13 4 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY THE CHARLES WILLIAM WASON COLLECTION ON CHINA AND THE CHINESE Cornell University Library N 7342.Y19I3 Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable 3 1924 020 888 792 The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924020888792 A Remarkable Collection Ancient Chinese Apf AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH NEW YORK CJfacneU UttiocraitH Hthtary CHARLES WILLIAM WASON COLLECTION CHINA AND THE CHINESE THE GIFT OF CHARLES WILLIAM WASON CLASS OF 1876 1918 ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK BEGINNING SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1914 AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE MORNING OF THE DATE OF SALE, INCLUSIVE A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT CHINESE ART IN BRONZE, PORCELAIN, POTTERY AMBER AND HARD STONES SUMPTUOUS BROCADES and OTHER RARE OBJECTS ^//M '1 UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE At The American Art Galleries ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS JANUARY 29th, 30th and 31st, 1914 BEGINNING EACH AFTERNOON AT 2.30 O'CLOCK ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES BEAUTIFUL OLD PORCELAINS AMBER AND STONE CARVINGS SUMPTUOUS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BROCADES INTERESTING OLD PAINTINGS ON GLASS AND FINE OLD CARPETS, RUGS AND FURNITURE, FROM ANCIENT PALACES AND TEMPLES OF CHINA COMPRISING THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF A CHINESE NOBLEMAN OF TIEN-TSIN AND OBJECTS PROCURED BY THE SENIOR MEMBER OF Messrs. Yamanaka & Co. AND HIS STAFF DURING A RECENT VISIT TO ANCIENT CITIES OF CHINA, SOME OF WHICH HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN UNEXPLORED BY FOREIGNERS THE ENTIRE COLLECTION TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH ON THE DATES HEREIN STATED CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. DANA H. CARROLL THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY ASSISTED BY Mr. OTTO BeRNET, OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS- NEW YORK 1914 CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the pur- chasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days — except holidays — between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- senting the bill of purchase. Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed by the Association for purchasers. The Association will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers ; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the pur- chaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer's hammer, and thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which it is sold "as is" and without recourse. The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- rectly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper foundation. SPECIAL NOTICE. Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faith- fully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchase so made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, which cannot in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a pur- chaser who has not, through himself or his agent, been present at the exhibition or sale, will permit such lot to be returned within ten days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be returned, if the lot in any material manner differs from its catalogue description. Orders for execution by the Association should be written and given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists of one or more volumes of books or objects, of art, the bid per volume or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference sub- mitted. Shipping directions should also be given. Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable charge. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York City. PREFATORY NOTE Unwilling to depart from an habitual reticence that has charac- terized their several offerings of Oriental art productions for the widest public competition, in New York, wholly without restriction, the Messrs. Yamanaka have declined to authorize extended comment on the collection presented to public attention this year. It seems only fair, however, in good faith, to invite notice briefly to an assemblage of objects which only the "infinite capacity for taking pains," sub- stantiated by a true "collector's instinct," could bring together at this date in the Occident. The variety enjoins restraint, but it may be permissible to seg- regate a few of the bronzes which have appealed to a not altogether uninitiate observation. The animal sacrificial vessel of tapir sug- gestion may be the oldest bronze ever brought to America ; its remark- able patina is its distinction. A beaker of "mirror-metal" is overlaid with that "natural patina in malachite shades of green" which Dr. Bushell has noted as being regarded by the Celestial experts as the "sure guarantee of age" (of a bronze), and is one of the finest ex- amples which have reached these shores. Students may compare the bronzes of the different ages. There are a number of Chou date — the dynasty of Confucius, the bronzes of which Ch'ien-lung chose exclusively for his gift to the ancestral temple of Confucius in 1771, so that each piece should be at least two thou- sand years old. (Some may be three thousand years old.) Most of the ancient bronzes with inscriptions are attributed by modern Chinese archeologists to Chou — a smaller proportion to Shang, with inscrip- tions of archaic pictorial script embodying the name of the departed to whom the piece is dedicated. Dr. Bushell says that no inscribed piece in modern collections can certainly be referred to the earlier dynasty of Hsia. From immemorial times the accidental discovery of these vessels on mountain sides and in valleys was considered felicitous, and names of cities and even of reigns were changed in honor of the event; and subsequent to the Sung, noble tombs no longer being regarded as sacred, they were excavated to enrich the repositories of native collectors. The collection comprehends both ancient and recent subterranean revelations, the patina authenticating the age of the metal and the differing surfaces offering interesting opportunities for comparison. Ambers of remote date appear in unaccustomed variety, eighteenth century brocades in a prodigal effulgence revealing the splendor of interior decoration of the palaces of the day, with accompanying rugs of lustrous surface and prolific imagery; some exquisite porcelains have been found, and uncommon potteries. With the exception of the ambers, all objects for which stands would naturally be appropriate have accompanying stands of carved teakwood, whether indicated in the catalogue or not. The dates of the various reigns mentioned in the descriptions follow in tabular form or in recapitulation. Dana H. Careoll. New York, January 6th, 1914. CHRONOLOGY The periods or reigns mentioned in the catalogue descriptions are here set down with their dates; and from the beginning of the Ming dynast}' in 1368 to the recent overthrow of the Ch'ing and last dynasty, two years ago, the names of all reigns are given, with their dates. The Three Early Dynasties (known always to the Chinese as "The Three Dynasties") : HSIA B.C. 2205-1767. Lasted 438 YEARS. SHANG B.C. 1766-1122. Lasted 64<4< YEARS. CHOU B.C. 1122-255. Lasted 867 YEARS. It may be noted that, prior to about the middle of the ninth century B.C., Chinese dates are approximative, having been calculated backwards, but subsequent to that time the figures are accepted as accurate by scholars generally. Of the Chou rulers, Wei Lieh Wang reigned from B.C. 425 to B.C. 400. King Nan (Nan Wang), the last real monarch of the Chou — though Tung Chou Chiin reigned nominally till B.C. 249 — surrendered to the ruler of the feudal state of Ch'in in B.C. 256. King Cheng, ascending the throne of Ch'in in B.C. 246, founded in B.C. 221 a real empire, on the destruction of the feudal system. This emperor-king — who was a burner of books and who ordered magnificently that his Ch'in successors should be recorded and known in numerical sequence to the ten-thousandth generation — was so baflled by fate that his son was murdered by a eunuch, and his grandson, a mere babe, was given into the hands of the founder of the house of Han, only to be with little delay despatched from this life. The Ch'in, beginning in B.C. 221, and the Han, beginning in B.C. 206, were succeeded by the Eastern Han (began A.D. 25) and the After-Han (began A.D. 221). The T'ang came in in A.D. 618, remaining on the records two hun- dred and eighty-nine years, till A.D. 907; the Northern Sung began A.D. 960, the Southern Sung A.D. 1127 — lasting until the Mongolian ascendancy in 1280, the Yuan dynasty. This survived for eighty-eight years, until A.D. 1368, when it was followed by the Mings, who gov- erned China until the arrival in 1644 of the Manchu conquerors — the Ch'ing dynasty, which retained power for more than two and one-half centuries until its recent overthrow by the pseudo-democratic upheaval. It is to be remembered that, as the Emperor's name was never to be spoken in China, each ruler adopted a designation by which his reign should be known; this "reign title," or Nien Hao, is given in the following table with an English translation of its meaning or significance. The Chinese original is prefixed. The date first men- tioned is in each instance the beginning of the reign. EMPERORS OF THE m MING DYNASTY Dynastic Title Miao Hao Title of Reign Nien Hao t ^ T'ai Tsu Hui Ti Ch'eng Tsu Yen Tsung Hsiian Tsung Ying Tsung Ching Ti •^ '^ ^™^ Tsung I (resumed government) ) ^& J=l. Hsien Tsung '^^ -.^ Hung Wu (Wonderful Bravery) A.D. 1368 .Chien Wen (Founder of Literature) A.D. 1399 Reigned Years 31 4 ^Yung Lo 32 (Eternal Joy) A.D. 1403 »>U: gB Hung Hsi ^/^ 44 k^ (Abounding I* IE Glory) A.D. 1425 Hsiian Te 10 (All-pervading Virtue) A.D. 1426 /^ Cheng T'ung 14 . (Correct Ruler) A.D. 1436 Ching T'ai 7 (Great Brilliancy) A.D. 1450 T'ien Shun (Obedient to Heaven) A.D. 1457 .-f»- *=t* Hsiao Tsung Wu Tsung Shih Tsung Mu Tsung Shen Tsung Kuang Tsung Hsi Tsung ft M ^ '-^'""'^ '■'* ■^ /v'V rW (Perfected Influence) A.D. 1465 »VU Hung Chih /■"» (Marvelous Administration) A.D. fM 1488 JL^Chia Ching §i 8 23 18 Cheng Te 16 (Correct Virtue) A.D. 1506 mm /JO" *^P9 (Rejoicing in Purity) A.D. 1522 l,^, / ]y (Eminent Excellence) A.D. 1567 tS; iP^WanLi 47 1'it rii..» (Ten Tliousand Generations) fe M T'ai Ch'ang 1 !■» I — I (Great Abundance) A.D. 1620 15^ E^ T'ien Ch'i 7 X V AJJv (Heaven Born) A.D. 1621 7f^ qr^ 'I'Fx (Great Chen 16 Luxuriance) A.D. 1628 EMPERORS OF THE ^Sl GREAT CHTNG DYNASTY Dynastic Title Miao Hao ^ |£ Shih Tsu g j^ Sheng Tsu pf* ^^ Shih Tsung '^m J ■ , ^ ^1^ Kao Tsung *t -~I*. Jen Tsung 13 -~jj*. Hsiian Tsung ■^ ^^ Wen Tsung _35 Mu Tsung Title of Reign Nien Hao Reigned Years »>A Shun Chih 17 \ /pf (Original Obedience) A.D. 1644 Yung Ch'eng IE (Concord and Uprightness) A.D. 1723 ■Z^ »jk. Tao Kuang TOr y U (Truth and Li ang Hsi 62 (Vigorous Glory) A.D. 1661 13 60 25 30 Ch'ien Lung (Untiring ani 1736 Chia Ch'ing (Untiring and Exalted) A.D. 1736 (Rejoicing and Excellence) A.D. 1796 Light) A.D. 1821 Hsien Feng 11 (Universal Prosperity) A.D. 1861 1=1 »>A T'ung Chih 13 PI (Perfect Ruler) A.D. 1862 Kuang Hsii 33 (Overpowering Light) A.D. 1875 Shin Tung (Excellent) A.D. 1909. Reigned 3 years. REPUBLICAN PERIOD President AnM Yuan-Shi-Kai (Triumphant Forever) A.D. 1912 CATALOGUE FIRST AFTERNOON'S SALE THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES Beginning at 2.30 O' Clock WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 1 TO 192 CARVINGS IN AMBER AND OTHER CABINET TREASURES 1 — Seventeenth Century Amber Egg-plant The fruit of the egg-plant and scrolled vines, carved and pierced in clouded brown and yellow amber, smoothly polished. 2 — Seventeenth Century Amber Dog Fu In recumbent position, with head turned to one side and back- ward toward a smaller, playful Fu, sprawling in low relief over his back. His head in pure, light brown amber of limpid depth and clarity, the body opaque in a thick, grayish-yellow cloud. 3 — Twelfth Century Amber-matrix "Fish" A broad and flat headed "fish," reptile or aquatic creature of some kind, with forelegs and a curling tail, is carved in a sprawl- ing position with head on a rock — its body of translucent rich brown amber which overlies a beautifully marbled matrix of gray, yellow and olive-brown tones. Length, 2 inches. 4 — Dark Brown Amber Sxuff Bottle Ovoidal contour with short neck. Obverse and reverse carved in rehef with full-length figures in ceremonial dress and the sides with rudi- mentary handles. Seventeenth century. 5 — Bbowx Amber Seventeenth Century Snuff Bottle Ovate form with short, in-curving neck, well- defined foot and flattened faces. Carved in low relief with animal grotesques. 6 — ]Melon-shaped Amber Snuff Bottle * Clear translucent brown, and opaque squash- yellow amber, carved in the form of an elongated melon grow- ing on its stem and surrounded by vines, flowers and smaller fruits. Highly polished. Seventeenth century. Height, 214 inches. 7 — Sxuff Bottle ix Black Amber and Brown Profusely carved in high and low relief and engraved, the figure of a horse and two flying insects being worked in the opaque black portions of the amber, which take a fine ebony polish, and the clear, all but transparent amber-brown and pale-j'ellow parts carved with a rambling pine tree and a monkey, and brilliantly polished. Artist's signature incised. Seventeenth centurv. Height, 214 inches. 8 — Carving in Ameer Representing a mouse on Buddha's-hand fruit. Has teakwood stand. 9 — White Coral Mixiature Coupe Semi-globular, in the shape of a writer's water-jar, with grotesque animals glaring at each other over the rim, from opposite sides of the orifice, their scrolled bodies carved in bold relief encirchno- the shoulder of the cup. 10 — Silver and Cloisonne Enamel Snuff Bottle (Ch'icn-Iung) Ovoidal silver body enameled in royal blue of brilliant quality with conventional foliar scrolls, animal-head ornamental handles, a deep shoulder-band and delicate neck border. 11 — Kr.G-siiAiM'i> liiuiwx .\:mhki! Loxi:r.\iTV Sxtkk ]5<)-i'ti,k. Narrow foot ami short lU'ck. Bus-rulict' carvinf^rs of storks anioii^ waves and water plants, and the spotted deer under the pine tree — repeated wishes of long life. Seventeenth century. 1- KXTKKJIKLV IvAliK Bl.ACK A:VIBF.R SxUFF BoTTT.E Ovoidal contour on all sides, witii a lat- eral depth greater than half its width, on a miniature molded foot and with short cylindrical neck. Smootli, softly pol- ished surface with the deep hue of blackest ebony. On one face a calli- graphic inscription lightly etched in sev- eral characters. Hclfflit, ay^ iiifhes. 18 ('LOr])Y AjIliF.R Sevextfextf[ C'exti'ry SxuFF Bottle with Greex Jaueitk Stopper U Ovoid contour, with flattened faces and short cylindrical neck, on a low foot. Smooth, polished surface throughout, with rudimentary side handles in bas-relief. Brilliantly polished opaque amber with the tone of clouded yellow agate. Hcir/Jit. 1'/., inches. 14 — Black Amber Sxt'ff Bottle; Ovoidal, of thick body with flattened faces, and short straight neck ; with stojiper. Deepest of ebony-black hue, and uniformly polished, with a surface of mirror-like brilliancy. Seventeenth century. lij — Glass-ixlaid Gilt-broxze Sxi'ff Bottle {Cliicn-lung) Ovoidal, the entire surface covered with emerald-green and ruby- red brilliants; gilt-mounted stopper. 16 — Fifteexth Ckxtttry Ajiber Pexdaxt In irregular arrow-head or flattened conical-fruit form ; beeswax- brown, semi-translucent. Intricately carved in intaglio-cameo with studious personages, temples above waves and overshadowed by trees, the waves, foliage and flowers being engraved. Length , S'/^ inches. 17 — Carved Amber Ornamext with Serrated Top Thin, reddish-brown, smoothly polished amber, carved on one side with tlie standing figure of a sage, on the other with a seated figure holding a book, an animal and a flying insect — the book bearing minute incised characters. Seventeenth century. Has stand. Length. Sy^ tnche.'i. 18 Two ]\IOTHER-OF-PEARL SxTFE BoTTEES Ovoidal, of pale brownish hue and pearly quality, with subdued luster, and enamel mountings. 19 — Sevexteextil Cexttkv Carved Ajiher Feower Orxa:\iext Clear and brilliant red amber, of sparkling topaz-hued trans- lucency against the light, enfolding a fleecy cloud or mass like snow in distant mountain hollows ; carved and engraved in trail- ing, sinuous floral forms, with a brilliant polish. Ltnqtli. 3i,|, bu-hes; iritli stond. 4 Inches. 20 — Two Coxic'AE GoruD-sHAPED Browx Ajiber Sea'exteexth Cexterv Sxtff Bottles Carved in relief with roinided double-gourds, vines and blossoms, on all surfaces, and pol- ished. Translucent. Jliiiiht. {?!/, inches. -Li-.^ip OF Ajiber IX Natural Coxtofr Roughly, in the form of an American In- dian stone hatchet-head standing upright, with a high protuberance extending along one face. Translucent pale-yellow amber, part clear and limpid, part clouded with lighter yellow; finished with a soft polish. llelphf. 314 inches. 2.2 — Red A:\ib kk Coupe Shallow circular form with expanding rounded sides and wide month, and a delicately defined foot. \'lcar. transparent amber, brightly polished in its entirety. Seventeenth century. Diunichr. :i inches. 23 — TwF.T.FTii ('KXTriiv P'or it-sii>i',ii Ajideu C ri' In hopper form, or iinerti'd })yraini(l sli;i})c, witli dragon side Imndlos and four low pedestal feet, the tops of the sides alternately convex and eoneave. Transparent amber of rich tortoise-shell liue. and nashiji lacquer aspect due to sparklinfr crystalline struc- tural variations. Archaic dragons carved in the round for the handles, their bodies extended o\'er incised Shou characters. The whole brightly polished without and within. Wiillh. 