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 llluslrated catalogue ol the beautiful o 
 
 3 1924 023 327 079 
 
Beautiful Old Chinese Porcelains 
 
 The 
 
 Extraordinary Private Collection 
 
 of 
 
 Mr. S.S.Carvalho 
 
 AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 
 NEW YORK 
 
ON FREE VIEW 
 
 FROM !i A. M. LIN Til, (; 1'. M. 
 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 15Ec;iNNli\c; FRIDAY. lEHRUARY 2()in, i;)14 
 
 AND CONTINUlNCi IINTIL THE DA IK OF SALE 
 
 THE 
 EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTION 
 
 OF 
 
 Mr. S. S. CARVALHO 
 
 OF NEW YORK 
 
 TO BE SOLD AJ- UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
 
 ON THE AJ^TERNOONS OF 
 
 February 24th, 25th, 2(iTH. 27th, 28th and March 2ni), 1014 
 hp:ginning each afternoon at 2. .'JO o'clock 
 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 
 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BEAUTIFUL OLD 
 
 CHINESE PORCELAINS 
 
 COMPRISING THE 
 
 EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTION 
 
 FORMED BY 
 
 Mr. S. S. CARVALHO 
 
 OF NEW YORK 
 TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
 
 At The American Art Galleries 
 
 ON the dates herein stated 
 
 THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED 
 BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY and 
 
 HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, of the 
 
 American Art Association, Managers 
 
 NEW YORK 
 1914 
 
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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 
 likelj' to affect the sale injuriously. 
 
 9. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
 aiuse between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide 
 the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 
 
 3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase 
 money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the pur- 
 chasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default 
 of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and 
 re-sold. 
 
 Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the 
 time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of 
 which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the 
 risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for 
 the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and 
 without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such 
 purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall 
 be a charge against such purchaser. 
 
 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment 
 of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 
 
 Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 
 A. ^I. and 1 P. M., and on other days — except holidays — between the 
 hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. 
 
 Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art 
 Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- 
 senting the bill of purchase. 
 
 Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of 
 any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 
 
 5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in 
 which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed 
 by the Association for purchasers. The Association will, however, 
 afFord to purchasers every facility for employing at current and 
 reasonable rates carriers and packers ; doing so, however, without any 
 assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of 
 the parties engaged for such service. 
 
 6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the pur- 
 chaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer's hammer, and 
 thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring 
 
for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if 
 such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 
 
 Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed 
 within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 
 
 7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association 
 of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of 
 any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, 
 error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is 
 on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which 
 it is sold "as is" and without recourse. 
 
 The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- 
 rectly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy 
 expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, 
 in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention 
 of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible 
 for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper 
 foundation. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE. 
 
 Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on 
 orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faith- 
 fully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchase so 
 made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, which cannot 
 in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of 
 making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a pur- 
 chaser who has not, through himself or his agent, been present at 
 the exhibition or sale, will permit such lot to be returned within ten 
 days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be returned, if 
 the lot in any material manner differs from its catalogue description. 
 
 Orders for execution by the Association should be written and 
 given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. 
 Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids 
 should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists 
 of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volume 
 or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is 
 unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference sub- 
 mitted. Shipping directions should also be given. 
 
 Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, 
 will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable charge. 
 
 AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, 
 
 American Art Galleries, 
 Madison Square South, 
 
 New York City. 
 
MING (OR "BRIGHT") DYNASTY, 1368—1644 
 
 
 
 Diile of 
 
 End of 
 
 Dynastic Title 
 
 Title of Rciyn 
 
 Aci-ctfuioti 
 
 Reign 
 
 T'AI TSU 
 
 HrxG Wu 
 
 A.D. 1368- 
 
 -1398 
 
 HUI TI 
 
 Chiex Wex 
 
 1399- 
 
 -1403 
 
 CH'EXG TSU 
 
 YuxG Lo 
 
 1403- 
 
 -1424 
 
 YEN TSUNG 
 
 Ht'xg Hsi 
 
 1425- 
 
 -1426 
 
 HSUAX TSUNG 
 
 Hsi'Ax Te 
 
 1426- 
 
 -1435 
 
 YING TSUNG 
 
 C'hexg T'uxg 
 
 1436- 
 
 -1450 
 
 CHING TI 
 
 Chixg T'ai 
 
 1450- 
 
 -1456 
 
 YING TSUNG 
 
 (resumed government) 
 
 [ T'lEx Shux 
 
 1457- 
 
 -1464 
 
 HSIEN TSUNG 
 
 Ch'exg Hita 
 
 1465- 
 
 -1487 
 
 HSIAO TSUNG 
 
 Hung C'hih 
 
 1488- 
 
 -1505 
 
 W U TSUNG 
 
 Chexg Te 
 
 1506- 
 
 -1521 
 
 SHIH TSUNG 
 
 Chia Ching 
 
 1522- 
 
 -1566 
 
 MU TSUNG 
 
 LuxG Ch'ing 
 
 1567- 
 
 -1572 
 
 SHEN TSUNG 
 
 Wax Li 
 
 1573- 
 
 -1620 
 
 KUANG TSUNG 
 
 T'ai Ch'ang 
 
 1620 
 
 
 HSI TSUNG 
 
 T'ien Ch'i 
 
 1621- 
 
 -1627 
 
 CHUANG LIEH TI 
 
 Ch'cxg Chen 
 
 1628- 
 
 -1643 
 
TSING (OR "GREAT PURE") DYNASTY 
 
 1644—1912 
 
 Dynastic Title 
 
 SHIH TSU 
 SHENG TSU 
 SHIH TSUXG 
 KAO TSUNG 
 JEX TSUNG 
 HSUAN TSUNG 
 WEN TSUNG 
 MU TSUNG 
 
 Title of Reign 
 Shun Chih 
 K'ang Hsi 
 Yung Ch'eng 
 Ch'ien Lung 
 Chia Ch'ing 
 Tao Kuang 
 Hsien Feng 
 T'uNG Chih 
 Kuaxg Hsij 
 Shin Tung 
 
 Date of 
 Accession 
 
 A.D. 1644- 
 
 1662- 
 
 1723- 
 
 1736- 
 
 1796- 
 
 1821- 
 
 1851- 
 
 1862- 
 
 1875- 
 
 1909- 
 
 End of 
 Reign 
 
 -1661 
 
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 -1795 
 -1821 
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 -1875 
 -1908 
 -1912 
 
 REPUBLICAN PERIOD 
 
 President 
 Yuan-Shi-Kai 
 
 1912 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
438 
 
 BRILLIANT BLUE y\ND WHITE HAWTHORN GIKCER ,IAR 
 
FIRST AFTERNOON'S SALE 
 
 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 BEGINNING AT 2.30 o'cLOCK 
 
 Including Catalogue Nos. 1 to 164 
 
 BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAINS 
 
 1 — Two Miniature Blue and White Bottles {K\ing-]isi) 
 
 Compressed globular bodies, and bulbous necks, with heliantha- 
 ceous decoration. Have stands. 
 
 2 — Three Miniature Blue and White Bottles (K' ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration, "sunflowers," hatch borders and rings. Have 
 stands. 
 
 3 — Three Miniature Blue, and White Bottles {K' ang-hsi) 
 
 Slightly varying in form, with "sunflower" decoration. Have 
 stands. 
 
 4j — Four Blue and White Miniature Vases (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In differing shapes, with decorations of sprigs, figures and 
 flowering trees. Have stands. 
 
 5 — Six Blue and White Miniature Vases (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Of various shapes, decorated with figures and floral designs. 
 
 6 — Two Blue and White Miniature Vases (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ovoidal with straight necks, each adorned with the "Long Elizas." 
 Have stands. 
 
7 — Small Blue an)j White ^^ase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ovoidiil-globular body with constricted neck and 
 
 expanding lip. Decoration, rocks and flowers and 
 
 five borders. Has carved stand. 
 
 ITetijht. 3 inches. 
 
 8 — Bli'e axu White Cylixdricat, Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Pale C(ifc-(ni-lait o'uckle glaze: in two shades of 
 blue, a figure about to lead two camels through 
 a gate in a stone wall. Has stand. 
 
 9 — Sjiall Blt'e axi) White Prar-shaped Vase 
 {K'dng-hsi) 
 
 With beaker-neck. Decoration, emblems, orna- 
 ments and floral motives, in brilliant blue. Has stand. 
 
 HelgJit, 3 inches. 
 
 10 — Two IMixiATURE Blue axd White Vases (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Bottle-shaped. Penciled with wild flowers. Have stands. 
 
 11 — ]MixiATURE Blue axd White Bottles (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 A collection of nine specimens on a square teakwood stand. The 
 bottles are penciled with scrolls, figures and conventional de- 
 vices in liffht and dark blue. 
 
 12 — Blue axd White Botti.k-shaped 'N'ase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Decoration, three horses gathered under a tree. Four char- 
 
 acters on foot. Has 
 
 L'd stand. 
 
 13 — Bluk axd Whitk C'ylixdric'al Jar (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Scrolled ground in palest blue with fifteen plain medallions in 
 
 reser^■e. 
 
 Ilcif/ht. 314 inches. 
 
 1-1 — Bluk axd Whitk S.mali, Rougk Box (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 A flower and bold floral scrolls in deep lilue on the top; below, 
 successive hatch and scroll borders in lighter tone. Has stand. 
 
15— Saii.t. E 
 
 UK AMI 
 
 WiiiTK ('ori'K (Xiiiftfciifli ('(III II r//) 
 
 With an .■ill-oxcr. iiitrit'utclv inxolvrd, It'af and Horal sri-ollcd 
 doi'oration, exquisitely traced and j)ieked under the hiilhant 
 transparent glaze, in a Hyht, delicate blue. On stand. 
 
 16 — Bi.i-K Axi) W)HTK PiiKsKini-: Si'oox (Xiiiffcciith C'ciifin-ij) 
 
 Leaf-shaped, with long channeled stem. Clear, ringing por- 
 celain, with pure white glaze, ])ainted in cobalt-blue of two tones 
 with a twining sprig of leaves encompassing a full-blown flower. 
 
 Lent/Ill, J iiiclien. 
 
 IT ^IlXIATUlU-: Bl.I'K AXI) WlIITK BoTTLK {i'll' if ll-l II lUj) 
 
 The body flattened. Painted with a horse, a 
 
 and a monkey, in a 
 
 17 
 
 P'oaf, 
 
 a pi| 
 
 rooster 
 
 indscapc. Has stand. 
 
 IS- 
 
 -Slender Bi.te 
 hsi) 
 
 ixi) Whitf, A'ase {K'ang- 
 
 With narrow neck and lightly spreading lip, 
 on short foot. Painted on opposite faces in 
 pale and rich dark blue, with two ladies, each 
 two standing back to back, witli floral sprays 
 between the two pairs. Marked underneath 
 the white-glazed foot with a blue leaf. Has 
 teakwood stand. 
 
 Heiijht, 'A% inches. 
 
 19 — Egg-.shaped Blie and Whitk A'ase (K'aiig-lisi) 
 
 With attenuated neck and spreading lip, on a low foot. The 
 ovoid body divided, below a painted double ring, by white re- 
 serve longitudinal furrows into six compartments adorned with 
 sprigs of the wild prunus and other flowers in pale cobalt and 
 deep, dark-sapj)hire blue. ^larked within the glazed foot with 
 
 the blue leaf of K'anff-hsi. 
 
 Has carved teakwood stand. 
 
 Height, S'/, inches. 
 
 20 — Blt'e and White Quatbkfoie Vase (K'aiig-hsi) 
 
 With bulbous body, slender neck, two handles and spreading lip 
 and foot. Decoration in two tones of cobalt-blue depicting full- 
 length figures of ladies in long robes ; between them sprays of 
 flowers. Side liandles in the form of archaic dragons. 
 
 Ileif/lU, i,y., inches. 
 
21 — Blue and White Qt^atrefoil Vase (K'aiig-hsi) 
 
 Of slender form, with bulbous body recurving to a liglitl}^- 
 flaring lip and spreading foot, coiled, archaic dragons forming 
 loops from the shoidder to the contracted neck. Penciled in 
 pale cobalt and deeper blue with blossoms and two standing 
 ladies. Hatched borders below the lip and on the interior of 
 the neck. 
 
 Height. 4- inrhex. 
 
 -QcADRiT.ATEnAi, Bi.T'E AXD White Vask ( K'dng-hsi) 
 
 Of dense porcelain; high shouldered, with contracted neck and 
 
 flaring lip, tapering body and spreading foot. Lip and base 
 
 quadrangular ; the corners of the body rounded and indented. 
 
