ANTIQUE CHINESE FORGED- RMS Lilly NK 4565 .C383 1920 Property of the Estate of the late Mr. RUDOLPH E* SHIRMER and of Mrs. MARTHA B. SHIRMER i°i zo The JAMES A. THOMAS COLLECTION DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DURHAM, N, C, Date ^. Q. ^ P ivn Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/catalogueofantiq01amer ANTIQUE CHINESE PORCELAINS THE PROPERTY OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. RUDOLPH E. SCHIRMER AND OF MRS. MARTHA B. SCHIRMER TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION MADISON SQUARE SOUTH NEW YORK ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK BEGINNING SATURDAY, MARCH 13th, 1920 FROM 9 A. M. UNTIL 6 P.M. AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE DAY OF SALE ANTIQUE CHINESE PORCELAINS ORIENTAL CABINET OBJECTS AND OTHER ARTISTIC PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE BY DIRECTION OF THE OWNER AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17th BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUE CHINESE PORCELAINS FAMILLE VERTE, SINGLE COLORS AND BLUE AND WHITE SPECIMENS AND ORIENTAL CABINET OBJECTS TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE FOR ACCOUNT OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. RUDOLPH E. SCHIRMER AND FOR ACCOUNT OF MRS. MARTHA B. SCHIRMER ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17th, 1920 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 138709 THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANTS, MR. OTTO BERNET AND MR. H. H. PARKE OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers NEW YORK 1920 THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIRECTS ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY r 5 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 de¬ cide 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 pur¬ chase money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the purchasers 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 de¬ fault 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) aris¬ ing from such re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon pay¬ ment 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 da} r s—except holida} r s— 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 presenting 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. 138709 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 purchaser. 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 Asso¬ ciation of the correctness of the description, genuineness or au¬ thenticity 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 correctly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trust¬ worthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly cata¬ logued, 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. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, American Art Galleries, Madison Square South. CATALOGUE The American Art Association MANAGER SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES THE SCHRIMER COLLECTION Afternoon of Wednesday, March I 7th, 1920 To save time and to prevent mistakes each Purchaser will oblige the Manager by filling in this slip and handing it to the Record Clerk or Sales Attendant on making the first purchase. Purchaser’s Name Address in Full Amount of Deposit AFTERNOON SALE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O'CLOCK JADE, ROCK CRYSTAL AND OTHER HARD STONES 1 — Glass Snuff Bottle Bulbous flask shape with lion-mask and ring handles in relief. Transparent glass of pale amber tone. 2 — Glass Snuff Bottle Bulbous flask shape. Translucent glass in imitation of white jade, with soft polish. 3 — Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Ovoid and flattened, with delicate foot and flaring lip. Delicately mottled fei-ts'ui jade with a bright but soft polish. 4— Agate Snuff Bottle Bulbous flask shape. Translucent and opaque gray and brownish marbled agate with bright polish. 5— Jade Snuff Bottle Globular-jar form, flattened. Gray-white jade with soft polish, obverse and reverse carved with phoenix and peony in relief; silver-gilt stopper. Afternoon Sale 6— Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened and irregular eggplant-shape; translucent grayish-white jade with russet mottlings from ferrous percolation; soft polish. 7— Amber Snuff Bottle Globular form, flattened. Opaque yellowish-brown amber broadly mottled; ground and compressed; soft polish. 8— Jasper Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened flask-shape. Richly mottled and marked in warm tones of jasper-brown and flecked with dark green. Soft polish. 9— Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened flask-shape. Gray jade with fei-ts’ui veins and on one face a broad area of the delicate fei-ts’ui green. Bright polish. 10—Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened flask-shape. Grayish jade richly marbled on one face with the emerald-green, showing more deli¬ cate traces of the fei-ts’ui on the reverse, and further veined and touched with soft brown. Brightly polished. 11— Fei-ts’ui Jade Pagoda Four stories of fei-ts’ui jade cylinders, carved and pierced, the diameter less as the stories succeed one another, each roofed in green and blue enamel; on octagonal base of carved wood superposed upon a quadrilateral base of gilt bronze, chased and repousse. Height, 19y 2 inches. Afternoon Sale 12 — Sunspot Snuff Bottle Flattened globular form. Grayish jade-stone with a broad patch of jasper-red on one face, set with minute inlays which glisten silvery-white; soft polish. 13 — Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened ovoidal form with low foot. Cloudy-white jade with delicate fei-ts’tii markings and brilliant polish. 14— —Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened flask shape with rounding shoulders and underbody and low foot; on each face a plain panel in low relief, and on each side a vertical relief strip, grooved. Jade of liquescent mutton-fat tone and unctuous surface. 15 — Antique Jade Vase Yellowish-white jade with greenish trend, carved as a bamboo stalk, with peaches of longevity and the sacred fungus in relief at the base. 16 — Ornamental Jade Table Screen Composed of two oblong tablets of white jade, carved and pierced each with the figure of a smiling immortal holding a lotus flower and a ju-i sceptre, set upright in a carved buffalo-horn stand. Height of tablets , 3% inches each . 17 — White Jade Vase with Cover Elliptical on a low flanged foot. Reciprocal cover with two loop and loose-ring handles, surmounted bv a land dragon and fungus in relief. Soft polish. Height , 3 y 8 inches . Afternoon Sale 18— Carved Jade Vase Flattened globular form witli wide neck and two pierced scroll handles, body encompassed by a finely cut band of fret and riding on waves of the sea, which support also two dragons carved in relief and under¬ cut, at the sides of the vase. White jade of mutton-fat texture with waxen polish. Height, 3% inches. 19— Amrer-composition Vase Quadrilateral with rounded corners, a dragon in re¬ lief and undercut coiling about the shoulder and neck and looking over the lip. Material ground and com¬ pressed, and presenting a richly variegated color-mass, with the luminous surface of softly polished amber. Carved bone stand. Height, 3% inches. 20— Rock Crystal Perfume Bottle Pear shape with slender neck heavily banded below the lip, and short spreading foot. Brilliant polish. Height, 3y 8 inches. 21— Jade Ornament Elliptical and hollow, carved as an archaic conven¬ tional lotus flower. Pierced with two crescents, two circular apertures and a quadrilateral one; apparently a crowning element or section of some larger elaborate and complex ornament. Translucent grayish-white jade with snowflake texture and soft polish. Diameter, 4 y a inches. 22— Jade Bowl Flaring in ovoidal expansion from an embryonic foot, and with a lightly everted rim. Thin, translucent grayish jade with brownish and greenish veinings and softly brilliant polish. Diameter, 4y 2 inches. Afternoon Sale 23 — Ruby-glass Cylindrical Jar Transparent glass of ruby tone with soft lustre. Height, 4% inches. 24— Rock Crystal Vase with Cover and Stand Pear shape with full neck circled by two ring mold¬ ings, and two ju-i loop handles; cover with recurving loop handle; elliptical stand on four ju-i feet. Height, 5% inches, 25 — Rock Crystal Vase with Cover and Stand Flattened ovoidal form, with low foot fitting into a silver-capped pedestal which rests on four ju-i feet; inserting cover with undercut lion finial. Height, 6y s inches. 26—White Jade Vase Form of an obelisk standing on its apex, truncated and supplied with a low circular foot, and supporting a short crescent lip; corners indented, panelling the sides. Translucent white jade with soft polish. Open¬ work teakwood stand of rockery, fungus and bamboo. Height, 6y g inches. 