31/, inches. 24 — Sevextekxth Cexteky Carved Ajiber Lotus Flower Orxa- MEXT A triangular piece of clear, rich brown translucent amber, in- geniously carved, worked and engraved in the form of a beauti- fully modeled lotus blossom in high relief, on a veined loaf, with stems. Li'iigllt. '2'/., inches. 25 — Seated Fioure Hoedixg C'mi.D Clear, translucent brown amber, blackening at the base. Coro- neted seated figure carved in the round, the folds in the robes engraved, holding a man-child. On amber-glass stand. Seven- teenth century. Height. -2\.^ inches: vith sinnd. 1- inches. 26 — FiKTEEXTH Cexti-rv Opaqt'e Red Amber Figure of Hotei The liappy, contented, portly god is reclining on his right elbow on a bag whose mouth lie grasps in his hand. Carved in dense opaque amber of even, dark- coral red hue, with a light, soft polish. Has stand. Width, 3 inches. 27 — Two Browx Traxslucext Amber Statuettes of Ktax-vix ox Amber-glass Staxds The goddess represented seated, in carved flowing robes; in one holding tlie infant Buddha across her breast, while in the other he is seated upright on lier knee. Heir/Ill (irilh slaiid), ;i';'i ini'lies. 39 — Clouded Amber Mountain Retreat with Sages Elaborately carved in high and low relief, pierced, undercut and en- graved, the substance in places clouded and opaque, in parts clear and translucent, almost transparent, the color ranging from pure amber- brown to a yellow-onyx note. Soft polish. A mountain retreat of the sages is pictured, with pagodas, rock peony trees, palms and other vege- tation abounding, and two of the Im- mortals playing cliess at the head of a flight of steps which lead down to a billowjr sea where a canopied boat with a figure in it is tossing. Carved teak base inlaid with the Greek fret. Fifteenth century. ITi'ifllit, 3'/. iiirlies: with base, J inches. Width, iy., inches. 40 — Ambkr Crot'Chixg Doc; ¥\: ix Fiftkextk Century ]\Iodeeing Clear, translucent, resinous amber of even, brown tone, with occasional pale yellow patclies which have been utilized casually in the carving of the features ;nid as markings of the dog. He crouches, all four legs doubled under Jiim, with head turned over one shoulder and resting against the familiar ball, the head- protuberances and the bushy tail modeled in relief and traced with hair-line scrolls. A fungus branch curls over his back. Brilliant polish. Length, 3'.i inches. 41 — Fifteenth Cextury Carved Amber Lotus Cup Translucent pale yellow and brown amber with notes deepenino- toward black and manifold crystalline, frost-like striations: in- tricately carved in lotus motives; engraved and highly polished. The body of the cup is a narrowed and elongated lotus bloom lying on a long stem curling in lateral convolutions, while other stems fold and entwine aliout it supporting buds, blossoms and a flower with pierced seed-pod. A frog, a duck and an insect appear among the accessories. Brilliantly polished. Length. !. inches. 4^2--FlFTKKXTU CKXTT'ltY Ol'AUV K. A iVI 1! K H LoTI'S Cll' WITH IfANm.E Carved in relief ami ong-raved. The bowl an open lohis flower lynig on an enfwined bundle of stems wliose open and closed blos- soms anil seed-pods adorn and support the main body of the cup, the stem-ends and an extended petal formintr a lati'ral handle. Dense amber of a dark jaspei--rcd with broad patches of a pale yellow. Varied matt and lightly polisjied surfaces. Liiiqlh. 1.1/. inches. 4i) A:MI!E1! OliXAMKXTAT, ^'asK WITH C'o^■Klt Hicli brown translucent amber with occasional lio-ht yellow vcinings, and brilliantly polished throuo-hout. Carved in representation of an o\i- form jar on a pedestal foot, with sloping shoulder and wide neck, the jar resting upon a base of carved rockery and upheld within the embracing arms of a peach tree in bearing, with the figures of a woman and a boy entwined within the brandies, the bo}' apparently endeavoring to reach the fruit of long life. The carving is in bold relief and in the round, and the whole is in one piece of amber with a detached cover carved in continuation of the general motive. Seventeenth century-. (Slight repair near lip.) Height, 514 inches. 44 TwKLFTH CliXTURY CaHVKD AjIBEK PiCTURE OE SaGES BY A MOTXTAIX-SIDE 111 mottled red, dark mahogany-brown, dense opaque amber with a clear, transparent, nut-brown center which seen against the light is a brilliant topaz with a rub^y-red streak. Carved in an abundance of imagery and virtuosity with bas-relief figures of genial and convivial sages in a mountain retreat, a stork fij'ing among pine trees overhead — emblems of longevity. At the back of the mountain a fierce dragon with the fire-ball before him glowers upon a tiger, the king of the Chinese jungle, above leaping waves — symbolic of the eternal conflict between the supernal powers of the air and the mightiest of the earth. Width, .'> inches: Iieif/lil. !• inches. 52 — Seated Soapstone Figure of Kuan-yin (Ming) Elaborately carved in smooth, finely-polished soapstone of waxen surface and cafe-au-lait tone. The Chinese goddess of mercy is seated cross-legged, with hands resting on her knees, holding Buddhistic emblems. Her high headdress is overlapped by the cowl and she wears a diadem engraved with the lotus and scrolls, and lotus jewels in low relief adorn her breast. Her gracefully draped robes are bordered with broad bands of beautiful tracery. Height, 7 inches. (Illustrated) 53 — KuAx-YiN WITH IxFAXT Bi'DDHA — SoAPSTONE (Ming) The "divine hearer of prayer" is seated, barefoot, with knees apart and one fore leg flexed, on a rock throne of carved teak- wood, holding on her knee the infant Buddha who clasps an emblem in his hands. The goddess's robes are adorned with em- broideries of cloud-forms, scrolls and floral constellations, etched with delicate precision. Cafe-au-lait soapstone with a patch of red-agate hue which has been balanced by overlaying the Buddha's garb with vermilion lacquer. Height, fii/o inches; with base, 814 inches. (Illustrated) 5i — Buddhistic Madoxxa — Staxding (Ming) The figure, crowned and cowled, stands upright, holding the infant Buddha who carries a scepter. Her flowing robes, ruffled and waving to one side as in a breeze, are bordered with engraved lotus flowers and scrolls on a hatched ground. The cowl is edged with vermihon lacquer. Dark soapstone of reddish-brown mottled marble aspect, the brown deepening at the shoulders and face. Height, 714 inches; on fixed stand, Sy^ inches. 57 — Statuette of Kuan-yin with Scroll — Soapstone (Ming) Seated with one foot folded under her and both hands on an upraised knee, the goddess of mercy faces the beholder, her head turned slightly toward the right, holding in one hand a scroll. Her robe, engraved with waves, cloud scrolls, and bat emblems of happiness in the skies, is painted in soft gray-blue and overlain with lacquer, the front of the headdress and back of the base lacquered in vermilion. Height, 5VL, inches. ,58 — Jeweled Deng-ho Image of Buddha, IX Closed Shrine (Ming) The Buddha squats cross-legged on a lacquered throne against a fire-gilt back- ing with cloud-white, auhcrqine and tur- quoise enamels. One arm is bare, its hand covered by the cloak which com- pletely enfolds his other arm and hand. Delicately carved in yellow Deng-ho, the rare variety of soapstone which the Chinese treasure so highly that its com- merce is based on the ounce. The cloak minutely engraved in hatch, wave and lotus motives, with ruby-red jewels centering the blossoms. Artist's signa- ture incised in the back. The carved teak shrine is adorned in front with applied ornaments of mother- of pearl and ivory, and surmounting it is a carved dove in gold lacquer, with wings outspread. Uviyht. -2":/^ iiichef:: with sliriiie. Uy^ inches. 59 — Arhat Playing with Frog — Soapstoxe {Mhig) One of the Arhats, with breast and abdomen exposed and robe bound behind his armpits b_y a rope girdle, is seated with one knee raised, holding up to his shoulder a frog — his admired and inseparable companion — that is biting the large ring in his deop-lobed ear. His mouth is opened in a merry smile. His black hair is tonsured and his robes are engraved with cloud forms and flowers and a border of waxes. The stone has an even, ivory-brown tone throughout. IJeiriht. 4 inches. 60 SOAPSTONE Rl'.CUMBENT GrOCP ArIIAT AND IvION (Milig) One of the Eigliteen Arhats, his flowing and tasselcd robes finely engraved with cloud-scroll ornamentation, reclines on a crouching Fu-lion upon whose upturned head he is looking down. The yel- lowish-brown stone, turned on some of the surfaces to a ripe meerschaum-brown, is marked on the lion's shoulder by notes of red, and the engraved ornamentation which represents gold em- broidery on the robes retains in places the original gilding. Length, 5 iiirlKn. 61 — SoAPSTONE Statuette of Ktax-yin (Ming) The Chinese Goddess of Mercy is seated with feet folded under her and hands lying one over the other palm-upward in her lap. She sits upright, head slightly inclined, with benignant ex- pression and carved with great dignity and refinement. Her robes are bordered with an ornate foliar scroll, finely engraved, retaining much of the gilding which originally embellished it. The stone of a light, pale yellowish-brown hue with waxen surface. Height, 6 iiirhen. (Illustrated) 62 — Akhat axd Fu-liox — Soapstone (Ming) Seated with one foot folded under him and one foot raised, the Arhat holds in his arm the Fu-lion, which climbs up his shoulder and has seized with its lips his large earring. His black beard, most delicately engraved, and his hair, are colored with India ink, and his robe is ornamented with fungus and cloud forms on cross-hatched grounds. The whole in the yellow tone of old ivory. Detached rock base bearing a foliate medallion in relief with a finelj'-traced arabesque border. Height, 4'/4 inches. (Illustrated) 63 — Seated Arhat ox Detached Rock Base — Soapstone (Ming) A being of powerful, dignified head, the Arhat sits cross-legged, holding a rosary over one knee. His elaborate robes are orna- mented with broad borders of acanthus scroll and waves, finely etched and overlaid with gold. The characteristic waxy-yellow soapstone is mottled with expansive streaks and patches of red- agate hue and quality. On the detached rock base, a foliate medallion in relief with finely etched floral border. Height, 5^4 inches. (Illustrated) 64 — Sleeping Rokan — Soapstone (Ming) An old and partly bald man, enfolded in loose, plain robes, the Rokan or Arhat is represented lying on the ground, his sandalled feet projecting from beneath his cloak, his head and shoulders propped up on the back of a crouching Fu-lion over which he has folded his arms, dropping his chin upon them and composing himself for slumber. The lion remains alert and watchful. Carved in veined and mottled soapstone of gray and sandy-red aspect resembling carnelian. Height, 3% inches. 65 — Deng-ho Figure of Monzu, Chinese Goddess of Wisdom and Integrity (Ming) The goddess reclines on the ground, facing the spectator, hold- ing in one hand which clasps her upraised right knee a long- stemmed lotus-blossom, and in the other — whose elbow rests on a Fu-lion couchant at her side, looking up at her — a folded scroll. Her hair, bound over her forehead, hangs to the ground at her back; her flowing robes are without ornament. Faith- fully carved in translucent Deng-ho of topaz hue and waxen surface — a variety of soapstone so highly appreciated among the Chinese that in traffic it is sold per ounce. Two-character inscription on the back — the artist's name, Yu Hsiian. Height, 2 inches. 66 — Seated Arhat — Soapstone (Ming) An Arhat with strongly marked features and knit brows is seated on a rock base, holding the Fu-lion in his arms, the lion undercut in full relief, its back showing a tawny hue against the gray, waxen surface of the main body of the stone. The Arhat's eyebrows, hair, mustache and suggestion of a beard, and the wave-scroll border of his cloak are in hairline engraving, colored. Height, 3 inches. 67 — Deng-ho Seated Figure (Ming) An Arhat seated on the ground, one foot folded under him and the other knee raised, gazes downward in meditation, a hand on either knee and in one hand holding a book. He is dressed in loose, folded robes, unadorned. Carved in pale, yellowish-brown Deng-ho, a variety of soapstone so valued in China that when sold its weight is measured by the ounce. Height, 2y^ inches. 68— :\[oxzr :\ror> XTi'.n ox A V I!- LION So A I'STO N 1'". ( ( ']l '"u'lt-lu llfj ) Tlie lion us reproscntexl wulkiiig on ii fnn^-n.s-scroll of openwork, on iin iip-sliootiniij brunch of wliicli tlu' ^'oddcss of wisdom und integrity rests one foot as she sits on the hon's hack, side-saddle fashion, with one foot hroufi'ht up to tiie oj)posite knee. She liolds to the lion's nianc with one hand and ^\■ith the other jjroffers a rosury. Carved in detail in red and brown soapstone witli an aspect of sard and jasper. IltUlhl. 3 inches. 69 — Fivi: Lacqteu Tuays Circular and shallow, with the rise of the bowl and the rim of woven texture and fluted. \'ariously decorated witii landscapes and with fil(fnK'lrr, .5^/.^ inches. 70 — Two Ivory Opiuji-pipes Each made from one solid piece of polished i\ory, mellow-toned, and ornamented only with a single seated figui'c, with access series, carved in relief and engraved. The bowl of one pot- tery, of the other porcelain, both ornamented in enamel colors. Lciiylh, iiy.^ iiiclie.t. 71 — Ivory and Lacquer Biddiiistic Group (Ming) Standing long-robed figure of a divinity holding in her right arm the infant Buddha, who rests one hand on her shoulder. Both figures are carved in wood covered with vermilion and gold lacquer, the head of tlie goddess in ivory which about the face has taken on a rich, mellow-brown tone of age. Ileif/ht. 9'/j inches. 72 — RniNOCEROs-iroRN Ornajient Hollowed underneath, the outside carved in rep- resentation of a bird in setting attitude with two smaller ones under one raised wing, the feathers of the larger bird finely engraved. The whole in various tones of brown. Carved and tinted ivory stand. ;^j Lenyth, 414 inches. 73 — Rhinoceros-horn Libation Cup Expanding from a rounded foot in lateral elongation and hav- ing a broad loop-handle, the form reproducing ancient bronze cups. Elaborately carved with numerous archaic dragons of varying form and features in bold relief and in the round, a dozen or more of them encircling the body and handle and a large four-clawed one sprawling at one end of the interior. Additional ornament of scrolls and palmations in low relief and engraving, and under the rim and on its surface incised borders of the Greek fret. Color, a rich, dark, reddish-brown. Tall carved teakwood stand. Height, 4i/, inches; length, 7i^ inches. 74 — Rhinoceros-hohx Libation Cup With elliptical mouth, the sides contracting to a full, thick stem or trunk which acts as base and handle. Carved in low relief and undercutting with gnarled pines and other trees in a rocky landscape or grotto at the border of the sea, a boat transporting several persons appearing among billowing waves, the water and pine needles etched in fine lines. Color, a light fawn-brown. Tall carved teakwood stand. Height, 4-14 inches; length, 7y^ inches. 75 — Two Pearl and LAcauER Table Screens {K'ang-lisi) On lacquer panels of rich, dark mahogany tone, two female figures are delicately applied in mother-of-pearl and brilliant enamels — blue, vermilion, green — carved and engraved, the shawl- collar of one of the figures being of cinnabar lacquer with the wave motive minutely incised. On the reverse of each, in applied characters carved in mother-of-pearl, the artist has composed a poem, signing it with an incised seal. Height, 12% inches. 76 — ^Beautiful Amber Necklace with Fei-t'sui Jade Ornaments (Ch'U-n-hmg) Containing one hundred and eight evenly matclied beads of pale yellow and brown translucent and clouded amber, with three in- tervening large beads of mottled green fci-fsui jade besides the ornaments of the same stone, and pink coral beads in the pendant chains. In box of vermilion and black lacquer with a long inscription on top of cover and mirror on inner side. Length, 59 inches without pendants. 77 — Mandarin Necklace of Fei-t'sui Jade and Corai,, in Black Lacquer Box Numbering one hundred and seventy-two beads of green jade and rosy pink coral, carved, pierced and engraved, and five green jade pendants pierced and carved with scrolling animal forms. Cover of box carved with a representation of the phoenix reaching toward a branch of a tree, and etched with an inscription in twelve characters. Length, vitiiout the pendants. 60 inches. 78 — Two "Chinese Ruby" Snuff Bottles Pink tourmaline. Of flattened blossom form, obverse and reverse carved in low relief with Taoist Immortals at chess and other occupations, and the sides carved in bold relief with lotus flowers and carp. The stopper handles formed of pecking birds executed in the round, with wing and tail feathers engraved. In teakwood boxes with covers carved with Shou characters and bat symbols of happiness among cloud scrolls. Height, 2% inches. 79 — Small Blue Glass Bottle {Cliien-lung) Dense opaque glass of starch-blue tone, painted in white with a blossoming wild plum tree with wide-spreading branches. Height, S% inches. 80 — Imperial Yellow Glass Bowl (Ch'ien-lung) Deep, with ovoidal contour and delicately everted lip, on low circular foot. Thin, translucent, sonorous glass of even, Im- perial yellow color, and brilliant surface, both exterior and in- terior. Etched underneath the foot, within a double square: "Chien-lung nien-chih" (Made in the reign of Ch'ien-lung). Diameter, 6 inches. 