 All four sides generously painted with floral displays. Dragon- 
 loop side-handles. 
 
 Height, 4- inches. 
 
 23~Bi 
 
 .te and 
 
 23 
 
 WirrrE C'vlixdrical Jar (Ch'ien-Iung) 
 
 Soft white glaze crackled in pale brown lines. 
 Painted in two tones of blue with household 
 ornaments, the sacred lotus and other forms. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Heiifht. 3 iifche.<t. 
 
 2-i — Two Bt,i'e and White Small Vases {K'ang- 
 
 Ojie, hexagonal, with high shoulder, contracted 
 body and very slightly spreading foot, painted 
 in deep blue with figures and potted shrubs ; 
 the other, of double-gourd shape, lightly pen- 
 ciled with conventional floral and leaf-scroll 
 motives. Have teakwood stands. 
 
 Hei<iht. 31/, inches. 
 
 3,5 — Two Egg-shapeu Bli'e 
 
 White "\'ases ( K\iiig-lisi) 
 
 With contracted neck and flanged lip on a high spreading foot. 
 Four b(jwing ladies and two tubs of shrubbery adorn the six 
 arched panels into which the body is molded, the panels being 
 outlined in blue, and sprays with dotted and scroll borders 
 appear above and below. H;ive stands. 
 
 Ueiylit. 4 inches. 
 
~6 — Blue and AVhitf, Cvv and Saucur {K'ling-hni) 
 
 Clear, bcll-toncd tr.insluccnt porcelain of semi-eggshell fineness, 
 the decoration of each piece, in two tones of blue, depicting 
 an ancient romantic story of capture. A mighty archer of high 
 rank is carrying away on a galloping horse a complacent lady, 
 having just despatched an arrow which pierces the breast of 
 an adversary. A standard bearer and other warriors are also 
 seen. Both cup and saucer marked with the double ring of 
 K'ang-hsi, with a charactei- within the circle. 
 
 /fcit/lil. 1% inches: d'unncler. 1 inches. 
 
 27 — Five Blue and Whitk Crps and SArcnus {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Semi-eggshell translucent porcelain, painted with pine trees, 
 garden scenes and open landscapes, and figures at leisure or 
 occupied, in two tones of blue, and finished with rim borders in 
 cross-hatch. 
 
 Height, iy_^ inches: diameter. Sy^ inches. 
 
 -Delicate Blue and White Cup (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Clear fine porcelain of musical tone and semi-eggshell lightness, 
 translucent, modeled in form of the expanding bell of a flower, 
 on a short circular foot. Penciled in a transparent cobalt-blue 
 with a graceful tracery of conventional floral scroll, bud and 
 blossom pattern. Six-character mark of Cheng Hua. (Apoc- 
 ryphal.) 
 
 Diiiineter, 3% inches. 
 
 29 — Writer's Blue and White Water-cup (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Thin porcelain. Bell-shaped, with wide mouth, decorated on 
 one side with a landscape, trees and clouds, in pale and deep- 
 sapphire blue. Has stand. 
 
 30 — Small Blue and White Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Spherical with flattened shoulder, sharply-contracted neck and 
 wide flanged lip, on a low circular foot. The body encircled 
 by a wide band of the chrysanthemum flower and scroll, be- 
 tween a heavy scroll shoulder-border and a narrow serrated 
 border at the base, in light and dark blue, and the neck by a 
 leaf border and a blue ring. Carved teakwood stand. 
 
31 — Blue and White Pedestaled Tkay {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Shallow basin-form with broad recurved and everted scalloped 
 
 lip, on a low cylindrical stem with expanded center, supported 
 
 by a wide, flaring base. Profuse decoration of the blossoming 
 
 wild prunus in pale cobalt and dark blue. 
 
 Diameter, i inches. 
 
 32 — Pair of Blt'e and White Tkipod Sweetjmeat Stands 
 {K\(ng-hsi) 
 
 Hexagonal, the tops of sliallow curvature, the deep bodies re- 
 ticulated and slighth' contracted and resting without bottom on 
 three animal-head feet. Decorated in rich dark and pale delicate 
 blue with trees, rocks, and two flying birds approaching and ap- 
 parently sputtering at each other. Hatched borders with floral 
 corner ornaments. (One repaired.) 
 
 33 — Globulai! Blue and White Teapot (K'ang-Jisi) 
 
 With loop handle and curved spout. Penciled and modeled in six 
 arched panels, four containing figures of ladies, each holding a 
 flower, and two with flowering dwarfed trees and shrubs in pots, 
 the whole in two shades of blue. Cover with a foliated floral 
 border and a large knob Imndle glazed in solid blue. ]\Iark, on 
 the glazed foot, a blue leaf. Has stand. 
 
 34< — Small Octagonal Blef. and White Teatot {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With looped handle and straight spout. Four of the faces oc- 
 cupied b}' standing and seated ladies, and four filled with floral 
 display's. 
 
 3.5 — Globflau Bli-e and White Tfafot {K\nig-hsi) 
 
 With loojK'd handle and straight spout. ]\Iolded in six archecl 
 panels defined in outline and filled by four smiling ladies carry- 
 ing fans or flowers, and two flowering shrubs in tubs. The hat- 
 shaped cover, with a border of sprays and playing boys, has 
 the small button-Iiandle glazed in pale blue. Mark, a blue leaf. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 31/2 inches. 
 
36- 
 
 -Hf.TUTI.AI'KIi Rl.l'K AM) AX^IILTK TkAI'OT ( K\(II(J-]i si) 
 
 ^^^•f "^ "^^^^^ '^'^l^ rc-'ticiihitioii, e.'icli liiivliig at 
 .^^••« # , »%^%IA% l^its rriitvi- a circulai- iiiedal- 
 
 L(i\\ i^lo|)iilur ('((I'm, (Icco- 
 ratfd in a lotus motive; with 
 doublu slu'll, or a vase within 
 a vast', the outer body pierced 
 111 four panels of liexafron/d 
 
 lion eiu'losinrr the swastika. 
 Cover reticulate in slit form, 
 and hotfoin of outer vessel 
 also pierced. Blue decora- 
 tion on the inner body is 
 observable tlii-ou^-h tlie lat- 
 tices. (('o\er re])ai}-ed.) 
 
 flrij/hl, !) inrhps. 
 
 -Blue and AA'iiite Teai-ot {i'Jiicn-luncj) 
 
 AA'ith uprig'ht looj) handle and cur\ed sjxuit. Squat, compressed 
 
 oviform, on a low foot, the sj)out and handle counterfeiting the 
 
 jointed bamboo. The body decorated between serrated, scroll 
 
 and foliate boi'ders with delicately traced scrolled foliations 
 
 and flowers, and the liantUe and spout with foliated medallions 
 
 of the honeycomb pattern and four small geometrical medallions 
 
 incised beneath the glaze. Has stand. 
 
 Ilflfflil, 5 inches. 
 
 38--BE1 
 
 xo WiHTE Staxiiixg Ci'P (K' (iHg-hsi) 
 
 In the form of an inverted bell-shaped flowel- on a pedestal foot. 
 The body, molded in broad spiral flutings which finish in a scal- 
 loped edge, is })ainted in all the channels with varying floral 
 sprays. The base carries besides a molded ring two convoluted 
 borders and a border of palniations, and the interior of the lip 
 
 a narrow border of hatch. Has stand. 
 
 Helf/Iit, I'/v, inches. 
 
 39 Blte axd White Cup ix Chalice Form (K'atuj-h.v) 
 
 ]3ense, sonorous porcelain, tlie cup itself modeled witli narrow- 
 ribs or flutings depressed in the paste, the cylindrical stem having 
 a molded midband and resting on a spreading circular base. 
 Generous decoration of wide-spreading blossoms and buds and 
 slender, sinuous leaves, with a series of scroll, palmate and floral 
 borders, one within the lip. 
 
 IJcirjht, 5% inches. 
 
40 — Br.iL.; AXD White fvuxDiacAL A'ask (I\"a)ir/-hsi) 
 
 Tall, straii^ht, slender body, sprendin^r slightly at the foot and 
 more freely at the lip. Painted in two shades of blue, above a 
 narrow geometrical border placed high on the body, with potted 
 plants and floral motives, and below the border with two ladies 
 riding astride on galloping hoi'ses, one accompanied by a run- 
 ning hound and her companion holding in her outstretched hand 
 a bird, perha})s a falcon. ]\Iark, a bl'.ie leaf underneath the 
 
 glaze. Has carved stand. 
 
 Ileiijlil. \'-y_t iiifhes. 
 
 41 — DoiBi.K-TiKR Rr.i'K AXD WiFiTE ^'ASK ( K'aufj-hsi) 
 
 The lower body an oviform jar, surmounted by a squat-ovoidal 
 
 vase with tall, full neck. Pure white porcelain adorned in both 
 
 sections with f)()ld scrolls and foliations freely painted in cobalt 
 
 blue. Has stand. 
 
 Hciqhl. o liicJic.i. 
 
 42 — Dki.icate Pear-suapeb Blue and WnrrE Yase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Pure white dense })orcelain painted in two tones of cobalt blue 
 with rocks, reeds and tall-growing blossoms, some of them lili- 
 form. >Vl)out rim and foot two pale blue rings. Has stand. 
 
 FI('i</hf. 3 iiirhrs. 
 
 4.3 — Two Tai.i.-xf.ckki) Bltm', axd Wiiitk A'asks ge the. Poek 
 La7)ii-;s ( K\iug-Iixi ) 
 
 Bodv in the form of an o\oid jar with constricted neck and 
 flaring li]), this supporting a pear-shaped va.se which forms the 
 neck. The body molded and defined in six arched panels, four 
 occupied l)v ladies in front of a veranda railing and two bv 
 potted shrubbery. The upper vase forming the neck painted 
 in three panels with the })oint of the arch downward, and carry- 
 ing cross-hatched borders at lip and base. A character in- 
 scribed in blue beneath the white-glazed foot. Have stands. 
 
 Heifiht. 4- '4 iiichi'.':. 
 
 44 — Br.T'E AXD Wurri-: 0\oin Jar {K'aiig-lisi) 
 
 Above a narrow base-border of upward-pointing leaves a white 
 reserve passage is indentetl by a broad, alternating foliate border 
 of cobalt-blue with flower forms and foliations in white reserve, 
 and this again is succeeded by borders on the shoulder and short 
 neck. Plas stand. 
 
 llt'ighl. 3 inches. 
 
■i5- Bi.iK AMI WiiiTK 1'"i,()\vi';k \'asi<: (('li'icii-Iinuj) 
 
 Jk'lNsli.'ipi'd, with full cyliiulric.'il neck. 
 'V\\v white i;'la/,c marked hy a l)ol(l crarkle 
 in tiiu' brown lines, tht' same ola/e ehar- 
 acteri/.in^ tlic foot. 'J'he l)o(lv eiicireled 
 l)_v a l)eautit'ul elirysaiithemum scroll in 
 rieh l)hie, the shoulder by sei'oll and 
 foliate borders, and the neck by a band 
 of alternatiiifi- lonir and short banana 
 k'a\es poiiitinir U])«'ard. lias stand. 
 
 46 — C'ojiPosiTF, \.\SF. IX Br.fE and White 
 ( K'liiig-lisi) 
 
 45 An ovoid jar standing upon a circular 
 
 spreacHncr foot is surmounted by a 
 smaller jar of cylindrical body, flat 
 slioulder, short, wide neck and flaring lip, the whole modeled as 
 one vase. The complex modeling of the ovoid body shapes it 
 into t«'o encircling series of six Ijipetaled overlaj)ping leaves, 
 tlie tops of the lower series also overlapping tlie leaves above, 
 all decorated with sprays, blossoms and fruits in two tones of 
 blue. The u})per vase carries circular floral medallions on a grill 
 ground, and the whole a series of hatch, scroll and foliate 
 borders. ^Marked with the blue leaf within the glazed foot. Has 
 stand. 
 
 Hf'njhf, -V\''n inches. 
 
 47 — Bi.TE AXD White Oxoid Jar with Cap Cover (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Body painted in pale cobalt-blue with a luxuriant })lant of 
 tropical foliage and two ladies seated at a table : the cover with 
 
 the figure of a boy playing. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 3% inrhes 
 
 48 — Two OviFOR.M Blue and White Jaks (K'ninj-h.si) 
 
 With lightly spreading foot, high slioulder and hat-shaped cover. 
 Penciled in pale cobalt with broad foliate and diamond medal- 
 lions, the covers with wreath borders of down-pointing leaves. 
 (One cover cracked.) Carved stands. 
 