27—Jade Incense Burner with Cover Quadrilateral, with two upright loop-handles and four boldly carved dragon-head feet. On each side two archaic dragons in relief, above a studding of bold bosses, and at corners and the centres of the sides dentated ridges. Incised fret border on rim. Dense greenish-gray jade with soft polish. Teakwood cover surmounted by a carved jadestone lion. Height, 8% inches. Afternoon Sale 28—Pair Ornamental Trees in Enamel Jardinieres Quatrefoil jardinieres of Pekin enamel, with brilliant floral ornamentation in polychrome on cerulean and greenish-turquoise grounds. Gnarled trees of gilt wood, with leaves and blossoms of jade and coral. Teakwood stands. (Trees repaired.) Heights, 22% and 23% inches. 29—Horn Netsuke Shuttle or bobbin shape, divided at the centre and circled by rings of Japanese silver to hold clasp; in the interior a trick animal innocuous in a dry land. Length, 3 inches. 30— Two Miniature Enamel Cups Quatrefoil with low foot. One with floral scroll in polychrome on canary-yellow ground, the other with sages and landscape on creamy-white ground. 31— Enamel Quatrefoil Tray Sides in floral scroll, bottom of interior with swastika- lattice in dark brown on a 3 r ellowish-green ground, en¬ closing a white medallion penciled with household orna¬ ments in polychrome and gold. Diameter, 3% inches. 32— Pair Pekin Enamel Bridal Bowls Inverted bell shape. Exterior decorated with highly conventional lotus designs in polychrome on a bleu- de-roi ground, and slmang hsi (double joy) symbols between them in gold; interior with coral bats and a Shou medallion on a turquoise-blue ground. Diameter, 4% inches. Afternoon Sale 33—Gold Lacquer Inro Four sections; plants growing outside a cottage win¬ dow, in black, red, silver and gold lacquer. Length, 3% inches. 34—Gold Lacquer Inro Four sections; vines, grasses and butterflies in black, silver and gold lacquer on a gold lacquer ground. Length, 3% inches. 35 —Black Lacquer Inro Three sections; herons, streams and water plants in gold and silver lacquer on a gold-spangled black lac¬ quer ground. Length, 3V4 inches. 36— Lacquer Incense Box with Cover Oblong and shallow. Mountain and stream decoration in gold, silver and black lacquer, interior in nashiji. Length, 3 inches. 37— Gold Lacquer Powder Box with Cover Compressed globular form; pomegranate decoration in tangible relief, interior in nashiji. Diameter, 3% inches. 38— Black Lacquer Inlaid Box with Cover Quadrilateral with corners rounded. Floral and orna¬ mental inlays in mother-of-pearl and lacquers, on exterior and interior of cover; seal signature on the interior. Length, 5% inches. Afternoon Sale 39—Cinnabar Lacquer Cake-box with Cover Compressed globular form on low foot. Finely fluted in conventional flower-petal design, the overlapping petals carved with floral reliefs on an incised fret ground. Diameter, 7 inches. 40— Carved Lacquer Tray Carved as a wide-spreading lotus flower, resting upon a bundle of stems and the leaves of buds which spring from them, in brown, red, green and gold. Diameter, 9% inches. 41— -Wood and Lacquer Inlaid Box with Cover Oblong, containing drawer and upper compartment. Cover inlaid with a hanging basket of beautiful flowers, in mother-of-pearl, porcelain and other substances. Signature and seal in interior of cover. Length, 10% inches. 42— Lacquer Writing Box with Cover Oblong; cover with beveled edge, which is lacquered in gold with floral scrolls in delicate relief. Cover and sides in wave design finely executed in brown and black. Interior with nashiji clouds on a black ground, and containing ink-stone and water-pourer. Length, 10% inches. 43— Gold Lacquer Chariot Conventional form, the house ornamented with chrys¬ anthemum sprays in relief, and mounted in silver, including doors and shutters, which are engraved with floral scrolls including the Imperial crest, the sixteen- petaled chrysanthemum. Cart similarly adorned, and also inlaid. Height, 6% inches; length, 11% inches. Afternoon Sale 44—Black Lacquer Inlaid Cabinet Oblong, with six drawers, one containing ink-stone and water-pourer; silver mounted. Floral, bird and swim¬ ming-fish decoration in red and gold lacquer. Wild geese and other birds flying, and the long-tailed bird perched on a blossoming plum tree, inlaid in mother- of-pearl. Height, 10>4 inches; length, 12 14 inches. 45—Sunspot Bronze Tripod Incense Burner Low cauldron shape on squat legs; two upright scrolled-loop handles. Reddish-brown and olive pa¬ tina. Fictitious Hsiian Te mark. Diameter, 3y 2 inches. 46—Antique Bronze Incense Burner with Cover Globular with spreading foot and short incurvate neck; two animalistic loop handles. Around the shoul¬ der beaded cords in relief, from which similar cords are festooned about the body, pinned with jewels and supporting jeweled tassels. Neck inlaid with silver fret border, and two characters similarly inlaid under¬ neath foot. Soft brown, green and reddish patina of unctuous surface. Cover gilt. Height, 3y s inches. 47 — Bronze Tripod Incense Burner Cauldron shape with two upright twisted loop han¬ dles. Brownish and olive-toned patina. Hsiian Te seal mark (fictitious). Carved teakwood cover with carnelian finial. Diameter, 3% inches. Afternoon Sale 48— Bronze Incense Burner Broad and shallow pear shape with low spreading foot, and two side handles. “Sunspot” bronze with dark olive and brown patina. Fictitious mark of Hsiian Te. (Probably of Japanese manufacture.) Tcakwood cover with imitation jade (glass) finial carved as a Buddha’s-hand citron. Diameter, 6 inches. 49— Antique Japanese Wrought Iron Box with Cover Sixteenth Century Cover with a repousse design of cock and hen, side by side, ornamented with gold and silver inlay and lac¬ quer. At lower right corner an incised inscription. Interior of box and cover in water-gilt. Under bot¬ tom, inscriptions incised in script and ideograph. Length, 9 y z inches. BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAINS 50— Pair Blue and White Tea Jars Quadrilateral with flat shoulder and short upright lip. On the four sides a depressed ground of mottled lapis- lazuli blue, rich and brilliant, interrupted by decora¬ tions modeled in relief in white, including figures of Shou-lao the god of longevity, his emblem the spotted stag, pine trees and the sacred fungus, also emblematic of long life, bats, symbols of happiness, and conven¬ tional clouds. Teakwood covers. Height, 4% inches. 51— Blue and White Hawthorn Ginger Jar K'ang-hsi Detached clusters of the wild prunus blossoms reserved in white in a brilliant lapis-blue ground checked in dark lines in representation of disintegrating ice. Height, 5% inches. Afternoon Sale 52— Blue and White Cylindrical Brush-holder K'ang-lisi Lightly flaring at lip and foot. Decoration, two feng- huang on the wing amid conventional clouds, in bril¬ liant sky-blue. Teakwood cover with amethystine quartz finial. Height, 5% inches. 53 — Blue and White Ginger Jar Cli'ien-lung Around the body a deep band of conventional lotus- scroll in two tones of cobalt-blue on a milk-white ground; three varied borders. Pierced teakwood cover. Height, 5% inches. 54— Blue and White Hawthorn Ginger Jar Detached blossom clusters of the met in white on a blue ground heavily marked in dark lines in “cracking-ice” pattern, interrupted by three foliated medallions re¬ served and painted with motives from the “hundred antiques.” Height, 7y 4 inch es. 55 — Blue and White Ginger Jar Yung Ctu'ng Landscape decoration in rich blue varying in tone, on a brilliant ground of creamy-white; shoulder border of vermicular scroll; double-ring in blue at foot. Height, 7% inches. 56 — Blue and White Bowl K'ang-hsi Inverted bell shape on bold foot. Within a ground of pulsating cobalt-blue, such as is familiar in the “haw¬ thorn” vases but without the ice lines, four-clawed dragons and the whirling jewel of omnipotence amid conventional clouds, in white reserve and penciled in pale blue. Mark of Ch’eng Hua (apocryphal). (Rim slightly nicked.) Diameter, 7% inches. Afte moon Sale 57— Blu e and White Bowl Yung Clieng Inverted bell shape on bold foot. On the exterior five four-clawed dragons each grasping a Shou character, in two tones of blue on a ground of fine and brilliant white; another dragon at bottom of interior. Mark, a sprig of peaches within a double-ring. Diameter, 8 % inches. 58 — Blue and White Bowl Octofoil, flaring from a low foot, both sides and rim gently undulatory, and the eight panels picturing the celebrated eight horses of the Chou Emperor Mu Wang, which were reputed to have traversed all the roads of the realm; done in sapphire-blue and trans¬ parent wash, the horses being seen in various land¬ scapes. Mark, an incense burner within the K’ang-hsi double-ring. Diameter, 814 inches. 59 — Blue and White Ovoid Jar With short lip slightly expanding. Shaded lapis-blue decoration in four foliated panels displaying a stork, dragon and two phoenixes among clouds, besides de¬ tached scroll designs and two borders. Six-character Chia Ching mark (fictitious). Height, 8 % inches. 