Illustrated catalogue of the furniture and embellishments from the Imperial Palace, Pekin, exquisitely wrought gold ornaments from the ceremonial crowns of the former Emperor and Empress of China and numerous other objects of antiquity and distinctive artistic excellence, recently acquired by the firm of Messrs. Yamanaka & Company, New York, Japan, China [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale on the afternoons herein stated (1917)
American Art Association, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, Yamanaka & Company, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 101
so,which in turn is supported on four low feet. Skirt carvedin openwork, with sceptre-heads overhanging the leg tops.Decorated throughout in gold lacquer, the table surfacepicturing summer landscapes at the waterside, and thedelicate pencilings elsewhere presenting brocade designs,bats and formal… … 226—Two Black Lacquer Armchairs Quadrangular scat, legs and braces, and dragon-scrollbrackets and aprons; skeleton back and arms, with solidsplat. On the splat a lake among the mountains, withsummer houses, and elsewhere conventional lotus and peonymotives, with tendril streamers, and sundry…
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