachite or the work of a marvelous potter than a bronze. The eye wanders from the mahogany-brown and red and pearl-gray patinas on ex- — posed spots of the original metal over a baffling field of color—_ turquoise-blue and turquoise-green, the rich and varying mala- chite greens, with mottlings and striations of white and black and gray and brown and yellow, and yet of olive, and again of gray, the soft, inviting gray of Time and Nature. The present cover for the molded opening in the top of the back, of solid bronze overlaid with gold, is modern—as things go in China—having been made in the reign of Ch’ien-lung and bearing on its inner surface the Ch’ien-lung seal. (The ex- cavation of the vessel was, therefore, at least as early as the eighteenth century.) The cover is luxuriantly carved with weird monster-heads in high relief and undercutting, with a secondary ornamentation of cloud and wave forms, and is accompanied by a replica in teak. Height, 12 inches (with stand, 1514 inches); length, 1834, inches. (Illustrated—see Frontispiece) 180—Larcre Heavy Bronze QuaprivaTerRAL WINE Jar (Shang) Of ovoid form with high shoulders, a short quadrangular neck and two loop handles, with a third loop handle affixed to the face near the bottom. All three handles display the horned sheep’s head and between the shoulder handles are two rams’ heads in high relief. Flanking these and the shoulder handles, in a band delimited by concentric ridges, are raised medallions of the ancient wave motive, significant of music and the drama —the ancient music having begun with the sound of the waves. Varied, subdued patina of browns, steel-grays, turquoise and malachite hues, with thin incrustations. Height, 14 inches; width, 11 inches. 181—QuvapRILATERAL Bronze Vase wirH Four Hanpies (Han) High bulging shoulders tapering to a quadrangular and flaring base, and contracting abruptly to a short neck ending in a thickened lip.. On each shoulder an animal-mask in relief sup- porting a loose ring with scrolled decoration incised and in re- lief. Modeled in depressed bands completely filled with an elaborate scroll and fret ornamentation, incised and in relief, the shoulder ornamental field being cut by a deep pointed border in surface reserve. Russet, malachite and olive patina and in- crustations throughout. Height, 16 inches. 182—Rare Deer Grosurar Tripop Bronze Jar (Han) With original bronze cover. Encircled by two bands of closely repeated S-scrolls, incised, each band surmounted by a narrow scrolled border of the recumbent » . Cover carries two bands of the same upright scroll, each bordered on both sides by the recumbent wm , and an additional narrow band of the same scroll unbordered. The top bands are separated by rope moldings, beyond the highest of which are found other bands or borders, one with an archaic dragon scroll and one with an angular fret or lattice. Cover surmounted by three loop handles and a small pierced button, all ornamented. The bowl, with two large quadri- lateral loop handles, is raised on three cabriole legs with scrolls and ridges at the knees. Covered throughout with olive, verdi- gris and malachite-hued patina and incrustations, the interstices in the S-scrolls of the body bands being filled in in places by a deposit of ebony black. Height, 151%, inches; diameter, 134, inches; width at handles, 161%, inches. 183—BronzeE QuapRILATERAL Vase (Han) With swelling sides expanding from the low, square foot, and contracting to a short square neck with thickened lip. At the shoulder two animal-head loop-handles with loose rings engraved with scrolls. The lightly engraved ornament covering all sides of the vase in a broadly conceived design of scroll and meander is almost obliterated in a rich brown, lustrous patina enhanced with malachite, deep blue and many tones of olive. Height, 1714 inches. 184—Larce Grosutar Bronze Jar (Han) With two loose-ring handles depending from low-relief animal- masks on the shoulder. ‘The smooth body encircled by three shallow-channeled bands modeled in bas-relief. Entire surface covered with a soft patina of rich, deep seal-brown tone, with malachite and gray-olive patches and fleckings. Height, 174% inches; diameter, 131% inches. 185—Taxtut QuapRILATERAL Bronze Vase INLAID WITH SILVER AND Gotp (Sung) A Sung copy of a Chou original. The bulbous body, with corners of sides and bottom rounded, tapers slowly to the rounded-oblong neck which expands lightly at the lip; the whole resting on a deep pedestal-base. Outstanding channeled moldings, vertical and horizontal, enclose eight recessed panels about the body ; neck and base smooth; two handles in the form of long-necked con- ventionalized phoenix-heads in full relief. The whole covered with an intricacy of foliations and scrolls finely engraved and inlaid with gold and silver, and coated with a rare patina of verdigris and malachite green, olive-yellow, iron-rust and deep brown, with incrustations. Height, 20 inches. ia Ty 186—Tatx Heavy Cyzmprica, Bronze Bry (Chou) Expanding in the upward direction in bulbous form, with flat- tened top encircled by a flange or lip, and carrying a loop for suspension. Sonorous tone. Ornamented with heavy scroll bands, incised and in bold relief, and wholly covered with patina and thick incrustations of an unusual matt, turquoise-green aspect, besprinkled with indigo-blue. Height, 20 inches. 187—Larce Bronze Bett (Chow) Bi-convex form, with flat top and tubular neck or handle, and twenty-four stepped-conical protuberances on each face below the shoulder. Pale gray-green and olive-yellow thick patina. Height, 21 inches. 188—Granp Grosutar Bronze Jar (Han) With graceful, contracted neck and tall foot, and two loose- ring handles depending from low-relief animal-masks, The body belted by five fluted channels defined by molded ridges, and wholly covered with an unctuous coating of patina and incrustations in the fecund green and subdued browns of a stagnant pond in the interior of a wood. Height, 18%, inches; diameter, 1414 inches. 189—Rare Larce Bronze Wine Jar (Han) With its own original bronze cover. Massive globular body, adorned at the shoulder only with four cloud-medallions set between four round loop-handles. Four similar handles, pro- portionately reduced, rise from top of cover, which also carries a cloud-medallion, now scarcely distinguishable, and is further ornamented with four animal heads. Jar and lid are completely covered with patina and incrustations, gray in effect, mingled with olive tones, and touches of blue and dull sandy-red, and patches of bright, lucent green. Height, 20 inches; diameter, 17 inches. (Illustrated) 190—Bronze War Drum—“Cuu-xo’s Drum” (Han) Circular form with bulging shoulder and flat top. Completely covered on sides and top with an elaborate and intricate suc- cession of rings and bands, in relief and incised, of concentric, hatched, corded, ‘“‘fish-bone” and scroll ornament, the top cen- tered by a thirteen-point star and surmounted by four conven- tionalized tree frogs near the rim, the two of each pair approach- ing each other. Patina of green, cobalt and yellowish-gray tones, with heavy earthy incrustations. Suspended by new silken cords of Imperial yellow from its four looped handles, in a carved dragon-head teak stand. Height, 164, inches (with stand, 35 inches) ; diameter, 27 inches (not including the bulging stand). These drums, products of the Shan tribes along the Burmese frontier, re- ceived their Chinese name after General Chu-ko, who invaded that country in the Third century. A similar drum, but with the frogs each following the other, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington, London. (Illustrated) a LA rs 189 190 Ce 191—Bronze Bett (Chow) Pointed-elliptical body with a straight tubular handle or neck enclosing a cross-bar for suspension. Adorned beneath the shoulder with two series of bold protuberances on each face, ar- ranged in sections of twelve constituted of four bands. Covered throughout with a heavy patina in tones of olive, gray-green and malachite, variously modified. Height, 23 inches. 192—Masestic Bronze Jar (Han) Globular with wide, lightly spreading neck, on low circular foot and with two loop and loose-ring handles. Covered with patina and incrustations in rich quality of dark, polished malachite, mahogany-red and brown, blue, gray-brown, turquoise- green and vermilion. On a shoulder band an incised inscription. Height, 17%, inches; diameter, 1444 inches. —_ a one : i I en es 7 SECOND AFTERNOON’S SALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING Ate 2 30 O'CLOCK WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 193 TO 375 SINGLE COLOR PORCELAINS MOSTLY OF CABINET SIZE 193—Miniatvure Caré-avu-Lair Borris (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid body, with slender neck slightly expanding in the upward direction. Luminous café-au-lait monochrome glaze; the rim with a white glaze. 194—RosE-souFFLE SnurF Jar (Chien-lung) Egg-shaped with a narrow, abbreviated neck. The entire ex- terior surface coated with a rose-soufflé glaze, the color-particles minutely blown and distributed. Interior of the neck shows a deep green glaze. 195—Mrxtature Marsreizep CrAackLe Botrre (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid body with sloping shoulder and rather full neck. Coated with a marbled glaze of splotch effect and strong contrasts, the colors including green, yellow, starch blue, dark red approach- ing cinnabar hue, and white, the whole exhibiting a fine fish-roe crackle. 196—Mrntature Ecc-rorm Sourrret Jar (Ch’ien-lung) With short contracted neck and recessed foot. Coated with an unfamiliar sowfflé glaze of griseous tone, the grayish-blue fleck- ings overlying without obliterating the white glaze. Rim and interior of neck glazed in camellia-leaf green, and the foot under- neath in white. 