60— Two Blue and White Hawthorn Ginger Jars K’ang-hsi Cobalt-blue ground penciled in dark lines in the “crack¬ ing-ice” pattern, supporting detached blossoms and upright blossoming branches of the winter-blooming wild prunus tree reserved in white, the ground further interrupted by three polyfoliate medallions reserved in white and penciled with household ornaments in blue. Crenellate borders at foot and shoulder. Carved teak- wood covers, one set with a white jade carved disc. (Lip of shorter one repaired.) Heights, 8 y 2 and 8 % inches. Afternoon Sale 61—Blue and White Oviform Vase Yung Cheng High, sloping shoulder and truncate neck. Light but resonant white paste, of the so-called “soft paste” type, clothed in a brilliant cream-white glaze delicately crackled in self-color and cafe-au-lait, with an under¬ glaze decoration of a mountainous lakeside landscape and two sages, in rich and brilliant blue. Height, 9 inches. 62—Blue and White Bottle with Silver Cover K’ang-hsi Pear shape with low foot. On the body a standing- figure facing a stork and followed by attendants bear¬ ing a fan and a lute, and on the shoulder and neck floral bands, in rich blue and transparent wash. Fitted with silver rim and hinged cover. Height, 9% inches. 63 — Blue and White Bottle-form Vase Cli’ien-lung Globular with cylindrical neck. Decorated in deep blue of two tones with a huge three-clawed dragon within a conventional lotus-scroll, on a ground of pure white. Seal mark of the reign. Height, 11% inches. 64 — Blue and White Cylindrical Jar K’ang-hsi Sloping shoulder and underbody, spreading foot, and short neck expanding to a flanged lip. The ornamen¬ tal banana and a vegetable plant of large leaves in dark and light blue on a creamy-white ground, on the body, on shoulder and underbody hawthorn blossoms and cracking ice lightly penciled in blue line, and varied borders on neck, lip and foot. (Gold lacquer repair at lip.) Height, 15% inches. Afternoon Sale 65— Blue and White Temple Jar with its Own Origi¬ nal Cover K’ang-hsi Hawthorn pattern decoration, the branches of a single “hawthorn” ( mei ) tree in bloom completely encircling the vase, tree and blossoms reserved in white in a bril¬ liant blue ground checked in black lines in representa¬ tion of the disintegrating ice of winter; two crenellate borders in blue; on the neck a ju-i border in white reserve. Cover in accord. Height, 16% inches. 66— Blue and White Jar Oviform with wide neck and expanding lip. Extensive and varied landscape decoration in rich and brilliant sapphire-blue, with sages in a pavilion and crossing a bridge, farmers on the road, one of them riding a buf¬ falo, and two men in a boat, the landscape finely painted and the figures expressive, but the features of the faces not delineated. Height, 17% inches. 67— Blue and White Beaker K’ang-hsi On the neck a potentate receiving a visitor, both seat¬ ed, with a male attendant and two women of the household standing. On the foot a sage seated beside a rock in his garden, with attendants bringing his lute and refreshments and sprinkling a potted plant. On the mid-section displays of the lotus, peony and chrys¬ anthemum. All in glowing sapphire-blue and trans¬ parent wash on a brilliant cream-white ground. Six- character mark of Ch’eng Hua (apocryphal). (Gold lacquer repair at lip.) Height, 17% inches. 68— Blue and White Beaker Cli’ien-lung Decoration a brilliant lotus scroll highly conventional¬ ized, in rich sapphire-blue on a pure white ground; five borders. Height, 18 inches. Afternoon Sale 69—Blue and White Beaker K’ang-hsi On upper and lower sections sages and houses about mountain lakes, and on the mid-section archaic repre¬ sentations of the dragon and phoenix, each with the sacred fungus, all in brilliant blues on a milk-white ground. Mark, the blue double-ring. Height, 18 inches. 70 — Blue and White Beaker K’ang-hsi Ground of floral lattice, with hatch and vermiculate borders, enclosing foliated reserve medallions bril¬ liantly painted in sapphire-blue with the eight Taoist immortals. Mark, a blue double-ring. Height, 18 14 inches. 71 — Blue and White Bottle-form Vase Ch’ien-lung Globular with low and broad foot and tall and full neck, both incurvate. On both body and neck a broadly designed and highly conventional lotus scroll, in two tones of blue; two fret borders on neck and a con¬ ventional petal border on foot. Mark, a blue leaf with fillets. (Late Ch’ien-lung copy or adaptation of an early K’ang-hsi fabric.) Height, 23% inches. 72 — Blue and White Tall Jar Ch’ien-lung Ovocylindrical with sloping shoulder, cylindrical neck, and broad lip of bulbous expansion. Vigorously painted decoration, in brilliant blue, of tw'o happy beings under a pine tree, the immortal character whose familiar was the three-legged toad, which rests on his shoulder, and a brother carrying a vase of lotus flow¬ ers ; beside them rocks and the bush bamboo. On the shoulder bats among clouds, on neck and lip leaf and ju-i borders. Height, 24% inches. Ifte moon Sale SINGLE-COLOR SPECIMENS 73 — Globular Water Jar K'ang-lisi Clothed in a monochrome glaze of rich lapis-lazuli blue with mirror surface. 74 — Cylindrical Jar K'ang-lisi With sloping shoulder and underbody, and short lip and foot. Luminous glaze in the soft green of the young bamboo, with delicate fishroe crackle. Diameter, 3 inches. 75—Quadrilateral Vase The four sides exhibiting sunken panels pierced in floral and lattice designs, with a dense enamel glaze of turquoise type. Silver mounted, with four ju-i feet. Bears a four-character mark. Height, 3% inches. 76—White Vase After one of the ancient bronze forms, such as were greatly favored in porcelains under Ch’ien-lung. Qua¬ drilateral, with expanded sides, on a base with ju-i feet, the whole flattened, giving a diamond-shape to neck and foot. Relief decoration of symbolic bats sur¬ rounding Shou characters, under a moist-seeming white glaze. Height, 3% inches. 77—White Tripod Incense Burner Ming Broad and shallow pear shape, with two side-loop handles, on stump feet. Fuchien type, with a very brilliant glaze of soft creamy-white, boldly crackled in self-color. Teakwood cover with pierced jade medal¬ lion. Height, 4 inches. Afternoon Sale 78 — Quadrilateral Reticulated Vase Ch’ien-ltmg Edges molded and the sides enclosing sunken panels of scrolled grill-work, the whole within a glaze of luminous white. Height, 4 inches. 79 — Fuchien Dragon Bottle Ming Squat body with steeply-sloping shoulder and slender neck expanding toward the lip; low foot. On the neck a lizard-dragon grasping a sprig, in relief, the whole in a glaze of soft cream-white. Height, 4% inches. 80 — Ovoid Jar with Cap Cover Kuang Hsii Mirror-glaze of camellia-leaf green type, with fishroe crackle in fine dark lines. Height, 4% inches. 81—Tripod Incense Burner Cauldron shape with two loop handles formed of plum tree branches supporting pendent blossoms, and mon¬ ster-head feet. Stoneware with a gray glaze of soft lustre, splashed and souffle with a mulberry-red, in an aspect sometimes known as “chicken’s-blood” and occa¬ sionally seen in soapstone carvings. Teakwood cover with fei-ts'ui jade finial. Height, 414 inches. 82 — Cucumber-green Bottle K'ang-lisi Globular with low foot, slender tapering neck and ex¬ panding lip. Monochrome glaze of cucumber-green, truitee, of soft lustre. Afternoon Sale 83—Writer’s Water Jar Semiglobular with embryonic lip and retired foot, re¬ sembling somewhat the peachbloom writer’s jars, and clothed as to the exterior in a glaze of maroon-red of soft lustre, with crackle, the interior in gray-white with cafe-au-lait crackle. Six-character Ch’ien-lung mark. Height, 4 inches. 81—Peachbloom Water Dish K’ang-hsi Shallow, compressed globular form with wide mouth and low foot. Peachbloom glaze of rich notes, includ¬ ing ashes-of-rose tones and the greenish fleckings. Six- character mark of the reign. (Repaired.) Metal lattice-work cover. Diameter, 4% inches. 85—Peachbloom Jar Ch’ien-lung Globular with short neck and slightly expanding lip. Brilliant peachbloom glaze of characteristic tones. Six-character mark of Ch’eng Hua (apocryphal). Height, 5 inches. 86— Incense Burner Shallow and broad pear shape body with low foot and flaring lip, and two animal-head relief handles. Shan¬ tung ware in a luminous glaze of yellowish iron-rust brown with metallic lustre. Teakwood cover with car- nelian finial. Diameter, 4% inches. 87— Double-gourd Bottle Ch’ien-lung Bright watermelon-green glaze with metallic lustre and fishroe crackle in fine dark lines. Height, 5% inches. Afternoon Sale 88—Green Crackled Bowl K’ang-hsi Ovoid, lightly flaring at the rim; on low foot. Dense watermelon-green glaze with fishroe crackle finely marked in dark lines. Diameter, 5% inches. 89—Rorin’s-egg Souffle Bottle Ch’ien-lung Pear shape with low spreading foot and slender, ex¬ panding neck. Robin’s-egg souffle glaze of dull lustre. Height, 5% inches. 90—Small Blue Amphora Ch’ien-lung Monochrome glaze of rich bleu-de-roi with mirror prop¬ erties. Height, 6 inches. 