 Height, 41/2 inrhes. 
 
49 — Two Blve and White Covered Curs with Saucers {K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Witli two handles. Profusely painted in cobalt-blue, each piece 
 in eight ornamental sections outlined in white reserve. On the 
 cups, eight pointed-arch panels with nearly straight sides ; on 
 the saucers the arch is half-round, the panels tapering in the 
 form of inverted cones, truncated by a circular central medal- 
 lion ; on the covers the eight peg-top panels, without arch, center 
 with their points at the small pointed-knob handle. Each solid 
 blue panel adorned with luxuriant flower-scrolls in white reserve 
 and delicately penciled. The loop cup-handles are in the form 
 of archaic dragons. Each cup and saucer marked with a blue 
 conch-shell Avithin the blue double ring. 
 
 lli'iijJit. -!• iiiihcs: ijiiinirlcr of Sdvcerx. 5'4 inches. 
 
 .50 — ]5lue Axi) AVhite Cyeixdkicae Teapot (Cli'icn-lung) 
 
 Decorated in bright blue with branches and flowers; quadrilateral 
 handle and spout carry on two sides floral and key scrolls in 
 low relief on an incised ground. About the spout, detached 
 blossoms painted over the glaze. Dish-shaped cover. (Cracked 
 and repaii-ed.) 
 
 Height. 6 inches. 
 
 51 — Bi.TE AXI) White Cyijxdrkal Te.vpot {C h'icn-Jnng) 
 
 ^Vitli upright loop h;indle and S-curving spout. The white body 
 and sloping slioulder j)resenting a floriate display of strewn 
 sprays and flying butterflies enticingly j)enciletl in pure blue, 
 the quadrdateral handle and spout adorned on one surface in 
 blue and on two sides with floral and kev scrolls in low relief 
 on an incised ground. 
 
 Height. 6 inches. 
 
 52 — Cylixdricae Blue axd White Teapot {Ch'icn-Jiing) 
 
 With bamboo hjop-handle and spout. Clear, sonorous porcelain. 
 Body ornamented at either side with bunches of lichees, between 
 light cobalt and deep, dark-blue borders, the shoulder with four 
 diamond medallions and foliations and a single-line lioncvcomb 
 border; cover in form of a deep plate with a similar border. 
 In the handle four incised geometrical medallions. 
 
 Height, 6 inches. 
 
5'3 — Gi.Dnri.Au Hi. in and \\'iiirK .Iau ( K\uHj-hsi) 
 
 The })riiu'ipal dcroratlon c-onsist.s of the (iffures of two young 
 women, standini;' in sinuous pose, and exotic foliage, bencatli a 
 narrow shouhler-l)order of "cracking-iee'" jiattei'n, in pale 
 eolialt-hhie with deep notes. rnderneath the foot a blue leaf. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Ileiilht, '.\y^ iiirliea. 
 
 54— BT.ri-. 
 
 ^Vll^^l•■. C'liicn.Ai! Howi. {]'iiiif/ Clu'iig) 
 
 Clear sonorous poreelani decollated ui deej) saj)phire-l)luc with 
 four floral and fish medallions on a clear white ground, with 
 intervening floral conventionalizations of cloud-scroll jiatterns. 
 Six-character mark within a blue double ring. 
 
 hiiitni'lir, \'''-\ inches. 
 
 liirhes. 
 
 55 — Cylindricat, Blue axii Whitk Vase {R'aug-hfii) 
 
 AVitli high shoulder, narrow neck and flanged 
 lip. ^Modeled in six arched panels painted 
 in two tones of blue with four standing 
 female figures and two fioral sprays; on 
 shoulder and neck, filleted emblems and 
 scroll and dot boi'ders. Single-character 
 ^_ , „ niai'k on bottom. Has stand. 
 
 ^K^ .iFi I n,-i,,ht. U 
 
 56 — Bum-; axd Wihtk ^ ask (A anc/-1isi) 
 
 Tall form, with long beaker-shape neck. 
 Bodv of compressed globular form on a high 
 spreading foot, the fiattened shoulder merg- 
 ing abruptly into the base of a beaker with 
 cx[)anded, bulbous body, tall neck and flar- 
 ing lip. Decorated in brilliant blue with 
 figures of accomplished ladies, plants, folia- 
 •'•^ tions, grill-work and playing boys. Marked 
 
 on the bottom with a blue leaf. Carved stand. 
 
 ffr'u/Jit. 4'/^ inrhes. 
 
 57 — GouRD-siiArED Bli'k and WnrrE Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With long beaker-neck with bulbous expansion and spreading 
 lip, on a short, circular, perfect foot. The gourd body marked 
 by impressed ribbing or striations and ornamented with vines, 
 blossoms, birds and grasshoppers, artistically painted in two 
 shades of cobalt-blue with white reserves, the neck with leaf 
 
 forms. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, Hy., inches. 
 
58 — Bi.uE AXD White Dragox Bowl (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Clfar, Ijell-toned porcelain; liard paste of the K'aiig-hsi period, 
 covered with a brilliant pure white glaze and adorned with two 
 throe-clawed dragons and conventional clirysanthomuni scrolls, 
 boldly drawn, the scroll nioti\c continued in the interior of the 
 bottom, ^lark, in blue beneath the wjiitc-glazed foot, the Fu 
 character, one of tlie twelve ancient embroidery ornaments. 
 
 Diameter, 4^/, inches. 
 
 59 — ()\iFORM Bi.T'K Axi> WniTK Jar {K' (ing-lini) 
 
 Witli liigli shoulder and gracefully spreading foot, the upper 
 bodv molded in six lobes or panels with leaf-point tops, the low, 
 narrow waist smooth. Exquisitely painted with flowers and 
 fruits in sprays and bunches, in cobalt-blue with white reserve 
 and delic;ite shading, above a grill border interrupted bv foliate 
 enclosures of similar motives. A blue symbol on the base. Hat- 
 shaped teakwood cover. Has carved stand. 
 
 Ileif/Jit. 414 iix'hes. 
 
 60 KosKWATHR SpRlXKr.KR IX BlFI: AXD Whitk (K\iiuj-hsi) 
 
 Globular bodv with a steeplv inclined 
 shoulder tliat expands into a bulbous neck 
 which above it is gracefully attenuated. 
 Painted in pure tones of s;i]iphire-blne with 
 the primus and other tloi-al favorites within 
 four ])anels traced in double outline, waved 
 and pointed at tlie top. Floral and gco- 
 meti'ical forms in outline and solid color 
 a[)i)eai- in bands and extending up the neck. 
 
 Ileit/Jit. 7'4 inches. 
 
 (jl — Tai.t, ]5axi)i:i) 
 ( K'tuifj-h.<ti) 
 
 Bm 
 
 WiiiTi: Jar 
 
 With high shoulder, tapering gentlv to a 
 Very slightly s})reading ])erfect foot. Hard 
 paste of dense texture of the K"ang-hsi 
 })erio(l, decorated with a profusion of floral 
 displays in a series of four Avide tri])artite 
 lateral hands, se|)arated by low moldings, 
 
 111 two t<mi's (if pure cobalt under a brilliant transparent glaze. 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 lleiijlit. .J14 inches. 
 
 60 
 
62 KOSEWATK.K ShUIXKI.KK IX lil.UE ANM) \VHrrK { K'nilfJ-ll Si) 
 
 roar-shapod bodj' witli attenuated neck, on a spreading foot. 
 Adorned witli tliree cxpan.si\e ovate medallions in blue, enclosing 
 blossoms and foliations in reserve and penciled, below a shoulder- 
 border of intervening pendant foliations, above which stems of 
 slender leaf-blades extend up the neck, under a vitreous glaze. 
 (Foot chipped.) Has stand. 
 
 fTi'if/liI, 7 iiirhes. 
 
 63 — Hkxagonal Bui-; axd White Jar {Yu'ig Clung) 
 
 AVith flat shoulder, short, wide neck and flanged rim, decorated 
 on all surfaces in a light, delicate blue, with ornate, elaborated 
 scrolls, conventionalized leaf forms, Greek fret and adaptations 
 of the conventionalized cloud scrolls, penciled with dainty pre- 
 cision in outline and shadings, with white reserve. On the sides 
 the scrolls, two to each face, hang pendant to and evolved from 
 what appear as bundled sheaves of grain, standing upright. 
 
 Ileiyhl, 5% inche.i. 
 
 64 — Egg-shaped Elite and AA'hite \'ask {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With short cylindrical neck and contracted, slightly spreading 
 foot. Painted in two tones of blue with the "Lange Lijsen" and 
 flowers, in molded and outlined panels. ]\Iark, a blue leaf. Has 
 carved stand. 
 
 Jff'iff]i(. 6 Ihi'Ik'S. 
 
 65 — Blue axd White Beaker {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With broad midband, short spreading foot and long, wide, 
 flaring neck. Pure white, dense porcelain, decorated in cobalt- 
 blue with sapphire tones with long-robed figures of young women, 
 potted plants and floral sprays and scrolls. On the foot a blue 
 leaf. 
 
 Hcii/hl, 6 inches. 
 
 QQ — Hexagonal Blue axd White Jar {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With rounded shoulder and short cylindrical neck. Dense pore 
 lain covered with an even glaze of skim-milk white, the panels 
 decorated alternately with bold foliations and branches of blos- 
 soms springing from rocks, the color of rich, "Mussulman-blue" 
 
 quality. Carved stand. 
 
 Height, 6 inches. 
 
 I'C- 
 
67 — Ovoid Blue and White Rose Jau with Cover (K'ancf-hsi) 
 
 Dense porcelain enameled with a thick glaze of pale white and 
 adorned with the "Lange Lijsen" and decorative lines and masses 
 in Delft blue; cover with floral medallion and border. On the 
 foot, four-character mark of Ch'eng Hua, but made in the reign 
 of K'ang-hsi. Has stand. 
 
 Height, SVs inches. 
 
 68 — ^Blue and White Oviform Vase {Xineteenth Century) 
 
 With slightly spreading raised foot and short contracted neck. 
 Decorated between base and shoulder borders with conventional 
 chrysanthemum scrolls in close formation. 
 
 Height, 5% inches. 
 
 69 — Pair Blue and White Bowls {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Quadrilateral, with cylindrical foot. The corners broadly flat- 
 tened, making really an eight-sided bowl of it, and the whole 
 gracefully rounded at the bottom. The broad sides decorated 
 with "Lange Lijsen," standing and seated under banana, wild 
 prunus and pine trees, in varied landscapes, one of the seated 
 maidens piping on a slender musical reed instrument. The 
 narrow sides carry a grill in pale blue, and in the interior 
 of the bottom, within a panel, three boys are at play. In- 
 scribed with the calligraphic six-character mark of Ch'eng-hua 
 in deep blue within a pale blue double ring, but made in the 
 K'ang-hsi period. 
 
 Diameter, 6% inches. 
 
 70 — Two Blue and White Ovoid Jars (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Embellished with two fantastically scrolled presentments of the 
 Dog Fu with his brocaded ball, in rich, deep and a paler blue 
 with white reserve, and broad, whirling scrolls, beneath a narrow 
 hatch border. Have carved teakwood covers and stands. 
 
 Height, 4 inches and iy^ inches. 
 
 71 — Pair Blue and White Cylindrical Vases (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With shghtly spreading mouth and foot. Bands of deep folia- 
 tions in blue with white reserve depend from the lip and spring 
 from the base. Scattered in the white field, detached ornament. 
 Interior glazed, the biscuit being exposed in a ring within the 
 lip. 
 
 Height, 5% inches. 
 
-Bi.ri-: AND ^^'triTE GAuxrrrHE 
 
 (A) BliR' and ^Vhitc ()\()i(lMl A'ase witli Cover (K'ang-hai) : 
 In tonipk'-jar form, with higli slioulik'r, gracefully tapering body 
 and narrow, slightly spreading foot ; the cover hat-shaped. 
 Decorated with floral j)anels posed upon a paneled base border, 
 and with three borders on shoulder and neck. 
 
 TIcii/Jif, G'?4 '"c/k'.s'. 
 
 (B) Ovoid Jar with ^Mandarin Cover (K'ang-hsi) : 
 Decorated throughout in blue of two tones, in a series of long 
 panels based on shorter ones, with rocks and upward-spring- 
 ing flowers — the lotus, prunus and other forms — and successive 
 borders. Has stand. 
 
 Height, dy., inches. 
 