81 — Antique Glass Bottle-foum Vase (Ch'ien-lung) Ovoidal with straight neck. Dense, opaque. Imperial yellow glass with lustrous surface. Four-character mark of Ch'ien-lung engraved on the foot. Height, 914 inches. 82 — Antique Glass Bottle-shaped Vase (Ch'ien-lung) Ovoid, with tubular neck; fashioned of thick, opaque glass of light pistache-green color. Four-character mark of Ch'ien-lung incised underneath the foot. Height, 9% inches. 83 — Remarkable Carved Rock Crystal Vase with its Own Original Cover (Ch'ien-lung) Fashioned in the form of ancient bronze and jade vases of flattened pear-shape, on a low foot, with loop-handles supporting large loose rings. Heavily and deeply carved with a high-relief decoration of numerous phoenixes in various attitudes among tree peonies and cloud scrolls, with details etched ; handles intricately cai-ved with the sacred fungus, the loose rings smoothly polished; at lip and foot an engraved fret-border. The cover carved with a shih-lung or earth dragon, and having at its lower edge a corresponding fret-border. Height, 15 inches. \%: ^i 8-i — Tai.l White Jaijk Vase with Cover Flattened flask sliape on a low foot. Of a soft, even, gray-wlilte tone tliroughoLit, translucent and with a texture revealing inner niottlings without change of color. Brilliantly polished, the broad faces left unornaniented and the narrow sides carved with ascend- ing four-clawed dragons in high relief, their necks and heads undercut and modeled in the round above the shoulder of the vase, forming side-handles sustaining each two loose rings. The highly polished cover, of tlie same perfection of texture and polish, is surmounted by another four-clawed dragon, imdercut in full relief, supporting the pearl of onmipotence on his back, which is finely engraved witli scales, and carrying also two small loose rings. The lip of the vase and the contiguous l)ody of the cover ornamented with delicately traced, perfectly proportioned Greek fret. Ihight, 13V4 ini-hi'n; widlli, 5 inches. ^5 — White Jadi-; Bi'ddha — Exthkonkd A massive figure, seated, tlie liands folded on the crossed legs, boldlj' and freely scvdptured in flowing robes, the breast orna- mented with jewels in low relief, the long ear-lobes of wisdom undercut. The jade is of pure, dense gray tone throughout — opaque, with transluct'iice in the ear-lobes and other thin places — and smoothly polisheil. ^lounted on a lacquer thalamus, gilded, the tall gilt back carrying a filigree border of Buddhistic emblems ornamented in turquoise enamel. Ileif/hf. 9<_,4 inches: iridth. G^:l liicJics. Ileiijht. villi throne, Ij'^ inches. 86 TKANSf.TCKXT ]\l0SS-GR EKX J.J \'ask with ('o\f.k Elongated flattened ovoid body on a low pedestal-foot, with sloping, flask-like shoulders and broad, shallow neck. Rare jade of a rich, dark moss-green, with tlie quality — unusual in this hue — of translucence. Klaborately carved in low relief on all sides witli dragon motives and scrolls, the heads of two con- ventionalized dragons appearing on each broad face with a Shou character between them. Two scaled dragons carved in the round forrji side-handles on the neck, each sustaining a heavy loose ring. Another dragon, imdercut in full relief, with two small loose rings, forms the handle of the co\'er, and both cover and the neck of the vase are surrounded by downward-pointing borders of conventional palm leaves. Height, 13% inches; ipidlh, 5 inches. 87 — Geeex Jadk A'ask with Cover and Stand (All of Jade) Dense griiy-green jatle in the form of a piltrrini-bottle body but with broud, elliptical neck, on an elliptical pedestal-foot, with two fixed side-handles on the neck. Both faces occupied by large circular medallions of floral motives, embracing lotus con- ventionalizations, surmountt'd on the neck by a tleep palm-leaf border carved and engra\ed m ith fret and dragon scrolls. The pierced and undercut S-handles are carved with intaglio scrolls. The base and cover are in jade of a more pronounced green, though with grayish trend, the base carved and pierced with scrolls and floral borders, and the cover surmounted by an open- work handle formed of four dragons carved in the round and facing the four directions, their heads united and sustaining four loose rings and their scrolled tails forming a relief border encircling the body of the cover. An inscription incised within the foot declares the piece a Ch"ien-Iung treasure. ITiiflhl, comph'tc. 18 inches. 88 — Wall Vase of Lacqueked Pewter (K'ang-hsi) In the form of the half of a globular pear-shape vase on a low foot and tapering to a short neck with spreading lip. The sub- stance is pewter, coated with a ricli, full-bodied cherry-color lacquer, and the whole was made in imitation of the Lang-yao sang-de-baeufs — successful in form though not in color, but quite interesting. Back lacquered in black. Height, 10 inches. 89 — Imperial Exajiel Vase (K'ang-hsi) Squat pear-shape with elongated and full neck, on low foot. Gilded bronze of resonant, musical tone, decorated in famille verte enamel colors on a gray and pearly-white enamel ground which discloses pinkish hues. The decoration consists of land- scapes and water, with mountains, trees, a pavilion, rocks and a boat, distributed over the surface, in different tones of green with yellow, aubergine and coral-red. The enamel foot bears a four-character mark declaring the piece to have been made at the order of the Emperor K'ang-hsi. Height, 7 inches. 90 — Pair of Unusual Illuminated Pewter Jars with Covers These examples are rarely found. The jars, ovoid, of the familiar ginger-jar shape with mandarin covers, are formed of pewter and the entire surface is painted in oil-lacquers with castles, pagodas, landscape and figures in blue, green, vermilion, ivory-white, old-rose and gold, on a black ground. Eighteenth century. Height, 91/2 inches. ANCIENT BRONZES "Ancient bronzes are divided by Chinese archaeologists into two great classes, the first class including the relics of the three ancient dynasties, Hsia, Shang and Chou; the second class those of the Ch'in, Han and later dynasties. The year B.C. 331, in which Ch'in Shih Huang jjroclaimed himself 'the first Enaperor,' is the dividing line between the two classes. . . "King Wu was the founder of the Chou dynasty (B.C. 1133-249), to which period most of the ancient bronzes with inscriptions are attributed by archaeologists of the modern school in China. A smaller proportion is referred to the Shang dynasty with short inscriptions of archaic pictorial script, in which the name of the deceased to whom the piece was dedicated is generally one of tlie cyclical characters. The preceding Hsia dynasty is meanwhile left unrepresented, in that no inscribed piece in modern collections can certainly be referred to it." — Chinese Art, by S. "\V. BusHELL, C.M.G., B.Sc, M.D. The bronzes in this collection are all of the Shang, Chou and Han dynasties, with a single exception belonging to the Sung and a, few of the mirrors whicli date from the T'ang. HSIA B.C. 3305-1767 SHAXG B.C. 1766-112^ CHOU B.C. 1122-255 CH'IX Began B.C. 321 HAX Began B.C. 208 T'AXG A.D. 618-906 SUXG A.D. 9C0-1179 91 — Plaix Bronze ]\Iikkoe {Han) Circular form; left unadorned save for molded lip and outline medallion ring; almost wholly covered on all surfaces with a dull malachite patina and brown earthy incrustations. Diameter, 51/, inches. 92 — Two RoixD Bkonze Mirrors {Han) One, covered throughout with a brown patina, has a decoration of sea monsters, and birds perched and flying, among bunches of grapes, vines and foliations, and a conventional foliate border. The other, its mirror surface thickly incrusted with green, is further coated and incrusted on its top with similar color, cover- ing its decoration of conventional relief and hatch. Diameters, respectireli/, Sy^ inches and 314 inches. 93 — Three Small Round Bronze Mirrors {T'ang) One, coated with a black-brown patina and thickly incrusted in green and brown, carrying a decoration of young chickens in bas-relief with hatch and pointed borders ; another, with a deco- ration of conventional birds in fine relief outline, bosses and a point border, exhibiting gray-olive patina and a mass of lieavy incrustations in green, yellow, red and black. Tlic third dis- plays a thin patina of light, silvery-gray tone, with malachite, gray and earthy-brown incrustations. Dimiu'ti'rs, rrsj)i'ct!ri'li/, 3';/[ iiichcK, 3^^ iiiclit'K and 3 inrlics. 94 — Remarkable Small Bronze Mirror {Han) Circular, its polished flat surface covered with one of the ricliest of black patinas, the true "mirror-black" of admirable quality. The rim rises in a flange, protective of the decoration on the top surface, which consists of the grapevine in bearing and mythical sea monsters, arranged in a central medallion and border sep- arated by a molded ring, the design modeled in low and high relief. It is largely incrusted in pale green, some small patches of which attach to the opposite mirror surface. Dinmctcr, 3 inches. 95 — Small Rorxn Bronze Mirror (Han) With beveled edge, and a decoration of four tigers in outline relief with geometrical and foliate designs, point, hatch and dot borders ; coated with a gray-black and lead-colored patina, and pitted in malachite-hued disintegration. Diameter, iy^ inches. 96 — Bronze Round Mirror (Han) Decorated in light line-relief and incision with bird and dragon conventionalizations and hatch and serrated borders. Gray and malachite-green patina with heavy malachite incrustations. Diameter, 5 inches. 97 — Bronze Roind ^Iirkor {Han) Elaborately ornamented with the "Four Gods" decoration and accessories, the signs of the Chinese zodiac, a dragon and phoenix scroll border in archaic conventionalization, and an outer border of foliar scroll, variously modeled in high and low relief and incised. The whole covered with a patina of dark steel-gray. Diameter, \^/_^ inches. 98 — Green Bhonze jMirror {Han) Circular form, the mirror surface evenly coated with a brilliant olive patina of va- rious shadings. A similar patina, but with unctuous surface of dull luster, is al- most uniformly distributed over the decorative top of the disk, which is adorned with sea-horses and other animals and large birds, among bunches of grapes and vines, within a double point border. r>inmefer. iy., inches. 99 — CiRCui.AR Broxze ]\Iirror (Han) Profusely decorated in high and low relief modeling with luxuri- ant bunches of grapes and rambling vines, among which sea monsters disport, song birds perch and fly, and butterflies are seen on the wing. Coated with a lustrous black patina, with slight greenish incrustations. Diameter, i% inches. 100 — Broxze Roixd INIirror {Han) Thin, with beveled edge and depressed medallion upper surface, and coated throughout with a black patina tinged gray and pitted in malachite fracture. Decoration, conventional birds and geo- metrical forms in outline relief, with bosses and bold scrolls, point and hatch borders. Diameter, 5'/, inches. 101 — Dark Bronze Horxi) ^Mirror {Han) Slightly convex, witji beveled rim, and depressed-medallion uppec surface witliin an inclined border or shoulder. Relief decoration involving the conventional dragon, tiger, turtle and bird, with an archaic animal-scroll border. The whole covered with a rich patina of deep tone verging upon black and of unctuous surface, with delicate malachite incrustation. Diameter, 6 inches. 102 — Large Silvery Eronze C'oxvkx ^Iirhor ( DVi) Circular, its mirror surface exhibiting a silver-gray patina with patches of malachite, red and s; dynasty. AVIien that was o\erthro\\n by the Chon the conqueror otfcred the Prince ]irel'ernH'nt. bat he could not take the bread of the new lord and voluntarily star\ed to death. Similar vases are recorded in the Hsi Cli'tin/ Kit Chieii, the catalogue of the Imperial collection of bronzes in the palace at Peking, ])ublished in forty-two folio volumes l)y the Kmperor Ch'ien-hmg in 1751, and nmnerous ])ieces are illustrated there wliich A\cre made at the connnand of this romantic martyr of Chinese ;ui- tiquity. 148 — Bkoxzi-; Tiiipoij Jar (Cliuu) Recently unearthed. Circular, on three tubuhir legs, the oyoidal bowl contracting slightly toward the rim; two upright loop handles. The .shape of the bowl is a variation from the usual type found in tripod jars. D;irk-brown, malachite and blue patina with earthy incrustations from burial in sacrificial service. Height, 10 iiiclies. ]49 — Bronze Quadrilatkrai, Vasi-; {Han) From a square, slightly flaring base, the sides swell boldly and recede again to a short square neck with flanged lip. Two animal- mask handles in relief with loops and loose rings. Over the whole smooth, unornamentcd surface of the vase a thin, smooth patina of malachite and dark green and mellow brown. llc'ighl, Vi inches. 150 — Gilded Bkonzh Bottle-form Vase (Han) Body of splierical form, slightly compressed, encircled by a molded equatorial band, on a slightly- spreading foot and supporting a tall, straight, full neck with a molded lip. Heavy bronze, retaining con- siderable vestiges of its ancient, original gilding, and heavily coated with malachite, mellow-brown and olive-gray patina and incrustations. On the shoulder a long incised in- scription wliich reveals that the vase was made in the first year of Yung- shih of the Han dynasty, the year 16 A.D. of European reckoning. Tliight, liy^ inches. 1.51 — Tali. Bronze Ovoid Vase (Han) Thick, short neck, slightly spreading foot and two animal-head side han- IJO dies. The surface is embellished with five decorative bands, lightly incised, involving cloud-scrolls, a meander and other designs, a ridge and furrows intervening. Brown and green patina, with rust and brown eartli incrustations. Height, \-i\'2 inches. 1.52 — Hkavy SoNORors Buoxzi-; Bi-;akk,r-shai'ki) \'.\si-: (Han) With spreading foot and wide-flaring mouth, each formal sec- tion — base, midband and neck — divided into four parts by broad and deep vertical ridges which are adorned with short incised scrolls. Decoration, the t'ao t'ich ogre lineaments and archaic dragons in relief, and further emljellished witli carefully incised scroll-fret which is continued throughout the interspaces. On tlie neck the decoration is comprised within slightly raised broad palmations pointing upward. Jleight, 11% inches. 153 ]\IlRI!OR-BHOXZE C'lliCUI^AR Jar (Hail) Thick, spreading lip, two dccr-liead loop side handles with drop, and deep foot. Encircled beneath tiie lip by a raised and incised band of scrolls and halbert-heads, with tlie "tiger's eye" in low relief and two bold projecting animal masks. The motive is re- peated in a band about the base, with the ogre lineaments re- curring in low relief. Time has invested both the exterior and interior surfaces with a smooth, soft, dark patina, varying from gun-metal hue through gray oli\'es and rich browns to a matt black. An incised symbol in this piece signifies everything in the universe, and apparently indicates the use of the vessel in the ritual of ancestor worship. Teak cover with green jade knob handle. Ilrif/Jif, 0% Invhi'it: didmi'ter, 7'/> iiirhe.f. 1.54 — Gilt Bronze Botti.e-shaped ^'ASI•: (Aftir-Han) Squat-ovoidal body on a lightly-spreading flanged foot, with tall slender neck, bulbous in iiexafoil expansion beneath tiie short lip and circled midway by a molded and flanged band. The smooth surface displaying an olive-brown patina and broad surfaces of its original Roman-gold splendor. Height, 17 inches. 155 — AxciEXT ()\ATK Swinging Jak (Shang) Heavy sonorous bronze, of flattened, elongated melon-form, with a swinging handle in rope design and a low spreading base which is marked by two rings. Otherwise plain, it is ornamented at the shoulder with a wide band of angular fret, incised between two narrow borders of repeated small raised circles, the band inter- rupted by two animal-masks in relief. In the interior an incised inscription containing the name of an animal, apparently the wild boar or sheep, and the symbols for spear, grandfather and father — a formula used, it is said, as a godspceding and ad- A'ance felicitation to those departing for the wars. Covered with a ricli, unctuous patina of a deep, full malachite-green, mottled in red, brown, gray-olive and iron-rust hues, the patina and incrustations largely covering the interior also. The teakwood cover has a C'hou carved jade liandle in the form of a horse and a deer, the deer holding in its mouth branches of the sacred fungus — like itself emblematic of longevity. IJcighl (irilli rnrir), IO14 inches. 156 — AxciKXT Broxze Tkipod Ixcexse Burxer {Han) Witli silver-gilt ribbon-scroll openwork top. Looped side handles with drops and picrced-scroll tops ; the squat and hollow cabriole legs also formed of pierced scroll work. The low circular bowl, with slightly contracted neck and heavy everted lip, is adorned with a waistband of incised angular and scroll fret in two tiers, between two raised ropes, a pointed border below it — the band and border being repeated in reduced scale on the short neck. Enveloped in a caressing patina of ricji and varied olive surface, with blackening patcJies and brilliant vivid green fleckings. Hiiijht, ji/i inrlies; diiimeter, 8 liirhes; icidth with handles, 11 inches. ]57 — Gilded Brox/,f, Grand ('oitk (Han) Deep, semi-globular bowl with everted lip, on a cylindrical stand- ard with a wide-spreading flat foot. OriginalU* a sacrificial vessel. An incised inscription of thirty-five characters on the bowl records the date of its making — the first year of P'ai-C'hu of the Han dynasty (144 B.C.) — the weight of the article and the maker's name. Much of the original gilding is exposed amidst the patina of dark-olive and deep blue and the many eartliy incrustations. IIt'i[fht. 714 indies; dittmeter. 