certain large vases would make usunderstand it. We see there boats filled with young women, theirsleeves turned up to the shoulders, about to plunge their arms intothe water, not only to gather the flowers, but to pick up the stalksalready laden with the ripe fruit; through an archway opening to…
Pottery
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![An illustration from Illustrated catalogue of the important collection of antique Chinese porcelains, Sung and Ming potteries, ancient stone sculptures, carved jades and other hard stones, snuff bottles, Mandarin necklaces, bronzes, enamels, palace furniture and wall panels and a number of rare and fine ancient Chinese paintings of the Sung and Ming periods [electronic resource] : all of which are to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the Chinese expert, Lee Van Ching of Shanghai on the afternoons herein stated (1917)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-liu-31289009872427-122-81.webp)