197—Unieve Yettow Snurr Borrre (Ch’ien-lung) Fashioned in resemblance to a miniature but complete ear of ripened corn, the kernels carefully modeled and the whole cov- ered with a glaze in the hue of the golden maize, husked. Com- plete with stopper in the form of the point of the ear. Height, 3 inches. 198—Mintature Mirror-sirack Bortie (K’ang-hst) Ovoidal-globular body on circular foot, with very slightly- spreading neck. Coated evenly with a brilliant glaze of mirror- black, the rim glazed in white. 199—Green CrackLepD Snurr Borrie (K’ang-hst) Cylindrical with short neck. Coated with a monochrome glaze of cucumber-green, finely crackled. 200—Lanec-yao Snurr Jar (K’ang-hst) Cylindrical form, with stopper. Coated with a rich sang-de- | beuf glaze with light fleckings. Decorated where the red hue — i is least pronounced with a penciled figure of Shoki—the strongest — man in the world—with his foot on the devil, who is his servant ill and prostrates himself whenever his master DDO ae the decora- i tion done over the glaze and fired. Height, 314 inches. 201—Green Snvurr Borrrie (Chien-lung) i Oviform with sloping shoulder and short tubular neck; coated with a monochrome glaze of watermelon-green of metallic luster. | Height, 3 inches. i 202—APPLE-GREEN Miniature Beaker (K’ang-hst) Conventional form with bulbous lower body, straight neck and flaring lip, without mid-section; on low circular foot. Covered with a glaze of pure apple-green tone, with dull luster like the i skin of the fruit with the bloom on, and marked by a bold crackle in brown lines; interior of neck glazed in gray-white and crackled. 203—Miniature Musrarp-veELtow Jar (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid with short neck; coated with a glaze of light mustard- yellow tone, finely crackled. Interior of neck glazed in camellia- leaf green which overflows the rim. 204—Buive Enamerep Snurr Jar (Ch’ien-lung) Cylindrical with flat shoulder and short straight neck. Covered throughout with a monochrome glaze of purplish blue, enameled with branches of the wild prunus tree in brown, thickly spread _ with white blossoms with green-tipped petals and yellow centers, a bird perched on one of the limbs and another approaching it on the wing. Foot glazed in pistache-green. Has hippopotamus- horn stopper, inlaid with mother-of-pearl to form the yang-yin symbol. Height, 3% inches. 205—Rare SourrLe Ovirorm Jar (Ch’ien-lung) : With sloping shoulder, and short neck slightly recurving at 7 the lip. Coated with a rose-soufflé glaze over a glaze of brilliant : mustard-yellow. ‘The rim and interior of the neck have a glaze of camellia-leaf green. (Lip slightly chipped.) Height, 4 inches. 206—Wrirer’s WarTER Cup (K’ang-hsi) With squat, expanding body, contracted to an abbreviated neck and having a flanged cover in powder-blue. Invested with a brilliant glaze of mottled or powdered cobalt-blue of rare quality and richness. 207—Wauire Fu-cutne Coupe (Ming) Modeled in the form of a lotus leaf, in- verted to form the cup, the stem, which rises out of the center of the hollow, curling over the side and a branch stem passing underneath the bottom and presenting a bud on the opposite side. Width, 41, inches. 208—Pare Turevoise Vase (Chien-lung) Bottle-form, with squat body, slender neck and everted lip, on a low foot. Glazed in the delicate hue of the Ori- ental turquoise and disclosing upon examination an infinitesimal crackle. Height, 41%, inches. 209—Rosin’s-EcG SourrLtté Botrie (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid body, narrow flat foot, sloping shoulder slightly flattened, and slender neck expanding a little at the lip. Covered with a robin’s-egg blue soufflé glaze of varying character, which extends under the foot and over the rim to the interior of the neck. Height, 41, inches. 210—Suort Prar-sHapep Vase (Yung Chéng) With fluted body and smooth slowly tapering truncated neck. On a low foot and with two short cylindrical side-handles at the shoulder. Covered with a gray-celadon glaze of unctuous sur- face having a scattering broad-spaced crackle in clearly defined pale chestnut lines. The glaze covers also the interior and the foot, which bears the seal mark of the reign. Height, 31 inches. 211—Stenper Tusurar Vase (Chien-lung) In the form of a section of a small bamboo trunk, covered with a luminous monochrome glaze of delicate pistache-green. Mod- eled in relief under the glaze is a decoration of mating birds perched on the branch of a tree which rises from among rocks at the base. Height, 41% inches. 212—Morritep Turevoise Ovow Jar (Cl’ien-lung) The beautifully mottled glaze in the hue of the Persian turquoise carries a fine fish-roe crackle, and extends over a part of the foot. Has wooden cover. Height, 3% inches. 213—Parr Smartt Mrrror-piack VASES (K’ang-hst) Ovoid body, with neck in form of a pear-shaped vase into which the short, contracted neck over the main body expands. Covered with a deep black glaze of mirror-quality from the white- glazed lip to the foot, which under- neath is also glazed in white. Height, 5 inches. 214—Rostin’s-rce Sourrieé Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Double-gourd form, coated with a characteristic glaze of robin’s- egg blue sowffié, in pronounced gray-blue and malachite mottling or wavy striations. Height, 444 inches. 215—Rostr-sourFrLé Vase (Ch’ien-lung) In the form of a double-gourd, or an ovoid jar with a smaller pear-shaped vase superposed and forming the neck of the vase. Covered with a rose-souffié glaze throughout the exterior sur- face; interior of neck glazed in camellia-leaf green; underneath the foot a white glaze. Height, 414, inches. 216—Smatt Grosurar Vase (Ciien-lung) On a short, lightly spreading foot, with slender neck and flaring lip. Modeled in relief with a decoration presenting a stork among lotus plants, one stem showing the seed-pod. The whole coated with a lustrous monochrome glaze of pale canary-yellow, which is carried to the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, 41, inches. 217—Srarcu-BLuE Ovor Jar (K’ang-hst) With short everted lip. Dense, pure white porcelain covered in monochrome with a glaze of slate or starch blue, of liquid, opaque quality. Diameter, 34% inches, 218—Ropsin’s-ece SourrLé Gariipor (Ch’ien-lung) Conventional form with pronounced taper and very slightly re- curving at the foot. Exhibits the curious glaze in a markedly even distribution, a great deal of deep blue intermingling with the robin’s-egg green; of unctuous surface and dull luster. — Height, 414 inches. 219—Smatt Turquoise Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid, with short, straight neck. Coated with a luminous glaze of deli- cate turquoise-blue, minutely crackled. Height, 41, inches. 220—Pair Exeuistre Wuite BorTrTies (Yung Chéng) \ Ovoid body on flat foot, with gently sloping, almost flat shoulder, and tall, slender, graceful neck. In the paste is lightly incised a decoration of dragons and leaf scrolls, the whole being covered with a glaze of the char- acteristic Yung-chéng white and deli- cately beautiful. Underneath the foot, penciled in blue within the blue double ring: T'a-ch’ing Yung-chéng nien-chih (‘“‘Made in the reign of Yung-chéng of the great Ch’ing dynasty”—the dynasty recently dethroned). Height, 434 inches. 221—Parte Musrarp-YeLLtow Botte (Chien-lung) Globular, with tubular neck, on a short foot, the shoulder defined by a low molding. Coated with a light glaze in the bright yellow of flowering mustard-seed, embodying a pin-head and fish-roe crackle with a slightly larger crackle beneath the rim. Height, 5% inches. 222—Morriep Turevorse Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Globular body with slender neck and trumpet mouth, on a low circular foot. Invested with a brilliant glaze of mottled or clouded turquoise-blue, minutely crackled. Height, 54%, inches. 223—Rose-pu-Barry Gropurar Vase (Yung Chéng) With tubular neck, on a_pedestal-convex foot. Mounted with silver-gilt side-handles in the form of scrolled dragons, springing from a neck-rim with which, as with a foot- rim, the vase has been provided. Covered with the rare rose-pink glaze known as the rose-du-Barry, of even color-quality and “orange-peel” surface. Height, 5 inches. 224—Rose-sourrLeé Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid body with tubular neck; covered with a rose-soufflé glaze on white ground, the rose appearing in generous deep fleckings and in- finitesimal spots. Height, 6 inches. 225—DexicaTe Pra-GrEEN Borrie (Yung Chéng) The globular-ovoidal body, on a low foot, tapering to a tall, slender, tubular neck; the whole invested with an even mono- chrome glaze in the hue’of newly exposed young peas in the freshly opened pod. Height, 6 inches. —-226—Rose-sourFLE Braker (Ch’ien-lung) In two principal divisions, the lower slightly spreading toward the foot, the upper flaring into a trumpet mouth, separated by a narrow raised midband. Covered with a fine rose-soufflé glaze which extends well into the interior of the vase. Height, 5%, inches. 2271 —DarK-BLUE Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid body with sloping shoulder, and slender tubular neck slightly expanding. Coated with a dark purple-blue glaze of mazarine suggestion. Height, 534 inches. 228—RosE-pu-Barry QuapRILATERAL VAsE (Ch’ien-lung) Body in form of a square, contracting below to a spreading square foot; narrow sloping shoulders; on the neck two vertical loop handles; everted lip. The entire exterior covered with a monochrome glaze of rose-du-Barry tint and orange-peel surface. Interior of neck and foot glazed in pale pistache-green. Height, 514 inches. 229—Whrirer’s BrusH-HOLDER IN Fun-tine-yao (Yung Chéng) The paste of light weight and texture—the so-called “soft paste” | —with a cream-white glaze or finish as of highly polished ivory; the shape, a cylinder in openwork, with solid bottom. The entire receptacle is formed of an intricate interlacement of lotus leaves and plants, with flowers, buds and seed-pods, and a stork watch- ing among them in the implied water with opened bill. A rare and most unusual example. Height, 4 inches. 