Illustrated catalogue of an exceedingly important collection of artistic Oriental objects and decorative art, which the owners have been three years in assembling [electronic resource] : to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the owners, the well-known house of Yamanaka & Co., New York, Japan, China, London, on the afternoons and evening herein stated (1921)
American Art Association, Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924, Bernet, Otto, Parke, H. H, Yamanaka & Company, American Art Galleries · New York : American Art Association · leaf 155
on silk. Signed, Tai Wen-chin(flourished A.D. 1420-1440). The Game. A landscape andfigure composition, presenting pine trees sheltering a pavil-ion in a misty valley among the mountains, and on a terracein the foreground two sages engaged at the absorbing wargame ■uri-chi (the Japanese go). Beyond… … 496—Chinese Painting MhtuKakemono; in colors on silk. Portrait of the priest Pei-feng, of Chang-an (ancient name of the Tang capital, nowHsi-an-fu). The priest is seated in an elaborately decoratedarmchair and faces the spectator squarely; he is in full robeswith dragon ornamentation, and wears a…
Decorative arts
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