9 Incites. 158 — Bronze Pilgriji-bottle Vase (Han) Elliptical with flattened faces, on an oblong foot, with bulbous neck in hexafoil expansion and shoulder-handles of low-relief animal-masks with loose rings. Luminous malachite, mahogany and gray-olive patina, all-pervading, smooth and crusted. Height and vidth, 12% inches. (Illustrated) 159 — Heavy Beoxze Bell (Chou) Of deep sonority. Flattened cylindrical form, with a heavy scrolled handle over the span of its greater diameter. The body exhibiting two vertical panels and successive narrow horizontal bands of ornament of which only bold bosses persist amid the fecund incrustations of long interment. The handle is fonned of archaic scrolled dragons in quadrilateral molding, their sides carrying incised fret or hatch. The incrustations in turquoise- green and iron-rust brown. Height, 11 inches. (Illustrated) 160 — Very Heavy Axtiqie Bronze Ceremonial Tripod Kettle (Han) Long fixed loop-handle, heavy squat cabriole legs with elaborate bold relief ornamentation at the knee, and two animal-head loop side handles with dependent loose rings. The ornate embellish- ment includes a phoenix-head spout, balanced by coiling dragons, each in turn decorated with incised scrolls, and two bands of incised fret between raised ropes. The fret motive in larger pattern is continued over the handle. Tea-leaf patina with masses of dull-green earthy accumulations. Height, 13 inches; length (spout-wise), ISy^ inches; cross-vidth, lO'/^ inches. (Illustrated) 161 — Bkonzk Offf.rinc-staxd or Jar {Han) With its own original cover. Clear, sonorous bronze that has never been buried. Fashioned in cylindrical form with rounded shoulders and flattened bottom on a circular, contracting pedestal with flaring foot. On the flattened top a broad flange liandle for lifting the cover : on the body two small loop handles. Cover, body and pedestal are channeled in ;i succession of deep lateral grooves. The entire vessel covered with a rich patina of brilliant malachite-green, mahogany-brown, gun-metal hue, the russet of corroded iron and tones of indigo-blue, the varied enriclimcnts extending to the interior. Ui'iqht. 101/, inches. 162- -\'eXERA1!LK {Han) B li o X RiNG-HAX])r.Ei) Dkagox Jau with Cover Original cover and oi'iginal ring handles — these original bronze ring jiandles being very rarely retained by the hoary vessels coming down to to-day; on the slioulder two animal-licad loops supporting tlie large free rings. Low circular form on a shallow, slightly spreading base resting on three short straight legs with animal-head cappings. Tapering cover finishing in a plain cir- cular flanged handle. Around the shoulder of tiie bowl and the base of the cover a deeply chiseled, strongly drawn dragon-scroll motive in a primitive conventionalization, both cover and bowl marked abo\e and Vjelow by horizontal flutings. A vessel used for the preparation of sacrificial food in ancient ancestor worship. Gun-metal and olive patina with heavy green incrustations. Itcii/lil. H hirlii's: irlijlli. 10 Inches. 163 — Ancient Chinese Teaveling Bell Conventional bi-convex shape, with tubular handle to which ap- pertains a small loop, molded in connection with a studded band around the neck (or handle), for convenience of suspension over the camel's back or otherwise. Decorated on either face with two series of nine nipple-bosses, of extended protuberance, in lines of three each, with intervening lateral bands of archaic scroll. The two series on each side are separated by a vertical band, which on one side is plain and on the other contains the inscription in incised characters. Below the bosses on either side is an elephant's head in bold archaic scroll and the top of the bell is further scrolled. Lustrous malachite aerugo with iron- rust patches. The integrity of the metal is preserved and its tone is deep and sonorous. The inscription tells that the bell is a traveling bell made at the order of the great Duke of Chou, uncle of the third Emperor of that dynasty and for seven years regent, to be treasured by the generations of his descendants. The bell figures in the Hsi Ch'ing Ku Chien, the magnificent illus- trated catalogue of the Imperial collection of bronzes in the palace at Pekin, published in 1751 in forty-two folio volumes by the Emperor Ch'ien-lung. Carved teakwood stand, with intricate silver inlaj-, made probably during the reign of Ch'ien-lung. The bell, of course, is of the Chou period, and, like all of the ancient Chinese bronzes, was made by the cire perdu process. Height. 13% inches (with stand. lOy, inches); veight, ITy, pounds. The Hsi Ch'ing Ku .Chien records the weight of the bell in tlie Imperial col- lection as 319 loung, equivalent in English measure to just under eighteen pounds. {Illustrated) IG-l — Bronze Sachificial Bowl (Shang) Shallow, with a wide flat brim, on a deep circular foot which is pierced with three quadrilateral openings. The interior of the basin has a turtle incised in the center, with further decoration of crustaceans in relief and tooled, about the sides, and on the exterior is a relief band of angular scroll-fret. The foot also carries a scroll band. Blue, green, gray, brown and iron-rust patina, with rich malachite incrustations. Diameter. 17 inches. (Illustrated) 164i 16o — Rark Broxze Ixcex.se Eukxei! (CJlUll] Deep ovoid bod^y witli wide mouth and thiclc, everted short hp, on a circular foot, witii lieavy draf^on-liead loop-and-drop side- handles. Raised band beneath the lip ornamented with a finely incised scroll-fret and bosses, and interrupted by three sheep's- heads in relief, two on one side and one on the other. Similar band on the foot with lineaments of the t\io t'ich ogre. Rarel}' beautiful, ricli, lustrous, malachite a'rugo, enhancing the steel- gray, iron-rust and mottled-mahogany patina of lesser depth, which, with various incrustations, coats both exterior and interior of the vessel. Incised mark in the interior of the bottom. lliii/lil. 7 iiichex: widlli, 14'/, inches. 166 HeAAY BkOXZK C'ERliMOXIAL C'OVERED DlSH {CIlOU) Of ol)l()nfr sliiipe with rouiuk'd corners, molded foot and two aninial-liead side handles, with its own original bronze cover. A sacrificial vessel for the offering of cooked vegetables or cereals, elaborately decorated, with the dragon scroll predominant. Sur- rounding the lower body and repeated on the shoulder of the cover, a sei-ies of horizontal flutings, while both dish and cover are borderetl by a broad band of the dragon scroll in strong relief. AnotJKr scroll adorns the foot. The top of the cover is wholly ot'cupied by a bold dragon scroll deeply cut, surround- ing a small oblong finial, and the hjug sides of the cover are sur- mounted by heavy upright handles running the length of the sides, each formed by the bodies of two dragons extended in opposite dii'ections. The rich patina which with manv incrusta- tions covers the entire vessel varies from a ffray-olive to verdig-ris- green and cobalt-blue, and deepens below the handles to the smooth blackish-brown of a well-smoked meerschaum pipe. An eight-character inscription in the interior of the cover is re- peated on the interior of the bottom. Ileiiiht. 8 iiifhcx: hnijlli. 1.5 inches: widlh. 7 inches. 167 — Large "Tniroi) of Thrke ^'If'TIJI.s" (Han) Sacrificial bronze jar witii cover, for meat offerings. Splicrica] form witli broadly flattened poles and raised cijuatorial girdle, hexagonal legs with monster-iiead knees, and side handles of mythical monsters. Encircled below the middle by a band of incised fret and scroll pattern that is repeated on the cover, which supports near its outer rim three recumbent animals, perhaps oxen or sheep, symbolic of the worship of "the three animals" — the cow, the sheep and the wild boar. Entire exterior surface covered with a rich patina, varying from a dark olive to a pale gray-green — here of soHd, there of mottled aspect — with incrustations, the incrusted interior presenting tones of deep cobalt. Ileirjht, 8'/^, iiichcx: dUtmeler. 9-y^ inches. 168 — Broxz?; Oviform A'ase with Dragon Handles (Han) Wide, slightly-spreading neck. Encircled by three bands of angular and sinuous incised scroll, and carrying two fixed handles in the form of highly conventionalized dragons modeled in the round, the decoration executed with considerable distinction. Lustrous patina of rich mahogany, olive-brown, dark green, yel- low and deep blue mottling, with thin incrustations. Hcifjhl. 1+ inches. 169 — Gloui-lak Bronze A'ase {Han) With short contracted neck and banded lip, on short circular foot ; two loose-ring handles depending from loops sustained by animal-masks in low relief. Coated over its entire surface with an olive, turquoise and mahogany richly mottled patina. Height, l'i\:, inches. 170 — Lakge Heavy Broxzk Gi.omLAK Jar (Chou) Witli sliort neck and narrow everted lip, on a deep circular toot, the neck marked by two rings. Body and foot are divided into three equal sections by pronounced ridges which are really the noses of grotesque "devil heads" — or the t'ao t'ieh ogre linea- ments — that form the chief decorative motive of the piece, pierced bosses on either side of the ridges being the monster's eves and the horns being ingeniously worked into a bold incised scroll holding the decorative scheme together. Interspaces tilled with fret-scrolls of lighter incision, so that the whole body of the vase is occupied by decorations, excepting a depressed channel encircling it laterally. The entire expansive surface is co\'errd with a soft patina of gray-olive tone with silvery notes, and bright green incrustations. Ili'iyhl. fly, inches; diameter. H-Jj inches. Two similar jars are in the Boston Mnscinn of Fine Arts. 171 — Kic'H GiiEEx Biiox/,E Bet.t, (C'hou) Bi-convex, lightly spreading toward its two-pointed base, with a tapering tubular handle or neck for suspension. On either face two series of nine conical protuberancis or nipples, arranged in rows of three within bands outlined l)y small bosses. On the flat top-surface a deeply-incised conventional scroll. Rich patina of dark olive-green, olive-yellow and brown notes, and even dis- tribution. In carved teakwood frame-stand. Uiiijht. l.)V; IiicIkx: irilh xtaiid. ^3'^ inches. -Large Globt'lar Bronze Colander (Han) Open-topped, with two loop handles of thick rope design spring- ing from the heavy everted rim, and short foot. Used in pre- paring cooked foods in tlie ancient ceremonial ritual. The bot- tom is perforated in numerous slits for the passage of steam. Only ornamentation besides the handles three rings. Both sur- faces covered thickly with blue, green and iron-rust red patina involved with heavy earthy incrustations from long burial. Ili'iyht, lOy, inrlie.i: dhirneier. 13% iiichi's: width irll]i hinidlcx. 15'/4 inches. 173 — Green Bronze Qi'adrie.vterai, Jar (Hun) With expanded sides, square base and mouth and two loose-ring handles depending from animal-masks in low relief; faces other- wise plain. Russet and malachite patina, mottled and rich, with gray and blue notes and widespread incrustation. Jfi'i(/lit, 13% inches. 174 — Broxze Sacrificiai. Vessel (Chou) Quadrilateral, the oblong mouth of full dimensions, the bottom rounding; deep, bell-shaped foot; upright loop handles on the long sides. Used for food oiferings in the ritual ceremonies of ancestor worship. Exterior and interior surfaces coated with dull malachite and dark olive and washcd-turquoise patina and incrustations, with rambling expanses of a warm iron-rust hue of an unctuous luster. The elaborated stand includes the figures of two phffnixes with spread wings, carved in the round and perched upon their own long tail-feathers curled under in con- ventional scrolls. JI(iciht. ir! inches: length. I.514 inches. 175 — Broxze Circular Jar (Han) Broad, full bod}', high shoulder, short neck marked by two raised rings ; rounded lip and low circular foot. Elaborate decoration in a series of bands and borders from shoulder to base, compre- hending involved scrolls and fret, halberd heads, the small re- peated circle as a border motive, ridges and bosses in the ad- monitory ogre lineaments, with unornamented channels demarca- ting the raised and incised bands. Thickly incrusted variegated patina in sundry tones of green, blue, black and iron-rust brown, with the green dominant and pervasive. Height, 10 inches; diameter, ISy^ inches. 176 — Large Axcikxt Ceremonial Duagox Wine Jar (Chou) Of licavj sonorous bronze, with its own original bronze cover. Ovoid form with contracted neck, deep, slightly spreading foot, two animal-head looped shoulder-handles, and a third looped handle at the base of the face of tiie jar for assistance in pouring out the contents. Below tiie plain neck, which is marked by a single ring, the jar is luxuriantly embellished with incised and bold relief massi\'c ornamentation over the entire surface, the cover (which has a neck-handle) included, the dragon motive prevailing. On cover and shoulder archaic fire-breathing dragons, boldly carved, face each other; other dragons encircle the base; while on the lower body appear in large form, four times repeated, the features of one of the iin'thological, svmbolic animals — the interspaces everywhere engraved with intricate fret and scroll work. Brown patina throughout, of varying tone and deepening to rich, dark notes. Ilciilht. l(i iiirhcs; iriillh. 131,4 iiirhes. The patina and conditidn of this fine bronze sliiiw it to have been excavated or to have aeeidentally emne to the sui-faee in \'ery ancient times. The dis- covery or eoniintr to lisjlit of tin se vessels in hills and vallevs in early an- tiquity was always r<-f;ar(led as of f^-oiul omen, and names of cities and of reigns were clianf^ed in their honor, .\fter the .Snni;- dynasty, as Dr. Bushell points ont, old bronz.es lieinfi' no lonfjer held sacred, noble tombs were excavated for the enrichment of private collections and royal museums, and for the study of the ancient olije<-ts. 177 — Re.maekahle Tkipod Ixckxse Burxer (Chou) Semi-globular bowl, of heavy, soiorous bronze, witli tliick, quadri- lateral upright loop handles and tall, unadorned, massive cabriole legs. The bowl is cneiixled by a plain molding and wide bands of an unusually bold dragon scroll in relief, outlined bv deep cutting. Other dragon scrolls of varied form and differing from each other are carved in the handles. Kntire jar covered with a rarely beautiful, unctuous patina and incrustations of many tones of malachite and olive-green, of gray, brown, black and brownish- red, with the deep lustrous greens predominating. On the in- terior an extended inscription in incised characters. The in- scription tells that the bronze was produced under the order of Ching-Moo-Kung, who during the Chou dynasty was Gov- ernor of one of tlie eighteen pi'ovinces, about the year 600 B. C. The carved and pierced cover, of the Cirien-lung period, is sur- mounted by a jade liandle with the five-clawed Imperial dragon, and lotus flowers carvefl in full relief and undercut. Hi'Uihl. \-2y., iiirhex: dlfimfli'r, Ml inches. 178 — Bronze Quadhilateral Jae with Cover (Han) On a square base from which the sides swell freely, recurring in a short neck finishing in a thickened square lip ; cover in the form of a low, truncated pyramid, surmounted by a thin, upright, goose-neck handle with modeled head and beak, at each of its four corners and all the handles incised on both their flat sides. Two animal-masks in low relief, with loops and loose rings as shoulder-handles. Without other ornament. Red-brown patina with rose and turquoise, olive and mottled brown notes. Height, 16% inches. 179 — Extraordinary Antique Bronze Ritual Vessel (Shang) In the form of an ancient gigantic beast somewhat of the out- line of the Malayan tapir, carefully modeled with a remarkable sense of proportion, making the ugl}- and unwieldy animal-bulk artistic and highly interesting. The beast, of enormous body and short, stumpy legs, is modeled in the round — the interior hollow — standing squarely on all four feet and with head raised so that the long but truncated proboscis points straight forward well above the level of its back, while the huge ears are ex- tended backward high over the shoulders. The tail curls under, forming a loop handle. The oldest and most convincingly unique bronze of the collection, and probably of anv collection ever brought to this country. This curious relic of artistic antiquity has been so acted upon by the elements during its age-long interment that the bronze texture is almost wholly replaced by the strange aerugo and wonderful incrustations, until the piece resembles more a carving from a block of rich and mellow-hued malachite or the work of a marvelous potter than a bronze. The eye wanders from the mahogany-brown and red and pearl-gray patinas on ex- posed spots of the original metal over a baffling field of color — turquoise-blue and turquoise-green, the rich and varying mala- chite greens, with mottlings and striations of white and black and gray and brown and yellow, and yet of olive, and again of gray, the soft, inviting gray of Time and Nature. The present cover for the molded opening in the top of the back, of solid bronze overlaid with gold, is modern — as things go in China — having been made in the reign of Ch'ien-lung and bearing on its inner surface the Ch'ien-lung seal. (The ex- cavation of the vessel was, therefore, at least as early as the eighteenth century.) The cover is luxuriantly carved with weird monster-heads in high relief and undercutting, with a secondary ornamentation of cloud and wave forms, and is accompanied by a replica in teak. Height, 13 inches (with stand, 1,514 inches) ; length, 183^ inches. {Illustrated — see Frontispiece) 180 — Large Hea\v JiuoxzE yuADKiLATKUAL \\'ixK Jak (Sluing) Of ovoid form witli liigli slioiikkTs, a short quadrangular iiL'ck and two loop handles, with a third loop handle affixed to the face near the bottom. All three handles display the horned sheep's head and between the shoulder handles are two rams" heads in high relief. Flanking these and the shoulder handles, in a band delimited by concentric ridges, are raised medallions of the ancient wave motive, significant of music and the drama — the ancient music ha\'ing begun with the sound of the waves. Varied, subdued patina of browns, steel-grays, turquoise and malachite hues, with thin incrustations. Ili'iilhl. II liiclii-x: iridlli. 