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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 glas 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 (1914)

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ss and the sides with rudi-mentary handles. Seventeenth century. 5—Bbown Amber Seventeenth Century SnuffBottle Ovate form with short, in-curving neck, well-defined foot and flattened faces. Carved in lowrelief with animal grotesques. 6—Melon-shaped Amber Snuff Bottle ■* Clear translucent brown, and… … 7—Snuff Bottle in Black Amber and Brown Profusely carved in high and low relief and engraved, the figureof a horse and two flying insects being worked in the opaqueblack portions of the amber, which take a fine ebony polish, andthe clear, all but transparent amber-brown and pale-yellow partscarved…

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