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 65
foot with monster-head loop handleshaving loose rings. Dragons of different sorts to the number ofsix are carved in high relief on all sides of the vase, and anotherin relief and undercutting serves as handle to the dome cover, Hfiijht, !K,<k inrhis. 192—Green Jadk Sceptre A ju-i heavily carved… … 193— Flower Vase A slender elongated vast, in form of a flattened tree trunk hol-lowed, is carved in a layer of white clouded crystal and deco-rated with a bird on a rock in hold relief, and a growth of thesacred fungus over which a hat is thing, in openwork. In frontof the vase, in a layer of…
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