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 156
pital, 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 cap. At his sidiand leaning against an iidaid table, a sceptre with aninscription telling that it was presented by the emperor… … **97—Chinmue I.mxtixu MingFull-length portrait of a nobleman of middle age, seated andlooking intently at the observer. He is in a full rain; ofdeep black, with white collar and white sleeve lining, andwears a formal tall black hat, and in his left hand he holdsan ivory sceptre which reaches to his…
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