230—Smati Borrie-sHapep Sourriée Vase (Chien-lung) Coated with an unusual glaze of turquoise tone, with innumerable fleckings, which is pervaded by a pin-head crackle. Height, 5%4 inches. 231—Sanc-pE-B@uF GiosuLar Borrir (Ch’ien-lung) With straight neck. Proportioned with a fine dignity of form and coated with a lustrous, fluent glaze of varied ox-blood red, with purplish trend on the neck, the rim exhibiting a celadon touch. Height, 6 inches. 232—Brivuant Lapis-ptue Jar (Ch’ien-lung) Oviform, with high shoulder, short neck and everted lip. In- vested with a glowing lapis glaze of mirror quality. Height, 534 inches. 233—Two Rare WaTERMELON-GREEN Jars (K’ang-hsi) Cylindrical, on low circular foot; rounded shoulder and base, short vertical lip and wide mouth. Invested throughout with a cool but rich, luxuriant and brilliant green glaze, with fine and all-pervading crackle, the glaze applied also to the inner part of the foot, and in lighter tone covering the interior of the vessels. The color, infrequently met with in the multiplicity of Celestial greens, is known to the Chinese as watermelon-green. Height, 41, inches. 234—Wrirer’s BrusH-HOLDER (Chien-lung) Cylindrical, in the form of a section of a bamboo tree of small diameter and glazed in a delicate yellow-brown or tan color; upper and lower edges finely pricked in imitation of the bamboo fiber. Ornamented under the glaze with relief “modelings of Shou-lao with attendants and a spotted stag and flying bats. Height, 434, inches. 235—Morriep Lapis-sLuz Ovor Bown (Ch’ien-lung) Exterior and interior covered with a glaze of speckled or mottled lapis-blue, infrequently found. Diameter, 434 inches. 236—Suort Borrie-sHaPeD Vase (K’ang-hst) With thickened, protruding, molded lip and low foot. Covered with a uniform camellia-leaf green glaze, minutely crackled. Height, 514 inches. 237—Rosr-pu-Barry Coure (Yung Chéng) Modeled in low form on a short circular foot, its brief body expanding or bulbous and finishing with a wide mouth. Pure white, dense, resonant porcelain, invested with an even, smooth glaze of the melted- rose hue with lavender-pink suggestions which is known as rose-du-Barry. Diameter, 434, inches. 2 ‘4 238—Rosrin’s-Ece SourrLé GaLiiror (Ch’ien- lung) Bulbous body with full shoulder, the contour slightly recurving at the foot. Covered with a char- acteristic robin’s-egg soufflé glaze, in which the malachite tone predominates. Height, 61% inches. 239—Iron-rust Merariic-tuster Vase (Ch’ien-lung) — In inverted-pear shape on a narrow foot which a thickened glaze makes slightly bulbous, and having a short neck with a white rim. Covered with a glaze in the rusty hue of disintegrating iron, with innumerable metallic fleckings, the rust-brown glaze continued on the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, 51%, inches. 240—Lapis-BLUE Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) With ovoidal body and tubular neck. Covered with a uniform glaze of deep lapis-blue and mirror-brilliancy. Height, 6 inches. 241—Deuicate “Sorr Paste” Ovirorm Jar (Yung Chéng) With high shoulder, short neck and bulbous lip. Thin porcelain of the so-called “soft-paste” type, covered with a soft, creamy- white glaze over an intricate floral scroll decoration etched in the paste. Besides this major ornamentation, covering the en- tire body above a base border, there are shoulder borders of fret and scroll, and a necklet of palmations, all executed in the paste beneath the glaze, which is loosely crackled in fine brown lines. Height, 534 inches. 242—Parr Turquoise Borrie-sHarep Vases (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid, with a thick neck. Coated with -a crackled turquoise glaze partaking of the hue of the green or washed stone, the glaze in the interior of the neck of one of them showing a ringed and hatched effect. Height, 534 inches. 243—CoraL-RED CEnsER (Yung Chéng) Low circular form, expanding from a short foot and recurving in a slightly everted lip, with wide mouth. Loop side-handles, with rudimentary archaic dragon-heads modeled in relief. The exterior coated with a soft, lustrous glaze of coral-red, the interior in a flecked robin’s-egg green. Diameter, 4% inches; with handles, 6 inches. 244—Brituiant Green Crackiep Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid, with tubular neck. Coated with a brilliant glaze in the hue of the greening apple, pervaded by a fine crackle in delicate lines, the glaze without the crackle overspreading the foot and the interior of the neck. Height, 6 inches. 245—Prart-wHITeE CrackLep Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Dense porcelain covered with a monochrome glaze of a soft, creamy white with pearl-like luster, the rim glazed in black, and a spacious crackle ramifying about the vase in lines of russet- brown. Height, 51, inches. 246—Buive-siack GiLopuLaR Borrie-sHaPeD Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Dense porcelain, coated with a glaze of mirror quality and so dark in its deep blue or purplish pigment as to appear almost one of the mirror-blacks. Height, 5°34 inches. 247—Catr’s Liver Cotor Borris (Chien-lung) Pure white porcelain invested with a glaze of dull luster in the hue of calf’s liver and with a surface reproducing the texture represented. Height, 6 inches. 248—Rosr-pu-Barry Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Of mammoth pear-shape with contracted neck and trumpet lip, on a low slightly spreading foot. Pure white porcelain, covered with a uniform monochrome glaze of the rose-du-Barry hue, with orange-peel surface and dull luster. Height, 614 inches. 249—Lapis-sLtur Botrre (Ch ien-lung) With ovoid body and cylindrical neck, slightly expanding. Coated with a lapis-blue glaze of mirror quality, overflowing to the interior of the neck. Height, 6 inches. 250 SmaLtL Borrie-sHarpepD Vase (Chien-lung) With plain cylindrical neck. Covered throughout with a mustard- yellow glaze and minute crackle. Height, 514 inches. 251—Ovoiw Jar (K’ang-hsi) Graceful gallipot body supporting a deep, wide, thick neck with narrow everted lip. Invested throughout with a brilliant glaze of camellia-leaf green, evenly distributed, which overflows into the interior of the neck, exhibiting a fine fish-roe crackle. Height, 54% inches. 252—TuravuolsE-BLUE Ovirorm Jar (Ch’ien-lung) With spreading foot, contracted neck and ~ lightly-flaring lip. Coated in a lustrous glaze of turquoise-blue, with paler tones as of tenuous drifting clouds, and deepen- ing in hue about a foot-rim and a rim molded to demarcate shoulder and neck. The glaze throughout shows a _ fine crackle. Height, 6 inches. 253—BortTiE-sHAPED Vase (K’ang-hsi) With tapering globular body and slender neck. Covered with a dense glaze of deep ~cucumber-green, with a varying, gen- erally fine, crackle. ~ Height, 6 inches. 254—Brer’s Liver Garurpor (Chien-lung) Clear white porcelain of Ch’ien-lung covered with a monochrome glaze of beef’s liver color and representative of the texture imi- tated. On the short neck a series of dot, foliated, scroll and line borders, with traces of the original gilding which once embellished them. Height, 5% inches. 255—Laris-BLugE Borrie (Ch’ten-lung) With ovoid body and tubular neck, covered with a bright glaze ‘of lapis-blue which extends over the rim. Height, 6 inches. 256—Werrrer’s Brusu-HoLpEer (Ch’ien-lung) Sonorous porcelain, in the form of a section of bamboo trunk, hollowed, the upper and lower surfaces pricked in representation of the structure of the bamboo wood. Decorated in bold relief modeling with a sage and a monkey under a pine tree near rocks; the whole covered with a chrome-yellow glaze of luminous quality, that on the foot revealing a metallic luster. Height, 5 inches. 257—Canary-YELLow Ovirorm Jar (Yung Chéng) Pure white porcelain, invested with a brilliant glaze of pure, even, canary-yellow, yielding metallic reflections, which covers also the foot of the vase. Height, 51 inches. 258—Tvravoise Botrre (Ch’ien-lung) With ovoid body and straight slim neck, coated in a rich tur- quoise-blue glaze of brilliant surface and marked by a fine fish- roe crackle. Height, 6 inches. 259—Smatt Mirror-siack Borrie (Chien-lung) Ovoidal, with slender neck. Coated with a brilliant glaze of rich, deep mirror-black, which at the rim and about the foot is transformed to a scarcely less brilliant iron-rust hue. Height, 5% inches. 260—Rosin’s-EcG SourFLé BrusH-HoLper (Chien-lung) In the form of a gnarled trunk of a tree at the root, hollowed out, such as is used in nature by the Orientals for brush-holding and other purposes. Exterior and interior covered with a robin’s-egg soufflé glaze of unctuous surface, which extends underneath the foot. Height, 5 inches. 261—Poure Wuire “Lace Parrern” Jar (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid on a short, slightly-spreading foot, with a wide, straight neck. Fine translucent porcelain of semi-eggshell texture, with a clear, ringing, musical note. Both neck and body adorned with blossom forms and scrolling foliations in an elaborate lace pattern excised from the paste and flowed over with the glaze of both exterior and interior. The ornamentation, visible in the light, has a greater attraction when seen against the light. The Japanese have given to this form of decoration the name “‘fire- fly,” owing to the effect when the vessel is held against the light. Height, 5 inches. 962—TaLt-NECKED TurQuOIsE BoTTLE-sHAPED Vase (Ch’ien-lun g On a low foot, with squat body and a slender neck expanding slightly toward the lip. Covered with a mottled glaze of pale turquoise hue revealing a minute crackle. Height, 61%, inches. 267 263—MustTarp-YELLow GuosuLar BorrLe witH AUBERGINE Banps (Ch’ien-lung) Thin, clear white porcelain, invested with a mottled glaze of mustard-yellow, interrupted below the shoulder and again beneath the rim by narrow bands or borders of key-fret pattern incised in the paste and covered with an aubergine glaze of pale tone. Height, 6%, inches. 