91 — Green Crackled Jar Kuang Hsu Ovoid with short neck and lightly everted lip. Coated with a softly lustrous glaze of dark apple-green hue exhibiting a close mosaic crackle in brownish lines. Lip and interior in cafe-au-lait with crackle lines inten¬ sified. Height, 6 inches. 92—Peachbloom Bowl With recurving sides and low foot. Interior and ex¬ terior coated with a dark peachbloom glaze deepening to ashes-of-roses tones and marked by a vertical and sporadic crackle in dark lines. Six-character mark of Iv’ang-hsi within a blue double-ring; but a modem production. Diameter, 6y a inches. Afternoon Sale 93—Rose du Barry Vase Slender form, of cylindrical suggestion, but with slight- l} r incurvate sides rounding into the high shoulder, which supports a short neck with flaring lip. Brilliant rose du Barry glaze, with edge and interior of lip white. Mark, a double-ring. Height , 6% inches . 9d—I kon-rust Incense Burner Low and broad pear-shape body on bold foot; spread¬ ing and flattened lip; two ox-head handles in i*elief. Metallic souffle glaze of steely note on an iron-rust red ground, with soft lustre. Teakwood cover. Diameter , 614 inches . 95— Reticulated Quadrilateral Celadon Jar The four sides reticulated in lattice form, resting on four ju-i feet, and enclosing a cylinder; short neck and broad floral lip. Brilliant glaze of pale grayish celadon-green. Japanese Hirado ware. Height , 6% inches . 96— Lime-green Vase Chi'en-lung Oviform with high shoulder and truncate neck. In¬ vested with a monochrome glaze of delicate lime-green, of mirror surface, with a fishroe crackle in pale cafe- au-lait. Height , 6% inches . 97— Pistache Bottle Yung Cheng Pear shape with low foot and slightly incurvate neck. Dense porcelain in a delicate pistache-green glaze of soft lustre. Height , 6% inches . Afternoon Sale 98 — Apple-green Bottle Kuang Hsii Ovoid with sloping shoulder and tubular neck. Lus¬ trous apple-green glaze truitee in dark cafe-au-lait lines. Height, 6% inches. 99 — Broad Inverted Bell-shape Bowl Exterior enameled with a rich maroon glaze of peau- d’orange surface ; interior in white. Foot penciled with a seal mark. Diameter , 7% inches. 100 —Crackled Bottle-form Vase Ch’ien-lung Ovoid with full and slightly tapering neck. Dense and heavy hard-paste white porcelain, invested with a luminous glaze of soft lavender-blue of clair-de-ltme quality, traversed by a broad and bold crackle in self¬ color and cafe-au-lait. Height, 7% inches. 101 — Clair-de-lune Bottle Ch’ien-lung Pear shape with short slender neck and low foot. In¬ vested with a monochrome glaze of soft brilliancy, in delicate bluish clair-de-lune hue. (Lip somewhat chipped.) Height, 7% inches. 102 — Crackled Bottle Globular with low foot, and slender neck slightly ex¬ panding at the lip. Dense porcellanous stoneware clothed in a glaze of light greenish-gray with an intri¬ cate cafe-au-lait crackle. Height, 7% inches. 103 —Splash Bottle Chia Cli’ing Spherical with low foot and slender tubular neck. Robin’s-egg green glaze of soft lustre, with marbled polychromatic splashes. Height, 73/ 8 inches. Afternoon Sale 101 —Transmutation Gallipot with Silver Lip Body clothed with a glaze of the transmutation fur¬ nace exhibiting trickling streams bluish and creamy- white over a dark purplish sang-de-bceuf ground, of orange-skin surface and lustre. Neck in gray with light crackle. Attributed to Ming, but probably of eighteenth century origin. Height, 8 inches. 105— Clair-de-lune Bottle Yung Clieng Pear shape with low spreading foot, slender neck and bulbous lip. Lip and underbody modeled in lotus-petal form in low relief, neck circled by a molded and incised ring. Monochrome glaze of faintly tinted greenish moonlight-white of subdued lustre. Height, 8 inches. 106— Bleu-de-ciel Bottle Ch'ien-lung Low ovoidal body on a bold foot, with slender neck very slightly incurvate, and flaring lip. Body encir¬ cled by a light equatorial molding which is indented by an incised ring; the neck also encircled by lightly molded rings. Luminous glaze of soft and variable grayish sky-blue. Height, 8% inches. 107— Blue Bottle-shape Vase K'ang-hsi Globular with spreading foot, and cylindrical neck with expanding lip. Rich bleu-de-roi glaze slightly mottled, with a surface of subdued mirror properties. (Slight chip in lip.) Height, 8 inches. 108— Lapis-blue Ovoid Jar K’ang-hsi With short molded lip. Enameled with a rich lapis- lazuli blue glaze of subdued mirror brilliancy, which discloses a giant crackle and retains vestigial marks of an original floral decoration in gold. Height, 8% inches. Afternoon Sale 109— Pair Apple-green Bottles Kuang Hsii Globular-ovoidal body and full neck. Brilliant glaze of fine apple-green tone, doubly crackled, a bold crackle in dark brownish lines embracing a minute fishroe crackle in a lighter, more delicate brown. Un¬ derneath foot and within the neck, a grayish rice-white glaze with bold crackle in rich cafe-au-lait. Height , 8 inches . 110— Reticulated Celadon Vase Barrel-form with spreading and festooned lip, and resting upon a circular base modeled as a carved stand, the whole in openwork floral tracery with modeled and incised details. Bright celadon glaze of light greenish tone. Height , 8 y 4 inches . 111— Lapis-blue Bottle Cliien-lung Ovoid with tubular neck. Peau-d'orange glaze of slightly grayish lapis-lazuli blue, with misty-mirror surface. Height , 8% inches . 112— Lapis-blue Bottle Ch’ien-lung Spherical, with swell neck ending in a slender tube. Fine monochrome glaze of lapis-lazuli blue, w r ith mir¬ ror surface and on the body a perceptible sub-surface crackle in darker lines. Height , 8% inches . 113 — Green Crackled Bottle-form Vase Tao Kuang Pear shape with low foot, short and slender neck and trumpet lip. Brilliant glaze of very light and delicate, pale apple-green, with fishroe crackle and a secondary widely-spaced crackle both in fine dark lines. Inner lip in gray-white with cafe-au-lait crackle. Height , 8 % inches . If ter noon Sale 114 — Ashes-of-roses Gallipot Yung Cheng Glazed in the gray and purplish-rose hues of ashes-of- roses, with the surface of a mist-coated mirror. Height, 8% inches. 115 — Apple-green Beaker-form Vase Cli'ien-lung Glaze of rich apple-green tone with brilliantly irides¬ cent metallic lustre, and a bold, firmly marked crackle in dark brownish lines. Interior of lip and neck in grayish-white, with the crackle continued in deep cafe-au-lait lines. Height, 8% inches. 116—Apple-green Gallipot Lustrous glaze of apple-green, with a bold crackle in dark lines enclosing a fine fishroe crackle delicately marked. Under foot and within lip, gray-white glaze with dark cafe-au-lait crackle. Height, 9 inches. 117—Double-gourd Bottle-shaped Vase Shoulder of lower section and base of upper section modeled with petal borders in low relief; two loop- scroll handles uniting the sections and resting upon trefoil drops on the shoulder. Glaze of olive-mustard yellow of dull lustre. Height, 9% inches. 118—Coral Bottle Ovoid with low foot, a bold molding or flange at the root of the slender tubular neck, and a lightly spread¬ ing lip. Entire exterior invested with a monochrome glaze of rich coral-red of dull lustre and subdued mirror properties. Beneath the white-glazed foot a double-ring in rich underglaze-blue. Height, 9% inches. Afternoon Sale 119— Sang-de-bceuf Gallipot Glaze of mirror brilliancy, with orange-skin pittings and discernible crackle, displaying in rich quality the tones of the fluent and congealing blood, with touches of the brownish hardening. Height, 9% inches. 120— Rose Amphora Ch'ien-lung Inverted pear shape with flaring foot and slender in- curvate neck. Bright glaze varying from red to purple-rose, with du Barry hints. Height, 9% inches. 121— Globular Bottle-shape Vase Yung Cheng Variable red glaze involving notes of the kindred fam¬ ilies peachbloom and sang-cle-bocuf, the hues ranging from peach-pink and crushed-strawberry to brownish fleckings of coagulation and areas of liver-color, with a surface of delicate peau-d' orange type. (Small chip at lip.) Height, 10% inches. 122— Chrysanthemum Bottle in Peachbloom K’ang-hsi Spherical with slender and graceful slightly incurvate neck. Body surface occupied by a dense chrysanthe¬ mum scroll in peach pink, with minute green fleckings, three borders in the same coloring appearing on the neck, demarcated by blue rings. Six-character mark of Ch’eng Hua (apocryphal). (Lip slightly chipped.) Height, 11% inches. 123— Peachbloom Bottle-shape Vase Ch'ien-lung Spherical with deep, recurving foot, and full neck with trumpet lip. Glaze of peachbloom type deep in tone and but slightly varied, with a delicate variety of peau- d'orange surface and dull lustre. (Glaze slightly chipped at lip.) Height, 11% inches. Afternoon Sale 124— Sang-de-bieuf Bottle-shaped Vase Ch , ien-lung Globular with low and broad foot, and thick neck ex¬ panding at the lip (which is copper-capped). Dense glaze of dark sang-de-baeuf, with lighter areas, deep deckings and a bold crackle, and an orange-skin sur¬ face. Height, 11% inches. 