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 159
wholly given over to a highly elabo-rated peony scroll in a fine dee]) sapphire blue, with unob-trusive reliefs here and there in a quiet yellow and soft tur-quoise in details of the lesser blossoms. A narrow key-fretborder on yellow ground is succeeded by a bolder swastikaborder OB a ground of the… … No. 325—ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET (Kang-h»i)
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