264—DeticatE ELoncaTep Prar-sHAPED Vase (K’ang-hst) With slender neck and expanding lip, on a short circular foot. Covered with a monochrome glaze in the hue of polished lapis- lazuli, the glaze extending to the interior of the lip and under- neath the foot. Height, 534, inches. 265—Borrie-rorm Vase In Pure Wuire (Cl’en-lung) Starting with a brief cylindrical section slightly incurving from the flat circular foot, the body swells gracefully, and quickly begins to taper to the tall, slender neck, which expands slightly and finishes in a thickened lip. Invested throughout with a luminous monochrome glaze of pure white, and perfect distribu- tion. Blue seal of Ch’ien-lung on the foot. Height, 7% inches. 266—Lustrovus Mustarp-yeELLow Crackie Jar (Ch’ien-lung) Oviform, with high, sloping shoulder, short neck and lightly spreading lip. Covered with a glaze in the color of prepared mustard, spread with the finest of mustard-seed crackle and con- tinued over the interior of the mouth and underneath the foot, the glaze of great brilliancy and with metallic luster. Height, 61%, inches. 267—Smatu Turevoise Borrie (Chien-lung) In pear-shape with a short tubular neck on a low circular foot. Invested with a nearly uniform crackle-glaze of turquoise-blue which thickens to accentuate the outlines of an underglaze decora- tion of a stork among lotus plants, etched and modeled in the paste. Height, 7 inches. - (Illustrated) 268—Biack-PEARL QUADRANGULAR Jar (Ch’ien-lung) On a low, square foot, and with a short cylindrical neck, the high quadrilateral body having a narrow vertical smooth panel in the center of each face, extending to the height of the vase, bor- dered on either side by lateral moldings binding the corners as straps, with shorter intervening “straps” as reinforcements. Dense white porcelain, coated with a monochrome glaze in rep- resentation of the surface of the black pearl, with a metallic- mirror quality. Height, 7%, inches. 269—Ceiapon Borrie (K’ang-hst) The globular body tapering to a narrow neck, with a bulbous expansion beneath the rudimentary white-glazed lip; on a low circular foot. Covered with a glaze of even quality and gray- ish sea-green hue, which, deepening in tone about the outlines and in the etched details of an intricate decoration executed in the paste, brings out the artist’s design in restrained and agreeable relief. The decoration is an involved and _ prolific representation of indeterminate monsters among a profusion of fungus scrolls. Private owner’s mark in six characters in blue within a double ring. Height, 81/4, inches. 270—MazarIne-BLUE Borrie-rorm Vase (K’ang-hst) With globular body tapering to a graceful neck with a heavy bulbous lip; on a low foot. Pure white dense porcelain of K’ang-hsi coated with a brilliant monochrome glaze of mazarine- blue of mirror surface. Height, 8 inches. Q71—Invertep PrEaAr-sHApeD Vase (K’ang-hst) With lightly spreading foot and short, contracted neck. Coated with a slate-blue glaze—sometimes called starch blue—exhibiting a bold crackle in firm brown lines, both glaze and crackle carried throughout the interior of the vase and underneath the foot, the glaze left white at the rim but holding the crackle still. Height, 71% inches. 272—Ovirorm Vase (K’ang-hst) With high shoulder tapering gracefully to a lightly spreading foot and with cylindrical neck slightly concaved. Invested with a brilliant monochrome glaze of cobalt-blue which deepens over a lightly penciled underglaze decoration of sprawling dragons — reaching for the sacred jewel amid flame scrolls. Height, 81%, inches. | 273—Lapris-LazuLi GLopuLarR Borrie-rorm Vase (Ch’ien-lung) | Ovoidal body and sloping shoulder curving into a thick tubular | neck. Covered with a thick, unctuous and brilliant glaze of richly mottled lapis-lazuli quality, the glaze overflowing the rim and weltering about the foot. Height, 81, inches. 274—Rozin’s-EGG Sourrté Gauirotr (Ch’ien-lung) | Coated with a thick, dense glaze of robin’s-egg blue soufflé i which takes a strong bluish trend at the expense of the mala- chite or robin’s-egg green tendency, and under the shoulder presents a sort of waterfall effect. Height, 81, inches. 275—CELapon Gaxiipor (K’ang-hsi) Dense porcelain, covered with a celadon glaze of purest sea- green tint and brilliant surface over a luxuriant ornamentation of affluent peony blossoms and foliations modeled in low relief in the paste and etched. White-glazed foot. Height, 83, inches. 276—Tari, GraceFruL Ovirorm Vase IN PEARL-GRAY WITH CRACKLE (K’ang-hst) With high shoulder, the recurving body tapering toward the foot, and high, wide neck. The entire exterior covered with a pearl-gray glaze and minute mosaic crackle, the lip and interior of the neck with a black matt glaze. Height, 1134 inches. 977—MAZARINE-BLUE GLOBULAR Borrie (K’ang-hsi) Tapering to a neck recurving in a bulbous lip. Clear white porcelain, coated throughout with a mirror-glaze of deep mazarine-blue. : Height, 121, inches. 278—Rosr-sourrLeE Ovirorm Vase (Ch’ien- lung) Shoulder steeply sloping, wide neck lightly spreading. Clear, resonant white porcelain coated throughout the exterior surface, interior of neck and under the foot with a luminous glaze of rose-soufflé, minutely blown with delicate effect. 276 Height, 9 inches. 279—Tvrevoise Grosutar Botrie-sHareD Vase (Ch’ien-lung) With slightly tapering neck and low foot. Covered with a mirror- glaze of turquoise-blue, revealing in places a fine crackle, the hue shifting in various mottles and patches to turquoise-green. At the base the glaze thickens and presents rich, deep black sur- faces. Height, 91% inches. 280—Gracerut Lapis-BLUE Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid body and very slightly expanding neck. Invested with a brilliant glaze of lapis-lazuli blue which, deepening in incisions in the paste, brings out with a modest reticence a delicate etching of blossoming tree peonies extending from the foot nearly to the rim on one face of the vase. Height, 9% inches. 281—ImreriaL YeLLow Gincer Jar (K’ang-hst) ; With carved teakwood cover. Pure white, dense porcelain, cov- ered with a glaze of Imperial yellow hue, and having a carved jade dragon medallion, in openwork, in the carved openwork cover. Height, 814 inches. 282—Turevoise BotrLte (Ch’ien-lung) The graceful gourd-shaped body, on a low circular foot, tapering to a tubular neck. Clear white hard paste, invested with a glaze of soft, delicately mottled turquoise-blue, which extends within the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, 11 inches. 283—CHERRY-RED GLOBULAR BotrLe (K’ang-hst) With tubular neck. Coated with a monochrome glaze of mirror- quality in cherry hue, the rim and interior of the neck glazed in pure white. Has carved teakwood stand embellished with green ivory. Height, 101% inches (with stand, 13%, inches). 284—Morrriep Lapis-stueE GrospuLtar Borrie-sHaPED Vase (K’ang- hst) Pure white sonorous porcelain, coated with a fluent glaze of waved and mottled blue in lapis-lazuli tones and markings from the white-glazed rim to the perfect foot. At the base of the neck the glaze discloses a circle of gray-moss-agate quality, streaked with the darker blue mottlings. Penciled beneath the white-glazed foot: T'a-Ming K’ang-hsi nien-chih. q Height, 1134 inches. 285—Darxk-BLuE Borrie-sHarpep Vase (Ci’ien-lung) Ovoid body, with sloping shoulder and short tubular neck. Cov- ered with a glaze of deep, dark, purplish-blue, varying to azure and marked on one side by mottlings of malachite and the green of the washed turquoise. The glaze continues over the interior of the neck... i Height, 13 inches. 286—Burnt-orance Grosutar Botrre-sHarepD Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Of ovoid curvature and slightly tapering neck with flaring lip. Covered with a brilliant glaze of dusky yellow or burnt-orange hue, marked by mahogany-brown about the foot. Height, 12 inches. 287—Dovus.e-courp Ercuep Vase (Yung Chéng) Of soft, creamy-white tone and gently undulant surface. All- over decoration of blossoming peonies and leaf and floral scrolls lightly etched in the paste beneath the glaze, and brought out more clearly in the semi-translucent material when a light is placed within the vessel. A border of Greek fret separates the upper gourd from the larger body below, and a similar border is found beneath the lip; both, like the rest of the orna- mentation, etched in the paste and uncolored. Interior of neck and the foot also glazed. Height, 13 inches. 288—Mrrror-Biack Borrie (K’ang-hst) With ovoid body and short, wide neck. Clear, dense porcelain of K’ang-hsi, covered with a mirror glaze with the depth and blackness of night. Within the foot and the interior of the neck, white glaze with a brown crackle. Height, 14 inches. 289—Roprin’s-Ece SourF_é Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Of bottle form, with portly ovoid low body, and graceful neck very slightly in-curved. Covered evenly with a fine robin’s-egg blue or mingled sky-blue and turquoise-green soufflé glaze of dull luster and unctuous surface, the glaze carried over to the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, 131% inches. : } ied | 290—Merattic SourrLt&’ Borrie-rorm Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Ovoidal body, slightly compressed, on a circular foot, with wide neck and expanding lip. Coated with a curious glaze of mottled mahogany and olive tones at the lip, which streams downward in wayward, confused striations and finely comminuted fleckings over the neck and the broad shoulder, in the hue of iron-rust, the small ferruginous cascade merging finally in tenuous sprays in a rich, dark seal-brown flood which covers underbody and foot. Height, 1334 inches. 