125— White Crackled Jar Yung Clieng Roughly cylindrical, of irregular, rumpled and incised surface, crudely representative of a tree-stump and rocks; rounded shoulder and short incurvate neck, and retired foot. Paste of Fuchien type, clothed in a bril¬ liant cream-white glaze crackled in self-color and cafe- au-lait. Height, 12 inches. 126— Lapis-blue Bottle-shape Vase Ch'ien-lung Ovoid with deep foot, and full neck with trumpet lip. Brilliant glaze of deep lapis-lazuli blue. Height, 12% inches. 127— Unusual White Jar K’ang-lisi Cylindrical, with four dattened sides separated by broad vertical indentions, giving a quatrefoil contour; rounded shoulder with embryonic neck and expanding lip, and retired circular foot. On each of the sides a quatrefoil panel in relief, two of the panels supporting lion-head and ring handles with tasseled pendants of bundles of scrolls, in super-relief, and the other two panels bearing long incised inscriptions of more than dfty characters each. On the shoulder a scrolled border incised and in relief. All beneath a brilliant and rich cream-white glaze with a vertical crackle in self-color and cafe-au-lait, clothing a dense and heavy, resonant porcellanous stoneware. Height, 13 inches. Afternoon Sale 128—Mustard-yellow Bottle Pear shape with tubular neck, and low and broad foot. Mustard-yellow glaze with fishroe crackle in fine dark lines and a slight metallic lustre. Height, 13 inches. 129—Mazarin-blue Bottle-shape Vase Cliien-lung Globular with shaped foot, and wide neck slightly expanding at the lip (which is copper-rimmed). Mir¬ ror-glaze of rich mazarin-blue. Height, 13% inches. 130— Tall Oviform Jar Cliien-lung With broad convex foot, high shoulder, and short neck with flaring lip. Glaze of dark rose du Barry tone with bright surface and a detectible crackle. Height, 14% inches. 131— Sang-de-bieuf Vase Ch’ien-lung Oviform with flaring foot, short cylindrical neck and everted lip. Glaze of sang-de-bccuf type, mainly in the brownish tones, with delicate orange-skin surface and of soft lustre. Bears a Ch’ien-lung seal crudely pen¬ ciled in underglaze blue. (Slight repairs at lip.) Height, 14% inches. 132—Bleu-souffle Bottle-form Vase Yung Cheng Ovoidal with broad equatorial expansion, deep, ex¬ panding foot, short and full neck and trumpet lip. Luminous bleu-souffle glaze, grayish slate-blue with darker notes, suggestive of the powder-blues. Height, 15% inches. Afternoon Sale 133— Sang-de-bosuf Vase Oviform with flaring foot above an underfoot, short wide neck and trumpet lip. Brilliant glaze of drip¬ ping, fluent sanq-de-boeuf red, boldlv crackled, and with much-pitted surface. Height , 16% inches . DECORATED PORCELAINS 13d— Decorated Snuff Bottle Cilia Cli’mg Oviform, elongated and flattened. Dragon and phoenix in polychrome relief on a reticulate white ground. Height , 3 inches . 135— Porcelain Snuff Bottle Cli’ien-lung Oviform, with ju-i and keyfret foot and neck borders, the surface between them showing a dragon and phoe¬ nix in relief on a reticulated ground which stands clear of the body of the bottle within. Glaze of gray¬ ish purple-blue. 136— Decorated Snuff Bottle Chia Cit ing Flattened ovoidal form with a decoration of immor¬ tals on the sea modeled in relief, glazed in polychrome and touched with gold. (Fictitious Ch’eng Hua mark.) 137— Miniature Eggshell Cup K'ang-hsi Ovoid, with a four-clawed dragon and conventional cloud in green enamel touched with red and white on a brilliant white ground. 138— Small Cylindrical Jar Cliien-lung Decorated in rose-verte enamels on a ground of creamy-white, with warriors on horseback accompanied by halberdiers afoot (who are penciled with identical ideographic characters) pursuing a horseman who has plunged his steed into a stream. Teakwood cover and table-stand. Afternoon Sale 139 —Eggshell Cup K’ang-lisi Inverted bell shape with low foot. Underglaze and overglaze decoration of field grasses and flowers and a blossoming peach tree, delicately done in soft and fine color on a brilliant white ground. Sealed inscription in underglaze-blue. Six-character mark of the reign. 110 —Globular Jar Pale purplish-rose ground with incised scrolls, decor¬ ated with floral sprays in various enamels. Height, 3 inches. 141 — Blanc de Chine Cylindrical Jar Body banded with swastika-lattice in relief on a sunk¬ en ground, interrupted by relief medallions of figures, the figures in oil gilt gesso; above and below r , floral scroll borders pate-sur-pate, the ground brilliant white. Silver-lattice cover. Height, 3 inches. 142— Small Quadrilateral Vase Ch’ien-lung Sides swelling from a flat foot, and recurving in a rounded shoulder and short expanding lip. Two animalistic handles in relief. Reddish-brown glaze with black, purplish and golden metallic lustre and minute crackle. Height, 314 inches. 143 — Marbleized Gallipot Splash glaze of light yellow, purple-rose, gray-blue and grass-green on a creamy-white ground, in marbled effect. Height, 3% inches. 144 — Inverted Bell-shape Cup Ch'ien-lung Flower and butterfly decoration in enamels and over¬ glaze-red on a creamy-white ground. Diameter, 3% inches. Afternoon Sale 145—Coral-red Cur of Happiness Ch’ien-lung Semiglobular, flattened to elliptical form, with a bat, symbolizing happiness, overspreading one end, its wings curving down and serving as feet. Coral-red glaze penciled with lotus and ju-i scrolls in gold. Diameter, 4 inches. 146— Semi-eggshell Cup and Saucer Cup inverted bell shape. Decoration, figures and flowers in polychrome enamels on white reserves, within a gold ground with floral scroll reserved in white and outlined in red. Diameter of saucer, 4 inches. 147— Blue Decorated Bottle Cliien-lung Inverted pear shape with slender neck and flanged lip, and two animal-head relief handles, pierced. Glaze of deep starch-blue, over a floral decoration lightly in¬ cised and appearing in darker lines. Height, 4 inches. 148— Pair Bell-shape Bowls with Covers Conventional lotus decoration in colors of the verte- rose family, between composite scroll borders in under¬ glaze-blue. Diameter, 4% inches. 149 — Pair Dragon Bowls with Covers Ch’ien-lung Inverted bell shape, the porcelain delicate and of musical note. Brilliant glaze of pale yellow with metallic lustre; exterior decorated with emerald-green dragons pursuing the coveted jewel, interior with a Shou medallion in green. Apocryphal mark of Hsiian Te. (One cover repaired.) Diameter, 4% inches. Afternoon Sale 150— Decorated Cup and Saucer Cup inverted bell shape. Both decorated in famille- rose enamels with the fruits of the three abundances, in white reserves within a cobalt-blue ground penciled with golden scrolls. Diameter of saucer, 4% inches. 151— Pair Bowls with Covers Ch'ien-lung Ovoidal, very slightly flaring at the rim. Decoration, wishes for the “three abundances”—years, sons and happiness—expressed through the emblematic peach, pomegranate and Buddha’s-hand citron, which appear in fruit and flower in famille-rose enamels on a pale robin’s-egg ground. Seal mark. Diameter, 4% inches. 152— Dragon Jar Ming Squat beaker form. Exterior glazed in a soft and mottled yellow, interrupted by an incised decoration of five-clawed dragons pursuing the sacred jewel among clouds, above a conventional border, all appear¬ ing in a soft and light green. Mark, Cheng Te nien chih, in underglaze blue within a double ring. Height, 4% inches. 153— Pair Decorated Bowls with Covers Ch'ien-lung Delicate, musical white porcelain with a glaze of soft w r hite, the bowls adorned with brilliantly appareled equestrian figures and the covers with a dignitary waiting to receive them, within a wall before a gate of which an attendant is sweeping the way clear, all in polychrome enamels. On both bowls and covers long poetical writings finely penciled in black. Seal mark in underglaze blue. Diameter, 4 1 / 2 inches. Afternoon Sale 154— Rose du Barry Bowl Cldien-lung Ovoid with low spreading foot. Exterior in a rose du Barry glaze of light tone and delicate peau- d’orange surface; interior in white with iris decoration in enamel colors. Foot penciled with four characters in blue. Diameter, 4% inches. 155— Cylindrical Bowl Ch’ien-lung Underbody rounding in to a low foot. Canary-yellow ground with rich floral decoration in famille-rose enamels, and enclosing three leaf-medallions reserved in white and penciled with swimming fishes among water- plants. Teakwood cover with coral finial. Diameter, 4% inches. 156— Decorated Ovoid Jar Tao Kuang Detached sprays of various flowers and fruits in famille-rose enamels on a ground of soft white. Petal and ju-i borders. Height, 5 y s inches. 157— Pair Five-color Bottles Cliien-lung Globular with slender neck. Kylins, blossoms and Buddhistic emblems, in aubergine, yellow, red and white, on a green ground vermicide, representing the sea. Height, 5i/ 2 inches. 