 (C) Blue and White Beaker (K\mg-hsi) : 
 
 Bulbous shoulder, contracting below and recurving to a spread- 
 ing foot; tall neck with flaring lip. The body divided into six 
 panels, traced in double line, housing luxuriant rock peonies, 
 the lotus and other flowers, over smaller floral panels surround- 
 
 ing the base. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 6 inches. 
 
73 — Six Blue akd White Deep Saucers (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Clear white porcelain adorned in varied tones of blue, with 
 white reserve. The central ornament, occupying a large por- 
 tion of the bottom interior, comprises dwarf pine and wild 
 prunus trees, emblems of winter, in an elaborate jar on an ornate 
 stand. The liollow of the rise is occupied by a deep grill band, 
 with four alternate ]M and W interruptions bearing cloud and 
 chrysanthemum scrolls, this being succeeded on the lightly flaring 
 lip by a narrow honeycomb border. On the outer side are four 
 lotus sprays. Penciled in blue, beneath the foot, within a blue 
 double ring, the six-character mark of Ch'cng Hua, on two of 
 them. 
 
 DUimeler, 6y^ inches. 
 
 74 — Six Blue and White Deep Saicers {Ch'ien-lung) 
 Companions to the preceding lot. Without mark. 
 
 Diameter, 614 inches. 
 
 75 — Four-seasons Blue axd White ^'ase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 On low circular foot. Globular body, with tall, bulbous neck in 
 two expansions and with long, lightly flaring beaker-lip. Painted 
 in two tones of underglaze blue with panels of the seasonal 
 flowers, the rock peony, clirysanthemum, wild prunus and the 
 lotus, and hovering butterflies. Carved stand. 
 
 Height, 6% inches. 
 
 76 — Club-shaped Blue axii White Yask (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Clear, dense porcelain of K'ang-hsi covered with a milk-white 
 glaze, the rim glazed in yellow-brown, and robustly painted with 
 the phoenix in flight among cloud-forms, the flaming jewel and 
 yang-iiin symbol, and two of the emblems from the "Eight 
 Precious Things," the filleted artemisia leaf and a jewel, in beau- 
 tiful, brilliant blue of two tones. On the neck a crenelated 
 border above an outline scroll border. The glazed foot bears 
 the blire double ring. 
 
 Height, 7 inches. 
 
 77 — Tall Blue axd White Teapot {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With loop handle and recurved spout. Dense porcelain cov- 
 ered with a pure white glaze and adorned with six ovate medal- 
 lions in brilliant blue with elaborate foliations outlined in the 
 white reserve. About the neck a scroll band similarly eff^ectu- 
 ated. (Damaged.) 
 
 Height. 8 inches. 
 
78 — Tai.i, Bi.rK ANM) \A'iirrK WixKi'or { h"ini</~hKi) 
 
 AVitli l()()})c(l lijuidlt' ;ui(l re- 
 curved spout. I'uic white 
 porceliiin puintt'd In cobalt 
 witll oxatc medallions sci'olled 
 m white i-eser\e; lU'ck hordei- 
 of foliations. On the liat- 
 shapi'd co\-er a hordci' of blos- 
 soms. ^Alark, a doubli' i-ing. 
 Has stand. 
 
 llf'iiflll. l'-'] iiirhfs. 
 
 79 — 'J'wo (ii.om- i,.\i! l$rr,iiors- 
 
 XKCK'Kl) Jil.ri-: AXl) ^^'J1ITE 
 
 Uo-i-Ti.Ks ( K\nicj-hsi) 
 
 On low circular foot. IV'iu-iled 
 in sap])hire and col)alt blue, 
 78 with a free use of white reserve, 
 
 with household ornaments, em- 
 blems and flowers and tiowerin^ shrubs or trees, in two body 
 panels, and also on the neck above a hatched shoulder band. 
 Beneath the lip a band of up-pointini)' jjalmations in cleai- ])lue. 
 Has stand. 
 
 IJt'nihl. S inches. 
 
 80 — Bli'k and White Coai.escext A'ase (Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Gourd-shape, with double mouth. In the form of two gourds 
 witll bodies merging into one, on a spreading foot, the necks 
 preserving their individuality and curving in opposite directions, 
 ending with slightly spreading lips. Conventional decoration of 
 flowering shrubs and sprays in deep, purplish-blue and pale blue. 
 
 Ileit/ht, 81/4 inches. 
 
 81 — Sj.exdkk C'ylixdiucae Blue and WurrE Yasf. (Miiicj) 
 
 ^\h\\ swelling shoulder and contracted short neck with e\ertod 
 
 li]). Pure hard paste of clear, ringing note, covered with a 
 
 ])ale, milk-white glaze and adorned with slender bamboo and 
 
 flowering trees, sparrows swooping and alighted, insects winging 
 
 in the air, and scroll forms and emblems, all in brilliant blue of 
 
 varied tone. Around base and shoulder scroll borders incised in 
 
 the paste beneath the glaze and uncolored. 
 
 Ileiffht. 81/4 inches. 
 
82 — OvoiDAL Blue and White Vase (K'ang- 
 
 With tall gracefully curved flaring neck, on a spreading convex 
 foot. Pure white porcelain of dense texture, enameled with a 
 brilliant transparent glaze and painted in a lustrous cobalt-blue 
 with a deep band of expansive foliations embracing reserved 
 floral scrolls, depending from the shoulder, and other ornamenta- 
 tion profusely applied. ]\Iark beneath the foot a blue leaf. 
 Has carved stand. (Lip chipped and repaired.) 
 
 Height, 8 inches. 
 
 83 — Cylindrical Blue and White Bowl (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Of shallow form. Sonorous stone-weight porcelain of clear tex- 
 ture, painted with household ornaments and utensils, a rabbit 
 and a bird, in cobalt and lavender-blue with white reserve, under 
 a brilliant enamel glaze encircling the circumference, the in- 
 terior left unadorned in a white mat glaze. 
 
 Diameter, 6% inches. 
 
 84 — Two-handled Blue and White Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Heavy, sonorous porcelain. Squat, ovoidal body on a low foot ; 
 wide neck bulging somewliat above the shoulder and lightly 
 tapering only to swell again into a broad trumpet-mouth. The 
 neck is encircled by a rare band, molded in relief in the paste, 
 of curious formation. Body and neck beautifully painted in 
 lustrous underglaze blues with profuse masses of leaves and 
 blossoms. Beneath the flaring rim finches perched on swaying 
 flower-stems sing amid other expanding blooms. The vertical 
 side handles are scrolled, pierced and ridged. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 8 inches. 
 
 85 — OviFORji Blue and White 'S'ase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With high shoulder, short neck and trumpet lip, and lightly 
 spreading perfect foot. Decorated witli two three-clawed 
 dragons, painted in deep blue of pure, transparent tone, squirm- 
 ing amidst fire-scrolls; the neck encircled by scroll and dot 
 borders in pale blue. (Fire crack and hp chipped.) Carved 
 stand. 
 
 Height, 8 inches. 
 
86 — Tai.i, OvoioAb Blue axd White Jar (K'aiig-li.si) 
 
 Witli riuttciR'd sliouldLT and cap cover. 
 Dense porcelain whose white glaze yields 
 metallic reflections, decorated in a strong 
 blue of varying tone. On the wide white 
 field between deep foliated borders of blue 
 with })runus blossoms and foliations in 
 white reserve at shoulder and base, are 
 two panels and two medallions in outline 
 enclosing tripod jars .and gi-o\ving shrubs. 
 (Cover repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 lir'uiht, \) inches. 
 
 87 — Bi.TK AXD White A'.\se {Late K'ainj-lisi) 
 
 '\\'it]i neck gracefully cur\ing to a slightly 
 spread lip, on a high concave flaring 
 foot. Heavy stone-weight porcelain of 
 clear texture. I'^.xtensive landscape deco- 
 ration in brilliant sappliire-blue tending 
 purple, including houses, trees, mountains, rocks and 
 On a low bank over a stream three figures are suggested, 
 ow them in a boat is a man Ashing. Teakwood stand. 
 
 Heiifhl. 8;/, inches. 
 
 toward 
 water, 
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 88 — Huiir-sHorLDKKKi) Ovn-OKJi IJi-te and White Jau (K'aiuj-lisi) 
 
 ^^'itl^ short cylindrical neck and gracefully spreading foot. 
 Adorned in two plain outlined panels with brilliant paintings of 
 vases, tripods, I'mblems, peacock feathers, the scepter — motives 
 fi-om the "'Hundred Antiques" — and about the neck with folia- 
 tions, all with a free and delicate use of reserve, in glowing pig- 
 ment of rich, lustrous lapis-blue on the pure white surface. 
 ]\Iark, beneath the foot, the blue double ring. Has carved teak- 
 wood stand. 
 
 liciiiht, 8'/, inches. 
 
 89 — Melox-skaped Blue and A^'hite ^^-\sE {K\ing-hsi) 
 
 With tall cylindrical neck and flaring foot. Dense porcelain. 
 
 The lobes in the surface of the melon are delicately modeled 
 
 in the paste and demarcated by double lines of pale blue, and 
 
 the various sections are occupied by floral sprays in deeper 
 
 tone on white reserve. Below are foliate borders ; and leaf 
 
 conventionalizations pointing upward and down adorn the neck. 
 
 (Lip chipped.) Has stand. 
 
 Height, 914 inches. 
 
90 — Paiu ok EoTTi.K-snAPKi) ]5r,T'E AND Whitk Vases {K^uig-lid) 
 
 With slifi-htlv s))i-eii(ling foot iind looped 
 o'ikkcl drag-on side-handles. Sonorous 
 porcelain delicately painted with "Long 
 Klizas," rocks, winter trees, and jars of 
 the hlossoniing mci oi- wild winter-bloom- 
 ing prunus, in cohalt-blue beneath a bril- 
 liant glaze. (One repaired.) Mark, a 
 
 l)hie leaf. 
 
 Height. 10 iiirlips. 
 
 91 — IxvKirrKi) Bi'.r.T.-sn.M'K ^'.\sE (CJi'ioi- 
 Iniifj) 
 
 With graceful circular bo«l on a tall 
 spreading foot ; in cobalt-blue and 
 white. Exterior of bowl covered with 
 the chrysantheniuni sci'oll, between nar- 
 row fret and hair-sci-olj boi'ders : on the 
 deep foot, borders of scroll, a swastika 
 lattice, and deep, douiiward pointing 
 ])alinatiinrs- the lattice iiitei-ru})ted by a 
 foiir-cbai'acter inscription delicately ])en- 
 
 d ill col;:i|t-l)hle l)(_lleath the glaze. 
 
 fTt'li/Iit, ((14 iiirhes. 
 
 90 
 
 92 — ()\iKoi!M IJi.ri: and A\'nrri-, A'ase ( K\nif/-h.ti) 
 
 W")[]\ thick truni]i(t neck and flaring foot. The high, broad 
 shoulder is left in its inilk-\\ liite jiuritv, beni'ath a narrow scrolled 
 circlet about tlie neck, while below, a hold landscape of rocks, 
 tncs and iiioiintains liv the \\atersi(lc is dejiicted m sapphire 
 hues \\liich scintillate m the brilliant glaze. Here two figures 
 are conferring, seated on a rock-ledge bi'iieatli a tree. ( Lip 
 shows a slight lapair. ) Has stand. 
 
 Ift'lf/]il. S inches. 
 
 9!3 — ]5iJi-: AMI ^\'l^Tl■; (i i,(inr i,.\ii \'ase with Heakek Xeck (K'iukj- 
 It.si) 
 
 Li the form of a ghjulilar jar on a low foot, with a short, con- 
 tiactid iH'ck on \\liose flattened lip a small beaker is superini- 
 ])(isi(l, fcu'ining the rial neck of the v.isi'. l)ec<uated in two 
 tones of hlue with jars, \ases and emblems, bands and Ixu'ders. 
 ( 1 )amaged. ) 
 
 Hi'lght. 10 Inches. 
 
9-i: t'0\KRED CyI.IXDUICA L Bl.FK AXD WniTK JaK { K\i lig-lls't) 
 
 On low undcr-body foot. Decorated in two bi-oad panels with 
 basket of flowers and "Hundred Antiijues" motives, the panels 
 separated by narrow vertical bands of con\entional floral scrolls 
 in reser\e on a blue ground marked by many shadin<^-s and varia- 
 tions, the whole in differing)- tones of bright blue 'with the use 
 of reserve. Cover harmoniously treated. Biscuit exposed within 
 the lip of the jar. (Cover rej)aired.) Mas stand. 
 
 Height, 6y., inches; diameter, 5y^ incites. 
 
