Illustrated catalogue of a remarkable collection of ancient oriental imperial treasures of rare artistic distinction, recently procured in China and Japan, to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the well-known firm of Messrs. Yamanaka & Co. .. (1916)
Yamanaka & Company, American Art Association (New York, N.Y.), Carroll, Dana H · New York, The Amer. Art Assoc. · leaf 167
d moon in the sky. In mellow tones,largely of red, blue, green and gold. Late Ming period. Height, 21i_, inches; width, 15 inches. 352—Lamaistic Painting From Thibet. Numerous figures, priests with bibles, a travelerand others, all seated, are seen against a background now in-determinate as to its… … 353—Lamaistic Painting From Thibet. Probably Monju, goddess of wisdom, to usethe familiar Japanese Buddhistic appellation, although Monju■—or Maiijusri in the Indian Buddhistic form—is more compre-hensively, or with the slight differentiation, a personification ofthe power of apprehension, and as a…
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