158— Famille-verte Pi-t’ung K'ang-hsi Decoration, a sage accompanied by two attendants and a spotted doe, in a garden, in delicate enamels of the famille-verte and rouge-de-fer. Pierced teakwood cover. Height, 5% inches. Afternoon Sale 159— Pair of Bowls with Inscription Tao Kuang Flaring bell shape with low foot. Decoration sheep in a landscape of blossoming flowers and trees, in poly¬ chrome enamels on a lustrous white ground, the por¬ celain of clear, ringing note. Identical inscriptions penciled in black with three red seals. Under foot, seal of the reign in underglaze-blue. Diameter, 5% inches. 160— Four-color Ginger Jar Ming Ovoid. Phoenix-and-peony decoration, and lotus border, in deep rouge-de-fer, and green and yellow enamel, on a ground of soft white. Teakwood cover surmounted by a rodent on a clam-shell. (Small gold lacquer repair at base.) Height, 5% inches. 161— Pottery Jar Ming Globular with flat foot and short lip. Glaze a rich swamp-green of dull lustre, closely crackled. Pierced teakwood cover. Height, 5% inches. 162— Inverted Bell-shape Bowl Yung Cheng Ornamented with motives from the Hundred Antiques, in polychrome enamels on a ground of soft white. Square seal mark of two characters within a double¬ ring, all in underglaze blue. (Gold lacquer repair.) Diameter, 6 inches. 163— Famille-verte Bowl K'ang-hsi Ovoid with low foot. Delicate, sonorous porcelain, with a luminous soft white glaze, decorated in famille- verte enamels with longevity symbols, the peach of immortality and the sacred fungus involved in a finely executed scroll and the fruit bearing various Shou characters. Mark: Ta Ch'ing K'ang-hsi nien chili. Diameter, 6% inches. Afternoon Sale 164 — Ting-yao Bottle-shape Vase K’ang-hsi Ovoid on low foot, with slender neck and trumpet lip. Delicate, resonant white porcelain, with brilliant white glaze over a rumpled surface and rock peony decora¬ tion in low relief. Height, 6y 4 inches. 165—Circular Dish K’ang-hsi Ovoid on low foot. Light and delicate translucent white porcelain, with exterior and interior decoration of waves in green enamel and underglaze-blue, and in addition on the interior a dragon and four fishes in rouge-de-fer, on a white ground. Mark of Ch’eng Hua (apocryphal). (Slight repair at rim.) Diameter, 6y 4 inches. 166—Decorated Ovoid Jar Glazed in a delicate bluish-green, interrupted by three circular reserves of grayish-white, which are penciled with Shou medallions in rouge-de-fer of the tone of the Mings. Giant crackle in fine dark lines, with an inter-space crackle of delicate fishroe type, the larger crackle alone continuing across the white reserves. Height, 6 y 2 inches. 167—Decorated Bottle Ch’ien-lung Pear shape with slender, slightly tapering neck, and low foot. Luminous glaze of pure soft white, decorated with a pair of peacocks, rocks, bamboos and blossom¬ ing plum trees penciled in enamel colors. Seal mark. Height, 6% inches. Afternoon Sale 168 — Perfume Sprinkler K’ang-lisi Globular with bell foot and tapering neck. Glazed in soft brown from iron peroxide, of delicate mirror sur¬ face, this ground interrupted by six leaf medallions reserved in white and painted in pale cobalt-blue with blossom sprays. Height, 6% inches. 169 — Ting-yao Bottle K’ang-lisi Globular on low foot, supporting a neck in form of a slender low-bodied pear-shaped vase, the lip lightly flaring. On the neck a four-clawed dragon among clouds, pdte-sur-pate, the whole under a softly bril¬ liant glaze of creamy-white. Height, 6% inches. 170 — Ovoid Jar Ch’ien-lung Mustard-yellow ground minutely truitee, traversed by a composite floral scroll in polychrome with a pre¬ ponderance of purple-rose. Petal, ju-i and flower- spray borders. Seal mark of the reign. Height, 7 inches. 171 — Slender Cylindrical Jar With short neck and lightly spreading lip. Decorated with a highly conventionalized lotus scroll in green, white, robin’s-egg blue and dull aubergine enamels, on a yellow ground. Height, 7 inches. 172 — Decorated Bowl Ch’ien-lung With recurving sides and low foot. Exterior in a light lime-green enamel of unctuous surface and in¬ cised with tendril scrolls, supporting a rich floral ornamentation and a bird perched on a branch, in polychrome. Ch’ien-lung seal mark. Diameter, 7 inches. Afternoon Sale 173—Polychrome Hawthorn Jar K’ang-hsi Inverted pear shape with short neck slightly con¬ tracting. Green enamel glaze checked in black lines in cracking-ice pattern, with conventional clusters of the wild prunus blossoms reserved in white, touched with underglaze rouge-de-fer and enameled in pale yellow. Teakwood hat-shaped cover. (Repaired at neck.) Height, 7% inches. 171—Eggshell Lamp-shade Ch’ien-lung Globular, with cylindrical base and short contracting lip. Delicate translucent semi-eggshell porcelain, the body stippled in red and adorned with lotus-flower scrolls in polychrome enamels and rouge-de-fer , this ground interrupted by scrolled reserves of brilliant white, penciled with hydrangeas, peonies, chrysanthe¬ mums and butterflies. Five borders. ( Slight shoulder- crack filled in with gold enamel.) Height, 7y 4 inches. 175— Springtime Vase Cliien-lung Oviform with high, sloping shoulder and truncate neck. Thin and delicate white porcelain, resonant, and clothed with a luminous glaze of soft creamy white. Famille-rose decoration of two pensive young ladies each with a fan, pausing in a leisurely garden stroll to regard a pair of rabbits; flowers in blossom about them. (Slight gold lacquer repair at lip.) Height, 7% inches. 176— Famille-verte Vase K’ang-hsi Inverted pear shape with short neck slightly con¬ tracting. Famille-verte decoration of butterflies, chrysanthemums, and a bird perched on a bamboo tree, Teakwood hat-shaped cover. Height, 7% inches Afternoon Sale 177—Quadrilateral Bottle-form Vase Ming Pear shape with spreading foot, and two lion-mask and ring handles in relief. Aubergine ground of brilliantly iridescent metallic lustre, with plum and chrysanthe¬ mum decoration incised and enameled in green and white. Cheng Te seal mark incised beneath glaze. Height, 7y 2 inches. 178—Varicolored Bowl Inverted bell shape with festooned rim and bold foot. Exterior paneled with a variety of patterns in under¬ glaze and overglaze colors and gold, a deep coral-red predominating; interior given to landscapes in blue and white. Diameter , 7% inches. 179 — Green and Black Vase Ch'ieu-lung Inverted pear shape with trumpet neck. Myrtle-green glaze of subdued mirror-surface, minutely crackled, and an underglaze peony decoration and three borders, in black line. Lower border and shoulder show model¬ ing in the paste. Height, 7% inches. 180—Eggshell Decorated Bottle Ovoid, on low spreading foot, with flattened shoulder, tubular neck and lightly everted lip, the neck encircled bv a light molding. Delicate semi-eggshell white por¬ celain, clothed in a mirror-glaze of soft white and decorated in underglaze copper-red with the presenta¬ tion of an imperial infant before Shou-lao, who holds on his extended hand a peach of longevity. Six-char¬ acter mark of K’ang-hsi. Height, 7% inches. Afternoon Sale 181—Decorated Bottle Cliien-lung Ovoid with slender neck and bulbous lip, and spreading foot. Decorated with a Fu-lion, four cubs and the brocaded ball, finely etched in black and coral-pink on a ground of pure soft white; on the foot floral sprays in similar coloring, and about the neck brocade bands in delicate polychrome enamels. Height, 7% inches. 182—Famille-verte Spill Vase K’ang-hsi Cylindrical with lightly spreading lip and retired foot. The rock peony and other flora in rouge-de-fer and famille-verte enamel colors. Height, 7% inches. 183—Enameled Gallipot Chia Cliing Underglaze and overglaze decoration of blue rings and a blue petal border, red fret border, and a deep band of pendent leaf-forms on the shoulder in green and yellow and blue and red. Six-character mark of Ch’eng Hua (apocryphal). Height, 7% inches. 184—Pair Presentation Bowls with Covers Yung Cheng Sides recurving and flaring from a bold foot; covers broad bell shape with cylindrical handle. All rims indicated as hexafoil by small incisions. Decoration, imperial dragons and the omnipotent jewel among clouds above the sea, executed in rouge-de-fer and two tones of underglaze blue, and polychrome enamels. On each piece the six-character mark of the reign within a blue double-ring. Diameter, 7y 8 inches. Afternoon Sale 185—Powder-blue Decorated Bottle Yung Cheng Pear shape with spreading foot, slender neck with bulbous expansion and lightly expanding lip. Powder- blue glaze of deep tone, with foliate medallions reserved in white and penciled in blue line with ornaments and emblems. Height, 8 inches. 186—Double Vase Chia Ch’ing “Full-moon” twin bodies on quadrilateral feet, in joint modeling, with individual tubular necks. Decorated in famille-rose enamels, on one face with two young ladies greeting two men at the entrance to a garden pavilion, and the fabulous hare pounding out the elixir of life in a mortar, and on the other with immortals borne upon clouds, and a standing rooster. Height, 8 inches. 