291—Larce Turauoist Borrite-sHaPep Vase (Ch’ien-lung) Light, resonant porcelain, gracefully fashioned in a globular- ovoidal body with a tall wide neck and everted lip. Covered with a luminous glaze of delicate turquoise-blue, slightly mottled, a fine fish-roe crackle running throughout and the glaze over- flowing to a considerable distance the interior of the neck. Height, 131, inches. 292—Brituianr PurreLe Borrie (Ch ien-lung) Broad-shouldered ovoid body and large straight neck. Invested with a deep, dark, intense purple glaze of mirror surface, gray- ing slightly about the rim and carried over and half-way down the interior of the neck. Height, 131 inches. 293—Derr-BLuE Prar-sHapepd Vase (Chien-lung) With short neck, expanding in a trumpet lip, on a circular foot. Invested with a wavering glaze of Sévres-blue tone which is marked by those straggling lines—as of a trickling waterfall— which were characteristic of the Lang monochromes of the pre- ceding century. (So much so that it has been hailed with the conscious anachronism, “A blue Lang-yao!’’) 1 Height, 131%, inches. 294—Turevotsk QUADRILATERAL CENSER witH Cover (Chien-lung) Oblong, on four animal-head legs with outward-curving rounded feet; two upright loop-handles; the cover surmounted by a Fu- lion on his haunches, with head turned to one side. The entire surface, exterior and interior, of both box and cover enameled with a honeycomb crackle-glaze of turquoise-blue and turquoise- green of brilliant quality. Height, 144% inches; length, 9 inches. ae 295—Rosin’s-Ece Sourrre Borrie-suarepd Vase (Ch’ien-lung) _Globular-ovoidal body with flattened shoulder and tubular neck. Characteristic unctuous glaze, with dull metallic luster, in the confusion of blue and green notes giving the “robin’s-egg blue” soufflé. . Height, 131% inches. 296—Coxgatr Botrie (Yung Chéng) With full, broad-shouldered ovoid body, and gracefully con- tracted neck expanding very slightly toward the rim. Pure white Yung Chéng porcelain of a clear, ringing note, overspread with a glaze of deep cobalt-blue flowing evenly to a perfectly finished foot. Rim and interior of the neck glazed in white. Mark, penciled in black within a double ring of blue on the white-glazed foot: T’a-Ch’ing Yung Chéng nien-chih (Made in the reign of Yung Chéng of the great Ch’ing [the recently over- thrown] dynasty). Height, 10 inches. “SUPERB SPECIMENS OF PEACHBLOOM, CLAIR-DE-LUNE, APPLE-GREEN, CORAL-RED AND SANG-DE-BCEUF | 297—Mintature Cuair-DE-LUNE Coure (K’ang-hsi) With squat, swelling body and wide neck. Pure white porcelain, covered with a delicate clair-de-lune glaze of a pale elusive lavender and gray-blue aspect. (Bears a Ming mark.) 298—SmaLuL Cuairn-DE-LUNE Jar (Yuan) Pear-shape, on low, circular foot, the body drawn up to a very small orifice at the top. Coated with a clair-de-lune glaze of bluish tinge, with a fine crackle in pale-brown lines and a few light splashes of purple. (Repaired.) Height, 234 inches. 299—Cuair-DE-LUNE Coupe (Yuan) Dense vibrant porcelain, covered with a thick, viscous glaze of clair-de-lune suggestion, brilliant in surface, with grayish-blue tone, and marked with violet, purple and iron-rust patches, and with a subtle crackle. Diameter, 31% inches. 300—T'wo Wrirer’s Low Circurar PracHsLtoom WarTer Cups (K’ang-hst) Covered by a rich and lustrous peachbloom glaze, varying from the soft pink of the downy coat of a peach to the green of tender moss in the woods, with sundry fleckings and mottlings, and deepening in channels of the molded paste to tones of velvet black. Covers of fei-t’sui jade carved in representation of the persimmon. One has a gilded water-spoon with a duck’s head handle. Diameters, 21% inches and 234, inches. 301—Rv Lane-yao Giozutar Jar (Early K’ang-hst) Heavy, dense porcelain of early K’ang-hsi, coated with a soft apple-green glaze of subdued luster, flowing evenly to the low foot and marked by a heavy, bold crackle in brown lines. These apple-green vases are known in China as Ru Lang-yao. Mounted with a gold mouth-rim. Height, 3%, inches; diameter, 41% inches. 302—Borrie-rorm Pracusioom Vase (K’ang-hsi) With slender neck, and tapering gracefully from the rounded shoulder to its perfect foot. Covered with a _ wmellifluous glaze of the merged and mingling hues of dried rose-leaves in the fluent, speckled, waning pink known as ashes-of-roses. The neck ends in a gold ring. Height, 614 inches. TOS GOS 303—Crack1 ; 3 APPLE-GREEN Borrir (K’ang-hsi) Ovoid body and short, very slightly expanding neck. Glazed in a_ pale apple-green with a pronounced crackle in dark lines. Interior of neck and the foot have a gray-white glaze with yellow-brown crackle. Height, 6 inches. 304—CLaAIR-DE-LUNE CovuPprE, or WRiITER’S Warer-sar (K’ang-hsi) Low ovoidal body, with narrow shoul- der infolding to a wide mouth. Cov- ered with a luminous glaze of purest clair-de-lune or “moonlight white” of beautiful quality—the interior simi- larly glazed. Underneath the white- glazed foot in firmly penciled calli- graphic characters: Ta-Ch’ing K’ang- hst nten-chth (Made in the reign of K’ang-hsi of the great Ch’ing [the 303 ‘ lately ousted] dynasty). Diameter, 4 inches. (Illustrated) 305—Ciair-DE-LUNE Vase (K’ang-hst) Of slender form, its rounded lower body on a small circular foot tapering gracefully into a narrow, attenuated neck, with a slightly spreading lip. Pure white K’ang-hsi porcelain, suf- fused, it seems, rather than coated with a moonlight glaze of the purest clair-de-lune quality, with a rouge-de-fer rim—the interior of the neck glazed in white. (Illustrated) Height, 5 inches. 306—C.air-DE-LUNE Vase (K’ang-hst) In ovoidal baluster or elongated pear-shape, on a low foot, with a short everted lip. Covered with a clair-de-lune glaze of pale lavender tone and equable distribution, the rim glazed in iron- rust brown and the interior of the neck in white. (Illustrated) Height, 5% inches. 307—Wrirter’s Water RECEPTACLE IN Rare PracuBioom (K’ang- hsi) Semi-globular, with short contracted neck. Dense, heavy por- celain of K’ang-hsi, coated with a lustrous glaze of the char- acteristic peachbloom quality, displaying rose-pink and ashes-of- roses surfaces, with rich and generous expanses of the prized green mottling, covering without concealing three large scroll medallions delicately etched in the paste. (Illustrated) _— 308—Wrirer’s Water Jar in Peacusioom (K’ang-hsi) Semi-globular body, with short contracted neck. Covered, over a scrolled decoration delicately etched in the paste, with a glaze — of pale peachbloom tint having a multitude of deeper fleckings. Diameter, 5 inches. (Illustrated) 309—APpPLE-GREEN CrackLepD DisH (K’ang-hsi) Circular-ovoidal low body with wide mouth, on three rudimentary feet. Dense porcelain covered with an apple-green glaze of dull, metallic luster and crackled in brown lines, the interior exhibit- ing a brilliant glaze of gray-celadon with crackle. Diameter, 544, inches. 310—Rv Lane-yao Gatutpot (Early K’ang-hsi) With small mouth and short lip, over a broad, boldly swelling shoul- der, tapering gracefully below and recurving for a_ very _ slightly spreading foot. Glaze’ of apple- green marked with a bold crackle in brown lines. The apple-green vases of this character and glaze are known in China always as Ru Lang- yao. Height, 51%, inches. 311—InvertTEeD PrarR-sHAPE SANG-DE- peur Vase (K’ang-hst) Lang-yao, with spreading foot and short cylindrical neck. Coated with a fluent, lustrous glaze of ox-blood = hue, crackled throughout, and ex- 310 hibiting gray mottlings and about the foot pale sea-green notes. Underneath the foot a crackled celadon glaze; interior of neck glazed in a gray-white with fine brown crackle. Height, 6% inches. 806 LOS Shae Pap Fi 43 2 =) 312—Appie-creEN Ovo Jar (K’ang-hst) Short neck with thickened lip. Dense porcelain, covered with a luminous glaze of pale apple-green, with a bold crackle in brown lines. Interior of neck and underneath the foot, gray, with café-au-lait crackle. Height, 51%, inches. 313—SvuPerB Corat-reD Borris (Yung Chéng) With spherical body tapering into a very slender cylindrical neck. Covered with a mirror-glaze of light coral tone, uni- formly spread and of even brilliance, finishing at a well-defined white rim. Height, 7, inches (Illustrated) 314—RemarkaBiy Fine Corat-rep Borrite (Yung Chéng) With pear-shaped body, beautifully tapering shoulder and straight, slender neck. Invested with a mirror-glaze of rich coral, of a fascinating tone and texture and even distribution. Height, 8%, inches. (Illustrated) 315—Svurers Tart Corat-rep Vase (Yung Chéng) With ten-pin shaped body and sloping shoulder, and wide, full neck. Pure white Yung Chéng porcelain, covered with a mottled coral glaze of dull luster and metallic suggestions. Height, 10 inches. (Illustrated) . 316—Cuair-DE-LUNE GuosuLaR BotrLe (Chien-lung) —— — — Tapering to a short neck with a bulbous lip; on a circular foot. Covered with a brilliant glaze of the pale clatr-de-lune or “moonlight white,” of perfect distribu- tion, and finely crackled in faint lines, the crackle on neck and lip being more pro- nounced in brown lines. The demarcation of neck from body indicated by a molding in the paste. Glaze and crackle extend within the lip and to the foot, which bears the seal of Ch’ien-lung. Height, 1114 inches. 317—Rare Brive Lanec-yao BOoTTLE-SHAPED VasE (Early K’ang-hst) With its neck widening very slightly toward the lip, and a low, circular foot. 316 Invested with a beautiful, finely crackled glaze of light turquoise-blue, with the wavering longitudinal striations which are characteristic of the true Lang porcelain. The glaze deepens toward the base of the neck. Undoubtedly a production of the famous Lang prefecture at Ching-té-Chen. Height, 734, inches. 