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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)

Yamanaka & Company, Carroll, Dana H · New York, American art association · leaf 85

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s the use of the vesselin the ritual of ancestor worship. Teak cover with green jadeknob handle. Iltii/ht. j;i iiirlii.i; diameter. 7y.. inches. 154—Gilt Broxze Bottle-shaped Vase (After-Han) Squat-ovoidal body on a lightly-spreading flanged foot, with tall slender neck, bulbous in hexafoil… … 155—Ancient Ovate Swinging Jar (Shang) Heavy sonorous bronze, of flattened, elonfrated nielon-forin, witha swinging handle in rope design and a low spreading base wliichis marked bj two rings. Otherwise plain, it is ornamented at theshoulder with a wide band of angular fret, incised between…

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