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 63
n) Slender elongated pear-shape, the neck defined by a lightmolding, lips slightly spreading; bold foot. Dense, resonantMing porcelain, with a sweeping and vigorous decorationof two flying plnenixos among the clouds, modeled in lowrelief and etched, in the paste; the whole covered with amottled… … Hi1,)—Pkachhi.oom Watkk Jau ( Aany-hiti) Writers water receptacle in scniiglobular form, with smallmouth. Fine hard paste, the surface lightly etched withthree conventional medallions, and glazed in the richesttones of the peachblooin family, the delicate greens inthis example covering the greater…
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