318—PracuBioom Borrie-sHaPepD Vase (K’ang-hst) Ovoidal body, with almost flat shoulder and tall, slender, tubular neck. Dense, early K’ang-hsi porcelain, covered with a rarely handsome glaze of the peachbloom variety, exhibiting the char- acteristic variations of pink, gray, ashes-of-roses and a most delicate green with mottlings and fleckings. On the shoulder a green three-clawed Shih-lung dragon sprawls, grasping the neck. ‘The peachbloom glaze is characteristically crackled, the green glaze covering the dragon is without crackle. (Neck re- stored.) On the foot the six-character mark of K’ang-hsi. Height, 8 inches. Cede te Gleaner ct mele 319—ImreriaL CeLapon Fiower Vase (K’ang-hsi) Of heavy, vibrant porcelain, fashioned in the lines of the peach- bloom vases, with the same two white rings in relief at the base of the neck and the same mark underneath. It is covered with a pale celadon monochrome glaze of purest sea-green tint—a hue called by the Chinese, as applied to these vases, pea-green—vary- ing slightly in tone so as to bring out the decoration worked in relief in the paste. This consists of a fringe of scrolled sea- waves from which project the bodies of two three-clawed dragons. Mark, clearly penciled in cobalt-blue: T'a-Ch’ing K’ang-hsi nien- chth (Made in the reign of K’ang-hsi of the great Ch’ing [the lately overthrown] dynasty). A rarely beautiful example of K’ang-hsi porcelain. Circular, expanding slowly from the base, with a slightly bulbous shoulder recurving abruptly in a short, thick, everted flat lip. Encircled by two rings of prominent bosses and carrying four rudimentary or ornamental handles in the form of Fu-lion heads modeled in high relief. Covered throughout its exterior sur- face with a thick, unctuous glaze of rich turquoise showing many mottlings and variations of hue. Interior glazed in yellow. ~ Height, 1714 inches (with stand, 414, inches) ; diameter, 3034 inches. 374—Masestic Porrery Pranr Jar (Yuan) Circular, with ovoid contour and thickened lip. The body coated with a fluent glaze of rich, deep indigo-blue, and the rim with a mottled aubergine glaze in “waterfall” effect. Modeled in relief in the paste are lotus plants with buds and blossoms, and re- vealing the seed-pods, and over them birds and butterflies are seen, the reliefs glazed in turquoise-blue, green, white, mauve and yellow. Base encircled by a molded band of waves in aquamarine tint. Interior glazed in turquoise-blue. Height, 26 inches (with stand, 52 inches); diameter, 39 inches. (Illustrated) lip flattened on top. The Fale “een handles of lion-heads with rings, vigorously n lief. Coated with a deep glaze of rich n flecks and mottlings. The handles, in ¢ glaze, display yellow and an aubergine-brown. TI in a sky-blue. (Has been BRE and rep or inner tub inserted. H ee 83%, inches (with stand, 48%, inches) 374 ‘THIRD AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 376 TO 519 3 OLD CHINESE VELVETS AND SUMPTUOUS i BROCADES 376—TIwo Sitx VeLver Cuarr CusHions Silk velvet of old-golden hue, cut and brocaded with a floral Y scroll pattern of chrysanthemum flowers and leaves in delicate tones of pink, blue and silver-gray. Eighteenth century. ce 20 inches square. 377—Eicut Sirk VELVET AND Gotp BrocapE CHaiRr Marts : Decoration, two archaic dragons in gold in the center on a ground : of golden-pink velvet ; the border with floral scroll in gold within a ground of bright green velvet. Highteenth century. Length, 20% inches; width, 144, inches. 378—Two Sirk VELVET AND GOLD SQuARE Taste Marts Golden-pink velvet field, brilliant with profuse lotus scrolls within an architectural border interrupted by medallions and scrolls, all in gold thread; outer Greek-fret border in gold on blue-green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. : 24 inches square. 379—Two Sirk Vetver anpD GoLp SavuaRE Taste Marts Similar to the foregoing. Eighteenth century. 22 inches square. 380—Two Sink VELVET AND Gotp TaBLEe Covers Fields of golden-pink velvet ornate with peony medallions and sprays in gold thread; borders of scrolls and foliations in velvet with a pale-green sheen, on a ground of gold thread. Eighteenth century. ; Length, 34 inches; width, 33 inches. 381—ImrERiAL Brocape Taste Cover Central medallion of cloud-forms enclosing a five-clawed dragon woven in gold thread, on a field of conventional foliated medal- lions in lattice arrangement, with alternating enclosures of flying storks. Eighteenth century. Length, 371 inches; width, 35 inches. \: ‘ 382—GoLDEN-BROWN SitkK Brocape Entrance Hancine Decorated with four-clawed dragons, kylins, waves of the sea, clouds and symbols, in blue, green and other colors and silver thread. Eighteenth century. Height, 32 inches; width, 37 inches. 383—Wrtne-cotor Sirk Vetvet Brocaprt Entrance Hancine Decoration in gold thread of dragons, kylins, waves, clouds and symbols. Eighteenth century. Height, 32 inches; width, 391, inches. 384—SiLtk VetvetT Wart Hancine Ornate decoration of lotus blossoms and scroll in pale shimmering green on a brilliant red ground, its hue changing with the direc- tion of the light. Eighteenth century. Height, 36 inches; width, 41 inches. — 385—Fovur Sirk Brocapr Waui Hanernes (Ch’ien-lung) Light, gray-green ground; adorned with landscapes, pagodas, cows, goats, deer and horses, flowers, and motives from the “Hundred Antiques,” in various tones of green, yellow, brown, orange-pink and red. Length, 45 inches; width, 13 inches. a ee eee a a Bae ES Se ay a me aia ii } : - For i 386—Four Pieces Curnese Sirk anp Gop Brocapne (Ch’ien-lung) On a ground of brilliant Imperial yellow through which gold threads run in profusion, successive horizontal bands of car- touches are woven, with blue and green predominant in their coloring. In a central medallion is a five-clawed dragon, and a scrolled companion appears at each of the corners of the fabric. Height, 41 inches; length, 53 inches. (Illustrated) 387—Cuinese Cut-veELveT Watt Hancine (Ch’ien-lung) From an ancient Temple of Agriculture. Soft pink, with a golden iridescence, the ornamentation picturing the eight Taoist im- mortals, the god of longevity and others, attending on the Em- peror, who appears in the center, besides clouds, storks, bats, deer and many symbols, and the name of the agricultural college. Has a deep green fringe with spangles. Length, 18 feet 3 inches; depth, 24% inches (with fringe, 36 inches). 388—CuineEsE Cur-ve.ver Watt-Hancine (Ch’ien-lung) Congruous with the last and with the same colors and borders, and from the same school of agriculture, the name of which appears on both pieces. The major decoration of this piece depicts Fu-lions, filleted wheels and flame scrolls, and a frieze pictures bucolic landscapes. Length, 6 feet 5 inches; depth, 34 inches. 389—Two Sirk VELVET AND Gotp Watt HAncInes Golden-brown field of silk velvet ornamented with four-clawed dragons, the endless knot, Dogs Fu with the brocaded ball, and bats, emblems of happiness, surrounding the ‘“double-joy” sym- bol of two persons made happy, all in gold thread. Border of conventional scrolls and medallions in gold thread embraced within a blue-green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. Length, 5 inches; width, 20 inches. 390—Gotpex Rose Sirk VetvetT Watt Hancine With decoration, cut in the velvet and woven in gold thread, of lions and the brocaded ball, and other symbols. Eighteenth century. Height, 23%, inches; width, 7 feet. ble, IC oe = — = Lid > re ——————$—————_ SS 391—S1tx VELVET And Gotp Wart Haneine Golden-pink field of silk velvet resplendent with two phenixes a and full-blown peonies in gold thread. Border of poppy-scroll — : in gold within a bright green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. Height, 2334 inches; width, 7 feet 101% inches. 392—-Si_Lk VELVET AND Gotp Watt Haneine Woven in transverse section or oblong mats in a series of eight, — each with a peony medallion and sprays in gold on a golden- brown velvet ground, bordered by floral scrolls. worked in the soft velvet pile which here is a shimmering pale blue-green, over a ground of gold thread. Eighteenth century. | Length, 8 feet 414 inches; width, 2 feet. $93—LarcE SILK VELVET Wart Hancine Oblong field almost iridescent in the shimmer of the orange, . brown, pinkish and flame-hued velvet and the varied threads in bh which the ornament is woven, the ornamentation including two pheenixes in the form of a central medallion, a pheenix at each | corner, peonies, melons, leaves and scrolls. Wide border of silver- blue, orange-pink and white bats flying among silver-white cloud scrolls, all in the thread, on a Nile-green silk velvet ground. Eighteenth century. Length, 9 feet 714 inches; width, 5 feet 91% inches. (Illustrated) _ RRS TT DP eas Sy ‘ RD a . 2G LED OS SR Ce € S} £5 4 eo PAN ote 1 >i . —?, J “ \ ;¥ 25 q &4 = : See eee = = a - SS cy. 3 4 ¢ we Go 394—Larce Empromerep Cuinese Wari Haneine (Chien-lung) With boundless wishes of longevity and happiness. On a salmon- pink ground brilliant as flame, in silk of a fine sheen, a decora- tion of regal affluence is embroidered in rich blue, white, gray, green, black and other silks, and made resplendent with an abun- dance of gold. The god of longevity, Shou-lao, appears offer- ing a peach of longevity to one of two sages who attend him on either hand, and above and all about are blossoms and clusters of the fabled fruit of long life, together with bats—symbols of happiness—flying among scrolling clouds. At the top of the hanging are sages studying a painting of the yang-yim symbol. Height, 10 feet 2 inches; width, 7 feet 11 inches. The following rich brocades of silk velvet and gold-colored silk thread form a - eomplete room decoration brought by a bride to the palace of her husband. All are of a warm, glowing, salmon-pink velvet, ornamented in medallions, scrolls, sprays and foliations of a blossoming-peony design in the gold-colored woven threads, with a border of the same threads embracing in some a continuous swastika fret and in others a conventional scroll of the Indian lotus in light green silk velvet, the whole exhibiting a lustrous sheen. Eighteenth century. 