 9o — Two Bi.i'E .\xi) ^VniTK Bf.aki;rs (K'(incj-hsi) 
 
 Sonorous poi'celain of clear, ringing tone, painted in brilliant 
 
 cobalt-blue with the t'ao-fieh ogre lineaments and angular-fret 
 
 and spiral-scroll in l)ands and borders of broad palmations 
 
 pointing toward lip and base. One, the shorter (lip cracked), 
 
 marked with the double I'ing. 
 
 Ifiifliit. 9 inches mid 9% inches. 
 
 96 OVIFOR.M Bl.I'K AXD WhITK \'.\SI-; { K' (I IICJ-ll .Si) 
 
 With spreading foot and short cylindrical neck, and carved 
 teakwood cover. Painted in bi-illlant blue with land and water- 
 scapes, rocks, trees and pavilions with figures. A man on horseback 
 i.s crcssing a bridge with a parasol-bearer following afoot, and a 
 woman is being transported in a two-wheeled chair drawn by one 
 attendant and steadied by another. On the shoulder is a deep 
 foliated border containing lilossoms and figures neai- the water; 
 on the neck and base are boi'ders of the spi-itig motive — plum 
 blossoms in reserve on a blue gi-ound marked by darker lines in 
 representation of the breaking uj) of ice — and above the base- 
 border is a deeper conventional lotus border. ( Repaired. ) 
 
 From the Robert Hoe Collecti(m. 
 
 lTei<fli/. 9% inches. 
 
97 — Two Blue and White Cylixdkical Vases (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With short wide neck. Painted with bands and borders of con- 
 ventional scroll and palmations, with white reserve. ^larked 
 with a leaf within the blue double ring. (Cracked.) 
 
 Height^ 814 and 9 inches. 
 
 98 — Blue axd White Cylindrical Jar with Cover (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration, the "Hundred Antiques," in two tones of blue, in 
 white reserve panels between vertical bands of deep blue dis- 
 playing scrolled flowers in reserve. Sonorous porcelain. (Cover 
 cracked and repaired.) 
 
 Height, 6% inches; diameter, 4% inches. 
 
 99 — Pair of Jars with Covers (Nineteenth Century) 
 
 High-shouldered quadrangular shape. Pure white porcelain 
 
 decorated in a light, brilliant blue with crested cockatoos and 
 
 other birds perched in trees, butterflies and blossoming shrubs, 
 
 tlie covers carrying a grill border, sprays, and the Dog Fu 
 
 modeled in the round, one with his head turned to his right, the 
 
 other cocking his to the left. ]\Iark, penciled in blue within the 
 
 white- glazed foot: Ta-Ching K'ang-hsi nien-chih (]Made in the 
 
 reign of K'ang-hsi of the great Ch'ing [the recently overthrown] 
 
 dynasty. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
 100 — Blue and White Beaker-shaped Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With spreading circular foot and trumpet mouth, marked on 
 opposite sides by three vertical broad ridges modeled in the 
 paste. Beautifully penciled chrysanthemum scrolls with affluent 
 blossoms occupy the midband and neck, done in pale and an in- 
 tense, deep blue, with tinted reserve. Beneath are a wave border 
 in pale blue and reserve, and a conventional scrolled border, 
 respectively above and below a band of detached floral forms 
 sprinkled over the white reserve ; and the interior of the flaring 
 lip carries a deep border of long, pointed leaves done in the tones 
 of the body decoration. The paste is dense, heavy and sonorous. 
 
 Height. Sy., inches. 
 
 101 — Bli'e and White Ginger Jar (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Clear, sonorous porcelain, decorated in blue, with white reserve, 
 with scrolling branches and clusters of "tlic three fruits," on a 
 broad white ground between foliate, scroll and geometrical 
 borders. The carved and pierced teakwood cover has an open- 
 work white jade medallion carved with flowers surrounding a 
 Shou character. Has teakwood cover. 
 
 Height, 8% inches. 
 
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13-i — Blue and White Oviborm Tempi. i;-jar {K\mg-hsi) 
 
 With mandarin cover. The high, swelling shoulder recurving to 
 a slightly spreading foot. Covered throughout the entire sur- 
 face with a conventional entanglement of blossoms and scrolls, 
 amidst which two feng-huang appear, with widespread wings and 
 swaying tails. (Lip repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 Height, 16% inches. 
 
 135 — Tall Qtadrilateral Blte axd White Jar {Cliien-lung) 
 
 AVith square shoulder from which a short, tapering circular 
 neck rises, on a low cylindrical foot. Intricate floral scrolls 
 painted in various tones of blue with reserve adorn all sides of 
 the vase on a depressed ground outlined by low-relief "straps," 
 vertical and horizontal, which bind all corners and bind together 
 the top and bottom of the vase, leaving a long vertical oblong 
 panel of continuous decoration in the center of each face, the 
 lesser panels enclosing the corners being interrupted by inter- 
 mediate shorter "straps" of the relief white reserve. Narrow 
 borders at rim and foot. Sonorous porcelain. Has stand. 
 
 Height, l.j inches. 
 
 136 — Bluk and White Temple-jar {K'mig-hsi) 
 
 Inverted pear-shape. With mandarin cover. Dense sonorous 
 white porcelain, coated with a mottled glaze of cobalt-blue 
 through which run dark striations in irregular courses in rep- 
 resentation of the breaking-up of ice in the springtime. Branches 
 and blossoms of the wild prunus, in white reserve, spring alter- 
 nately from the base and the shoulder, where there are narrow 
 hatch borders. Cover similarly decorated. (Cover damaged.) 
 
 Height. 16% inches. 
 
 137 — Tall Pear-shape Blue axu White Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With wide neck rising in a gentle concave curve. Decorated 
 between narrow lip and foot scroll-borders with a single com- 
 position in varying blues representing four horses assembled 
 about a gnarled tree with small branches of thick foliage — one 
 horse scratching his ear, another rubbing his neck against the 
 tree trunk. Irregular crackle in brown lines about neck and 
 
 body, leaving the shoulder clear. 
 
 Height, Iti^ inches. 
 
105 — Richly Decorated Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With carved teakwood cover. Pure white porcelain displaying 
 beneath a narrow, crenelated shoulder-border, an extensive orna- 
 mentation in brilliant underglaze blue, the product of fertile 
 imagination. A decorated personage bearing a branch of the 
 sacred fungus in the form of a scepter is seated on a grotesque 
 monster with a dragon's head and scales, a kylin tail, and a horse's 
 body with cloven hoofs. Before him are two gonfaloniers, their 
 ensigns swaying in the breeze, and back of him are two persons 
 laden with rich silks, the further decoration including scrolled 
 clouds, and a banana tree growing between rocks. Carved stand. 
 
 Height, 8% inches. 
 
 106 — Pair Blue and White Quadrilateral Vases (K^ang-hsi) 
 
 With expanding bodies, contracted necks and square thick lips, 
 on spreading square bases. At each corner and midway of each 
 side are molded ridges, interrupted at the shoulder, which carries 
 scrolled loop handles. On an all-pervading key-fret ground a 
 fantastic decoration is overlaid in deep blue, with white reserve, 
 involving symbols and scrolls, and ancient animal features unas- 
 sembled. The porcelain is clear, dense, heavy and sonorous. 
 
 Height, 11% inches. 
 
 107 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With carved teakwood cover. Adorned with a bold decoration 
 in brilliant underglaze blue of pure tone and quality, presenting 
 the rock peony and magnolia bushes in profuse floriation among 
 rocks, where a phoenix is alighting, while playful swallows flutter 
 in the air. Narrow border of scroll fret about the shoulder. 
 The teakwood cover encloses an openwork white jade medallion 
 carved with figures and scrolls. Marked with the blue double 
 ring. 
 
 Height, with cover, 9% inches. 
 
 108 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Dense, heavy porcelain, in ovoidal form, decorated with storks 
 amongst tall-growing lotus plants with buds and blossoms, the 
 artist taking his vieM'point low at the water's edge of a flourish- 
 ing lotus pond. The carved cover encloses a convex medallion 
 of white jade carved with "the three fruits" in sharp relief. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
109 — Pair Bt.ih'. and Wihtk ^^\sl■.s {ICiniy-lixi) 
 
 Tall bcaker-shapcd. Body of inverted pour shape, with spread- 
 ing foot, wide neck and flaring lip. An abundant flower and 
 scroll decoi-ation in cobalt-blue, between narrow borders, sur- 
 rounds both body and neck, encompassing four flying phoenixes, 
 two on each part. 
 
 Ileiffhl, IS inches. 
 
 110 — Blue and White Ovoid Ginger Jar (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 The broad, soft-white field, between conventional foliated base 
 and shoulder borders, is adorned with three branches of fruit — 
 lichees, pomegranates and the Buddha's-hand citron — in two 
 shades of blue, the whole brilliantly glazed. The carved teak- 
 wood cover has a carved central ornament of vegetable ivory. 
 
 Height, 8% inches. 
 
 Ill — Tall Ovoid Blue and White Jar {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The greater part of the surface reserved in the form of two 
 large scalloped medallions, each ornamented in a certain reticent 
 prodigality with depending branches of kindly-blossoming trees 
 — a bird grasping one swaying branch and posed as though seen 
 from immediately below — and with other birds on the wing call- 
 ing to each other, and flying insects ; the ornamentation executed 
 in two shades of blue, with a modicum of reserve modifying the 
 quality eff^ect. The remainder of the surface of the vase dis- 
 plays outline lotus flowers and plants of conventional form, in 
 reserve on a ground of cobalt-blue marked by irregular dark 
 lines, in representation of the breaking up of ice on streams 
 and ponds. Has carved wood cover and stand. 
 
 Height, 12 inches. 
 
 112 — Blue and White Ginger Jak (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Oviform, with a decoration similar to that of No. 105, in a later 
 rendering of an ancient legend. In this example the rider of the 
 dragon-horse or kylin is empty-handed, and is both preceded 
 and followed by two men bearing banners and gonfalons, while 
 a fifth figure holds a bundle on his arm. A table, rocks, trees 
 and other vegetation, with clouds and a blue reticulation with 
 white reserves continue the decoration, under a narrow shoulder- 
 border of repeated scrolling forms. Has carved teakwood cover 
 
 and stand. 
 
 Height, 8 inches. 
 
161 — Two Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The upper surface of the bottom occupied by a lotus medallion 
 in reserve, on a pale ground of "cracking ice" and mei blossom 
 motive, each petal carrying a blossom-spray, and the place of 
 the seed-pod taken by a small circular medallion showing the 
 corner of a balcony railing and a flowering tree. The flaring 
 rim, which has a scalloped edge, sustains a border of separate 
 and detached conventionalized lotus-petal forms in reserve and 
 decorated with flowers, on a ground of blue hexagonal grill out- 
 lined in reserve. 
 
 Diameter. 10% inches. 
 
 162 — Two Blue and White Deep Plates (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 On a pale cobalt ground with cloud and flame scrolls in white re- 
 serve, fierce, fire-breathing five-clawed dragons pursue the flaming 
 jewel — a single large dragon in the medallion outlined in white 
 reserve which covers the bottom, and two of the monsters ex- 
 tended about the concave side which recurves in a brief everted 
 lip. The motive is continued on the under side of the rim. ]Mark, 
 the blue seal. 
 
 Diameter, 10 inches. 
 
 163 — Bi,T'E AXD White jMei Blossom Plate {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Bottom and brim painted with a mottled cobalt ground of the 
 "cracking ice" pattern over which blossoms of the wild prunus 
 are strewn in white reserve — the motive representing spring. 
 The short curve of the plate's bowl held in reserve. Beneath the 
 brim arc branches of the prunus. Mark, the six characters of 
 the period within a blue ring. 
 
 Diameter, 10% inches. 
 
 164 — Blue and White Deep Plate (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Springing in an expanding curve from a low foot. Below a solid 
 blue border cut and outlined by white reserve and enclosing four 
 reserves carrying fruit, the surface of the plate is generously 
 painted with blossoming branches in cobalt-blue on the white 
 ground. On the exterior of the rim, more branches. 
 
 Diameter, Wy, inches. 
 

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116 — Tai.l Beakkr-?-orm IJi.uE AND Whitk \'ase {K'a ncj-li.si) 
 
 With expanding foot, cylindrical niid-scction and trumpet nock 
 and lip. Decorated in upper and lower sections with groups of 
 figures numbering ten in all, representing historical or legendary 
 subjects, and on the midband with sprays of the flowers of the 
 four seasons, all in pure and brilliant cobalt-blue of differing 
 intensity. ]Mark on the base, a conch-shell within a blue double 
 ring. (Repaired.) Has carved stand. 
 
