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 112
scroll in the velvet, on the goldground. Length, 3 feet 3 inches: width, 2 feel III inches. 247—Chinese Silk Embroidery Hancinc (Chien-htng) The peach tree of the genii in bearing, bats, jit-i sceptresand cloud scrolls, in blue, pink, white, green and gold ona golden-buff ground of soft bronze-like… … 248—Chinese Sii.k Embroidery Table Cover (Chien-lung)Quadrilateral, with small half-squares out of the corners,for fitting down over tin- table top. Rich golden-huffground, embroidered in soft and brilliant colors with butter-flies and sprays of varied flowers, within a square set offbv a gold…
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