11 inches. 181 — QcAUEiLATERAL Bkoxzk A ase mitu Foiu Haxjx.es (Hfiri) High bulging shoulders tapering to a quadrangular and flaring ba.se, and contracting abruptly to a short neck ending in a thickened lip. On each shoulder an animal-mask in relief sup- porting a loose ring with scrolled decoration incised and in re- lief. Clodded in depressed bands completely filled with an elaborate scroll and fret ornamentation, incised and in relief, the shoulder ornamental field being cut by a deej) ])ointed border in surface reserve. Russet, malachite and olive j)atina and in- crustations throughout. Uciijhi. Ki iiiclws. 182 — Rake Dekf Gi.oBri.Aii Tripod Bkoxzk Jar (Han) ^^'ith original l)i'onzc co\cr. Encircled by two bands of closely repeated S-scrolls, incised, each band surmounted by a narrow scrolled border of the recumbent 'Jj . Cover carries two bands of the same upright scroll, each bordered on both sides by the recumbent 'X , and an additional narrow band of the same scroll unbordered. The toj) bands are separated by rope moldings, beyond the highest of which are found other bands or borders, one with an archaic dragon scroll and one with an angular fret or lattice. Cover surmounted bv three loop handles and a small pierced butt(m, all ornamented. The bowl, with two large quadri- lateral loop handles, is raised on three cabriole legs with scrolls and ridges at the knees. Covered throughout with olive, verdi- gris and malachite-hued patina and incrustations, the interstices in the S-scrolls of the body bands being tilled in in places bv a deposit of ebony black. Ilfifflit, 151/4 inrliex; diaiitchr, i;!'/. liu-hin ; width 4 inches. ^^;i;3 — K0SK-|.r-RAI!KV (il.Oliri.Ali \'a.sK {YlUHJ Clu'iuj) •023 \\ ith tubular lU'i'k, on a pi'ilcshal-convix foot. Moiintrd with silvor-nilt sidr-haiidlcs ui tlio form of scrolli'd drao-oiis, snriii'iini'' fi'oni a lU'ck-riin with whicli, as witli a foot- rim, tJK' vase lias been provided. Covei-cd with the rare rose-j)iiik fflnze kiioun as the rii.sf-dii-Iiarrii, of even eolor-ciualitv and "orange-peel" surface. Ihiylil, .5 iiiclic.i. '■2':Zi: ROSK-SOI-FI-I.K IJOTTI.K (C ll'lfll-I IIIUj) Ovoid body w ith tul)ular neck ; eineri'd with a rosi'-soiiipi' (;'laze on wliite frround, the rose appearinfr in <>;enerous deep fleekinipot {Cliieu- hing) Bulbous body with full shoulder, the contour slightly recurving at the foot. Covered with a char- acteristic robin's-egg .wnffli' glaze, in wliich the malachite tone predominates. Height, ay, inches. 2'Mi 2.'39 — Iron-rest ]METAi,LU'-LrsTER ^'ASE (Ch'icn-lung) In inverted-pear shape on a narrow foot wliich a thickened glaze makes slightly bulbous, and having a short neck with a white rim. Covered with a glaze in the rusty hue of disintegrating iron, with innumerable metallic fleckings, the rust-brown glaze continued on the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, 514 inches. 2-tO — I^APis-BEEE BoTTi.E { Cli' icii-1 u ug) With ovoidal body and tubular neck. Covered witli a uniform leep lapis-blue and mirror-brilliancv. glaze of dt Height, 6 inches. 241 — Deeicate "Soft Paste" Oviforji Jar (Yung Cheng) With high shoulder, short neck and bulbous lip. Thin porcelain of the so-called "soft-paste" type, covered with a soft, creamy- white glaze over an intricate floral scroll decoration etched in tJie paste. Besides tiiis major ornamentation, covering the en- tire body above a base border, there are slioulder borders of fret and scroll, and a necklet of palmations, all executed in the paste beneatli the glaze, Avliich is loosely crackled in fine brown lines. HiigJit. 5-':j inches. ~-i~ 1'aIU TlUQlOlSK nOTTl.K-SIIAPKl) \'.\SK.S (Ch"uil-J UIKj) C)\()i(l, wiHi a thick lU'ck. Coated wltli a cruckk'tl turquoise glaze pai-taking of tlie line of the green or waslied stone, tlie g'hi/e in the interior of the neck of one of them showing a ringed and liatehed effect. Tliirjht, 5% inches. ^^-t;5 — CoKAT^-iiKi) C'exsku ( Yiuig ( hnig) Low circular form, expanding from a short foot and i-eeur\ing in a sliglitlv everted lip, with wide mouth. Loop side-handles, with rudimentary archaic dragon-heads modeled in relief. The exterior coated with a soft, lustrous glaze of coral-red, the interior in a flecked robin"s-egg green. DUitneter. i\'.^ hichex; irilli hinidli'S, (> inrlies. 2-i-ii — Brilliant Gueex C'kacklkd Bottle {C'li'ii'ii-hnuj) Ovoid, with tubidar neck. Coated with a brilliant glaze in the hue of the greening apple, pervaded by a fine crackle in delicate lines, the glaze without the crackle overspreading the foot and the interior of the neck. Height, (i inches. 245 — Peakl-white Crackled Bottle {Ch'icn-lung) Dense porcelain covered with a monochrome glaze of a soft, creamy white with pearl-like luster, the rim glazed in black, and a spacious crackle ramifying al)out the vase in lines of russet- brown. Heiglit. .'ly., indies. 246 — Blue-black Globtlae Bottle-shaped Xahv, {Ch'icn-lung) Dense porcelain, coated with a glaze of mirror quality and so dark in its deep blue or purplish pigment as to appear almost one of the mirror-blacks. Heiyht, !>% inches. 247 — Calf's Liver Color Bottle (Ch'icn-lung) Pure white porcelain invested with a glaze of dull luster in the hue of calf's liver and with a surface reproducing tlie texture represented. Ilelr/lit. ()■ inciies. 24«8 — RosE-DU-BAintY Vase (C li'icii-liiiig) Of mammoth pcar-shiipe with contracted neck and trumpet lip, on a low slightly spreading foot. Pure white porcelain, covered with a uniform monochrome glaze of the rosc-du-Barry hue, with orange-peel surface and dull luster. Height, 6% inches. 249 — LAPis-iiLUE BoTTi,E (ClCicn-huHj) With ovoid bodv and cvlindrical neck, slightly expanding. Coated with a lapis-hlue glaze of mirror quality, overflowing to the interior of the neck. Height, (! inches. 250 — Small Bottle-shapkd ^'AsE (Ch'icn-lung) With plain cylindrical neck. Covered througliout with a mustard- yellow glaze and minute crackle. Height, 5]'.. inches. 251 — Ovoid .Jau. (K'any-h.'ii) Graceful gallipot l)ody supporting a deej), wide, thick neck with narrow everted li]). Invested throughout with a brilliant glaze of camellia-leaf green, evenly distributed, which overflows into the interior of the neck, exhibiting a flue fish-roe crackle. Height, 5\'.^ inches. 252— TriiuroisK-in.uE Ovifokm Jar {Cliicn-luvg) 253- VVitli sprr.ulin^- foot, contracted nock and liS'litly-Haring- lip. Coated in a lustrous glaze of turquoise-blue, with paler tones as of tenuous drifting clouds, and deepen- ing in juie about a foot-rim and a rim molded to demarcate shoulder and neck. The gla/.e throughout shows a fine crackle. Hi'lghl. (] inches. -BOTTI.K-SHAPEO VasF, ( K'hIUJ-Ji si) With tapering globular body and slender neck. Covered with a dense glaze of deep cucumber-green, with a varying, gen- erally fine, crackle. Ileight. f) inches. ■2~,2 254 — Beef's I.iver Gallipot {Cliicn-hing) Clear white porcelain of Ch'ien-lung covered with ;i monochrome glaze of beef's liver color and representative of the texture imi- tated. On the short neck a series of dot, foliated, scroll and line borders, with traces of the original gilding which once embellished them. Height, ,5'/o inches. 255 — Lapls-blfe Bottle (Ch'icn-luug) Witli ovoid body and tubular neck, covered with a bright glaze of lapis-blue which extends over the rim. Height, (i Indies. 256 — Writer's Brush-holder (Ch'icn-lung) Sonorous porcelain, in the form of a section of bamboo trunk, hollowed, the upper and lower surfaces pricked in representation of the structure of the bamboo wood. Decorated in bold relief modeling with a sage and a monkey under a pine tree near rocks; the whole covered with a chronie-_ycllow glaze of luminous quality, that on the foot re\ealing a metallic luster. Height, 5 inches. X 257 — Caxaey-yei.i.ow Oviform Jar (Yung Chhig) Pure white porcelain, invested witji a brilliant glaze of pure, even, canary-yellow, yieldin"- metallic reflections, which covers also the foot of the vase. Height. 5':, inches. 258 — Turquoise Bottle {Ch'ien-lung) With ovoid bodv and straight slim neck, coated in a rich tur- quoise-blue glaze of brilliant surface and marked by a fine fish- crackle. Heif/hf. () inches. 259 — Small ^Iirror-hlack Bottle (Chlcn-Inng) Ovoidal, with slender neck. Coated with a brilliant glaze of rich, deep mirror-black, which at the rim and about the foot is transformed to a scarcely less brilliant iron-rust hue. Ileiqht. ,5V. inches. 260 — RoBix's-KGc; Souffle Brt'sh-iioldeu (C'h'icn-hiiig) In the form of a gnarled trunk of a tree at the root, hollowed out, such as is used in nature by the Orientals for brush-holding and other purposes. Exterior and interior covered with a robin's-egg souffle glaze of unctuous surface, which extends underneath the foot. Heii/. <* ^/V^ 290 — Metallic Souffle Bottle-forji A'ask {C'li'icn-luiig) Ovoidal b(nly, slitrlitly cotnprcssed, on a circular foot, with wide neck and expanding lip. Coated with a curious glaze of mottled mahogany and olive tones at the lip, which streams downward in wayward, confused striations and fineh' comminuted fleckings over the neck and the broad shoulder, in the hue of iron-rust, the small ferruginous cascade merging finally in tenuous sprays in a ricli, dark seal-brown fiood which covers underbodv and foot. Haighl, 13% iiichcf. 291 — IvARGE Ti'RQUoisE BoTTi.E-sn apf;d Yase {Cli'ieu-lung) Light, resonant porcelain, gracefully fashioned in a globular- ovoidal body with a tall wide neck and everted lip. Covered Avith a luminous glaze of delic;ite turquoise-blue, slightly mottled, a fine fish-roe crackle running throughout and the glaze over- flowing to a considei-/d)le distance the interior of the neck. TIrighl, 13% inches. .292 — Bkilll\xt PfRiM.E Bo'j-1'LE (C h'ini-hing) Broad-sjiouldered ovoid body and large straight neck. Invested •with a deep, dark, intense purple glaze of mirror surface, gray- ing slightly about tiie rim and carried over and half-way down the interior of the neck. Height. 131/2 inches. 293 — Deep-blue Peak-shaped ^'ASE (Ch'icn-hiiig) Witli short nuck, uxpiuiding in u trumpet lip, on a circular foot. Invested with a wavering glaze of Sevres-blue tone which is marked by those straggling lines — as of a trickling waterfall — which were characteristic of the Lang monochromes of the pre- ceding century. ( So much so that it has been hailed with the conscious anachronism, "A blue Lang-yao!") Height. 1314 inches. 294 — TuiiauoisE Quadrilateuai, Censer with Cover {Ch'ien-lung) Oblong, on four animal-head legs with outward-curving rounded feet; two upright loop-handles; the cover surmounted b_y a Fu- lion on his haunclies, with head turned to one side. The entire surface, exterior and interior, of both box and cover enameled with a lioneycomb crackle-glaze of turquoise-blue and turquoise- green of brilliant quality. Height. 14'/o inches; length, 9 inches. 295 — Robin's-egg Souffle Bottle-shaped Vase (Ch'ien-lung) Globular-ovoidal body with flattened shoulder and tubular neck. Characteristic unctuous glaze, with dull metaUic luster, in the confusion of blue and green notes giving the "robin's-egg blue" souffle. Height, ISy^ inches. 296 — Cobalt Bottle {Yung Cheng) With full, broad-shouldered ovoid body, and gracefully con- tracted neck expanding very slightly toward the rim. Pure white Yung Cheng porcelain of a clear, ringing note, overspread with a glaze of deep cobalt-blue flowing evenly to a perfectly finished foot. Rim and interior of the neck glazed in white. Mark, penciled in black within a double ring of blue on the white-glazed foot: Ta-Ch'ing Yung Cheng nien-chih (Made in the reign of Yung Cheng of the great Ch'ing [the recently over- thrown] dynasty). Height, 10 inches. SUPERB SPECIMENS OF PEACHBLOOM, CLAIR-DE-LUNE, APPLE-GREEN, CORAL-RED AND SANG-DE-B(EUF 297 — Miniature Claib-de-lune Coupe (K'ang-hsi) With squat, swelling body and wide neck. Pure white porcelain, covered with a delicate clair-de-lune glaze of a pale elusive lavender and gray-blue aspect. (Bears a Ming mark.) 298 — Small Claie-de-lune Jar (Yuan) Pear-shape, on low, circular foot, the body drawn up to a very small orifice at the top. Coated with a clair-de-lune glaze of bluish tinge, with a fine crackle in pale-brown lines and a few light splashes of purple. (Repaired.) ° ^ Height, 2% inches. 299 — Clair-de-lune Coupe (Yuan) Dense vibrant porcelain, covered with a thick, viscous glaze of clair-de-lune suggestion, brilliant in surface, with grayish-blue tone, and marked with violet, purple and iron-rust patches, and with a subtle crackle. o,, ■ j. Diameter, Sy^ inches. 300— Two Weiteb's Low (K'ang-hsi) Circular Peachbloom Water Cups Covered by a ricli and lustrous peaclibloom glaze, var^ying from the soft pink of the downy coat of a peach to the green of tender moss in the woods, with sundry fleckings and mottlings, and deepening in channels of the molded paste to tones of velvet black. Covers of fei-t'.mi jade carved in representation of the persimmon. One has a gilded water-spoon with a duck's head handle. Diameler.i, 2y., inches and 2% Inches. 301— Rr Laxg-yao Gloihi.ar Jar (Earlij K'ang-hsi) Hea dense eavy, dense porcelain of early K'ang-hsi, coated with a soft apple-green glaze of subdued luster, flowing evenly to the low foot and marked by a lieavy, bold crackle in brown lines. These apple-green vases are known in China as Ku Lang-yao. :\Iounted with a gold mouth-rim. Height, 374 inches: diameter. -IVo inches. 30!< -BoTTi.E-rouM Peachbi.oom Vase (K\itjg-hsi) With slender neck, and tapering graccfullv from the rounded shoulder to its perfect foot. Covered with a mellifluous glaze of the merged and mingling hues of dried rose-leaves in the fluent, speckled, waning pink known as ashes-of-roses. The neck ends ill a gold ring. Height, G\'.-, inches. ^ JW*. 303 303— Crackled Apple-gkekx Bottle (K'ang-hn) Ovoid body und sliort, very sliglitly c'xpiuidiiig neck. Glazed in a pale apple-green with a pronounced crackle in dark lines. Interior of neck and the foot have a gray-white glaze with yellow-brown crackle. Heifflit, C> inches. 304) — C'lair-de-lt'ne Coupe, ok Whitek's Water-jar ( K'ang-hsi) Low ovoidal body, with narrow shoul- der infolding to a wide mouth. Cov- ered with a luminous glaze of purest clair-de-lune or "moonlight white" of beautiful quality — the interior simi- larly glazed. Underneath the white- glazed foot in firmly penciled calli- graphic characters: Ta-Ch'ing K'ang- hsi nien-chih (]\Iade in the reign of K'ang-hsi of the great Ch'ing [the lately ousted] dynasty). Diameter, 4 inches. {Illustrated) 305 — Clair-de-lune Vase (K'ang-hsi) Of slender form, its rounded lower body on a small circular foot tapering gracefully into a narrow, attenuated neck, with a slightly spreading lip. Pure white K'ang-hsi porcelain, suf- fused, it seems, rather than coated with a moonlight glaze of the purest clair-de-lune quality, with a rouge-de-fer rim — the interior of the neck glazed in white. (IUu.strated) Height, 5 inches. 306 — Clair-de-lune Vase (K'ang-hsi) In ovoidal baluster or elongated pear-shape, on a low foot, with a short everted lip. Covered with a clair-de-lune glaze of pale lavender tone and equable distribution, the rim glazed in iron- rust brown and the interior of the neck in white. (Illustrated) Height, sy„ inches. 307 — Writer's Water Receptacle in Rare Peachbloom (K'ang- hsi) Semi-globular, with short contracted neck. Dense, heavy por- celain of K'ang-hsi, coated with a lustrous glaze of the char- acteristic peachbloom quality, displaying rose-pink and ashes-of- roses surfaces, with rich and generous expanses of the prized green mottling, covering without concealing three large scroll medallions delicately etched in the paste. (Illustrated) 308 — Wkitkr's Water Jae in Peachbloom (K'ang-lisi) Semi-globular body, with short contracted neck. Covered, over a scrolled decoration delicately etched in the paste, with a glaze of pale peachbloom tint having a multitude of deeper fleckings. Diameter, 5 inches. (rUusf rated) 809 — Appee-gkeex C'eackled Dish {K\ing-hsi) Circular-ovoidal low body with wide mouth, on three rudimentary feet. Dense porcelain covered with an apple-green glaze of dull, metallic luster and crackled in brown lines, the interior exhibit- ing a brilliant glaze of gray-celadon with crackle. Diameter, 5i/4 inches. •310 — Rir I^ANG-YAO Gallipot {Early K'aitg-li.^i) With small mouth and short lip, over a broad, boldly swelling shoul- der, tapering gracefully below and recurving for a verv slightlv spreading foot. Glaze of apple- green marked with a bold crackle in brown lines. The apple-green vases of this character and glaze are known in China always as Ku Lang- yao. Height, .51,4 inches. 