 Hcif/hl, 1714 inches. 
 
 117 — Beakek-form Bt,te and White Vase {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Tall cylindrical shape, with deep ovoidal mid-section, slightly 
 spreading base and flaring mouth. At the base a man and a 
 woman kneel before a portly person who is followed by a ftm- 
 bearer and another attendant. About the middle section numer- 
 ous boys are at play. Above, a dignified man bows deferentially 
 before an august personage behind whom come attendants bear- 
 ing his sword and a huge fan or punkah. All in brilliant blue 
 of cobalt and sapphire quality'. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height. ISy^ iiiche.i. 
 
 118 — Blue axd White Ginger Jar (Cliien-lung) 
 
 Ovoid form : thin porcelain, covered with a soft creamy-white 
 glaze disclosing a giant crackle in brown lines. Painted in a 
 rich blue with a mountainous landscape at the shore, with pine 
 trees and pavilions and many small buildings indicative of a 
 resort, figures looking seaward, and boats in a shallow bay. The 
 teakwood cover, carved in openwork, has a central medallion 
 of white jade carved with the phoenix in openwork scroll. 
 
 Height, 8/2 inches. 
 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 119 — Blt'e and White Ginger Jar {Cliien-lung) 
 
 Thin porcelain, decorated in a brilliant rich blue with a sea- 
 shore settlement and two boats with sails up. Inserted in the 
 cover an openwork medallion of carved white jade. Has carved 
 openwork teakwood cover and a tall teakwood stand Avith claw 
 
 and ball feet. 
 
 Height, Sy., inches; icilh sttind, 16% inches. 
 
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120 — Tall Ovoidal Blue and White Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With tapering foot and short contracting neck. Thin, resonant 
 white porcelain, painted extensively in rich blue and delicate 
 shading with pavilions, pines, rocks and mountains by the water- 
 side, and with figures in boats and others on the shores and in 
 the shelters. In dim shadow or haze are more distant moun- 
 tains. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 15% inches. 
 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 121 — Blue and White Ginger Jae {Tai Chong) 
 
 Of full, broad body, ovoid in form, in clear, resonant porcelain, 
 decorated in brilliant cobalt-blue with sapphire tones ; the deco- 
 ration picturing a sage under a tree growing beside rocks, ac- 
 companied by an attendant bearing a vase containing a scroll, 
 and on the opposite side two flying bats approaching each 
 
 other. Has carved wood cover. 
 
 Height, 914 inches. 
 
 122 — Ovoid Blue axd White Gixger Jar {Tai Chong) 
 
 Painted in varying tones of brilliant cobalt-blue with sapphire 
 trend, with the figure of a sage under a prunus tree growing 
 beside rocks, carrying a vase with a swinging handle, while an 
 attendant at his side carries a globular jar holding scrolls and 
 a Buddhistic sceptre. Below the equatorial line the body reveals 
 a brown crackle. On the shoulder a narrow scroll border. Has 
 carved teakwood cover. 
 
 Height, 9 inches. 
 
 123 — Pair Blue axd White Yases {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Tall-necked globular shape on convex foot. Heavy, sonorous, 
 clear-white porcelain with an elaborate and extensive landscape 
 and figure decoration in two tones of blue, with white reserve, 
 the color yielding brilliant metallic reflections. The paintings 
 depict pine trees and a rocky, irregular shore, with summer 
 houses and shelters, a flock of birds in flight, a pagoda, and hazy 
 distant mountains ; on rock-ledges figures appear, conversing and 
 pointing eagerly to the distance, and two are ensconced in a 
 summer house while another is seen in a boat. The decorations 
 occupy both the globular body and the wide, full neck. The 
 shoulder carries a deep foliate and floral border, the foot a 
 border of sprays, the neck a prunus border and the brim a 
 border of angular fret. ]\Lirk, a blue magnolia leaf with fillets, 
 within a double ring in blue. (Somewhat cracked.) Have stands. 
 
 Height, ISy^ inches. 
 
12-i — Large Blue and White Gallii'ot {Cli'ie n-lung) 
 
 Decorated in two shades of blue witli two enormous five-clawed 
 scaled dragons emerged from leaping sea-waves outlined in re- 
 serve, their sinuous bodies sprawling amongst scrolled clouds. 
 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Tlc'ifiht. 13 inches. 
 
 125 — Thick-necked Blue and White Bottle {Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 Thin porcelain, of compressed globular shape on a low foot. 
 Adorned with a highly conventionalized dragon, phoenix and 
 chrysanthemum-scroll band between scroll, foliate and wave 
 borders, the neck encircled by a deep band of alternate long 
 and shorter palmations with heavy foliate outline. 
 
 Height, I314 inches. 
 
 126 — Blue and White Cylixdkicai, Club-shaped \.\se {Earhj 
 K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With sloping shoulder, slender neck and expanding lip. Dense 
 porcelain of stone weight and clear sonority. Vigorously painted 
 in cobalt-blue of pure, transparent tone, with the figure of a 
 mighty personage seated on the ground between a weeping willow 
 and a banana tree, one hand resting on the willow trunk and the 
 other holding a fly-whisk, while behind him the hilt of his sword 
 shows, projecting above his shoulder. Seated near him on the 
 ground with his back against a rock is a man in jester's aspect 
 piping on a reed. The shoulder is encircled by a band of the 
 Greek fret incised in the paste beneath the glaze and uncolored, 
 and on the neck are branches of a flowering tree. 
 
 Height, lay, inches. 
 
 127 — Tall Cylixdeical Club-shaped Blue and White Vase 
 (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Sonorous porcelain, a large part of the field left white, the 
 decoration, distributed about the body, depicting a ceremonial 
 occasion with four principal figures and as many attendants, 
 all carefully penciled in cobalt-blue of pure quality and varying 
 tones under a lustrous glaze. Rocks, scrolled clouds, canopies 
 and banana trees as accessories. On the neck combined angular 
 and foliate borders. 
 
 Height, liy^ inches. 
 
 128 — Tall Blue and White Beaker (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The lower section in inverted pear shape with slightly spread- 
 ing foot, the upper cylindrical with flaring lip; without mid- 
 band. Covered throughout with a bold and expansive conven- 
 tional lotus scroll with the seed-pods emphasized. 
 
 Height, 18 inches. 
 
129 — Tall Blue and White Beaker-shaped Vase 
 
 All-over decoration in deep cobalt-blue of entwining lotus stems 
 and flowers, with seed-pods prominent, and foliations and scrolls. 
 
 Height, 19 inches. 
 
 130 — Blue axd White Gixgek Jak (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Robust ovoid form. The bulk of the body is held in white 
 reserve between foliated borders. This white ground is orna- 
 mented in different tones of blue with highly conventionalized 
 chrysanthemum motives, treated vertically, ancient symbolic 
 devices intervening. Has carved teakwood cover and stand. 
 
 Height. 10 inche.t. 
 
 131 — Blue and White Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With carved teakwood hat-shaped cover. Heavy sonorous porce- 
 lain, in inverted pear-shape or temple-jar form, with spreading 
 foot, covered with a pure white glaze and painted in brilliant 
 blue with two phoenixes amongst bold and highly conventionalized 
 flowers and scrolls. High on the shoulder and at the base are 
 narrow crenelated borders, and a leaf-point border circles the 
 short neck. JNIark, a blue double ring. 
 
 Height, 10 inches; with i-urer, 13 inches. 
 
 132 — Tall Ovoid Blue axd White A'ase (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Swelling quickly from a low circular foot and tapering to a 
 short slender neck with trumpet lip. The exterior surface cov- 
 ered with a glaze of deep cobalt tone, with an all-over decoration 
 of conventionalized chrysanthemums and gracefully folding 
 leaves in white reserve with penciled petals and veining. (Lip 
 repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 Height, 16% inches. 
 
 133 — Pair Blue axd White Temple Jars {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Encompassed by a plenteous decoration of conventional floral 
 scrolls in which two sprawling phoenixes are involved. In two 
 tones of blue with white reserve. Have carved teakwood covers. 
 
 Height. 1314 inches; with covers. 16% inches. 
 
13-1 — Blue and White Ovikorm Tem i'i.i;-jau (K'nng-hsi) 
 
 Witli mandarin cover. Tlic high, swelling shouldei- recurving to 
 a slightly spreading foot. Covered throughout the entire sur- 
 face with a conventional entanglement of blossoms and scrolls, 
 amidst which two feng-liaang appear, with widespread wings and 
 swaying tails. (Lip repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 Height, 16% inches. 
 
 135 — Tall Quadrilateral Blui; and White Jar (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With square shoulder from which a short, tapering circular 
 neck rises, on a low^ cylindrical foot. Intricate floral scrolls 
 painted in various tones of blue with reserve adorn all sides of 
 the vase on a depressed ground outlined by low-relief "straps," 
 vertical and horizontal, which bind all corners and bind together 
 the top and bottom of the vase, leaving a long vertical oblong 
 panel of continuous decoration in the center of each face, the 
 lesser panels enclosing the corners being interrupted by inter- 
 mediate shorter "straps" of the relief white reserve. Narrow 
 borders at rim and foot. Sonorous porcelain. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 15 inches. 
 
 136 — Blue and White Temple-jar {K'ang-lisi) 
 
 Inverted pear-shape. With mandarin cover. Dense sonorous 
 white porcelain, coated with a mottled glaze of cobalt-blue 
 through which run dark striations in irregular courses in rep- 
 resentation of the breaking-up of ice in the springtime. Branches 
 and blossoms of the wild prunus, in white reserve, spring alter- 
 nately from the base and the shoulder, where there are narrow 
 hatch borders. Cover similarly decorated. (Cover damaged.) 
 
 Height, 16% inches. 
 
 137 — Tall Pear-shape Blue and White Vase {Cli'ien-hong) 
 
 With wide neck rising in a gentle concave curve. Decorated 
 between narrow lip and foot scroll-borders with a single com- 
 position in varying blues representing four horses assembled 
 about a gnarled tree with small branches of thick foliage — one 
 horse scratching his ear, another rubbing his neck against the 
 tree trunk. Irregular crackle in brown lines about neck and 
 
 body, leaving the shoulder clear. 
 
 Height, ii'/a inches. 
 
138 — Paik of Vases in Dense !Ming Porcelain {Ming) 
 
 Bottle-form, with bulbous neck. Low ovoidal body, on circular 
 foot, tapering rapidly to a neck which expands in a bulb, con- 
 tracts again and finishes in a narrow cylindrical rim. The body 
 carries a decoration in cobalt tones, closely penciled, represent- 
 ing two five-clawed dragons fiercely pursuing the flaming jewel, 
 together with two flying phoenixes with fluttering tail feathers, 
 among blossoms and leaf sprays. At the base is a pointed palm- 
 leaf border, above a foliate border on the foot. A border of 
 key-fret surrounds the shoulder, the neck above it having a 
 scrolled floral decoration, with emblems, and the bulb of the neck 
 and the rim carrying further interlacing and scroll borders, that 
 on the rim interrupted by the six-character penciled inscription: 
 Ta-Ming Wan-li nien-chih. (One vase broken at neck and re- 
 paired.) 
 
 Height, I614 inches. 
 
139 — Tall Oviform Elite and White Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With high shoulder recurving into a wide short neck and spread- 
 ing lip. Painted in cobalt and brilliant pale-sapphire blue with 
 a two-trunk rugged but blasted pine tree under which three goats 
 are gathered, in various attitudes, one about to nibble at trunk 
 or branch. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 15% inches. 
 
 140 — Blue and White Plate with Shallow Bowl (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 A deep blue border with leaping waves in reserve and shading, 
 
 and in the center a four-clawed dragon rising from the sea and 
 
 grasping for the elusive sacred jewel among the flames, while 
 
 a large carp jumps out of the water just beyond the end of 
 
 the dragon's curling tail. ^Marked with an emblem within the 
 
 double ring. 
 
 Diameter, IO14 inches. 
 
 LARGE COLLECTION OF PLAQUES AND PLATES 
 
 14<1 — Majestic Blue and White Plaque (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Heavy, clear-toned white porcelain painted with a large orna- 
 mental vase or basket of chrysanthemums and other flowers and 
 branches of prunus blossoms, the basket having a tall swinging 
 handle in the form of the segmental bamboo, its bulging sides 
 ornamented with medallions, and resting on foliated feet. Un- 
 usual border of dot and scrolls, with lotus pods alternately 
 pointing upward and downward at intervals along the rim, and 
 with flower sprays on white reserves intervening. On the ex- 
 terior of the rim. Buddhistic symbols. Mark, a boldly drawn 
 
 blue leaf within the blue double ring. 
 
