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THOMAS B. CLARKE TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. DANA H. CARROLL Sen. Le-4 THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Manacrrs 1915 THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION _ DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIRECT ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION _ TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY A FOREWORD It was a few years ago only that Americans awoke to the beauties of the antique Chinese rug. Rugs of the nearer Orient had then already been acquired here with such appetite that it was credibly stated that there were more of them in this country than in any other. But even those persons who posed as accom- plished purveyors of the artistic productions of Cathay had failed to feel the potency of charm inherent in these creations of the Celestial looms. Mr. Clarke proved sensitive, and he has been busy obtaining these rugs ever since. (I have.sometimes thought, in conning the multiplicity of his artistic activities and sympathies, that in a less sophisticated age he would surely have come to be known as “The Prince of Collectors,” or by some other illuminating and affectionate ap- pellation. For he has been identified in the field of art, for many years, and collected for the sake of collecting and with an en- deavor to encourage others in procuring the beautiful in art rather than the commonplace.) In assembling these rugs he has brought together some most beautiful and unusual fabrics. In his private collection, which he is including in this sale with rugs of stock, are remarkable specimens, and even extensive collectors of Chinese rugs will doubtless find the unexpected. In the general collection are, natu- rally, rugs for a variety of tastes and uses—-here are almost if not quite all of the colors and sizes, and many shapes—and it, also, comprehends choice examples. In both categories—and no attempt is made in the catalogue to segregate them—are to be found rugs large and small such as have not been publicly seen in this country. Some of the designs will come as a surprise to those who have viewed the Chinese rugs heretofore exhibited. The so-called animal rugs, comparatively rare, are here in considerable num- ber—not only the strange Fu, but the famous eight horses, the tiger, and the animals of the Chinese zodiac also appearing. A2RA® AN There is, too, a fish rug. Several of the rugs possess the rarity of birds in their decoration—that is to say, not merely the fabu- lous feng-huang, propitious harbinger, the equally familiar crane, messenger of longevity, and the storks, those “couriers of the immortals,” but song birds winging through their element or loftily poised on swaying boughs (and even the domestic rooster, if he may be included). | Butterflies and dragon flies, water weeds and other aquatic plants—the air and the water as well as the earth contribute to the decoration. The foliose ornamentation is most diversified, symbols of art and culture abound, and there is ever found occasion to work in emblematic medallions of “myriad ages”— round Show characters— the Celestial wish for length of days in naive hyperbole. Of the richness, purity and softness of color, of its transcendental nuances, it is unnecessary to speak. It might be wished that man and his needs had been more tender to some of these fabrics, but the wish may vanish-in thanks that wonder-working time has been kindly in the treatment and the preservation of so many of them. A forgetful remark is sometimes heard that all objects of Chinese art are commonly spoken of in words generally used concerning Chinese porcelains, with the implication that por- celains having first become familiar to the Western world, the subsequent vocabulary was indebted to them. ‘The liberty is ventured, therefore, to offer the reminder here that it is ancient Chinese weaving which has supplied most of the decorative motives employed in other branches of Chinese art, and that therefore it is in ceramics that the recurrence, not the origin of resemblant terms is found. Dana H. Carron. New York, December, 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. 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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. a * > ae ers S , i a el ' ® - - ' = i ‘ 5 "| so : A> si oe a. : ; d . * ; . 4 + ~ Pe - = : . = . — ae , ie wt x P = . = 3 ma rY ‘ we _ 2 * : eo: 4 “" ® e @e@ =o J ae @ @ eA ’ e @ aio @ e ® 6 a e e e @ e nie. e mJ @ e @ e ® a @ es THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION MANAGERS SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES THE THOMAS B. CLARKE COLLECTION on January 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1915 To save time and to prevent mistakes each Purchaser will oblige the Managers by filling in this slip and hand- ing it to the Record Clerk or Sales Attendant on making the first purchase. Purchaser’s Name _ Address in Full Amount of Deposit = ss FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1915 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 1 to 175 inclusive No. 1 ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MAT Breadth, 1 foot 6 inches; depth, 1 foot 3 inches. Dark fawn-gray ground, with a medallion in which appear the kilin and the pheenix, and scrolling foliations at the corners in dark and light blue, dull yellow and pinkish-brown. Ch’ien-lung. No: 2 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MATS Breadth, 1 foot 7 inches; depth, 1 foot 2 inches. Pinkish-brown with a narrow border in two tones of blue, the body ornamented in turquoise, white, pale golden-yellow and _ seal- brown, with four butterflies and a floral medallion. Ch’ien-lung. No. 38 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MATS Breadth, 1 foot 7 inches; depth, 1 foot 5 inches. Yellow ground, with foliations and a medallion of floral forms, in two shades of blue, pale and orange brown and a dull white. . Ch’ien-lung. No. 4 FOUR ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MATS Breadth, 1 foot 8 inches; depth, 1 foot, 3 inches. Gray and grayish-brown ground, with foliate corners and com- posite medallions in dark sapphire-blue, golden-yellow and orange- brown. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 5 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 9 inches. Straight sides and oval ends. Brown field within a solid blue bor- der, decorated with elaborate flower sprays and a foliar medallion in pale golden-yellow and soft-white, dark epee and tur- quoise. Eighteenth century. No. 6 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT (Blue and white) Dimensions, 2 feet by 2 feet. Complex medallion of pale turquoise and dark blue within a square field with bats at the corners; formal border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 7 : FOUR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 2 inches square. White serrate leaves are placed in regular arrangement on a bril- liant sapphire field enclosing a foliated medallion and having foliate-scroll corners. ‘“Rice-grain” border in two shades of blue with golden yellow. Eighteenth century. No. 8 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet 3 inches by 1 foot 9 inches. Sapphire and golden-brown, the sapphire a beautifully brilliant blue and the golden tones pale and inclined to neutrality, resting in a soft-gray field; these are the colors in corner foliations, a folate medallion, and a floral lattice. Eighteenth century. No. 9 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet 2 inches square. Variegated lattice-border with conventionalized floral patterns, enclosing a square of red and pink grill having scalloped corners and a foliated central medallion of soft olive-yellow ground, adorned with blossoms in rose-pink, white, garnet and blue. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 10 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet square. A white crane touched with pale blue is pictured on the wing in a floral medallion completed in sapphire, golden-yellow and white, within a shimmering brown square that is dotted with smaller conventional medallions in pale blue and old-gold. Two borders. Eighteenth century. No. 11 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet 2 inches by 2 feet. Scrolls and foliations in deep sapphire and pale turquoise blue, dull white and pale gold, on a brown ground, form the decorations of this mat, appearing in the border and in a medallion, and in the corners of a square field. Eighteenth century. Nov 12 FOUR CHINESE SQUARE MATS (Blue and white) Dimensions, 2 feet square. Soft loose pile. Pale turquoise and dark blue are used together throughout, in a square field enclosing an openwork medallion, and in a formal border, both having white ground. Ch/’ien-lung. No. 18 CHINESE RECESS-RUG Breadth, 2 feet 2 inches; depth, 2 feet 2 inches. Arched top; square at the bottom. Varicolored lattice surround- ing an inner arched figure enclosing a medallion of flowers. No. 14 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet by 1 foot 11 inches. Square field of golden brown, with a manifold floral decoration in various soft colors, and a floral medallion in which dark and light blue are added. Pale yellowish-brown border, with folia- tions, Shou medallions and emblematic bats. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 15 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 4 inches square. On fawn ground within a square are scrolling foliations and a medallion of foliations and angular scroll, in two shades of blue, orange-brown and pale-gold. Border of bold swastika-fret in sapphire-blue on the fawn ground. Eighteenth century. No. 16 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 5 inches square. A tawny-yellow field with brilliant sheen is worked with pale- golden foliations which all but vanish in its luster. Foliar scrolls in dark sapphire and fair turquoise, with white, form a square within it and in turn enclose a medallion of flower and butterfly motives in the beautiful colors of the field. Eighteenth century. No. 17 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT (Blue and white) Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches square. Grayish-white ground warming to an écru tone, with a soft sheen. Composite medallion of floral and angular-scroll forms, on a square field with corner foliations; broad foliate border; all in blue of two tones and soft, rich quality. Eighteenth century. No. 18 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches square. The “white” ground is a pale café-au-lait or light fawn, with soft, silken sheen. Ornate medallion and foliate corners in a square field; border of foliations and emblematic bats; all in sapphire and turquoise blue. Ch’ien-lung. No. 19 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS — Length, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. In the form of chair-seats. Soft pile, the ground of brownish tone, decorated with a peony-blossom, foliations and a border of formal flowers in two shades of blue, and white. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon —— No. 20 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 5 inches by 2 feet 4 inches. Short, soft, silky pile. The ground a shimmering silvery gray, bordered by a band of especially rich seal-brown, a similar band separating the border proper from the square field. Within the square, a medallion and formal corners of angular fret-scroll in golden-yellow, golden-brown and light sky-blue; in the border a succession of small medallions in detached groups of three, in blue and gold. Ch’ien-lung. No. 21 TWO SQUARE MATS Length, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. Red borders with running ornamentation along formal lines, in blue, pearl-gray, light yellow and dark brown, about squares cen- tered by conventional fern-leaf medallions—the colors of me- dallions and corners varying in the two rugs. No. 22 ‘CHINESE RECESS-RUG Breadth, 2 feet 10 inches; depth, 2 feet. 10 inches. Glowing imperial yellow ground, decorated at the base with a wave motive, in the central field with a lion supporting a vase on its back and surrounded by Buddhist emblems of happy augury, and in a border edging the sides and in the arched top with scrolling foliations—all in a variety of browns and yel- lows, white, and two tones of blue. Ch’ien-lung. No. 23 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. A formal, conventional trellis of floral elements is traced in sap- phire-blue and garnet, both subdued, on a dark deer-skin ground, within a border of the swastika-fret. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 24 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. Field and border-ground of dark écru tone, supporting a decora- tion of center-medallion and corners in angular scroll, and a border of swastika-fret scroll, all in an even tone of dull grayish- blue. Ch’ien-lung. No. 25 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches square. Seal-brown, cobalt-blue and white are used on a light golden- yellow ground in a complex decoration involving various con- ventional patterns within a square field; border of foliations in like colors. Ch’ien-lung. No. 26 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT Dimensions, 2 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. Central medallion picturing a phoenix standing upon a rock, in two tones of blue, yellow, brown and white, enclosed within a square having a brown ground; fret border in white and broader border of a conventional floral lattice in tones of yellow, brown, blue and white. Ch/’ien-lung. Noses PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. Soft, velvety pile. Fawn ground inclining to tawny, with a light sheen. The decoration is wholly in the conventionalized archaic- dragon motive, which appears in an angular scroll-fret in medal- lion and corners, all in a brilliant dark blue outlined in a pale blue and in white. Eighteenth century. No. 28 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches by 2 feet 5 inehes. “Blue and white” as to class, the whole ground now a soft smoke- gray with silvery mottlings; decoration in dark and lighter blue consists of floral medallions and foliar scrolls within a square, and similar patterns in the border. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 29 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches square. A square field of golden-tawny hue, with swastika corners, em- braces a medallion containing two primitive Fu-lions in pale gold and reddish-bronze—in one rug the reddish-bronze being replaced by a rich seal-brown. Elaborate swastika-fret border in the same low, harmonious tones. Ch/’ien-lung. No. 80 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Red-brown field, decorated in low golden and blue tones and dull white, with ancient sacrificial vessels, screens, jars of plants and other ornamental objects, and exhibiting a medallion and dragon- scroll corners. Harmonious border in a low key, embodying formal designs and familiar symbols. Eighteenth century. No. 81 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. Rich orange field with a golden-bronze sheen, decorated with two large sprays and a medallion of the peony scroll in pink and white, sapphire and turquoise; corners of angular scroll in the two blues. Floral scroll border. Eighteenth century. No. 82 ANTIQUE CHINESE OVAL MAT Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Fawn tone of soft quality prevailing. In the oval field a swastika- lattice of brownish hue, carrying numerous small medallions some of which enclose the Show symbol. Other small medallions of various decoration dot the wide border. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 33 CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. Pale yellow border with the endless knot at each corner, and deco- rations of medallions and characters or other symbols, about an oblong field of brown cut with a lattice embodying floral forms in different colors. No. 34 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. Conventional lattice between formal corners and a foliar me- dallion, effected in a brilliant greenish golden-yellow, pinkish- browns, dark and light blue and white. Border similarly colored. Eighteenth century. No. 35 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 9 inches. Orange-pink field of crenellate outline and angular-scroll forma- tion, picked out in bright yellow, white, and light and dark blue, and overlaid with a diamond-shaped figure comprehending numer- ous geometrical forms and repetitions of the swastika symbol. Interrupted T-fret border. Eighteenth century. No. 36 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS Length, 3 feet; width, 1 foot 10 inches. Tawny-brown field with an archaic-dragon medallion, floral sprays and foliations, in dull golden-yellow, golden-brown, pink, sapphire, pale turquoise and gray-white. Pinkish-brown fret border. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 37 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and brown) Length, 3 feet; width, 2 feet. Tawny-brown ground of soft tone, without border whatsoever. Its decoration eight archaic dragons, conventionalized in foliate lines and exhibited in a rich and glowing blue of deep sapphire quality. Two are coiled in a medallion, one is curled in each cor- ner, and two others appear between medallion and the ends. A rare and handsome example of this characteristic brown and re- markable blue. Seventeenth century. No. 88 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. Angular-scroll medallion with brocade flowers, between branching foliations, on an oblong field with scroll-fret corners enclosing the swastika symbol. Border of foliations. All in two shades of blue. The white ground has become a dark gray. Ch’ien-lung. No. 39 ANTIQUE CHINESE ROUND MAT (Salmon-red ) Diameter, 3 feet 2 inches. Close, thick pile. Rich, full and brilliant salmon-red is the ground, both in the bold border of scrolling foliations in dark and light blue and white, and in the circular field. The field is adorned with peony, plum, chrysanthemum and bamboo sprays, and a fret-scroll and foliate medallion, all worked in the two blues and white. Leather-bound. Ch’ien-lung. No. 40 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Brownish-white ground throughout with a silvery sheen. Central medallion of swastika-fret; elsewhere on the field, and in the bor- der, graceful foliations. All the decoration in a brilliant sap- phire-blue. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 41 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS Dimensions, 3 feet square. A wide lattice border surrounds a square divided into four com- partments by angular fret-scroll, each compartment containing a conventional floral medallion. ‘The colors employed are red, green, brown and blue, all in low tones, and the fabric is bordered or bounded by a narrow band of soft red. Fringe ends and over- cast sides. Ch’ien-lung. No. 42 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet. Oblong field of grayish tone, the principal decoration two Fu- lions, one standing guard over the brocaded ball; the other is a cub with wide-open jaws. Fret border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 48 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet. Soft, silky pile, with a bright sheen. Latticed field with conven- tionalized floral figures, in a light sky-blue, golden-yellow and dark orange, with a brilliant medallion and formal corners. In- terrupted T-fret border with a dominant ground of dark blue, the fret and some detached blossoms being worked in yellow, light blue, orange and white. Ch/’ien-lung. No. 44 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Two full medallions and two half medallions appear on the dark blue field, with quadrants at the corners, the pattern of all a compound of floral forms and angular-scroll, the colors light blue and white with the dark blue reserve. Border of vases, fruits and flower forms. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 45 SQUARE MAT Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet. Soft, deep, loose pile. A study in browns. Within a light brown edge-band an alternating-fret border in deep dark brown courses over a fawn ground, while the square field reveals the same and other browns in an open lattice whose crossings are adorned with bright red blossoms. No. 46 PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT'S (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. Soft pile and loose texture. Oblong field enclosed by a double stripe of sapphire and turquoise-blue; the same colors supply branching foliations and an angular-fret medallion encompassing two bats. Fret corners in solid blue. Border of foliations and detached blossoms in the two blues. Ch’ien-lung. No. 47 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. A soft and handsome brown prevails throughout the rug, ‘n a border of foliations and a field covered by an open lattice, the foliations being effected in part in a dark and modest blue and the same hue being used again for minor ornaments within some of the spaces of the lattice. Eighteenth century. No. 48 CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Foliations worked into a medallion, and others as broad sprays at either end, all done in cobalt-blue and pale turquoise, form the principal decorations of the white field, which has fret corners of solid blue. Border of cobalt swastikas alternating with de- tached blossoms, in turquoise on the white ground. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 49 CHINESE MAT (Variegated) Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. An unique production. A most unusual fabric, seeming to rep- resent the greater part of the Celestial textile worker’s chro- matic range. The entire rug is an interesting medley of lateral striations, multicolored, shimmering, iridescent, evidently the im- provisation of a weaver who gave his imagination and handiwork free play. The only formal design appearing is a group of small swastika symbols at one end. No. 50 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. The repetitive design of the conventional “tiger-stripe”’ fills the rug on either side of a median “chain,” or spinal ridge; both in brown on a golden-tawny ground. The pile is soft and silky. Ch’ien-lung. . No. 51 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. Gray fawn ground, with a quadrilateral field displaying a formal arrangement of ornament, including angular scrolls, foliations and geometrical devices. These are effected in dark and light blue and white, but with an unusual infusion of a bright red which greatly enlivens the rug, appearing again in a lattice- meander border. Eighteenth century. No. 52 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet. Short, soft, silky pile. Soft grayish-white field, with trees and mountains; at one end a spotted stag, at the other an unspotted doe; overhead between them, flying phcnixes and emblematic bats, and nascent butterflies; all in dark indigo and light gray- ish-blue, with white reserve. A border of white spots on dark blue, a narrow meander border of mixed blue with white, and a remarkable and unusual border comprising a succession of small swastikas on a broad white meander. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 53 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet. Brillant golden-yellow, orange and rose pink, golden-brown, and dark blue and cobalt, on a white ground—these colors make this mat a bright one. The white oblong field has a wide-branching spray in the same bright colors, at either end, outside a foliate medallion enclosing an angular scroll, and at the corners blue foliations around a flower with pointed petals. Ch’ien-lung. No. 54 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue, white and yellow) Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Two spotted stags, emblems of long life, and two phenixes are shown in a mountainous landscape, in two tones of blue, tawny- yellow and pale gold on a soft white ground; bold swastika bor- der in blue on white. Ch’ien-lung. No. 55 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. At either end of the gray-white field a Fu-lion, emerging from the shade of a tree by the seashore, fixes his attention upon a spotted stag, emblem of longevity, which in turn gazes upward at a symbolic bat (emblem of happiness), flying near conven- tional cloud-scrolls which take the form of the sacred fungus— another emblem of longevity. The whole is accomplished in varied blues, and the field presents also two conventional floral forms in brownish-yellow. Ch’ien-lung. No. 56 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. Field of a rich dark yellow with brownish tone and mild sheen, ornamented with a foliate medallion and various sprays in dark blue, white and brown. Dark brown border with blue foliations. Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired. ) First Afternoon No. 57 CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. An alternating fret border surrounds a long field having scroll corners turning on a swastika; in the field, broad foliations and a composite medallion; all in two shades of blue on white ground. Ch’ien-lung. No. 58 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 8 feet 9 inches. The “white” of the long field is a ight deerskin hue with a soft sheen. The decoration comprises four Fu-lions, glaring at each other in pairs, with open jaws, between graceful foliations, and an archaic-dragon medallion; all are in brilliant sapphire and pale washed-turquoise. Brilliant sapphire border with a scroll of flowers in white reserve. Eighteenth century. No. 59 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. Deep marine blue, with slow shimmer, the field adorned with floral motives and the border similarly treated with the addition of symbols, in various quiet tones of yellow, brown and orange, light blue and white. Ch’ien-lung. No. 60 ANTIQUE CHINESE TIGER-STRIPE MAT — Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Through a tawny ground a rich, dark seal-brown chain runs down the median line of the mat from end to end, like a vertebral column, and on either side the balance of the fabric is filled with curling brown “tiger-stripe” sinuosities on the same tawny ground. Overcast sides; fringed ends. Ch’ien-lung. No. 61 CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Yellowish rice color in field and border, decorated with a variety of small medallions. First Afternoon No. 62 CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. Leaf-brown throughout its surface, with the formal foliate deco- rations of field and border in blue so dark it appears black. No. 63 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. Oblong field with a pale greenish-yellow ground, decorated in two shades of blue and other hues with a variety of household ornaments and a floral medallion. Ch’ien-lung. No. 64 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Oblong field of pinkish hue, decorated with elaborate scrolling foliations in light and dark blue, about a medallion of angular- scroll outline enclosing a square of swastikas and flowers. Swas- tika-fret border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 65 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Deep, thick pile. Rich dark blue with a fine sheen, ornamented in field and border in dull golden tones—the field with medallion, broad sprays and formal corners, the border with foliations and butterflies. Ch’ien-lung. No. 66 CHINESE MAT (Blue, white and red) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Eight lions in light blue and white, their muzzles outlined in red, share a deep blue field with sprays and fungus-scrolls, Shou me- dallions and swastika symbols; grill border. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 67 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. Tawny-brown field, its corners bright yellow with rich sapphire foliations, the field itself covered with formal floral figures about a foliate medallion, all in bright yellow, pale and dark blue, soft white and orange-brown. Ruibbon-scroll border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 68 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. Fruit and flower sprays, butterflies, a foliar medallion, and angu- lar-fret corners enclosing the swastika symbol are done in two shades of blue on a toned white ground. Swastika-fret border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 69 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. On a light tan oblong field a composite fret and foliate medallion, a bundle of books, the endless knot and other symbols, with dishes of fruit and jars of flowers, in sapphire and turquoise blue. Fret borders. Ch’ien-lung. No. 70 CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 3 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet. Medallion and foliations, with fret and swastika corners, in two shades of blue on a drab field; fret border in the same colors. No. 71 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. Within a tree-medallion in the center of the oblong field a saddled horse is tied to a limb, horse and trees worked in two shades of blue, white and pale golden-yellow on a tawny ground. The tawny ground is continued across the field, which has corners of angular fret in two tones of blue, and expansive foliations worked in elaborate conventions in pale gold, golden-brown and white. Border in harmony. Ch/’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 72 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. Soft gray-white ground without borders whatever. Heavy cor- ners of key-fret turning on a swastika; central medallion of fret and foliations; detached tripods and other ornamental figures ; all in brilliant, full, sapphire-blue. Ch’ien-lung. No. 73 CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. The white softened to a light-brownish shade, the field decorated with boxes of shrubs and ancient ornamental or useful vessels, with foliations and a medallion, in dark sapphire and turquoise- blue and occasional touches of a pale yellow. Formal border. No. 74 ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. The “endless knot,”’ eighteen times repeated, in white on a bril- lant blue ground, within a border containing twenty-nine repeti- tions of the same device in orange-pink on a gray-white ground. Ch’ien-lung. No. 75 ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. Eighteen repetitions of the “endless knot,” from the “Eight Buddhistic Emblems of Happy Augury,” in a mixed blue on a soft white ground; in the border the same emblem twenty-nine times repeated, in white on a rosy pink ground. Ch’ien-lung. No. 76 ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. Ground of grayish-blue of “powder-blue”’ quality, divided into a border containing thirty conventional archaic dragons in medal- lion scrolls, and a field of swastika-lattice, both the medallions and the lattice in deep, dark blue. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. (77 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. Grayish-white ground with two spotted stags and two pheenixes near hillside trees, and emblematic bats flying about the pheenixes ; all in two shades of blue. Swastika border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 78 ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. Rich dark ruby-red field of solid color, defined by narrow white and cobalt-blue stripes; border of soft gray-white, and an outer band of blue. Thick pile. Ch’ien-lung. No. 79 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Salmon-pink ground in both field and border; ornamentation throughout in a dark, deep blue, with the exception of a narrow inner border of white fret. The decoration consists of an archaic-dragon medallion, conventional peony sprays and folia- tions, and with the foliations in the border several small sym- bolic medallions. Eighteenth century. e No. 80 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Rich, deep yellow is the predominant note in the field, which pictures a landscape in the mountains, with two horses tied to trees ina valley. The horses are white, with turquoise manes and tails, and wear gaily colored saddles. ‘The trees and rocks are in a variety of colors. Two fret borders. Ch’ien-lung. No. 81 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Yellow-brown field, with a leaf and flower decoration in corners and throughout, and a medallion in darker brown tones, dark blue and a bluish-green. Swastika-fret border in the several colors. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 82 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. Quadrilateral field of écru tone, bearing a medallion compounded of a temple ornament and foliations; and various floral sprays, baskets of fruits, ancient tripods and other ornaments, in two shades of blue, white and light brown. Floral and foliate bor- der. Ch’ien-lung. No. 83 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. The feng-huang and the dragon-headed horse are seen in a medal- lion, in pale blue, white and light brown, in the center of a deep and brilliant blue field which is further decorated with sprays and vases, and corners of the archaic dragon-scroll. K’ang-hsi. No. 84 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. The spotted stag at one end, a deer in solid color at the other, each with the feng-huang flying above it, appear beneath large trees with spreading branches growing from mountain slopes or hillsides. All in two shades of blue, with a pinkish-brown relief, on a gray-white field. Broad swastika-fret border in dark and light blue, white, pinkish-brown and golden-yellow. Ch’ien-lung. No. 85 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. On the oblong field, which has taken a soft tone and satiny sheen, an angular-fret medallion and corner ornaments, and bold, ex- pansive foliations or conventional floral sprays, in dark and lighter shades of blue, the floral forms slightly varying at the two ends. Involved swastika-fret border. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 86 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT' Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Deep thick pile. Light mustard-yellow field, with scroll corners of salmon hue, the field strewn with detached blossoms in salmon, white, seal-brown and blue, about a medallion of floral forms in- volving all these colors. ‘Two fret borders. ~ Ch’ien-lung. No. 87 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Deep golden-yellow field with angular-fret corners in sapphire and turquoise-blue and white, the fret motive being repeated in the same colors within a foliate medallion whose foliations are in white, pink and brown; on the field peony-sprays in all of these colors. Brilliant borders in fret designs. Ch’ien-lung. No. 88 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (A rare purple) Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 2 inches. This rug, on the order of the “blue and whites” and some of their variants, as to decoration and arrangement, presents a most unusual color scheme. The white ground, become a soft gray, carries the spotted stag and doe and the flying feng-huang, among large trees by the mountain sides, in soft, attractive tones of purple, olive-yellow, pale café-au-lait, sky-blue and copper-red. Principal border a swastika-fret in purple on the gray-white ground-color, bounded by a band of solid purple, all in soft tone. This purple is a rarity in rugs. Eighteenth century. No. 89 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet. Grayish-white field of silvery tone, quadrangular, adorned in dark ' sapphire-blue and pale turquoise-green with a variety of jars, vases and tripods, some holding flower branches. Border of foliations and medallions. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 90 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Golden yellow, with the sheen of gold-bronze. Both field and principal border yield the golden tones, and both have a complex decoration, effected for the most part in the bright colors—pale, delicate blue and a soft white, with relieving touches of dark blue mingling with the golden browns and yellows. In the field are many vases and other ornaments, and flowers. In the border are worked together numerous motives usually found separately in the borders of widely varying rugs. Inner border of Greek fret in white on blue, and an outer binding stripe of blue. Ejigh- teenth century. No. 91 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. The “‘white” of the field is a light creamy brown or pale café-au- lait, of soft tone. The decoration, which includes a composite medallion, varying sprays, and angular-fret corners, is in a light sapphire-blue of subdued brilliance. A narrow border of in- numerable repetitions of the emblematic bat in miniature repre- sentation, in the same blue on the same soft ground, is suc- ceeded by a swastika-fret. Eighteenth century. No. 92 CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. An orange field is cut into an open lattice by fine lines of greenish- yellow, the spaces being occupied by conventional figures in blue and white and pink and yellow, and golden-brown. The corners are brilliant yellow decorated in dark blue and orange, and the medallion is similarly decorated, with an emphatic use of the blue. Scroll-fret border in the several colors, continuing the gen- eral brightness of effect. First Afternoon No. 93 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Field of deep sunset yellows, with a glow; at either end formal mountains, trees and a fierce kilin, in various yellows, browns, blues and pinks. In the center a phenix, flying, in dark and light blue, pink, white and golden-brown, and near it the endless knot symbol. Wide and narrow borders. Ch’ien-lung. No. 94 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. A border with a ground of ruby and rose is inlaid with foliations and the “endless knot” symbol in glowing sapphire and pale green, soft white and golden-brown. Within is a T-fret border in sapphire and white on a ground of pale aqua-marine, the whole embracing a field of formal lattice and a medallion worked in blue, green, white, brown, garnet, and a warm and bright orange- yellow. Ejighteenth century. No. 95 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. Café-au-lait ground with orange and salmon, dark and light blue and golden-brown decoration, in medallion and corners of angu- lar-fret, and detached leaf-and-flower sprays. Swastika border: in blue on the ground-color, implanted with floral forms in orange and yellow notes. Ch’ien-lung. No. 96 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Autumn-brown field, arched at one end, with scattered leaf and blossom sprays in seal-brown, bright canary-yellow, white and two shades of blue. Border of foliations in the same colors. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 97 CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Field of small squares with intervening stars and small swastikas, around a foliated medallion, in various blues, yellows, browns and white, the corners sapphire with scrolls of rich orange-brown. No. 98 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Quadrilateral field in peach-tone, threaded by a swastika trellis in lighter note, interrupted by conventional sprays in two shades of blue and gray-white, and surrounding a golden-yellow foliate medallion. Corners of scrolling foliations; two fret borders. Ch’ien-lung. No. 99 CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Pink and brown field, freely decorated with floral motives in scarlet and light golden-yellow, dark and light blue and white, the field enclosing a medallion with a Fu-lion, and similar colors being used in the border. No. 100 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. Ground of crushed-strawberry hue with a floral lattice in light greenish-yellow, light and dark blue, white and pink, with foliate medallion and corners. Bright border of foliations and conven- tional blossoms in similar colors. Ch’ien-lung. No. 100A ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Similar to the preceding (No. 100). First Afternoon No. 101 CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. Cadet blue with medallions and sprays in yellow, white, brown and a dull wine-red; light yellow border with sprays in light and dark blue, brown and white. No. 102 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet. Two phenixes flying among peony branches form a medallion, in two shades of blue picked out with light brown. The same colors are used in scrolling peony foliations in the field. At the corners the archaic dragon in conventional scroll in the two blues. Bor- der of foliations in the two blues and brown, and white reserve, with butterflies at the corners. Ch’ien-lung. No. 103 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet. Foliar medallion, extensive foliations in the field, and angular- fret corners, with a bold swastika border, all in a brilliant sap- phire on a gray-white ground of pearly tone. Ch’ien-lung. No. 104 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet. The field is a light tan and is adorned with sprays and conven- tional butterflies in two shades of blue and a light brown. Foliar border. Eighteenth century. No. 105 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Soft, thick pile. Gray-blue field with leaf-scroll corners, flower sprays and a foliar and scroll medallion in golden yellow, pinkish- brown, pale blue and white. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 106 CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Conventional floral motives adorn medallion, corners and general field, in pink, pale yellow, white and two shades of blue, on a brown ground. In the border, foliations and small symbolic me- dallions in several colors on a salmon-pink ground. No. 107 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. The field of grayish-white, with two deer at either end, one of each pair in solid dark blue, the other in pale bluish-green with dark-blue spots. Over the head of the spotted animal at either end of the rug is a flying phoenix, and in the middle of the field are conventional scrolls, in blue; and here and there is a touch of glowing orange. Ch/’ien-lung. No. 108 ' ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Pinkish-brown field with floral sprays in bright golden-yellow and white, other sprays with two shades of blue added, and a me- dallion and corners of angular fret embodying the several colors. Brilliant border of foliations. Ch’ien-lung. No. 109 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Leaf-brown field, decorated in old-gold and white, dark sapphire and pale olive, with formal peony scrolls and foliations and a medallion involving the key-fret and the swastika symbol. Bor- der of foliations, Show medallions and symbolic bats, in yellows, browns, dull white, deep blue and olive. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 110 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Brilliant golden-yellow is conspicuous in the decoration of this rug, freely used with sapphire-blue and dull turquoise-green, and white, in the floral medallion, jars and vases of flowers, and in the angular-fret corners. Swastika-fret border in sapphire on a bright yellow ground, with interruptions of conventional blos- soms. Ch/’ien-lung. No. 111 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Rich, deep, soft brown with a delicate sheen, the field of this rug carries a decoration profuse yet restrained, in a veiled golden- yellow, dark, unglowing sapphire, pale olive and brownish-white. The details include floral forms and butterflies. Ribbon-scroll border in the same harmonious tones. Eighteenth century. No. 112 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. On a light café-au-lait ground of creamy tone a medallion of the tree peony and other forms, presenting two birds in the branches, in dark blue and turquoise-green, brown, orange and yellow, and elsewhere on the field numerous household ornaments in similar colors. Ch’ien-lung. No. 113 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet. Creamy café-au-lait ground, with light shimmer, decked with peony sprays in deep sapphire, golden yellow, soft pale brown and strong salmon pink, conventional butterflies appearing among the sprays. Eighteenth century. (Repaired.) Furst Afternoon No. 114 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 5 inches. A grill of geometric pattern, in heavy curved lines of brilliant sapphire and lighter concentric lines of turquoise-green and white, spreads over a brilliant brown field, the interstices occupied by emblematic bats and various flower forms. Swastika border in yellows and browns, white and blue. Eighteenth century. No. 115 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Red and black) Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Short, silky pile. Ground of mottled red, hatched with short and narrow vertical lines in black, in wavy and straight hori- zontal bands. In the center a Shou medallion in black, the hatched lines at either side of it being of horizontal direction and » arranged in bands of concentric rings. Seventeenth century. No. 116 CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. On the oblong white field a decoration which includes a com- posite medallion, corners of foliations, boxes of shrubs and jars holding ancient battle-axes, done in dark and light blue, light greenish-yellow and copper-brown. Alternating fret border. No. 117 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. A field and border with imperial yellow tones of great brillancy are decorated in dark and pale blue, and white, the border with scrolls and foliations, the field with foliar corners, vases and jars of plants, and a medallion enclosing a spotted stag and a Fu-lion. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 118 CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Field of orange tone decorated with a medallion, floral sprays and butterflies, in many colors, and an elaborated border in the same colors—bright greens, yellows and reds being freely used. No. 119 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. On a field of scintillant deep blue are seen butterflies and flowers, and rambling foliations, in joyous yellows, light blue and white, around a medallion in which appear the phoenix and the dragon- horse. Formal border of all these colors, with the lighter used as the ground. Eighteenth century. No. 120 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. Rich dark blue field, decorations of flower sprays, foliations and a medallion in yellow, brown, white and lighter blue. No. 121 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. Brown-tawny field with a light sheen. Boxes of flowering shrubs and a floral medallion in a pale greenish-yellow, canary, white, and two shades of blue, and at the corners archaic dragons in the conventionalized scroll, with foliations. Border of foliations and scrolls, with the twin-fish and endless-knot symbols from the Eight Buddhistic Emblems of Happy Augury. Ch’ien-lung. No. 122 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. Field of brownish-red with a salmon tone, decorated in dark and light blue, white and écru with fruit and flower sprays, butter- flies and angular scrolls; reciprocating-fret border in the two blues on the same ground. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 123 CHINESE RUG (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Conventional floral sprays, foliations, and a composite foliate and angular-scroll medallion, in two tones of blue on a bright white field; alternating-fret border. No. 124 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. Field of golden-tawny hue with light sheen; its decoration five composite medallions of angular-fret and conventional floral forms, besides butterflies, in brown, light blue and white; at either end the ancient convention of tossing waves, in similar coloring. Fringe ends; sides bound. Seventeenth century. No. 125 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. Long salmon-red field; decorations in sapphire and turquoise, golden-yellow and soft white, including scrolls and foliations, sprays and butterflies, and a medallion. Swastika border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 126 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 9 inches. Quadrangular field of octagonal lattice in white and a rich blue on imperial yellow, interrupted by various emblems and devices— among them the endless-knot and a fish—in the same colors with orange and brown variants. Fringe ends and overcast sides. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 127 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (Blue and white) Length, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. Brownish-white quadrangular field, centered by a foliar medallion, and dotted elsewhere by small medallions and geometrical figures including two medallions of the Show character, in dark and light blue and the white ground reserve. ‘Three varied and elaborate borders. Ch’ien-lung. No. 128 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. A sapphire field is decorated with two dogs Fu, which are guard- ing a ball, in a medallion, and with two more of the dogs with a ball over their heads, at each end, while elsewhere appear butter- flies and foliations; all in light blue and white with patches of brown. Formal border. Ch’ien-lung. No. 129 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. Gray field with orange corners of angular scroll, a medallion of foliations, and numerous fruits, sprays and boxes of plants, in dark blue, brown, light blue, pale yellow and orange tones. Ch’ien-lung. No. 180 ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT (“Blue and white’’) Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 5. inches. The white ground has taken a light tan tone; the decoration is in rich dark blue and a bluish-green. Five of the Fu-lions appear in a medallion, and two more at either end of the field, which they share with various conventional foliations. Borders of foliations and fret. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 1381 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG (Blue and white) Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 5 inches. Creamy-white field centered by a foliar medallion and scattered with sprays of the peony, plum, bamboo, lotus and other forms, and having archaic scrolling dragons at the corners. All in dark blue and gray-blue, as is the border, which is worked in folia- tions, Shou medallions and bat emblems. Ch’ien-lung. No. 132 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches. Silvery blue field, plentifully ornamented with sprays and formal devices and a single medallion, in browns and yellows of low tones. Border of foliations, leaf and Show medallions in the same tones on the same soft silvery blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. No. 133 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 5 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. Soft, deep, silky pile. Chrome-yellow latticed field with a bright sheen, enclosing a foliated medallion with light brown ground sustaining a foliar scroll in light and dark blue and white. Corners and wide border in accord. Ch’ien-lung. No. 134 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG (Blue and white) Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches. A large Fu-lion and five bats appear with foliations in a central medallion, in a field of peony-sprays and large and small butter- flies, all in sapphire-blue and turquoise tones on a _ brownish- white ground. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 135 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 5 feet 7 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches. Flesh-pink field of oblong shape, with corner foliations and floral branches in light and dark blue, dull white and subdued yellows, and a foliate medallion enclosing a spotted stag. Border of floral forms on a dark blue field. Ch’ien-lung. No. 136 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. Smoky-gray field filled with conventional sprays and foliations about a foliate and scrolled medallion, all in dark and lighter blue, orange and old-gold. Ribbon border forming the swastika scroll-fret in orange and gold on dark blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. No. 137 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. The field is in the hue of the pink tomato, and has a light luster. It is without corners or medallion, carrying instead an evenly distributed and carefully balanced decoration of peonies and conventional butterflies in white, sapphire-blue and a pale gray- ish-blue. Blue border with foliations in the grayish blue and blossoms in white. Eighteenth century. No. 188 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 5 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. Western Chinese workmanship, with an oblong field of dark blue ground, the key changing in the characteristic manner of the nearer East in carpet weaving; this ground is covered with an all-over repeat pattern of a conventionalized tree form in white. This is interrupted at the center by a medallion of foliate de- signs in light and dark blue, white and yellow, and foliations are worked in the corners. Eighteenth century. (Corner restored.) First Afternoon No. 139 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Tawny-brown ground of soft tone, with a variety of house and garden ornaments in sapphire, turquoise, orange, white and old- gold. Swastika-fret border in brilliant, deep sapphire, on a ground of golden yellow. Eighteenth century. No. 140 ORIENTAL RUG Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet. Thick, close pile. Tawny-yellow ground, disclosing various tones according to the light; decorated in dark and light blue, white, pinks and reddish-browns with conventional butterflies, a carp, an endless knot, formal ornamental devices, and at the ends con- ventional reflections of the ancient wave motive. End-borders of varicolored wavy splashes, and side borders of foliations. No. 141 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. Pinkish-brown field with a brilliant sheen, adorned with a kilin- and-phenix medallion, ancient sacrificial vessels, garden and household ornaments, and sprays, besides fret-scroll corners, in sapphire and turquoise-blue, white, pale golden-yellow and brown. Sapphire swastika-fret border on the body color. Ch’ien-lung. No. 142 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet. Brown-tawny ground, still of agreeable note though worn thin, carrying as decoration nine of the Fu-lions, three of them being grouped at the center, and detached units of the peony scroll. The decoration is effected in a pure and brilliant sapphire-blue, pale gold, golden-brown, turquoise and white. Harmonious bor- der of formal design. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 148 CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet. Luxurious ornamentation of the peony-scroll in sapphire-blue and turquoise, pale yellow, white and golden-brown on a tawny field. Bright border in similar colors. Eighteenth century. No. 144 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. Brilliant tawny-yellow ground, latticed with a semblance of the “grains of rice” effect in irregular seal-brown patches. In a disc within a cloud-medallion in the center, the spotted stag with a phoenix flying over him, and in each corner two archaic dragons with foliations. Eighteenth century. No. 145 ANTIQUE RUG (Blue, red and brown) Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches. Dense pile. A dark sapphire parallelogram is thickly sprinkled with small red spheroids; in the center is a deer-skin medallion with devices in light and dark blue, white, yellow and red; quad- rant corners; various borders. No. 146 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG (Blue and white) Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. Eight large peony blossoms on their stems, two butterflies and five medallions of scrolls and foliations, all in light and dark blue, make up the decoration of the white field. Border of folia- tions in the two blues on white ground. Eighteenth century. No. 147 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. Four chrysanthemum medallions and six large peony sprays ap- pear with butterflies and fruits in bright yellows and brilliant blues, white and tender pinks, on a salmon ground with a light sheen. Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired.) First Afternoon No. 148 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. Five medallions of foliar scrolls in two shades of blue are disposed in a copper field, the interspaces filled with scrolling foliations in the same colors. Blue and white border of conventional design. Eighteenth century. No. 149 CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. Mustard-yellow field strewn with small medallions displaying various symbols—the Show character, the endless knot, the swastika—and conventional floral forms, with angular-scroll cor- ners enclosing other swastikas, and a large central medallion of a flying stork. The colors are orange-brown, dark and light — blue, white, yellow and green. Scroll, meander and medallion bor- ders in the various colors mentioned. No. 150 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. Soft, short; loose pile. Field of warm terra-cotta hue, carrying a decoration of five foliar medallions of delicate design, conven- tional butterflies and sprays of the winter-blooming plum tree, the Buddha’s-hand citron and the pomegranate, in cobalt and sapphire blues and white. Fylfot border in sapphire on the ground-color of the field. Ch’ien-lung. No. 151 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. Oblong field of pale golden tone, in which the nine Fus are dis- posed in unusual fashion, four at one end of the field and five at the other, most of them in dark and light blue, touched with white, the others in color resembling the field but more yellow. In the center is a foliar medallion and elsewhere are various sym- bols. Elaborate fylfot scroll or fret border. Ch’ien-lung. First Afternoon No. 152 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. On a ground of faint rose-pink an unusual ornamentation of leaf and flower scroll in dark and light blue and white, reticulated in a maze. Corners of key fret around the swastika. Fret border in yellow on blue, deep at the ends and narrow at the sides, fol- lowed by a border of foliations holding the same dimensions throughout its course. Eighteenth century. No. 158 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG (“Blue and white’’) Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. Originally of the blue and white class, the white field of this rug is now of a soft creamy café-au-lait tone, with a light sheen. The decoration includes sprays and fruit clusters, butterflies and five medallions, all effected in two shades of blue, and there are also formal corners of foliations in the same colors. Border of gammadions run into a continuous fret. Eighteenth century. No. 154 ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT (Brilliant polychrome) Length, 7 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. Soft velvety pile. Oblong field of rich café-au-lait or golden- fawn, with corners of the archaic dragon-scroll in cerise accented with white and enclosing an old-gold swastika. Flower-sprays and jars of plants, and a medallion of foliations about a lesser disc of angular-scroll and the swastika, all in the colors already mentioned, with the addition of rich brown and pale rose-pink. Varicolored swastika-fret border. Fringe ends. Ch’ien-lung. No. 155 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet 11 inches. A fylfot lattice in tawny-yellow and orange-brown covers the field, which has at its center a foliated medallion in dark and light blue, white and brown. At the sides are borders of folia- tions in light blue, white and brown, on a dark blue ground, and at the ends are rocks and waves in a vivid pink, seal-brown, white, dark and light blue, and yellow. Eighteenth century. First Afternoon No. 156 ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE RUG Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 3 inches. A golden field is strewn with flower sprays amongst eight me- dallions of conventional peonies, the coloring of the ornamen- tation being rose-pink, a light chocolate-brown, blue, white, tur- quoise and a pale greenish-yellow. Borders of meander, T-fret and fylfot, embodying the colors of the field decoration, the whole bound by a band of solid brilliant blue. Ch’ien-lung. No. 157 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG (Blue and white) Length, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. Soft deep pile. Double medallion of floral forms and foliate scrolls, in two shades of blue, amidst flowers, fruits and orna- ments in the same colors with mouse-gray and pale yellow added, semé on a gray-white field with scroll corners. Fret and flower borders. Ch’ien-lung. No. 158 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. Copper-brown field, quadrangular, carrying a single medallion and many sprays and butterflies executed in golden-yellow and white, dark and light blue and pink. Border of foliations in yellow, orange, white and light blue on a dark blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. No. 159 ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. A field whose tone is elusive in its brilliant shimmer, now sug- gesting rose, now pink, again rich salmon and yet again the hue of a great fire red, supports eight medallions of floral brocade and is strewn with sprays, among which large and small butterflies are seen. The colors are old gold and golden-brown, turquoise and deep sapphire-blue, white and others.