187—Pair Quadrilateral Vases Ming Body square, contracting to a spreading pedestal base, with sloping shoulder supporting a square neck to which is attached a silver lip. Underglaze and over¬ glaze decoration in polychrome touched with gold, em¬ bracing landscapes, birds, animals, flowers and orna¬ ments. Height, 8 inches. 188 — Famille-rose Gallipot Ch'ien-lung Body in purple-rose enamel with polychrome decora¬ tion of conventional lotus scroll and the eight Bud¬ dhistic emblems of happy augury, between petal and ju-i borders; three additional neck borders. Seal mark. Height, 8 inches. Afternoon Sale 189—Purple-rose Bottle Ch’ien-lung Pear shape with low spreading foot and tubular neck. Monochrome glaze of pale purplish-rose with peau- d’orange surface and soft lustre. Height, 8y s inches. 190—Decorated Green Ginger Jar Cilia Ch’ing Glazed in pale yellowish-green of dull lustre, with leaf¬ shaped panels reserved in white and painted in cobalt- blue with mountainous landscapes. Pierced teakwood cover. Height, 8 y 4 inches. 191 — Latticed Bowl T’ung Chili Large inverted bell shape with low foot. Exterior pen¬ ciled with a swastika-lattice in rose enamel, over which imperial dragons in blue, green and black, pursue the whirling jewel in turquoise; red ju-i border and blue pellet border on canary-yellow. Mark: Ta Cli’ing T’ung Cliih nien chill (T’ung Chih, predecessor of Kuang Hsii). Diameter, 8% inches. 192 — Pair Cylindrical Jars K’ang-hsi Decoration in brilliant rouge-de-fer and dull enamels on a milk-white ground, picturing a sturdy figure in voluminous robes who has dismounted from his steed and stands looking upward and holding up a scroll in an attitude of offering or of petition. In one he is looking at a bat overhead, in the other into space, and a small seal beside him bears two characters common on the two jars, the third character varying. Teak- wood cap-covers incised with concentric rings. Height, 8% inches. Afternoon Sale 193— Incised Gallipot Ch’ien-lung Five imperial dragons and the omnipotent jewel, among conventional clouds, all finely incised beneath a thin, transparent glaze of pale yellow with softly luminous surface. Ch’ien-lung seal mark penciled in dark brown glaze. Height, 8% inches. 194— Basket-work Bottle Ch’ien-lung Globular with full neck. Basketry surface, with petal, fret and plantain-leaf borders, clothed in a glaze of vermilion lacquer hue with dull lustre and embellished with four Sliou medallions in gold. (Neck repaired with gold lacquer.) Height, 9 inches. 195— Ovoid Jar Ming With bold foot, and short neck with lightly molded lip. Five-color decoration, in underglaze and over¬ glaze, representing the dragon-horse, blossoms and emblems, on a whirlpool sea, amid rocks. Shoulder- border of floral sprays. Height, 9% inches. 196— Blue Decorated Vase Yung Cheng Oviform with high shoulder, short full neck and ex¬ panding lip. Brilliant glaze of slate-blue, with under¬ glaze decoration of deeper note picturing a lady in a garden and bats fl\'ing overhead. Has a Yung Cheng seal mark in underglaze-blue. Height, 9 y 2 inches. 197— Unusual Hawthorn Amphora Enameled with a mottled ground of black and dark green, overspread by rambling wild prunus trees in full blossom in white. (Neck repaired.) Height, 9 1 /, inches. Afternoon Sale 198—Decorated Pilgrim-bottle Vase Ch’ien-lung Incurvate neck, dragon-scroll loop handles and low spreading foot. Light canary-yellow glaze, with flower and fungus scrolls reserved and glazed in two tones of blue, and on obverse and reverse peach-medallions in relief in the yellow ground and decorated with branches of peaches and flaying bats, in the same treatment as the scrolls. Seal mark of the reign. (Slight chip at tip.) Height, 9% inches. 199 — Tripod Incense Burner Yung Clieng Circular, ovoid and shallow, with monster-head handles in high relief, and heavy scrolled and tooled feet. Rich glaze of lapis-blue with mazarin-blue trend and olea¬ ginous surface. Teakwood cover with amber finial. Diameter (with handles), 9% inches 200—Pair Enameled Vases Cli’ien-lung Inverted pear shape with spreading foot and con¬ tracting truncate neck. Rich decoration in conven¬ tional lotus motive, with ju-i and petal-design borders, in famille-rose enamels on a delicate robin’s-egg enamel ground. Height, 9% inches. 201—Cylindrical Club-shaped Vase K’ang-lisi Famille-verte decoration of birds and butterflies, and two young ladies and two boys in a garden, under a weeping-willow tree at the border of a lotus pond. (Metal-capped lip.) Height, 10% inches. Afternoon Sale 202— Wu Ts’ai Jar Ming Inverted pear shape with short wide neck and molded lip. On the body, pendants of symbols and ornaments, butterflies, and four circular medallions divided into nine compartments each, the central space a square enclosing a carp springing from the waves, or a kvlin. Peony, chrysanthemum, and conventional-petal bor¬ ders. All in underglaze lapis-blue and dense rouge- de-fer, and green, yellow and aubergine enamels, on a white ground. Height, 10% inches. 203— Black Hawthorn Jar K’ang-hsi Inverted pear shape with short upright lip. Rich black enamel glaze of iridescent metallic lustre, inter¬ rupted by mei (“hawthorn”) trees in bloom, their trunks glazed in aubergine and the blossoms in white and pale yellow r , while the bush bamboo in green grows amongst green rocks at their feet. (Lower section of a beaker, ground down.) Mark, a blue double-ring. Height, 10% inches. 204— Black and Green Amphora Ch'ien-lung On the entire exterior a deep black ground of dull, soft lustre, with decoration reserved in a soft, pale green, its principal motive a highly conventional lotus scroll, with four formal borders. Mark, a blue double- ring'- Height, 11% inches. 205 — Altar Garniture of Five Pieces Chia Citing All rectilinear: incense burner on four feet, with two detachable upspringing handles; pair beaker-shaped vases; pair incense holders with midbody tray. Decoration conventional floral forms in polychrome enamels, and on the incense burner also animalistic medallions and a rolling sea. (Tray of one incense holder repaired.) Heights, 8% to 9% inches. Afternoon Sale 206— Decorated Bottle-form Vase Ch'ien-lung Globular with cylindrical neck, two dragon-scroll handles and spreading foot. On a luminous ground of soft white, Taoist immortals, bats and a constellation in delicate polychrome and gold. Seal mark. Height, liy 2 inches. 207— Tall Hexagonal Vase Ch'ien-lung Inverted pear shape, the body high, with long, flowing foot; short neck. Underglaze and overglaze decora¬ tion in polychrome and gold, presenting garden shrub¬ bery in blossom beneath a weeping-willow tree. Height, 11% inches. 208—Rose-enamel Bottle Yung Clieng Pear shape with short neck and trumpet lip, and spreading foot. White glaze of soft lustre, with a heavily painted decoration of two imperial dragons and the jewel of power among clouds, above a heaving sea, in purplish-rose enamel of two tones. (Foot repaired.) Height, 11% inches. 209—Decorated Hexagonal Vase Cilia Ch'ing Expanding from a pedestal-base to an abrupt shoulder, with crescent neck and flaring lip. Figure decoration of eighteen figures, men, women and children, in domestic scenes in and out of doors, in polychrome enamels and gold on a white ground. Height., 11% inches. Afternoon Sale 210 — Pair Baluster Vases with Original Covers K’ang-hsi Body in large spiral fluting, with lotus borders modeled in the paste on shoulder and at base of underbody, and also on neck and at the top of the spreading foot. Bell-shaped covers similarly modeled in lotus form, festooned and with lotus finial. The whole in under¬ glaze blue and vermilion and green, yellow and auber¬ gine enamels. Height, 12% inches. 211 — Wu Ts’ai Jar Ming Inverted pear shape, its wide and short neck slightly incurvate and ending in a lightly molded lip. Rich and vigorously executed wu ts’ai decoration, the im¬ perial emblems, the supernatural lung and feng-liuang, appearing two each amid conventional cloud-forms, the intervening spaces blazing with the flames of the dragons’ breath; ground, a fine, soft white. (Gold lacquer repair at neck.) Height, 12% inches. 212 — Pilgrim-bottle Vase Tao Kuang With cylindrical neck and dragon-scroll handles, and spreading foot. Lotus scroll and emblematic bats highly conventionalized, in polychrome with a pre¬ ponderance of bluish-green, on a brilliant white ground. Height, 13% inches. 