 Diameter, 31 inches. 
 
 14,2 — Large Blue and White Dragon Plaque (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Clear, vibrant porcelain, in deep circular form. Fierce fire- 
 breathing dragons pursue the flaming jewel all over the interior 
 surface of the fish, one occupying the center of the bowl and 
 four others pursuing each other as well as the flaming ball 
 about the upcurved rim, all interspaces freely flecked with bold 
 fire scrolls. On the exterior of the rim. Buddhistic emblems and 
 
 detached flame scrolls. 
 
 Didmcli'r, 30 inches. 
 
143 — Two Lakge Deep Circular Blue and White Plates {K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Within a lattice rim-border with floriate and geometrical pendants 
 and interruptions, a bold and expansive decoration in two 
 shades of blue with white reserve, featuring a singing bird perched 
 in a blossoming wild prunus tree, looking toward two flutter- 
 ing butterflies. Beneath the rim, on the exterior, generous 
 sprays. Clear, resonant porcelain. (Lip of one chipped.) 
 
 Diameter, I714 inches. 
 
 144 — Two Octagonal Blue and White Platters with Shallow 
 Circular Wide Bowls {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In the bowl, surrounded by a narrow border, a grouping of 
 floral forms, with vases of flowers and the sacred fungus and a 
 tall vase holding the scepter and scrolls ; on the brim within a 
 narrow molded reserved border a deep and festooned border of 
 floral and geometrical lattice and foliations. 
 
 Diameter, 17 inches. 
 
 145 — Large Flat-drim^ied Blue and White Plaqte with Deep 
 Center (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Dense, stone-weight porcelain, with decoration showing Euro- 
 pean influence. In the center a wreathed cartouche seemingly 
 taken from a coat-of-arms shield, surmounted by a helmet with 
 visor down. Surrounding this a profusion of conventional floral 
 scroll decoration in a scries of four narrow and wide borders. 
 
 Diameter. 17 inches. 
 
 146 — Large Blue and White Plaque {Ch^ien-lung) 
 
 At the rim a border of large honeycomb pattern, followed by a 
 band of white reserve which in turn is succeeded by a broader 
 border of a finer honeycomb pattern carrying floral scrolls in 
 reserve. In the center of the plate, on white ground, a freely 
 treated coat-of-arms. The blue in the borders of unusual tone 
 and quality. (Lip chipped.) 
 
 Diameter, l(i% inches. 
 
1-17 — Broad Shallow Bi.i'e and Whitb Plate {K\tii(j-hsi) 
 
 Decoration in delicate blues of four ladies in "Lange Li j sen" 
 robes eatcbing butterflies in a summer garden, with screens, grills 
 and balcony railings visible as accessories. Border of delicately 
 penciled floral sprays within white reserves on a minutely reticu- 
 lated ground. Beneath the rim, mountain groups in pale blue. 
 
 Diiiineler, 1.5'/1' inches. 
 
 14«8 — Large Deep Blue and White Plate (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The decoration in light and dark blue comprises two duodecimal 
 borders of foliated reserves on a lattice ground, each painted 
 with sprigs of grasses, and a central lotus medallion, while outside 
 beneath the brim are light sprays. Mark, a blue leaf within the 
 double ring. 
 
 Diameter, IS^i inches. 
 
 l-iO — Two Large Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Shallow, with wide rims. Decoration in deep and pale blue of 
 flowering trees, birds flying and alighted, leaves, scrolls, medal- 
 lions and fruits. Sprays beneath the rim. INLirk, a symbol within 
 the blue double ring. 
 
 Diameter, 14 inches. 
 
 150 — Shallow Circular Blue and AVhitei Plate {Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Dense, sonorous porcelain. Within a deep rim border of flowers 
 and foliations in solid blue and with reserves, a narrow scroll 
 border frames the central decoration on the plate bottom where 
 trees blossom on a balcony and shrubs appear on the ground 
 below. 
 
 Diameter, 15 inches. 
 
 151 — Two Bluk and White Large Deep Plates (K'ang- 
 
 With a "Four Seasons" decoration in pale and deeper blue, deli- 
 cately arranged. A chrysanthemum flower fills a central circular 
 medallion which is surrounded by a concatenated border, and 
 this by large branches of the prunus, lotus and peony which 
 extend to a rim-lattice interrupted by flower forms on white re- 
 serve. Outside, beneath the rim, are extended floral sprays. 
 Mai'k, a blue leaf within the blue double ring. 
 
 Diameter, 13% inches. 
 
152 — Deep Round Blue and White Dish with Buown Rim 
 (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Painted in two shades of blue, with white reserve, with the large 
 
 and boldly drawn figure of a kylin with scaled body and cloven 
 
 hoofs, beneath a banana tree, flame scrolls above his head. On 
 
 the exterior. Buddhistic emblems in large form. Dense, resonant 
 
 porcelain. 
 
 Diameter, 13% inches. 
 
 153 — Blue and White Circular Deep-dish Plate with Flaking 
 Rim (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Within the bowl, four "Lange Li j sen" under a tree, surrounded 
 by sprays and birds flying at each other in pairs ; on the rim a 
 grill interrupted by incomplete medallions of birds perched on 
 branches of blossoms ; outside, underneath, sprays and foliations. 
 Fine sonorous hard paste, semi-translucent. Mark, the six 
 characters within the double ring in blue. 
 
 Diameter, ISVg inches. 
 
 154 — Two Large Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Conventional leaf, flower and fruit decoration in dark and lighter 
 blue on a pale white ground ; rims glazed in brown. 
 
 Diameter, I214 inches. 
 
 155 — Two Scalloped-edge Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In a central circular medallion flying birds among blossoming 
 trees ; wide border of floral motives within a narrow lattice 
 border interrupted by medallions. Beneath the rim, delicate 
 sprays. 
 
 Diameter, \i inches. 
 
 156 — Two Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Semi-translucent in strong sunlight ; rim glazed in brown. Con- 
 ventional leaf, flower and dot decoration in light and dark blue. 
 
 Diameter, 10% inches. 
 
 157 — Six Octagonal Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration of landscapes, buildings, sages crossing bridges, 
 figures in boats and sprays of flowers in light and dark blue; 
 flower sprays beneath the edge of each rim-panel. Marked below 
 with a seal in a double ring. 
 
 Diameter, lOy^ inches. 
 
158 — Shallow Circui.au Blue and White Dish {Yung Cheng) 
 
 Clear Avhitc porcelain, scmi-transluccnt in strong sunlight ; evi- 
 dentl}' intended for use at a birthday ceremony, and presenting 
 an adaptation of the allegorical representation of the prayer for 
 "happiness, distinction and longevity." A tall Rishi attended by 
 a boy upholding a lotus flower leans in benediction over a child 
 held in the arms of a distinguished personage, at whose knee 
 another child stands. All regard and both children reach for a 
 peach of longevity which aged Chou-lao, leaning on his staff and 
 accompanied by the spotted stag — like the peach, a symbol of 
 long life — smilingly proffers with every mark of beneficent en- 
 joyment. Over his head is a flying bat — emblem of happiness, 
 the Chinese characters for bat and happiness having the same 
 pronunciation. All in rich tones of cobalt-blue, with the faces in 
 reserve, and grouped beneath a pine tree. On the back of the 
 rounded rim, boys are playing, some riding the hobby-horse, 
 some catching fish from a large fish-bowl. Mark within the blue 
 double ring, Ta-Ming Hsilan Te nien-chih (apocryphal) ; prob- 
 ably late K'ang-hsi. 
 
 Diameter, 11 inches. 
 
 159 — ^Blue and White Shallow Plate (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The decoration patterned in a conventionalization of lotus sug- 
 gestion, with a petal-bordered central medallion embraced within 
 eight panels or sections of pegtop or blossom-leaf form, the sec- 
 tions alternately bearing landscape views with water and figures, 
 and the flowers of the four seasons. Around the rim is a narrow 
 border of wave motive in hatch and reserve. Four-character 
 
 mark. 
 
 Diameter, lOy^ inches. 
 
 160 — Blue and White Plate (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration, a woman on a terrace with playing boys, one of whom 
 
 is offering a chrysanthemum to a person who has just arrived, 
 
 within a grill border with white reserves enclosing fruits. Marked 
 
 with an emblem within a double ring. 
 
 Diameter, 10'/^ inches. 
 
161 — Two Blue and White Plates (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The upper surface of the bottom occupied by a lotus medallion 
 in reserve, on a pale ground of "cracking ice" and mei blossom 
 motive, each petal carrying a blossom-spray, and the place of 
 the seed-pod taken by a small circular medallion showing the 
 corner of a balcony railing and a flowering tree. The flaring 
 rim, which has a scalloped edge, sustains a border of separate 
 and detached conventionalized lotus-petal forms in reserve and 
 decorated with flowers, on a ground of blue hexagonal grill out- 
 lined in reserve. 
 
 Diameter, 10% inches. 
 
 162 — Two Blue and White Deep Plates (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 On a pale cobalt ground with cloud and flame scrolls in white re- 
 serve, fierce, fire-breathing five-clawed dragons pursue the flaming 
 jewel — a single large dragon in the medallion outlined in white 
 reserve which covers the bottom, and two of the monsters ex- 
 tended about the concave side which recurves in a brief everted 
 lip. The motive is continued on the under side of the rim. INIark, 
 the blue seal. 
 
 Diameter, 10 inches. 
 
 163 — Bi.iE and White ]\1ei Blossom Plate {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Bottom and brim painted with a mottled cobalt ground of the 
 "cracking ice" pattern over which blossoms of the wild prunus 
 are strewn in white reserve — the motive representing spring. 
 The short curve of the plate's bowl held in reserve. Beneath the 
 brim are branches of the prunus. Mark, the six characters of 
 the period within a blue ring. 
 
 Diameter, 10% inches. 
 
 164 — Blue axd AVhite Deep Plate {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Springing in an expanding curve from a low foot. Below a solid 
 blue border cut and outlined by white reserve and enclosing four 
 reserves carrying fruit, the surface of the plate is generouslv 
 painted with blossoming branches in cobalt-blue on the white 
 ground. On the exterior of tlie rim, more branches. 
 
 Diameter, 10-i4 inches. 
 
?■ 
 
 SECOND AFTERNOON'S SALE 
 
 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 19U 
 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
 
 BEGINNING AT 2.30 o'ci.OCK 
 
 Including Catalogue Nos. 165 to 313 
 
 BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAINS 
 
 165 — Conical Bmu and Whitk Sni'ff Jar {Yung Clung) 
 
 In two shades of blue, portraying a lady at the shore where a 
 boat has just landed. Four-character mark. Has carved stand. 
 
 166 — Small Blte and White Jar {Ch'ien-hing) 
 
 Cf ^ Painted in bright blue with dragons in the air and emerging 
 
 from the sea, cloud scrolls and the flaming jewel. 
 
 167 — MiNiATT'RE Bli'e AND White Snuef Jar {Cli' ie ii-lung) 
 
 ^linute and careful painting of eighteen robed figures in various 
 y attitudes — one reading from a scroll, two seated at a table on 
 
 ' '~ which a book lies open, apparently in discussion, and one ac- 
 
 companied by a tiger — all done in two tones of blue ; perhaps 
 a representation of the Eighteen Arhats. On the cover a four- 
 clawed dragon in deep blue. (Lip chipped.) Has stand. 
 
 168 — Miniati're Blfe and White Bottle {Nineteenth Centitri)) 
 
 Inverted pear-shape with short neck. Landscape and pavilions 
 ^ — on body and shoulder. Crackled in brown lines. Has stand. 
 
 Ig9 — Miniature Blik and White Jar {Yung Cheng) 
 
 With carved teak cover. Decoration of landscape with figures, 
 one a man fishing. Has stand. Seal mark in blue on foot. 
 
 J^rom the Startseff Collection. 
 
170 — Two MixiATi'Ki'; Bn'K AXD White Roskwater Sprinklers 
 {K'ang-h.'ii) 
 
 Squat Ijodics und skink'!' necks. Decorated witli a base-border of 
 lotus petals, and a bird flvinf)- among blossoms. Have stands. 
 
 171 — Blue axd White ^lixiATrEr, Roskwatkr Spkixkeer (K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Gourd-sha])c witli short neck, adorned with sprays in deep blue. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 172 — Two ^IixiATi-RF. Bli'k axi) Wiiitk 'Wvsi^s (K'anfj-liai) 
 
 Pcar-sjiape, witli tke "Lange Li j sen" in pale cobalt. Single- 
 
 cliai'acter mai'k on foot. Have stands. 
 