395—Ricu Brocapves oF SILK VELVET AND GOLD-COLORED SILK (A) Two Enrrance Haneines. These have in addition to the ornamentation above mentioned several repetitions of the ‘“‘double- joy” symbol, or emblem of connubial bliss—two persons made happy, or “twice glad.” Height, 33°, inches; breadth, 351% inches. (B). Fight CHarr Covers. Length, 19 inches; width, 14 inches. (C) Four CHarr Covers. : Length, 19 inches; width, 15 inches. (D) Two Pritiows. Length, 23 inches; breadth, 10 inches; depth, 11 inches. (E) Eight Wart Hanernes. Length, 62 inches; width, 19 inches. (F) Four Wari Hanernes. Length, 64 inches (one, 60 inches); width, 19 inches. (G) Four Taste Mats. 23 inches square. (H) Two Tasie Covers. Length, 34 inches; width, 32 inches. The following Chinese paintings are of the Ch’ien-lung period, and are in Euro- pean carved-wood frames imported by the Chinese at the time. (A few are in Chinese frames of teakwood.) The painting is on the under-side of glass. Some of it is dis- tinctly Chinese in type, character, workmanship. Some is evidently the production of European artists, conforming more or less to Chinese canons, as European painters in China were compelled by the Emperor to do, even though they had endeavored earlier . to introduce Western methods and ideas in the painting art. Some of the work is that ; of Chinese students of European masters, and in more than one of the paintings will be noted the influence of European landscape and genre painting, notably that of the Dutch school, an inheritance, doubtless, from the days of K’ang-hsi, when the Chinese — ports were open and engaged in commerce with the Occident. The sizes given exterior frame measurements. eo CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS - 396—Porrrair or a Youne Girt—Seated Height, 1334, inches; width, 1114 inches Three-quarter length portrait of a young girl, seated and — turned slightly to the right, her face almost full-front and — large eyes looking directly at the spectator. She wears a low- — neck, ruffled white gown with over-drapery of deep blue em- — broidered in gold, and holds on her lap an odd-looking pet — animal. A painting marked clearly by the European influence. — CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 397—F LOWERS og ae —- Height, 17 inches; width, 11 inches (A table screen) A. white- -blossoming green shrub sends up gracefully bending stems from the foot of blue rocks on a green knoll. Above them a butterfly hovers in their fragrance. Mirror background; _ the opposite side also a mirror. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 398—GoLDEN LANDSCAPE Height, 15 inches; length, 1834 inches (A table screen) In a wooded retreat among mountains, trees and rocks golden against a dark sky, are numerous pavilions in red, blue and white, and in the foreground is a body of blue water. ‘Three sages in embroidered robes, one walking, one seated and one standing, are severally contemplating nature from rock shelves and steps. On the opposite side is a mirror. i eee Oe eee eee ee ae: tator. One, who sits cross-legged, is gowned in pale pink em-— CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 399—CHINESE GIRLS Height, 211% inches; width, 1514 inches On a dais in a room with gray walls two small dark shaiveas ; Chinese girls are seated beside a table, looking at the spec- broidered with floral sprays. She rests one elbow on the low table and in her other hand bolds a long slender tobacco pipe : which she has been smoking. Her companion, in dark and — 4 light blue and pink, poises her head over one shoulder and ’ holds her left little finger at her chin. a (Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 00. Go” | l $ Height, 211% inches; width, 1544 inches a Two figures are seated on a dais, facing the spectator, at either side of a low “checker-board” table, playing the game of “Go.” One wears a pale blue-figured robe, the other a robe of soft gray trimmed in green with gold embroidering. On.the tableis a vase with a sprig from a flowering tree. Gray background with a gold-embroidered green-blue hanging draped above and at one side. a (Illustrated) 0Ov 666 oOv 10V + ny ne ee a ae ee Ano st CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 401—TuHE Pink Lapy Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches 1 Three-quarter length portrait of a lovely Celestial maiden wearing a rich robe of pink damask, at her dressing table at the completion of her elaborate toilette. In one hand, raised _ toward her shoulder, she holds a hand-mirror, but evidently _ satisfied with what it has already told her she looks out in the direction of the spectator. She has a broad forehead and oval face, and a cupid’s-bow mouth. Her black hair is decked with ornaments, and her robe, which is lined in blue, is em- __ bellished with gold. Her dress beneath it is pale-green, lightly trimmed with black. (Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 402—Lapy READING Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches A young lady with thoughtful, expressive face, is portrayed at three-quarter length, holding in her hand an open Chinese scroll. She has paused in her reading and looks up at the observer with deep, quiet eyes. Her flowing, pale-green robes are embellished with foliar scrolls, and rich trimmings and linings of scarlet and yellow, ornamented in gold and black. She is seen against a blue background. (Illustrated ) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 403—A FreNcH Lapy Height, 2214, inches; width, 1614 inches Copy of a French painting of the late eighteenth century. One of the typical figures of the time, a round-faced, pink-cheeked young lady in a high-waisted and low-necked gown, is repre- sented at three-quarter length, standing, and painted in an oval. Her light hair is bound by a blue ribbon, she wears a pearl-gray waist and deep écru skirt girdled in blue, holds sprays of blossoms in her hands and looks directly at the ob- server. In the spandrels about the oval are Chinese floral forms. (Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 404—AN ANCIENT STORY Height, 23 inches; width, 16 inches A representation in many brilliant colors of a tale from the rich treasury of Celestial myth and romance. In. the im- mediate foreground at the left, a bright-faced boy in poly- chromatic robes stands in the hollow trunk of a dead tree, floating on deep blue waves and gazing heavenward. A little back on the right a beautiful moon-faced maiden, in costume even more gorgeous than his, has descended on a cloud which hangs low over the sea. She holds up in one hand a fly-whisk, and in graceful serenity looks from deep eyes in the direction of the spectator. Background of conventional landscape. Against the sky is a long calligraphic inscription, reciting the love story pictured. 403 maw ee - ‘ e CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 405—Lapy PLAYING THE SHO-FLUTE Height, 2034 inches; width, 151% inches A young lady, seated, leans in graceful curves upon a table at her side, resting her elbows on it and with both hands holding up to her small mouth the musical reed instrument which the — Japanese name the Sho-flute—one of the instruments used in Shinto to represent the sounds of paradise. She is seen at three-quarter length and wears a gown of rich velvet-black, over blue, with flowing lace sleeves. At a pause in her playing she looks directly at her observer. (Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 406—GOLD-FISH Height, 2214, inches; width, 1614 inches Standing at the side of a table and seen at half-length is a placid and sweet-faced young mother, attending her small boy, who is watching gold-fish swimming in a transparent jar. ‘The infant is nude save for the gamezutachi, which is orange-pink, embroidered with sprays and floral medallions, and he is sitting on the table. His mother, who is turned slightly to the left, her head gently inclined, wears a beautifully embroidered man- darin coat, light blue, with a narrow pink collar, and deep coral- red cuffs on the flowing sleeves. Sky-blue background. (Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 407—ARCHERY IN WINTER Height, 27 inches; length, 33% inches In a cold green foreground a family of some consequence is assembled at the foot of some leafless trees—two men, three women and some boys, besides other persons—engaged in the ceremonial sport of arrow-shooting. Back of them in the snow are more bowmen, on horseback, shooting as they run. The people are variously garbed in winter robes of blue, red, white or other color, gold-embroidered. The mountainous back- ground is snow-covered, under a dark winter cloud, and toward the right is seen a church clearly taken from a European paint- ing, as the architecture tells. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 408—A GARDEN Party (Black and White) Height, 221% inches; length, 301 inches Undoubtedly a reproduction or copy of a Dutch picture, by a Chinese artist. a eee —~ | e 472—AntTiquE CHINESE SADDLE-MAT Oval form; short, close pile.’ Tree-peony flowers and butterflies within the oval field, about a circular medallion comprehending five lions, large and small; all in blue, white, yellow and brown on a deep sapphire field. Border of symbols and scrolls in similar colors on like ground. Seventeenth century. Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 473—Two AntievE CHINESE Mats Short pile with loose texture and delicate sheen. Small medal- lions of various design, in light and dark blue, white, old-gold and ground-reserve, are sprinkled over a field of light fawn, within a narrow border of fret in white on dark-blue with white and pale-blue guard stripes. This is succeeded by a wide border _of interrupted fret in white on pinkish-fawn. Early eighteenth century. Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 474—AntieuE CHINESE Mat Short, compact pile and loose texture. Fawn-colored field with a medallion of rocks and blossoming trees in orange-brown, old- gold, light and dark blue, other tree-groups omitting the old- gold occurring between the medallion and angular spandrels en- closing the swastika. Border of swastika-fret with medallic in- terruptions. Eighteenth century Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 475—Rare ANTIQUE CHINESE Rounp Mar Soft pile and loose texture. Probably made for some special — purpose, round mats being unusual among Celestial fabrics. The circular field presents an agreeable confusion of subdued color, ig in subtly woven, restricted designs worked into the general and _ more pronounced display of tree branches with large blossoms, — scrolling sprays and ornaments. A narrow border of light and ~ dark blue with white dots is embraced within a wider one of bold leaf and blossom motive. Early eighteenth century. 3 Diameter, 2 feet 10 inches. { (Illustrated) Ds: 4 476—ANTIQUE CHINESE Mat Soft pile and loose texture. Brilliant mustard-yellow oblong field, defined by a band carrying a geometrical pattern in two shades of blue and white. From alternate corners of the field a tree in cobalt and sapphire-blue springs, the branches swinging across the field midway and dividing it. In each sec- tion a flying stork appears above a spotted stag which looks up at it—both emblems of longevity—also in cobalt and sapphire, with the addition of white. Border of the same yellow ground- color, pervaded by a composite meander and swastika-fret pat-> tern in a subtle fawn tone. Eighteenth century. . Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. (Illustrated) 477—AnTIQUE CHINESE Mat Tawny-pink field strewn with peony sprays in white, dark and light blue and pale golden-yellow, between fretted spandrels and a foliar medallion of yellow, white and the ground-color reserve, into which is worked an extreme conventionalization of the archaic dragon-scroll in the two shades of blue with white. Conventional borders in blue and white and ground-reserve, with a meander in light golden-yellow. Early eighteenth century. Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. (Illustrated) YQ ete = ‘y \ ayy w WAV AML SAPP CAA i ih AL Lea anaes Le, * ae Wi 7 er [/ Dey" ths Ch es apap eRe. celine: » ‘ * ~ ’ ws - - My fey : P : . 478—AnTIQUE CHINESE SavarE Mat Five-clawed dragons in brilliant yellow overspread a glowing sapphire ground, four dragons in the corners approaching a large central one whose body encircles the flaming jewel. On all sides the conventional wave border at intervals invades the field. The forms of the monsters are picked out in light-blue, orange-pink -and white, and the border comprises the colors of the general scheme. Seventeenth century. Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 479—AntTIQUE CHINESE Mat Short pile with velvety surface; delicate fawn and greyhound hues for the dominant notes, the oblong field carrying conven- tional trees springing from the directions of the opposite ends, and a central medallion evolved from scrolled tree-forms. Nar- row border of the ground-colors with a meander in light-blue, followed by a broader border of freely conventionalized tree or plant scrolls. Seventeenth century. Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 3 a i o & & eo Ss o & © +e Se S * oo 8 2 8 & & @ & & e ¢ + 6 ee = & ee a ee Om eS be Re ee eS ee Se 480—ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue Short, close pile; overcast sides and fringe ends. Field of sap- phire luster, strewn with small medallions in salmon-pink and pale yellow-white, encompassing a medallion ,of conventional archaic dragon-scroll in the same colors. Sides without borders; multicolored end-borders disclosing the latch-hook and other | Western Asiatic suggestions. Eighteenth century. Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet. 481—AntTIqauE CHINESE Ruc Short, close pile; loose texture. Tawny-salmon oblong field, without corner ornament, sprinkled with sundry small medal- hons of varied design and color, about a large stork medallion in white, sapphire and sky-blue. Conventional borders. Early eighteenth century. Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 482—AnTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH Soft pile and loose texture. Foliar medallions, sprays and but- terfly-scrolls in yellow, white, brown and blue on a dark-sapphire field. Flower-scroll border in light and dark blue, white and light yellow, on an orange-brown ground. Eighteenth century. Length, 4 feet 7 inches; breadth, 2 feet 3 inches. be Se - xy % fo, tah ay i, * tg a a we Yn, ° & sre im a ae Co rg 4, 3 ye o & = te at ieee é > ss ows ee TELE LCS a Ta 2 GAO" 2. ~ Oe Iw Meigete (OC Y “Ce se + . S —, 8 - fe, 2 Di pO eto OC? -* oat) S Aa & De. eta etn Yee =» xR oe Pee) > aes Ae aod oy 2 OM as. i ~ ©; 503 + 8 ee 2 ee ee v~n epee @ ® ¥ ¢ @ | * x ¢ & € * oo ** @ &© @© @ € m= & 483—ANTIQUE CHINESE RuG Compact pile, close texture. Floral and angular scroll corners in bright yellows on dark blue; rich sapphire-blue field overspread by a fine lattice in lighter blue, the interstices enclosing a con- ventional device in the same light-blue and white, and the lattice interrupted by sprays, butterflies and a medallion, in the yellows of the corner designs. Bright border with scrolls and symbols. Eighteenth century. Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches. 484—AnTI@euE CHINESE SADDLE-MAT In the shape of the silkworm’s cocoon. Short, soft, close pile, with a sheen delicate in tone and rich in quality. Conven- tionalized tree-blossoms in black, canary, fawn and blue, on a ~ gray or light-fawn ground; surrounded by narrow fret and broad scroll borders. Seventeenth century. Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 485—AntiquE CHINESE Rue Short pile and loose texture. Oblong field of salmon-pink with a lattice-fret in lighter tone, spread with varied medallions in light yellow, light and dark blue, and white. Chief border a blue swastika-fret on light yellow ground. Eighteenth century. Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. 486—ANnTIQUE CHINESE Mat Gray-white field, with archaic dragon-scroll corners in two shade of blue, the field strewn with sprays and butterflies, in the two blues and light brown and yellow, about a floral medallion in the same colors. Dot, T-fret and flower-scroll borders. Eighteenth : century. Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch, 1 2 487—ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue 4 Compact pile, with loose texture. Field a quasi- -salmon pink overborne by tawny hue, carrying floral and geometrical orna- ment in a central tedallisn and corners, with intermediate group- ings of blossoming dwarfed trees in tubs, all in sapphire and pale sky-blue, with white. Fret and floral borders. Early eighteenth — . century. * ne 2 ee Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. 7 488—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue A brown field of dark café-au-lait note is spread with conventional — a designs in white, yellow and two shades of blue, and has in the — center a medallion presenting in the same colors.a kylin and — pheenix and the endless knot. Bordered by a fret in salmon-pink | on blue, and a further border of scrolling devices in blues, white __ and yellow on a ground-color the same as the field’s. Eighteenth century. ‘3 Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. — a (Illustrated) 489—AntieuE CuHiInEsE Lone Mat Short pile and loose texture. Salmon-pink field, with the archaic dragon-scroll in light and dark blue at the corners; three large flower medallions among the ‘Hundred Antiques” in bright yel- low, brown, white and two shades of blue. Scroll border in harmony. Eighteenth century. | Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 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2 ERR ASI I A NEN * sab a = G Pe i a / { rr 490—Antiaur Cuinese Mat Soft, deep, compact pile. Oblong field of deer-skin ground, in which are worked seven horses, willow and other trees, in one of which two birds perch, mountains and moss-spotted rocks, all in cobalt and-sapphire-blue, salmon-pink, white, pale-yellow and different shades of brown; an unusual and individual decoration accomplished in an interesting manner; the horses in different attitudes and no two alike in color. Broad border of foliar scrolls in similar hues, following a narrow border of key-fret in white on blue. Seventeenth century. Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 491—ExcrePrprionaL ANTIQUE CHINESE Ruc Short, dense pile, and rare ornamentation. Narrow-selvage and fringe-ends. A tawny-yellow throughout, with dragon ration. A central medallion displays a dragon and scrol rug, with like scrolls in the two shades of blue; and about field are eight other dragons in the two blues, picked out by the darker yellow. Surrounding the medallions and_ scattere is throughout the fabric are innumerable twisted cords a few inc in length, coming through the pile and overlying the surface shaggy carelessness of unique decoration. It has been ex jectured that they also serve as a protection to the surface c the fabric. Sixteenth century. . Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 1 ine 492—AntiavuE CHINESE Rve Soft, compact pile; overcast ends and fringed sides. On a light- fawn field the ‘“‘Hundred Antiques,” with various writers’ tab. ornaments, scattered in blue, black, yellow and other colors around a medallion of floral and geometrical designs ; correspon-- dent corner patterns, and borders ornamented in two shades of blue and yellow. Seventeenth century. Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 493—EIGHTETENTH CENTURY CHINESE RUG Soft pile; loose texture. Glowing sapphire ground between over- + sey a2 A Tira i 9 k ‘: 1 * vn : 4 PAH fi er it : % be “ 3 ‘ Dye athe . N ; oy PS Merrit i: Se ty ez5 2 Jen x 2 ue eee S te OBE seh tae RUIN was c Peacoge is ret Rng Goa aaa eee q se * Fa) AVE | Bra wey Fas Vay Erte by Dery MP wry: * Piveyes A H.8 scishe Fury sak saa By * i Wie We Woteny ah ey wag AD it ReneS WIEN sais, Veet Reaweet . “~~? i % ate SNe PAE renee tt BEE Rising “ nee Sy sh eee, i p} mW Ee, % a As cao ane ‘Sop.