213 — Temple Jar in Polychrome Yung Cheng Enameled ground of soft, purplish old-rose with a delicate, infinitesimal crackle, adorned in enamels of the rose-verte family with expansive peony flowers amid leaves and scrolls; two large medallions reserved in white and painted with dragons grasping the fabulous jewel, and two small ones penciled with lakeshore land¬ scapes. Teakwood cover. Height, 14 inches. Afternoon Sale 214—Pearl-gray Bottle-shape Vase Ch'ien-lung Spherical with bold foot, full neck and trumpet lip and pierced dragon-scroll handles. Ingeniously de¬ signed and highly conventional, elaborately worked ornamentation, in which the eight Buddhistic emblems of happy augury together with the symbolic bat motive are involved with foliar scrolls in two large medallions on the body and two pendants on the neck, all the designs being incised broadly and glazed in rich lapis-blue, and then delicately outlined in white slip, within a luminous ground of soft pearl-gray. Detached ornamentation similarly executed. Seal mark of the reign in underglaze-blue. Height, 14 14 inches. 215—Coral-red Decorated Vase Ovoid with contracted underbody and convex foot, broad and tapering neck and flaring lip. Glazed in deep coral-red of dull lustre, interrupted by a leaf medallion and a scroll reserved in white and painted with flowers in famille-rose enamels. Further poly¬ chrome enamel decoration on neck. Height, 15y 3 inches. 216—Famille-verte Decorated Vase K’ang-hsi Ovocylindrical with narrow shoulder and wide in- curvate neck. Decoration an interesting domestic scene, presenting five ladies emerging from a garden pavilion and three immortals borne upon clouds approaching, in famille-verte enamels and under¬ glaze blue, of two shades, with deep vermilion. Height, 16 inches. Afternoon Sale 217— Famille-rose Vase Yung Cheng Body expanding slightly from foot to a high shoulder which supports a capstan-shaped neck. Rich and brilliant decoration in the enamel colors of the famille- rose on a ground of creamy-white. On the body a phoenix and a pair of storks perched on rocks, at one side of them a tree peony, and a peach tree in which two yellow birds perch, on the other a magnolia tree in which two small birds of varied color are perched, and on the reverse a lotus pond in which are two crested ducks (called “mandarin ducks”). On the neck pomegranates, butterflies and ornaments. Underneath foot a phoenix medallion in polychrome enamels. (Gold lacquer repair at lip.) Height, 17 inches. 218— Famille-verte Club-shape Vase Ch’ien-lung On the body, numerous young ladies look out from pavilions of a summer palace upon the approach of a distinguished equestrian with attendants, altogether sixteen figures appearing; lotus and ju-i borders. On shoulder a brocade band interrupted by phoenix medallions. On the neck, landscapes with a traveler, a pilgrim and a sage. In famille-verte enamels enhanced by touches of gold. (Broken and rejoined.) Height, 17% inches. 219— Ting-yao Vase K’ang-hsi Cylindrical, with sloping shoulder and underbody* spreading foot, and cylindrical neck with slightly ex¬ panding lip. Under a glaze of soft and luminous white, a combined peony and lotus scroll, and chrysan¬ themum-petal and ju-i borders, in bas-relief; on shoulder a ju-i band in relief and an incised fret border; on the neck, pendent and upspringing leaf- bands in relief, separated by an incised fret. Height, 18 inches. Afternoon Sale 220— Powder-blue Decorated Vase K'ang-hsi Club-shaped. Clothed in a softly modulated glaze of the bleu-fouette, of soft lustre, with eight reserves of creamy-white, two in scroll form on the neck, and on the body two circular medallions, two leaf medallions and two oblong panels with indented corners, all the reserves penciled in famitte-verte enamels and un¬ derglaze rouge-de-fer with a variety of flowers and winging butterflies. Mark, the blue double-ring. Height, 18 inches. 221— Green Hawthorn Beaker K'ang-lisi Brilliant monochrome glaze of light green, with mirror properties and metallic lustre, supporting a decora¬ tion of wild prunus trees in luxuriant blossom, birds perched on the branches and flying overhead, and at the foot of the trees rocks and young bamboos, the decoration in dark grass-green, deep brown for the tree-trunks, white, and touches of yellow on the breasts of the birds. Height, 27 y 3 inches. Acquired bg the late Rudolph E. Schirmer from Otto Fukushima, the ■well-known dealer in Oriental porcelains, as a specimen of the K’ang-hsi period. 222— Carved and Inlaid Teakwood and Cinnabar Lac¬ quer Table Oblong, with three compartments beneath the top; legs quadrangular. Top bordered with a swastika- lattice, interrupted by panels of finely drawn floral sprays, both lattice and sprays inlaid in silver in delicate line. Sides and ends skirted by borders of various floral and lattice motives incised and in relief, and the legs similarly treated; knee-braces carved and pierced in sea-and-dragon motive. Set into sides and ends are all told eight panels of cinnabar lacquer, carved with imperial dragons in relief pursuing the jewel of power on a sea of incised waves. Length, 56y 3 inches; width, 24 1 /, inches. Afternoon Sale A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS 223— Hiroshige Atago Temple, Tokyo. Toto Meisho series. With numerous figures, the city roofs below, and the distant blue river with several sail. Horizontal print. 224— Hiroshige Kanaya. Tokaido series. Trees on green hillsides, an equestrian and pedestrians in a road between them, and beyond the river mountains and the cone of Fuji. Upright print. 225— Hiroshige Gold Mine at Sado Island. A scene in the mountains, with carriers and other workers in the foreground. Upright print. 226— Hiroshige Fujiveda. Tokaido series. Coolies and travelers at the ford, between gray and green banks of the winding stream. Upright print. 227— Hiroshige Shrine Gate of Tomioka Hachiman. Toto Meisho series. Beneath the Torii women and men, and in the gardens others accompanied by children. Horizontal print. 228— Hiroshige Hill of Kanda Myojin. Toto Meisho series. Figures looking out from an elevated tea house beside the Torii; others on the stairs. Horizontal print. Afternoon Sale 229— Harunobu Rolling Snowballs. A young lady accompanies two boys who are rolling up a huge snowball. Chuban print. 230— Toyokuni Oishi at Shimabara, Kyoto. Forty-seven Ronin series. Numerous figures in and about tea-house pavilions. Horizontal print. 231— Hiroshige Observation Tower in Bad Weather at Gohyaku— Temple of the Five Hundred Rakan. Yedo Meisho series. Men and women on the balcony, overlooking the valley. Horizontal print. 232— Koriusai Tea House. Two young women and two men engage at games in a tea-house. Horizontal print. 233— Kuniyoshi Court Lady. Standing figure of a Court lady in brilliant dress, carrying a pillow. Upright print. 234— Toichi Rice Field. Two farmers, one at least of them happy at his work, engaged in transplanting rice. Above, a poem. Horizontal print. 235— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Tokyo Views. Land and water scenes at Tokyo, with figures. Four small horizontal prints mounted on one card. Afternoon Sale 236— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Asakusa Bridge, Tokyo. ’Rikshas and coolies with lanterns on a rainy night. Horizontal print. 237— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Snow at Komme Hikibunidori, Tokyo. Snow-covered trees, road and bridge, with women on clogs and coolies walking. Horizontal print. 238— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Two prints. Shimobazu Lake: the shallows filled with the lotus in bloom, and on the shore a young woman and a coolie, on a showery day. Ishihara Bridge and the Oka Bank, Tokyo: figures in silhouette against the glistening stream in late afternoon. Horizontal. 239— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Three prints. Wistaria in Bloom at Kameido, Tokyo, with various figures. Night rain at Yanagibara, Tokyo, with figures carrying umbrellas and lanterns. Kinokuni Hill at Akasaka, Tokyo, with the palace precincts, pedestrians and empty jinrikishas and a mass of the town roofs. Horizontal. 240 — Kohayoshi Kiyochika Two prints. Morning Sunlight at Hyanpogui (near Ryogoku), Tokyo, with a buoy light and an active ’ricksha man’s lantern still burning; both prints the same. Horizontal. 241— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Two prints. LTeno Park, Tokyo, looking toward Ueno Temple, with a lady and child in the path. Nihon- bashi, Tokyo, the bridge alive with people in silhouette in an evening mist. Horizontal. Afternoon Sale 242— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Two prints. Night at Gohon Matsu, Tokyo, with steamer lights aglow in the river and pedestrians with umbrellas and lanterns on the shore road. Lightning over the Zojoji Gate, Tokyo, with figures in the road¬ way near the gate; dated the thirteenth year of Meiji. Horizontal. 243— Kohayoshi Kiyochika Two prints. Night on the Sumida River, Tokyo, look¬ ing toward the Mimeguri bank, with a man and woman in silhouette in the foreground. Gate of Taro Inari, a Fox shrine. Horizontal. 244 — Two Feints Looking over the Ryogoku Bridge, through the Sebongi (the “thousand spiles”), by Kohayoshi Kiyochika. Also, a reprint of Hokusai’s “Clear Fuji.” Horizontal. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers. THOMAS E. KIRBY, Auctioneer. 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