'Tr 311 — Inverted Pear-shape Sang-de- uffiUF Vase (K'ang-h.ii) Lang-yao, with spreading foot and short cylindrical neck. Coated with a fluent, lustrous glaze of ox-blood hue, crackled throughout, and ex- 310 liibiting gray mottlings and about the foot pale sea-green notes. Underneath the foot a crackled celadon glaze: interior of neck glazed in a gray-white with fine brown crackle. ITeinhl, (ii;, inches. 312 — Apple-green Ovoid Jar {K\nig-hsi) Short neck with tliickcned hp. Dense porcehiin, covered with a kiminous glaze of pale apple-green, with a bold crackle in brown lines. Interior of neck and underneath the foot, gray, with cafc-an-lait crackle. Height, Sy, inches. 313 — SrpEKB CoKAi.-REi) B()TTi,K {Yuncj Cheng) With spherical body tapering into a very slender cyhndrical neck. Covered with a mirror-glaze of light coral tone, uni- formly spread and of even brilliance, finishing at a well-defined white rim. Height, TVi inches {lUust ratal) 314 — Remarkably Fixe Coral-red Bottle {Yuvg Cheng) With pear-shaped body, beautifully tapering shoulder and straight, slender neck. Invested with a mirror-glaze of rich coral, of a fascinating tone and texture and even distribution. Height, 8% inches. (lUnst rated) 315 — SrPERB Tall Coral-red Vase ( Yung Cheng) Witli ten-pin shaped body and sloping shoulder, and wide, full neck. Pure white Yung Cheng porcelain, covered with a mottled coral glaze of dull luster and metallic suggestions. Height, 10 inches. {Illustrated) 316 — Clair-de-lixe Globular Bottle {Ch'ien-lung) Tapering to a short neck with a bulbous lip ; on a circular foot. Covered with a brilliant glaze of the pale dair-de-lune or "moonlight white," of perfect distribu- tion, and fineh' crackled in faint lines, the crackle on neck and lip being more pro- nounced in brown lines. The demarcation of neck from body indicated by a molding in the paste. Glaze and crackle extend within the lip and to the foot, which bears the seal of Ch'ien-lung. Height, II14 i»ehe.i. !}17 — Rare Blue Laxg-yao Bottle-shapeu Vase (Earlij K'ang-lisi) With its neck widening very slightly toward the lip, and a low, circvdar foot. ;ji() Invested with a beautiful, finely crackled glaze of light turquoise-blue, with the wavering longitudinal striations which are characteristic of the true Lang porcehiin. The glaze deepens toward the base of the neck. Undoubtedly a production of the famous Lang prefecture at Ching-te-Chcn. Height, 7% inches. 318 — Peachbloom Bottle-shaped ^'ase {K'ang-h. Celadox Flower Vase (K'ang-h.ii) Of heavy, vibrant porcelain, fashioned in the lines of the peach- bloom vases, with the same two white rings in relief at the base of the neck and the same mark underneath. It is covered with a pale celadon monochrome glaze of purest sea-green tint — a hue called by the Chinese, as applied to these vases, pea-green — vary- ing slightly in tone so as to bring out the decoration worked in relief in the paste. This consists of a fringe of scrolled sea- waves from which project the bodies of two three-clawed dragons. Mark, clearly penciled in cobalt-blue: Ta-Ch'ing K'ang-hsi nien- chih (Made in the reign of K'ang-hsi of the great Ch'ing [the lately overthrown] dynasty). A rarely beautiful example of K'ang-hsi porcelain. A similar vase is in the Walters Gallery, Baltimore. Height, ly^ inches. (Illustrated) 320 — Rake Apple-green Large Globular Jar (K'ang-hsi) With short everted lip and wide mouth. Dense, heavy, pure porcelain, covered with a luminous glaze of a rare and delicate apple-green hue in remarkable purity of tone, uniformly distribu- ted and mai-ked throughout by a sharp, wandering crackle in light brown lines. The interior of the lip and of the entire jar is covered with a brilliant gray-white glaze, pervaded by the same brown crackle. Produced under the prefecture of the great Lang in the early part of the reign of K'ang-hsi. Has elaborately carved stand. Height, 8 inrhes; diameter, S% inches. (Illustrated) 321 — Remarkable Saxg-de-bosuf Vase (K'ang-hsi) In shape unique among the Lang productions. Its globular body, on a low foot, is extended into a gracefully tapering neck, recurving in a broad, spreading lip with a white rim. In glowing richness of color the vase is more nearly comparable with the famous bottle in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (retained in Mr. Morgan's library), which is known as "The Ruby," than any other example of Lang-yao known to have reached this country. The perfect, lustrous glaze is brilliant as flame, re- flects the glow of the ruby, deepens to garnet and carbuncle, lightens to ashes-of-roses, takes again the rich hue of the ox- blood and is marked by darker fleckings or "tears" of the con- gealing blood. Crackled throughout; the interior of the hp having a pale celadon glaze with a light brown crackle. A pro- duction of the prefecture of the great Lang, in the first score of years of the august reign of K'ang-hsi. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ (Illustrated) 322 — Tall Oviform Lang-yao \a»e {Earltj K'ang-hsi) Tapering gracefully to a lightly spreading foot, the sloping shoulder recurving in the short wide neck to a slightly expanding lip. Coated with an effulgent glaze of rich sang-de-bauf, the glowing blood-red hue deepening at the base of the neck and toward the foot, lightening elsewhere to a rosy-gray, again offering a ruby glint, crackled throughout and brilliant as flame. Underneath the perfect foot a crackled celadon ghaze. Height, ny^ inches. 323 — Tall Laxg-yao Vase of Rare Coloring {K'ang-hsi) Oviform, with higli and narrow shoulder, and graceful taper to the slightly spreading foot ; short, wide neck and flaring lip. Coated with a rare glaze involving tones of both the peachbloom and sang-de-ha'uf porcelains, varying from a pearl-gray and ashes-of-roses to the hue of the speckled red apple, and flowing perfectly to an even foot, where it thickens and the color deepens in a uniform circle to the deep hue of clotted blood. Underneath the foot a celadon glaze; interior of neck glazed in white. Height, 18 inches 324 — Rose-du-Barky Bottle-fokm Vase (Cli ten-lung) An example of rare quality. Ovoid, with full neck very slightly curving. Clear resonant porcelain, coated with a perfect rose- du-Barry glaze of peau d'orange surface and dull luster. The interior of the neck and the foot are glazed in pistache-green, and the foot bears the Imperial seal-mark of Ch'ien-lung in coral on white reserve. Height, 13^2 inches. {Illustrated) 325 — Apple-red Lang-yao ^'ase {K\mg-hsi) Of bottle shape, with full, globular body and tall, gracefully tapering neck. Covered with a thick, brilliant sang-de-bosuf glaze, varying from a rosy apple-red to the deeper ox-blood tones and receding again to ashes-of-roses, and toward the top of the neck to rose-pink and a soft gray — a bold crackle running throughout. The rim is enameled in brown. Underneath the foot and in the interior of the neck, a rice-color glaze with brown crackle. Height, 16 inches. (Illustrated) 326 — Globular Lang-yao Bottle (K'ang-hsi) With tall, straight neck. Enameled with a deep and crackled glaze in the various tones of the peachblooms — rose-pink with deeper fleckings, ashes-of-roses, and the characteristic tinted grays. Rim and interior of neck glazed in white. Height, 16% inches. (Illustrated) 327 — Oviform Apple-greex Crackle Jar (K'ang-hsi) Contracting briefly from the foot, the body then swells in grace- ful ovoid curve to a shoulder of rather steep slope ending in a short wide neck. Coated with a bright, clear apple-green glaze of metallic luster, boldly crackled in brown lines. Lip and entire interior covered with a gray-white glaze strongly marked by the brown crackle with lesser spaces. (Repaired.) Height, 1514 inches. 328 — Lapis-lazuli Bottle-shaped Vase (Ch'icn-lung) Ovoid body and thick neck. Clear, heavy porcelain, covered uni- formly with a deep, brilliant lapis-blue glaze verging upon purple, the glaze overflowing and continuing down the interior of the neck. Height, Uy^ inches. 329 — Brilliant IMirror-black Oviform \'ask {K\ing-hxi) With higli shoulder and neck and hglitly flaring lip. Clear white porcelain of K"ang-hsi, coated below the white-glazed rim with a pure black monochrome glaze of liquid depths and remarkable brilliancy — the pure tone and rich quality preserved perfectly throughout. ^larked beneath the foot with a double ring in blue, on white glaze. Height. 17'J.4 inches. 330 — SrpERB Peacock-bli-e Bottle (Ch'ien-htng) Clear, dense, sonorous porcelain in globular-ovoidal bottle-form, with full, tall, cylindrical neck ; covered with a mirror-glaze of lustrous peacock-blue, universally crackled in dark lines, th? glaze overflowing the neck. Heir/ht. 17 inches. 331 — Royal Ptrple Tall Beaker (Earli/ K\tng-hsi) Dense, heav\' porcelain in characteristic beaker-form, with a bold decoration modeled in the paste, covered with a brilliant purple glaze on both exterior and interior surfaces. The decoration, incised and in relief, comprises archaic animals and one of the twelve ancient embroidery ornaments on the midband, with palma- tions of banana leaves pointing upward and downward above and below the band. Ileii/Jil. lay, inches. 332 — Pair Imperial Yellow Ovoid Jars {K'ang-lisi) Pure white porcelain of K'ang-hsi, enameled with a brilliant glaze of pale, bright Imperial yellow ; foot and interior glazed in white. Mark, the six characters of K'ang-hsi penciled in blue under the glaze. Height, 8% inches. 333 — Bottle-form Tea-di'st Vase (Ch'ien-lung) With globular-ovoidal body contracting to a graceful neck very slightly expanding. Covered uniformly with a tea-dust glaze, the green so dark as to be almost a black, and the glaze being carried to tlie interior of the neck and underneath the foot. The rim olivc-j'cllow and mahogany-brown. Height, 143.4 inches. 334 — Large Bottle-shaped Vase (Cliien-lung) Pure white heavy sonorous porcelain, in an ovoidal and some- what squat body on a bold foot, with full neck and flaring lip; covered with a mirror-glaze of a dense, opaque blue with mixed purplish and cobalt suggestion. Ch'ien-lung seal mark in blue on the white glazed foot. Height. 13 inches 33,") r.Mlt OF Goi.n-IM-.COIiATKI) M[lil!Ol!-ll K HoTTLKs (K\nuj-h.sl) Sphoric'iil bodies, ta[)LTitirr inh) tall, sk'iidcr nocks which finish with metal rims. Invested with a thick, deep, brilliant glaze of mirror-black penciled with an atHuence of tioral decoration in gold. Springing from a base border of stems and scrolls, a luxuriance of gracefully bending sprigs and blos- soms of chr^'santhenmm in gold over- spreads the bodies, connecting above with a shoulder band of four foliate medallions on a ground of hexagonal lattice, the medallions enclosing each an active animal, in different attitudes. Above this again an alternating border of long and shorter con\-entional palm leaves, pointing upward, surrounds the neck, which bears another narrow scrolled l)order beneath the rim. Hi if/Ill . Kji :, Indies. ip. 336 — Large Trui^roisi'; 13otti,i->shai'k.i> Vask {Chicn-Jniuj) Ovoidal-globular body and full neck with slightly flarin Coated with a finely crackled glaze in the washed turquoise, which extends for a considerable way down the interior of the neck. (T.ip slightly cracked.) HiUjlil. 13 ''i inches. uie of the green or 337 — AA'iDt; I.MPKHiAL Yeli.ow Bowl (K'urig-lisi) Ovoid, on a short cylindrical foot, the graceful contour recurv- ing to a lightly spreading thin lip. Sonorous white porcelain, glowing in a glaze of Imperial-yellow glory, pure, lustrous, covering uniformly the exterior and interior surfaces, which are without otlier adornment. On the white-glazed foot, penciled in blue within a blue double ring: T((-Ch'in iiirlii'.i) ; diamcier, 13'/4 inches. {Illustrated) f 369 — Tat,t. Peah-shaped CitAcKLii Vase {Ming) Tlic body gracefully expanding from a circular foot, tapering gently to a full neck and recurving to the flange-lip with round- ing rim. Rudimentar_y animal-hcad-and-ring handles modeled in the paste. Stone pottery coated with a glaze of light cafc-au- lait tone, which extends over the lip and beneath the foot and is crackled throughout. Height, 181/2 inches. 370 — Large Blue and White Fish Bowi. {Chia Ching) Heavy stoneware, glazed in white, with an all-round decora- tion of two fivc-clawcd dragons pursuing the flaming jewel amidst fire-scrolls, in deep [Mussulman blue. On the rim the six-char- acter mark of Chia Ching. Height. 15 inches; diameter, 281/0 inches. 373 371 — MixG PoncELAix Blue and AVhite Fish Bowl (Wan-li) Inverted-cone shape, with slightly ovoidal sides and thickened lip. Adorned with carp and long-nosed fish, lotus plants, de- tached blossoms and sea-waves, in the rich JMohammedan blue which has vanished from the ceramic art of the world. In- scribed on the lip: Ta-Ming Wan-li nien-chih (]Made in the reign of Wan-li of the great ^ling dynasty). Height, 17 inches (iciV/i stand, 36% inches); dimneter, SOVg inches. 372 — Large Pottehy Plaxt Jar (Yuan) Ovoidal contour, much resembling a huge cone standing on its broadly truncated end, with the upper end folded slightly inward and finishing Avith a low molded round lip. Two rudimentary handles of lion-heads with large rings, molded in relief in the paste. Covered uniformly with a rich creamy glaze of grayish tinge, crackled and exhibiting a metallic luster. Height, 16 inches (with stand, 40 inches); diameter, 30 inches. (Illustrated) 373 — Large Pottery Plaxt Jar ( Yuan) Circular, expanding slowly from the base, with a slightly bulbous shoulder recurving abruptly in a short, thick, everted flat lip. Encircled by two rings of prominent bosses and carrying four rudimentary or ornamental handles in the form of Fu-Hon heads modeled in high reHef. Covered throughout its exterior sur- face with a thick, unctuous glaze of rich turquoise showing many mottlings and variations of hue. Interior glazed in vellow. Height, ITVa inches (vith stand. 4I14 inches); diameter, 30% inches. 374 — Majestic Pottery Plaxt Jar (Yuan) Circular, with ovoid contour and thickened lip. The body coated with a fluent glaze of rich, deep indigo-blue, and the rim with a mottled aubergine glaze in "waterfall" effect. :\Iodeled in relief in the paste are lotus plants with buds and blossoms, and re- vealing the seed-pods, and over them birds and butterflies are seen, the reliefs glazed in turquoise-blue, green, white, mauve and yellow. Base encircled by a molded band of waves in aquamarine tint. Interior glazed in turquoise-blue. Height, 26 inches (with stand, 52 inches); diameter, 39 inches. (Illustrated) 375 — Colossal Plant Jar in Pottery {Early Ming) Slightly ovoidal contour with abrupt thick, half-round, everted lip flattened on top. The only decoration four ornamental handles of lion-heads with rings, vigorously molded in bold re- lief. Coated with a deep glaze of rich malachite with various flecks and mottlings. The handles, in addition to the green glaze, display yellow and an auhergine-hvo-wn. The interior glazed in a sky-blue. (Has been broken and repaired.) ^letal lining or inner tub inserted. Height, 33'/, inches (with stand, iSyo inches) ; diameter, 38 inches. 374 THIRD AND LAST AFTERNOON'S SALE SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914. AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES Beginning at 2.30 O'Clock WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 376 TO 519 OLD CHINESE VELVETS AND SUMPTUOUS BROCADES 376 — Two Silk Velvet Chaie Cushions Silk velvet of old-golden hue, cut and brocaded with a floral scroll pattern of chrysanthemum flowers and leaves in delicate tones of pink, blue and silver-gray. Eighteenth century. 20 inches square. 377 — Eight Silk Velvet and Gold Brocade Chair Mats Decoration, two archaic dragons in gold in the center on a ground of golden-pink velvet ; the border with floral scroll in gold within a ground of bright green velvet. Eighteenth century. Length . 20% inches; width, 14.i/i inches. 378 — Two Silk Velvet axd Gold Square Table Mats Golden-pink velvet field, brilliant with profuse lotus scrolls within an architectural border interrupted by medallions and scrolls, all in gold thread; outer Greek-fret border in gold on blue-green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. 24 inches square. 379 — Two Silk Velvet axd Gold Square Table ^Iats Similar to the foregoing. Eighteenth century. 23 inches sqmire. 380 — Two Silk Velvet and Gold Table Covers Fields of golden-pink velvet ornate with peony medallions and sprays in gold thread; borders of scrolls and foliations in velvet with a pale-green sheen, on a ground of gold thread. Eighteenth century. Length, 34 inches; width, 33 inches. 381 — Imperial Brocade Table Cover Central medallion of cloud-forms enclosing a five-clawed dragon woven in gold thread, on a field of conventional foliated medal- lions in lattice arrangement, with alternating enclosures of flying storks. Eighteenth century. Length, 37% inches; tvidth, 35 inches. 382 — Golden-brown Silk Brocade Entrance Hanging Decorated with four-clawed dragons, kylins, waves of the sea, clouds and symbols, in blue, green and other colors and silver thread. Eighteenth century. Height, 32 inches; width, 37 inches. 383 — Wine-color Silk Velvet Brocade Entrance Hanging Decoration in gold thread of dragons, kylins, waves, clouds and symbols. Eighteenth century. Height, 32 inches; width, 391/3 inches. 384 — Silk Velvet Wall Hanging Ornate decoration of lotus blossoms and scroll in pale shimmering green on a brilhant red ground, its hue changing with the direc- tion of the light. Eighteenth century. Height. 36 inches; icidth, 41 inches. 385— Four Silk Brocade Wall Hangings (Ch'ien4ung) Light, gray-green ground; adorned with landscapes, pagodas, cows, goats, deer and horses, flowers, and motives from the "Hundred Antiques," in various tones of green, yellow, brown, orange-pink and red. Length, 45 inches; width, 13 inches. 