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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 66

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ose rings, and dome cover. Archaic decorationsof primitive dragons highly conventionalized, and accompanyingscrolls, after ancient bronze patterns, besides formal borders inrelief and incised. Height, 10 inrhen. 195— Rock Crystal Statuette A female figure standing on rockery, entwined with stems… … 1 SHi—-Agate Flower Vase Tlie vase carved as the tortuous lower trunk of an aged peachtree, hollowed, growing amid rocks, with another trunk andbranches carved in openwork around it, bearing numerouspeaches in relief. A pigeon is alighting on one of the branchesand a stork stands on a rock below.…

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