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 103
carved round, in scrolls; broad, solidsplat, pierced with a low arch at the seat. Decorated ingold, the splat anil seat with landscapes showing widewater reaches, the splat decoration lying within a groundof floral lattice, and arms, legs and braces with a lotusscroll. 229—Two Black Lacqckk… … 230—Two Black Lacquer Ait.\i< iiaiks Of tin- same form us the preceding lots, Nos. 228 and 221),and decorated in gold and pink lacquer with a highlyconventionalized lotus scroll and detached sprays: in addi-tion, on the seat a quatrefoil encloses a summer landscapein which a boatman appears, and…
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