386 — FouE PiixES Chinese Sljlk anu Gold Brocade {Cliien-lung) On a ground of bi-illiant Imperial yellow through which gold threads run in profusion, successi\'e horizontal bands of car- touclies are woven, with blue and green predominant in their coloring. In a central medallion is a five-cLiwed dragon, and a scrolled companion appears at each of the corners of the fabric. Ilciffht. U iiichrs; length, 53 iiiche.i. (lUu.ff rated) 387 — Chinese C"rT-\ELVET Wali. Hanging (Ch'ien-Iuiig) From an ancient Temple of Agriculture. Soft pink, with a golden iridescence, the ornamentation picturing the eight Taoist im- mortals, the god of longevity and others, attending on the Em- peror, who appears in the center, besides clouds, storks, bats, deer and many symbols, and the name of the agricultural college. Has a deep green fringe with spangles. Length, 18 feet 3 inches; depth. \!-i-'-'^ inches (with fringe. 36 inches). 388 — Chinese Cut-velvet Wall-hanging {Clikrt-Jung) Congruous with the last and with the same colors and borders, and from the same school of agriculture, the name of which appears on both pieces. The major decoration of this piece depicts Fu-lions, filleted wheels and flame scrolls, and a frieze pictures bucolic landscapes. Length, 6 feet 5 indies; deptJi, 34 inches. 389 — Two Silk Velvet and Gold Wall Hangings Golden-brown field of silk velvet ornamented with four-clawed dragons, the endless knot. Dogs Fu with the brocaded ball, and bats, emblems of happiness, surrounding the "double-joy" sym- bol of two persons made happy, all in gold thread. Border of conventional scrolls and medallions in gold thread embraced within a blue-green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. Lengtli. 5 inches: width, 20 inches. 390— Golden Rose Silk Velvet Wall Hanging With decoration, cut in the velvet and woven in gold thread, of lions and the brocaded ball, and other symbols. Eighteenth century. Height, SSy^ inches; width, 7 feet. ;391 — Silk Velvet and Gold Wall Hanging Golden-pink field of silk velvet resplendent with two phoenixes and full-blown peonies in gold thread. Border of poppy-scroll in gold within a bright green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. Height, 23% inches; width, 7 feet lOy, inches. 392 — Silk Velvet and Gold Wall Hanging Woven in transverse section or oblong mats in a series of eight, each with a peony medallion and sprays in gold on a golden- brown velvet ground, bordered by floral scrolls worked in the soft velvet pile which here is a shimmering pale blue-green, over a ground of gold thread. Eighteenth centur}'. Length, 8 feet i'".. inches; icidth, 2 feet. .393 — I^arge Silk Velvet Wall Hanging Oblong field almost iridescent in the shimmer of the orange, brown, pinkish and flamc-hued velvet and the varied threads in which the ornament is woven, the ornamentation including two phienixes in tlie form of a central medallion, a phoenix at each corner, peonies, melons, leaves and scrolls. Wide border of silver- blue, orange-pink and white bats flying among silver-white cloud scrolls, all in the thread, on a Nile-green silk velvet ground. Eighteenth century. Length, 9 feet T'/o inches; vidth, 5 feet Sy^ inches. {Illustrated) 393 39-i — Large Ejibkoiukuf.d Chinese Wall Haxcung (Cli'uii-lung) With boundless wishes of longevity and happiness. On a salmon- pink ground brilliant as flame, in silk of a fine sheen, a decora- tion of regal affluence is embroidered in rich blue, white, gray, green, black and other silks, and made resplendent with an abun- dance of gold. The god of longevity, Shou-lao, appears offer- ing a peach of longevity to one of two sages who attend him on either hand, and above and all about are blossoms and clusters of the fabled fruit of long life, together with bats — symbols of happiness — flying among scrolling clouds. At the top of the hanging are sages studying a painting of the yang-yin symbol. Height. 10 feet 3 IihIhh: iridth, 7 feet 11 inrlie.i. The following rich brocades of silk velvet and gold-colored silk thread form a c omplete room decoration brought by a bride to the palace of her husband. All are of a warm, glowing, salmon-pink velvet, ornamented in medallions, scrolls, sprays and foliations of a blossoming-peony design in the gold-colored woven threads, with a border of the same threads embracing in some a continuous swastika fret and in others a conventional scroll of the Indian lotus in light green silk velvet, the whole exhibiting a lustrous sheen. Eighteenth century. 895 — Rich Beocades of Silk Velvet and Gold-colored Silk (A) Two Enteaxce Hangings. These have in addition to the ornamentation above mentioned several repetitions of the "double- joy" symbol, or emblem of connubial bliss — two persons made happy, or "twice glad." Height, 33% inches; breadth, 35^2 inches. (B) Eight Chair Covers. (C) Four Chair Covers. Levgth, 19 inches; width, 14 inches. Length, 19 inches; tvidth, 15 inches. (D) Two Pillows. Length, 2S inches: breadth, 10 inches; depth, 11 inches. (E) Eight Wall Hangings. Length, 03 inches; width, 19 inches. I (F) Four Wall Hangings. Length, fA inches (one. 60 inches); iridth, 19 inches. (G) Four Table Mats. 23 inches square. (H) Two Table Covers. Length. 34 inches; iridth, 3i; inches. CHINESE PAINTINGS ON GLASS The following Chinese paintings are of the Ch'ien-lung period, and are in Euro- pean carved-wood frames imported by the Chinese at the time. (A few are in Chinese frames of teakwood.) The painting is on the under-side of glass. Some of it is dis- tinctly Chinese in type, character, workmanship. Some is evidently the production of European artists, conforming more or less to Chinese canons, as European painters in China were compelled by the Emperor to do, even though they had endeavored earlier to introduce Western methods and ideas in the painting art. Some of the work is that of Chinese students of European masters, and in more than one of the paintings will be noted the influence of European landscape and genre painting, notably that of the Dutch school, an inheritance, doubtless, from the days of K'ang-hsi, when the Chinese ports were open and engaged in commerce with the Occident. The sizes given are exterior frame measurements. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 396 — Portrait or a Young Girl — Seated Height, 13% inches; width, 11% inches Three-quarter length portrait of ia young girl, seated and turned slightly to the right, her face almost full-front and large eyes looking directly at the spectator. She wears a low- neck, ruffled white gown with over-drapery of deep blue em- broidered in gold, and holds on her lap an odd-looking pet animal. A painting marked clearly by the European influence. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 397 — Flowebs Height, 17 inches; width, 11 inches (A table screen) A white-blossoming green shrub sends up gracefully bending stems from the foot of blue rocks on a green knoll. Above them a butterfly hovers in their fragrance. Mirror background ; the opposite side also a mirror. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 398 — Golden Landscape Height, 15 inches; length, 18% inches (A table screen) In a wooded retreat among mountains, trees and rocks golden against a dark sky, are numerous pavilions in red, blue and white, and in the foreground is a body of blue water. Three sages in embroidered robes, one walking, one seated and one standing, are severally contemplating nature from rock shelves and steps. On the opposite side is a mirror. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 399 — Chinese Girls Height, 21^/2 inches; K'idth, 15^ inches On a dais in a room with gray walls two small dark-haired Chinese girls are seated beside a table, looking at the spec- tator. One, who sits cross-legged, is gowned in pale pink em- broidered with floral spraj's. She rests one elbow on the low table and in her other hand holds a long slender tobacco pipe which she has been smoking. Her companion, in dark and light blue and pink, poises her head over one shoulder and holds her left little finger at her chin. ^s*- [Ilhistrated] CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 400— "Go" Height, 9,\^ U inches; tcidth, 151/4 inches Two figures are seated on a dais, facing the spectator, at either side of a low "checker-board" table, playing the game of "Go." One wears a pale blue-figured robe, the other a robe of soft gray trimmed in green with gold embroidering. On the table is a vase with a sprig from a flowering tree. Gray background with a gold-embroidered green-blue hanging draped above and at one side. {lUiistrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 401— The Pink Lady Height, 18 iuchcs; width, l-i inches Three-quartei- length portrait of a lovely Celestial maiden Avearing a rich robe of pink damask, at her dressing table at the completion of her elaborate toilette. In one hand, raised toward her shoulder, she holds a hand-mirror, but evidently satisfied with what it has already told her she looks out in the direction of the spectator. She has a broad forehead and oval face, and a cupid's-bow mouth. Her black hair is decked Anth ornaments, and her robe, which is lined in blue, is em- bellished with gold. Her dress beneath it is pale-green, lightly trimmed with black. {Illiutrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 402 — Lady Reading Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches A young lady with thoughtful, expressive face, is portrayed at three-quarter length, holding in her hand an open Chinese scroll. She has paused in her reading and looks up at the observer with deep, quiet eyes. Her flowing, pale-green robes are embelhshed with foliar scrolls, and rich trimmings and hnings of scarlet and yellow, ornamented in gold and black. She is seen against a blue background. (Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 403 — A French Lady Height, 221/4 indies; width, 13^4 inches Copy of a French painting of the late eighteenth century. One of the typical figures of the time, a round-faced, pink-cheeked young lady in a high-waisted and low-necked gown, is repre- sented at three-quarter length, standing, and painted in an oval. Her light hair is bound by a blue ribbon, she wears a pearl-gray waist and deep ecru skirt girdled in blue, holds sprays of blossoms in her hands and looks directly at the ob- server. In the spandrels about the oval are Chinese floral forms. {Illtist?'ated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 404 — An Ancient Story Height, 23 inches; width, 16 inches A representation in many brilliant colors of a tale from the rich treasury of Celestial myth and romance. In the im- mediate foreground at the left, a bright-faced boy in poly- chromatic robes stands in the hollow trunk of a dead tree, floating on deep blue waves and gazing heavenward. A httle back on the right a beautiful moon-faced maiden, in costume even more gorgeous than his, has descended on a cloud which hangs low over the sea. She holds up in one hand a fly-whisk, and in graceful serenity looks from deep eyes in the direction of the spectator. Background of conventional landscape. Against the sky is a long calligraphic inscription, reciting the love story pictured. 403 JIlHtMlli lrili>lll CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 405 — Lady Playing the Sho-flute Height, m-\\ inches; width, 151/. inches A young lady, seated, leans in graceful curves upon a table at her side, resting her elbows on it and with both hands holding up to her small mouth the musical reed instrument which the Japanese name the Sho-flute— one of the instruments used in Shinto to represent the sounds of paradise. She is seen at three-quarter length and wears a gown of rich velvet-black, over blue, with flowing lace sleeves. At a pause in her playing she looks directly at her observer. {Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 406 — GoLD-nsH Height, 2^14 inches; width, I6V2 inches Standing at the side of a table and seen at half-length is a placid and sweet-faced young mother, attending her small boy, who is watching gold-fish swimming in a transparent jar. The infant is nude save for the gamezutachi, which is orange-pink, embroidered with sprays and floral medallions, and he is sitting on the table. His mother, who is turned slightly to the left, her head gently inclined, wears a beautifully embroidered man- darin coat, light blue, with a narrow pink collar, and deep coral- red cuffs on the flowing sleeves. Sky-blue background. [Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 4-07 — Akchery in Winter Height, 27 inches; length, Sii^ j inches 111 a cold green f'oregTound a family of some consequence is assembled at the foot of some leafless trees — two men, three women and some boys, besides other persons — engaged in the ceremonial sport of arrow-shooting. Back of them in the snow are more bowmen, on horseback, shooting as they run. The ]5eople are variously garbed in winter robes of blue, red, white or other color, gold-embroidered. The mountainous back- ground is snow-co^'ere(l. under a dark winter cloud, and toward the right is seen a church clearly taken from a European paint- ing, as the architecture tells. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 408— A Gardkx Pakty (Black and White) Height, Q^y-U inches; length, 30 Vo inches Undoubtedl}^ a reproduction or copy of a Dutch picture, by a Chinese artist. A characteristic landscape composition of the Dutch school, with a broad river winding through it, and gabled buildings on either bank, the windows of the one on the right with the small "Dutch panes." In front of this build- ing, in the foreground, are men, women and children in Euro- pean dress and with a Celestial version of European features. Two, seated on a garden bench, hold wine glasses, and a child is coming up offering a rose. Others stand about in various attitudes and near the water a little girl is playing with a frolicking dog. {Illustrated) CHINESE PAINTING OX GLASS 409 — Taoist Pabamse Height, 221/. inches; length, SO'/i; inches Immortals of the Taoist cult are seated in a riverside garden composing poems, and jilaying the game of "Go," and stand- ing in study of an open scroll on which the yang-i/in symbol appears. They are robed in blue, white, red and brown. The landscape is in blue, gray, brown and pale green, and in a reddish-yellow pool are reflections of slender tree trunks. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 410 — A Garden Party of Sages Height, 221/2 inches; length, SQi/^ inches In a landscape blue in the fore and middle ground and gray- green in the distance a number of sages are assembled on a fenced-in lawn, enjoying a repast, attendants coming from a pavilion with replenishment. Their garden is on the border of a river, and at its brink another attendant is seated, setting afloat cups of wine in observance of an ancient and famous ceremony. The figures are robed in scarlet, blue and brown. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 411 — Ladies in "The Garden or Blooming Flowers" Height, 221/0 inches; length, SOl/o inches At the left a corner of a summer-house comes into view in a wooded and rocky landscape or natural garden, two ladies approaching on the veranda and another standing on the ground at the foot of the steps. Here on a level patch in the foreground are also other figures, one a boy mounted on a spotted stag. Through the landscape courses a placid river, and on the farther shore are seen some gray buildings. The whole landscape is done in blue, green and yellowish-brown. Rose-tinted clouds float in a blue sky. In a leaf on the pavilion is inscribed the name of the garden. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 412 — Warhiohs Height, 21 inches; length, 28 inches Great men of martial prowess are seen seated and standing within a portico, an aged sage and attendants api)earing before them with baskets of fruit. The robes of all — red, bhie, yellow, gray, green and brown — are richly brocaded in gold and color. In all there are eight figures, in various expressive attitudes. In the background a conventional landscape. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 413 — Warrioes (A ])in(lant to the jirefcding) Height, 21 inclie.s; length, 28 inches ]Mighty men of war now in the garl) of i)eace are assembled to the number of seven on a terrace, apparently recounting and enacting ancient exploits. One wearing two long plumes in his headdress is seated back of a table, a companion sitting at one end of it and another leaning on the opposite end. An elderly man has thrown himself to the floor in front of it in the attitude of telling or representing something, while three others are walking up. All wear ornate robes. Conventional landscape background. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 414! I^AXDSCAPE AVITH FiGUKES (Black iind White) Height, 22Vo iiulu:t; length, 'AQ\U inches The endecavor of a Chinese artist to produce a Euroi^ean pic- ture. In a landscape bordering a river, with mountains in the background, several ladies and children are gathered on a flat clearing with trees and brush enclosing it — the corner of a building coming into the picture on the right — watching some white kids about a feeding-trough. On the river sailing vessels are seen. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 41.5 — LandsCxVpe with Figures in a Garden (Black and White) Height, m\'.2 inches; length, 301/. inches A Celestial copy or adaptation of a Dutch painting. In the foreground young women in Dutch frocks are standing and seated about a tree, watching some children at play, at the right a young man and woman apparently "treading a measure." Their garden is just outside an arched gateway, and at the edge of a wandering river with castles on both banks among high hills, all the buildings with high gables. On the river are sev- eral sail. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 416 — A Pageant Height, 26% inches; length, 36')4 inches An enormous float on decorated wheels with scalloped rims, the front in the form of a conventional phoenix head, displays numerous figures and theatrical scenery in gaudy coloring. Four figures are represented in front as drawing the float by cords, and beside it walk several young men and women. Con- ventional landscape background visible at the right. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 417 — A Pageant (A pendant to the preceding picture) Height, 26% inches; length, 36% inches In this painting the float with decorative wheels has a grotesque animal as figure-head, and is drawn by four young women, in front, while three others walking alongside midway of the float assist them with its progress. Four men also walk beside it, their hands in different gestures. On the float, amidst the- atrical scenery, various actors are represented, and young women. CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 418 — Still Life — Flowers (Large panel in carved teakwood frame — panel cracked) Height, 49 inches; width, 31% inches A cloisonne enamel jar in characteristic coloring and design, resting on a small stand of cherry-colored lacquer, contains a dwarf tree-peony with a profusion of blossoms, the leaves yel- low, the blossoms a warm pink. Rich and elaborate background of floral brocade in two shades of dark blue (the whole painted) . CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 419 — Still Life — Flowers A companion to the preceding, with the same design of peonies and accessories. ANTIQUE CHINESE PALACE FURNITURE BIRDCAGES, LACQUERS, AND OTHER OBJECTS OF UTILITY AND EMBELLISHMENT 4^20 — Two Bkowx Lacqueu Boxes (Ming) Oblong, with metal mountings. Inlaid with mother-of-pearl and soapstone set in low relief, and further adorned with raised lacquer-work in different colors, the decoration including the tree-peony and magnolia, rockery, birds perched on branches and flying insects. Length, 15% inches. 421 — Two Maxdakin Hat Boxes (Ch'ien-lung) Deep cylindrical form, in brown, vermilion and olive-green lacquer, with ornamentation in gold outline and veining of lotus and lilies, foliar scrolls and bat emblems of happiness. Height, 12% inches; diameter, I514 inches. 422 — Paik ANTiauE Chinese Square Lanterns Lacquer frames with carved dragon corners, painted in gold with archaic dragon-scrolls, and ornamented with carved teakwood parapets ; the glass sides painted with graceful Chinese Court ladies in diff^erent attitudes and colors. The frames are of the Ch'ien-lung period; the glass panel paintings are by modem Chinese artists. Panels faced with delicate Chinese silk. Height, 23 inches; diameter, 17 inches. 423— Pair Antique Chinese Square Lanterns Similar to the preceding, but without the teakwood parapets, and somewhat smaller. As with the foregoing the frames are Ch'ien-lung, the glass-paintings modern; panels backed by thin Chinese silk. Height, 21 inches; diameter, 15% inches. 424 — C'hixese Tortoise-shell Birdcage Round, witli black lacquer base, on ivory feet and with ivory mountings and fei-fsui jade ornaments. Fitted with rustic perches and cloisonne enamel seed-cup and water-jar. Eighteenth century. Height. l(ii/4 inches: diameter, 8y^ inches. 42.5 — BuEFALO-HORX C'hixese Biudcage Round, with brown lacquer frame, on carved ivory feet, with carved ivory fittings, mountings and ornaments, and water and feed jars of C'h"ien-lung blue and white porcelain variously decorated. Carved ivory "worm-feeder" and additional orna- ment of fei-t'sui jade. Eighteenth century. Height. -2-2^'.. incJic.'t: (ii! 473 — Two AxTKii'K Chixksk Mats Short pile with loose texture and delicate sheen. Small medal- lions of \arious design, in light and dark blue, white, old-gold and ground-reser\'e, are sprinkled o\'er a fleld of light fawn, within a nai-i'(jw boi'der of fret in white on dark-blue with white and pale-blue guard stri[)es. This is succeeded by a wide border of interrupted fret in white on pinkish-fawn. Early eighteenth century. Ll'iu/th. :! frrf H illrlu'.i: iridlll. 1 fiinl U llirhrs. 474 — Ax-riQTK Ciiixksk ^lA-r short, compact pile and loose texture. Fawn-colored fleld with a medallion of rocks and blossoming trees in orange-brown, old- gold, light and dark blue, other tree-groups omitting the old- gold occurring lietween the medallion and angular spandrels en- closing the swastika. Border of swastik;i-fret with medallic in- terruptions. Kighteenth centui-y. hi'iiiilii. :i fi-i'l 10 iiifhc.s: width. ] /'()()/ n inches. e 4<75 — Rake Antique Chinese Round j\Iat Soft pile and loose texture. Probably made for some specia purpose, round mats being unusual among Celestial fabrics. Th circular field presents an agreeable confusion of subdued color, in subtly woven, restricted designs worked into the general and more pronounced display of tree branches with large blossoms, scrolling sprays and ornaments. A narrow border of light and dark blue Avith white dots is embraced within a wider one of bold leaf and blossom motive. Pearly eighteenth century. Diamctrr. 3 feet 10 iiichex. (lUusiratcd) 476 — An'itque Chinesk ]\Iat Soft pile and loose texture. Brilliant mustard-yellow oblong field, defined by a band carrying a geometrical pattern in two shades of blue and white. From alternate corners of the field a tree in C()l)alt and sap]ihire-blue springs, the branches sAvinging across the field midway and dividing it. In each sec- tion a flying stork appears abo\e a spotted stag which looks up at it — both emblems of longevity — also in cobalt and sapphire, with the addition of white. Border of the same yellow ground- color, pervaded by a composite meander and swastika-fret pat- tern in a subtle faAvn tone, pjigliteenth century. Liitf/tli. :i feel 10 hirhc.i: ii-idth. 2 feel 1 hi<-li. {Ill list rati'd) -Antique Chinesk ]\Iat Tawnj'-pink field strcAMi with peony sprays in white, dark and light blue and pale golden-yellow, between fretted spandrels and a foliar medallion of yellow, white and the ground-color reserve, into which is worked an extreme conventionalization of the archaic dragon-scroll in the two shades of blue with white. Conventional borders in blue and white and ground-reserve, with a meander in light golden-yellow. Early eighteenth century. Length. -1. feet 10 iiiehes: iriillh. :2 feet. (Illu.'ifreitcd) ^ ,^r •■■:.-■- I I 1 1 1 II I 1 11 1 iiw m w—jw—.— ^M - ^ # "" |J ' 1,4 t ' I ' l ^JT^^n yz:,::-^-<^:;:.^-/fc:'^sirimmffirf''>'!M':ry/',,,;>z. .■::,',' ' •■''I' "II : "■ •:f.y: r;, '.i */'3;w»wji,j<\.5v 503 ;fV«- ♦ «»-«: ^. f §i,-"*a^'kf ■its — AxTKin-: Chin'ksk Sutakk ^Iat Five-c'laucd dragons in lirilliant yellow oVLTsprcad a glouing sapphire ground, four dragcjns in tiie corners a[)pr(jacliing a large central one wlio^c body ciu'irclcs the tlaniing jewel. On all sides the conventional wa\c border at intervals inxadcs the field. The forms (jf the inonstLrs arc [)icked out in light-blue, orange-pnik and white, and the border comprises the colors of the general scheme. Seventeenth ccnturv. Lt'liillh. :' fi'rl ') ilirhi iridlll. :i feel li iurllr.^. 479 — AxTiQiE ('HixKsr-; Mat Short j)ile wiHi \-ei\et_v surface: delicate fawn and grevluiund hues foi- the dominant notes. Hie oblong field carrying con\en- tional trees spi-inging fi'om the directions of the ojjjiosite entis, and a central medallion exoht'd from scrolled ti-ee-fonns. Nar- row boi-der of tlie ground-colors with a nieandei- in light-blue, followed by a broader border of freely conventionalized tree or plant scrolls. Se\enteenth century. IjcikiUi. \- fci'l \ iiii-liix: iriillli. 2 f<'cl :! iiiclir:i. *ll^' ' m- m- ^^•, ^it * ^ IS- ^-i-^ *■ jafe^^* .1" ^- ■■%■ 'I* i^'Sis ^ «t # '# *'■ #: *■■%' :«. ■■*!# * :. ■ '■ "' '-. * # *' #■ .#'*■* #t ■ 4*.* *:,^' *:':* « / ^ . ., , _ ,„ , ie*/^i(!>\ *•;# .ife>';,<>. » ■iSO — AxTiqrE C'mxESE Rug Short, close pile; overcast sides and fringe ends. Field of sap- phire luster, strewn with small medallions in salmon-pink and pale yellow-white, encompassing a medallion of conventional archaic dragon-scroll in the same colors. Sides without borders ; multicolored end-borders disclosing the latch-hook and other Western Asiatic suggestions. Eighteenth century. Length. 5 feel iiirhrx: icidtJi. 3 feet. ■181 — Antique Chinese Rug Short, close pile ; loose texture. Tawny-salmon oblong field, without corner ornament, sprinkled with sundrv small medal- lions of varied design and color, about a large stork medallion in white, sapphire and sky-blue. Conventional borders. Early eighteenth century. Lent/IJi. i feet 6 itiehes: icidlti.'J feet 4 inches. 48,^ — Antkiue Chinese Saddee-c eoth Soft pile and loose texture. Foliar medallions, sprays and but- terfly-scrolls in yellow, white, brown and blue on a dark-sapphire field. Flower-scroll border in light and dark blue, white and light yellow, on an orange-brown ground. Eighteenth century. Leiir/lli. i feet T i.nrlie.'<: ttreaillli. ? feet 3 inches. 503 i.".vr^y'f.ttea 507 4-8;5 — AxTiQii-; ('iii> Ki Compact pill', floso texture. l^'lorul .iiid aii^'ular sei-oll cDniLi's in bright yellows on dark l)kie ; I'ii-li sapplure-bluc Held overspread by a fine lattice in lighter blue, the interstices enclosing a con- yentional de\ice in the same light-l)lue and white, and the lattice interru})ted by sprays, buttertlics and a medallion, in the yellows of tlic corner designs. Bright border with scrolls and SA'nibols. Eighteenth century. f.tin/lli. .', fii-l S iiirbcs: irhllh, :i ft', I .> hi, ■hex. 484 — AxTiQi'K Chixesk S.\i)i)i.K-ji.vr In the shape of the silkworm's cocoon. Short, soft, close })ile, witli a sheen delicate in tone and ricli in (juality. t'onven- tionalized ti-ee-blossoms in black, canary, fawn and blue, on a gray or light-fawn ground; sui'roundi'd by narrow fret and broad sci'oll bo)-dei-s. Se\(.'nteenth ctntury. Lciii/lli. !• /('('/ (i iiirliix: iriillh. ? fi'tl -: indict. 485 — AxTiQi-'E ('hixi-:sk Kn; Short f)ile and loose texture. Oblong field of salmon-pink with ;i lattice-fret in lighter tone, s))read with varied medallions m light yellow, light and dark blue, and white. Chief border a blue swastika-fret on light yellow gianind. Kightcentli century. Liniijlli, :> j'lcl (i iiirlirx; irii/lli, ;J fri'l 7 iiirlii'ii. 486 — ANTiauE Chinese Mat Gray-white field, with archaic dragon-scroll corners in two shades of blue, the field strewn with sprays and butterflies, in the two blues and light brown and yellow, about a floral medallion in the same colors. Dot, T-frct and flower-scroll borders. Eighteenth century. Length. 5 feel 2 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. ■iST — Antique Chinese Rug Compact pile, with loose texture. Field a quasi-salmon pink overborne by tawny hue, carrying floral and geometrical orna- ment in a central medallion and corners, with intermediate group- ings of blossoming dwarfed trees in tubs, all in sapphire and pale sky-blue, with white. Fret and floral borders. Early eighteenth century. Length, 5 feet i inches: iriJth. 2 feet 9 inches. 488 — Antique Chinese Rug A brown field of dark cafc-au-lait note is spread with conventional designs in white, yellow and two shades of blue, and has in the center a medallion presenting in the same colors a kyliii and phoenix and the endless knot. Bordered by a fret in salmon-pink on blue, and a further border of scrolling devices in blues, white and yellow on a ground-color the same as the field's. Eighteenth century. Lenjilh, 6 feet i inche.i; width. -3 feet 10 inches. (inu.strated) 489 — Antique Chinese Long I\Iat Short pile and loose texture. Salmon-pink field, with the archaic dragon-scroll in light and dark blue at the corners ; three large flower medallions among the "Hundred Antiques" in bright yel- low, brown, white and two shades of blue. Scroll border in harmony. Eighteenth century. Length, (5 fci-l 10 inclie.i: width. 2 feet 1 inch. (lUustrated) 508 49(J — .VxTiQi'K ( 'iiixk.sk Mat Soft, deep, conip:ict ]>]\v. Obloiiij field of deei' skin ^■|-ouiul, in wliicli ;(i'e worked se\cn lioi'ses. willow and other trees, m one of uliicli tuo f)irds pei'cli, moiintaiiis .iiid moss-spotted rocks, all in cofjalt and sap[)lii I'e-lilne, saliiioii-pnik, ^^llite, pale-yellow and different shades of hi-owii; an niiiisiial and indi\idnal decoration accomplislied in an interestin<>' niaiuiei-; the horses in different attitudes anrl no two alike in color. IJroad border of foliar scrolls in similar hues, followinf,^ a nai-ro\v hoi'der of key-fret in white on blue. Se'yeiiteenth century. LiiKjIh. (i fill I liirli; iriillli. :i j'lfl 2 iiirhrs. 491 — Exceptional ANXiauE Chinese Rug Short, dense pile, and rare ornamentation. Narrow-selvage sides and fringe-ends. A tawny-yellow throughout, with dragon deco- ration. A central medallion displays a dragon and scrolls in two tones of blue ; two flanking medallions two dragons each, in a yellow or yellowish-brown tone deeper than the body-color of the rug, with like scrolls in the two shades of blue; and about the field are eight other dragons in the two blues, picked out by the darker yellow. Surrounding the medallions and scattered throughout the fabric are innumerable twisted cords a few inches in length, coming through the pile and overlying the surface in shaggy carelessness of unique decoration. It has been con- jectured that they also serve as a protection to the surface of the fabric. Sixteenth century. Length, G fn't: u-idth. 3 feet 1 inch. 492 — Antique C'hixesk Rug Soft, compact pile ; overcast ends and fringed sides. On a light- fawn field the "Hundred Antiques," with various writers' table ornaments, scattered in blue, black, yellow and other colors around a medallion of floral and geometrical designs ; correspon- dent corner patterns, and borders ornamented in two shades of blue and yellow. Seventeenth centurv. Length, 6 feet 2 inches: width, 3 feet 10 inches. 493 — Eightetenth Centi-ey Chinese Rug Soft pile; loose texture. Glowing sapphire ground between over- cast sides and fringed ends, a narrow double-stripe of white and pale sky-blue furnishing the only demarcation of the expansive, gem-hued field. On this blue expanse are spread many foliate sprays and fluttering butterflies, scattered between medallions in pale-blue and white in the corners, and a composite central medallion in the same colors with the addition of yellow, brown, and the deep sapphire of the ground. Length, (i feet 3 inches; width, i feet 3 inches. .510 •Tprrr^'C •5 J',*~f ■ ,- ..«C* '■^^^^^^ '?/"«:t ^rr i^f'-.j ^'^ /yvri'""* n^ lid lU » ' — 7f "^ %"" J . 1"^ «^j . dl * - '^^ tot fef^ ^V /T - ip*''^ ^ «»*■ >- jT-s-a' \- -, ' V i:^w^; ;,>^i^ -^/r^^l J** iSSSSSHS S5i^fm*rt?W^ffl,-«-^^,^il^rT7- ' I ■^-rtPT.-T^JJ!" -.■«ir>^ni»-'- '.- •■,-'-^'"'' *fl'TWiW>;f ':'^E^^ .-^^^ ■7--'^^'"^'^ ^T-^ ^^^^-^,^4/^ £^. £.^ ■^ mV «*f ^ >1 ^^«'"'w-^'*%2>-^ •#^ WM^S^«0>y ^ly. -viL^, ^ ^ijiLJ ngr rviL-^ vi, M" /\ A^>>:s. ^•"ST raj C" o -^ sir _e.. - '3l_» ' f''/-'-7r ^ "^ V' -^."^ -3^* ^•:,:,- .^.^:e?-.*^.^'-^ ■;^. Std •^ i^&^ y V ■-./^ ^ P^ ^ 515 — Laeoe Axtiquk Ciiixkse Sqiaue Rue Short, close pile. The large square blue field is strewn with sprays and ornaments between a large central medallion and four smaller medallions which are set near the corner designs. The corners exiiibit the archaic dragon scroll with conventionalized floral forms, the smaller medallions flowers, foliations and angular scrolls surrounding a Shoii character, and the larger medallion conventional flower forms and scrolling foliations interwoven with the archaic dragon scroll. All decoration in orange-yellow, pale canarv, fawn color, white, various browns, and blue so deep that it appears almost a black. The blue of the field is an unusual one in carpets — of cobalt quality but in a rare hue. The numer- ous borders include a black swastika-fret on white, a meander and a broad band of foliations. Seventeenth century. Lcntjlh. 18 feet 1 inchex: iriilth. IT fret 10 inches. 516 TiGEK-SKIK RtG Characteristic markings in rich color-quality and of strong emphasis. Length, tip to tip, 9 feet 8 inches; spread, 6 feel 11 inches. 517 — Pair Marble Dogs Fu (EarJij Ming) Gate ornaments of white marble whose ancient surface is now gray. Carved in conventional attitude, on their haunches, one with its forepaw on the filleted ball, the other with a foot on a prostrate cub, and both looking well downward. Each carved in one piece with its heavy base. Heifjht, 3 feet 9 inches; width. 1 foot 10 inches; depth. 2 feet 6 inches. (Illustrated) 518 — Two DoG-Fu Gate Ornaments (Early Ming) In white marble grayed by time and weather. Seated on their haunches, one with left forepaw on a cub Fu and the other one with his right forepaw on the brocaded ball. Each carved in one piece with the plinth on which he rests, which is sculptured with flower forms and conventional devices. Heiqht, 3 feet 9 inches: irjdih, 1 foot 7 inches; depth. 2 feet 7 inches. 519 — Two UoG-l''r (iA-i-K Ornajiexts (Ecrrlij Ming) lioldly carved in wliite marble which time and exposure have turned to gruy, on carved pedestal bases which are ornamented with scrolls. Each wears his bell, and has his head turned well to one side. IL'ii/lit. :i fi'cl 7 inches; iridth, I fiivl 10 iiiclics; (leiilli. -2 feet Ci inches. A.AIERICAX ART ASSOCIATION. ^Iaxagers. THOMAS E. KIRBY, Atctioxeek.