Illustrated catalogue of the important collection of antique Chinese porcelains, Sung and Ming potteries, ancient stone sculptures, carved jades and other hard stones, snuff bottles, Mandarin necklaces, bronzes, enamels, palace furniture and wall panels and a number of rare and fine ancient Chinese paintings of the Sung and Ming periods [electronic resource] : all of which are to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the Chinese expert, Lee Van Ching of Shanghai on the afternoons herein stated (1917)
American Art Association, Lee, Van Ching, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 53
nted by a coiled dragon grasping the pearl ofomnipotence, which rests on a hunk of clouds. Four |>conv blos-som loop handles supporting loose rings, a fifth ring pendentfrom a loop at the base of the cloud bank. All around the sur-face animalistic and scroll carvings in low relief, and under… … 164—Fei-tsYi Jaime Vase with Cover The vase in elongated flask shape, with .sharp curriers, pedestalfoot and short neck. It stands upon open work rockery and isembraced within the branches of a peach tree of longevity con-spicuously in bearing. At one corner is a tree of the ornamentalbanana, and…
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