 Hcif/hl. 31,4 i-tiid 31/. inches. 
 
 17.'5--rAnt ^IixiATTKi-: Bltk axd Wiiitk Bottt.ks {K'(inf/-h.si) 
 
 ^Vitk scjuat bodies, a minute floral scroll 
 
 decoration and three l)orders. Have 
 
 stands. ^Iing mai'k m six cliaracters on 
 
 foot. ( lie])aii'ed. ) 
 
 Iliiqlif. '^ inches. 
 
 . >;/ 171' — S.M.M.T, Bi.TK Axn White Rouge Box 
 WITH ('o\i;r (Tuo Kuiing) 
 
 Det'ijration, figures on a terrace and land- 
 sca])e. Six-character mark of Cheng Hua 
 ]7;4 ( a])oci'V])kal ) . Has car\ed stand. 
 
 175--S.M.\iT. Bi.ii-: Axj) ^^'Hr^E Roeok Box (i Ji'icn-linuj) 
 
 In s((uat vasi' form \\i\\\ teak cover. Decoration, floral scrolls, 
 fohate and serratetl l)orders. Six-character mark of Hsiian Te 
 ( a])ocrvplial ) . Has stand. 
 
 176 — ."MixiA'rri!!-; Bli'e axd ^^'IlrrK .Iai; (Xiiietrc/ith Cciit/iri/) 
 
 Globular-ovoidal form; thin, translucent porcelain of the "soft- 
 paste" type decorated with two figures approaching a sage 
 seated on a terrace. Has stand. 
 
 177 — ^IixiATiKi-; 15i,rK Axi] ^^'ll^rK Bowi. { h"iiii</-]isi) 
 
 Decoi-ated with sjirigs of flowers in foliate reser\es. Has carved 
 stand. 
 
17S — RliK, ANii W II 111'. ('o\i,Ki:i) Kiircr, lUi\ ( X iiiil iiii I h ('tiiliir//) 
 
 In s(|iiat I'lroular I'oi'in, dccor.ilrd \villi Luiilsc'ipi' uiid |)ii\ ilujns, 
 ami tii^uros on a liruli^r. ( l\i'])airi'(l. ) lias stand. 
 
 17!) — l?i.rK AMI W'lirri'. (^i.ix insu ai. Uoidi; IJox with ('(i\ i;ic (Xiiie- 
 tccnih i'ciit iirii) 
 
 IX'Coration floral scrolls, and two hortkrs. llsiian Te mark. 
 Has car\i_'d stand. 
 
 1 iSO — Bi.i'E Axii ■\VitiTE Hoi-(;k Box {Ch'u'ii-hdif/) 
 
 Cafc-au-lait glaze, with crackle. Co\cr deccjrated with blue flow- 
 ers. Four-character mark on bottom. Has stand. 
 
 181 — Eei'e axo WiriTK lioii;]-; Box (Xhntcciitli Ccntiiri/) 
 
 Decoration, floral scrolls and t^o Ijoi'ders. C'ar\ed stand. 
 
 1S2 — Wuitek's Br.i'E Axn WinrE ^^^\'rl•;l( Jak {Ch'irii-Iuiif/) 
 
 Decoration, a figui'e approacliino' a seated sai;'i'. Thin, trans- 
 lucent })orcelaiii. Has carved stand. 
 
 183 — Bfj'E Axij WurrE Boi-oe ]5ox (Ch'tcti-JiitKj) 
 
 Decorated with a landscape, two fii;iires on a terrace and two 
 
 looking out a window. Has stand. 
 
 Diiiiiiflcr, ;ii,4 inches. 
 
1S4 — ''J'wo Bi.i'K Axij \\'hiti-; Bowi.s (Ch'icu-huig) 
 
 Tliin, op/iciue porcelain with crackle glaze and floral decoration. 
 Four-character mark of Cireni;' Hua. Has stand. 
 
 D'ltniH^I CI'. 
 
 ill die.'!. 
 
 liSo — SiMAi.L Bltk Axi) AVHrri-; Tkapot (K'tii/y-h.si) 
 
 Decorated «ith sages on a hilltoj) and figures in a bo.it. The 
 cover has a hantllc in the form of a lotirs flower modeled in high 
 relief. Spout finished with a metal run. Smgle-eharactcr mark 
 on foot. Has stand. 
 
 18(i — SjiAi.i. Bi.T'K AM> WurrK Jau { Xiiicteeiiih Ccutiirii) 
 
 In the form of a pear, with cui'ving hollow stem. Decoration, 
 chrysanthemum scroll with borders. Has stand. 
 
 Hi'ii/lii. :ii:_. inches. 
 
 181 
 
 -Bi. 
 
 :i) AA'urri: TKAcor { K'inig-hsi) 
 
 \\ii]\ loop handle and straight spout. 
 Di'corated with blossoming plum trees 
 on rocks. Has stand. 
 
 [leiijlil. I inches. 
 
 188 — Bi.TK AXI) Wiirrr Tun'oi) Crr {.Ming) 
 
 In the form of an inxei'ted helmet. \v ith 
 side handle, and two knobs raided al)o\e 
 the bi-im. Decorated with floral spravs 
 ami tu'o blue lines within the rim. Six- 
 character mark of Chia Chiug. Has 
 Ntand. 
 
 hcifthl. •?•'.. inches. 
 
 189 — Blik Axi) WiiiTK .MiMATi-KK (iixcKii Jar wrrn Covi-.r, (i'h'iill- 
 linuj) 
 
 0\oidal, with decoi'ation of chrysanthemum scrolls in det'p blue. 
 Four-character mark of Cireng Hua (apocryphal). Has stand. 
 
190 — Hi, IK Axii ^\'lll^l■■. ^'ASK (l\"iiii(/~lisi) 
 
 7 ^ 
 
 *)\i)iil nKl()ii-sli;ij)c'il hoilv \\\\\\ sliiirl lluiii^cd nick dm wliicli a 
 smaller poar-sliapcd \asr is molded, tOi'miiii;- Hie i-eal iirck. Dico- 
 ratiou the "l.an^'e I.i|sen," sprigs of Hie ///('( and hoys at play. 
 Siiie-je-eliaraeter mark, lias stand. 
 
 Iliiilht, ,» inches. 
 
 (^ - 
 
 191 Bl.l'K AXl) WhITK ^I KI.OX-SHAIMJI \'Asr. ( K'd ri(/-]i xi) 
 
 ^Vith narrow neek and Hanged 11[) on a liioh eonieal base. Decora- 
 tion the "Lange Lijsen."" })lants and sprays. Between the \ase- 
 hottom and the flaring foot, a molded I'im with a eop})er glaze. 
 .V single eharaeter within the foot. Has stand. 
 
 Ifi'lf/lll. r, hirhcx. 
 
 n 
 
 19.'-2 — BuE Axii ^^'^^Tl•; Onoid.m, \'ask wrrii Slkxhku Niuk {K'iiikj- 
 hsi) 
 
 Peiiciletl in two tones of blue with a bird perched on a branch of 
 
 a blossoming nici tree. Has stand. 
 
 Ih'ifjhl. .5 inrln's. 
 
 19''3 — Bi-i-E AXl) \\'HrTK liorri.K ( K'tiiuj-ltsi) 
 
 AVith globular-ovoidal body and cylindrical 
 neck, on slightly-spreading foot. Decoration, 
 in cobalt-blue and white reserve, of sprawling 
 monsters with dragonoid bodies, and numer- 
 ous fire-scrolls. Has stand. 
 
 lieiylit. li'/i inches. 
 
 194 Bl.TK AXll WhITK UosF.WA'rKU SlMUXKLKR 
 
 {K'aiig-lmi) 
 
 Willi .spherical body, neck bulbous and atten- 
 uated, on a flaring foot. Floral decoration in 
 four swelling panels with pointed to))s. Has 
 
 .stand. 
 
 JlcitjhI. 71/4 iiii-hcs. 
 
 f- 
 
 19.')— Br.iK Axn Whitk Gi.ohi'i.ak Tkai'ot (Ch'icn-Iiing) 
 
 With u|)riglif liandle and slightly curving spout. Heavy over- 
 glaze decoration in the form of various seals, done in bright 
 cobalt-blue, opaque, and incised to the ground-glaze. Has stand. 
 
 Ilciijlit. (i inches. 
 
196 BlI'K AXl) ^^'lHTI■, GAKXITini-; Oi-- TiriiEK PiKCES 
 
 {A) T\\() Hluc ,111(1 White \';ises { K'd n(/-h.si) . Hexagonal- 
 cylindrical form, «itli spreading foot and Imlhous lip, slightly 
 varying. T'nusual decoration of fruit and fcjhate pattei'n in a 
 deep hlue cross-hatch on \\ hite gianind, \\ith sundry bortlers. 
 ^lark, a hlue leaf. Ha\e stands. 
 
 Ifriflht. 5 1 4 ilirhrs. 
 
 (B) Blue and ^^'lute Oxifonn \ ase { K\iii(/-lisi) . ^Vlth nar- 
 r(jw slightly spre.uhng foot. In iiiini.'iture teni])le-jar form with 
 li.at-shapcd cover. Molded ;ind outlined in sinuous spiral section 
 and adorned with Icaf-and-hranch motif springing from tlie base, 
 in cross-hatch : corresponding border on the short neck, with 
 ovcrglaze intcrjiolations, ('o\er with mist\- landsc,i])es and a 
 rusty-bro\\ n rim (the hat-button clhp])ed), 
 
 H f ii/I/f. 5' ;. iiirlif<t. 
 
 197 — Bi.i'K Axn ^^'llI'rl; Bowi. { K'diKj-lixi) 
 
 Bound (in a round foot. Clear, thm, sonorous and translucent 
 A\hiti' |ior(alain adorned with [\\n tjiret-t'lawt'd dragcuis and 
 (.hrysantluinum .and flame st'i'oUs. In the interior of bottom a 
 chrys.anthemum witliin a double ring; underneath the foot the 
 "Fu" ch.'iracter, one of the twc]\'c ,'incient embroidery oi'iiaments. 
 
 Ji'mmil cr, 1 1 ., 'mches. 
 
li)S-- S(irAiir. Hm I-: ami \ViirrK, Tkapot (Xiiicttiiil li Cciitiir//) 
 
 On (•;u-li side ;i iiKildcd 
 ,s(|u,'iri' p.'iiK'l ill a ti-iiine 
 of white ri'SLTXe, deco- 
 rated with a hnidseape. 
 AH corners hoLnid in a 
 hand of dark hlue iioney- 
 coinl) pattern, tiie lioncv- 
 coinh and f rai)ie-reser\e 
 hciiig- continued on the 
 cover, wliicli lias a handle 
 l)cai-in^- the swastika syiii- 
 boL "I'he cur\'etl sjiout 
 and handle in dra^'on- 
 liead form. 
 
 fliiiflif. 5I4 hirhrs. 
 
 ] 99— Two Bi.n. 
 
 WniTK ShAJ.T.OW IJOWI.S { h"{lll(/-Jlsi) 
 
 Spreading with very slight curvature from a low circular foot 
 to a very wiile mouth. The sole decoration fi\e circular medal- 
 lions in tlie form of coiled dragons pursuing the pearl of om- 
 nipotence — in one or two of the medallions actuallv grasping 
 the .sacred jewel — in varying tones of blue with wliite reserve. 
 On the foot, the six-character murk of K"ang-hsi in a blue double 
 ring. 
 
 !)iinurl rr. .5% inclies. 
 
 200 — RETicriATKi) Bi.rK .\xi) Whitk Tkapot (Ch'ifii-liUHj) 
 
 Of C|uadrilateral pattern, with corners flattened making it eight- 
 sided, the sides slightly bulging; looped handle, and recurving 
 spout ; short leaf-shaped feet. Shoulder, base and corner-faces 
 covered with a floral lattice in pale cobalt and white reserve, 
 encompassing on each broad face a square panel in white reserve 
 reticulated in the outer shell of the vessel, tlie reticulation spiral 
 
 on two sides and hexagonal cm two. 
 
 Height. S'/o inches. 
 
 201 — Seven Blie and White Saucees {K'ang-li.si) 
 
 Decoration over the entire surface of the saucer and the oute'- 
 side of tlie rim, heavy chrysanthemum scrolls in deep Ijlue and 
 /3^— white reserve. Kach has on the foot the six-character mark of 
 
 Ch'eng Hua in a blue (hnible ring (apocryplial ) . 
 
 Diameter, ()i/4 inehes. 
 
202 — Blue and White GARxriTEK or Five Pieces 
 
 (A) Blue and Wliite ^liniature Temple Jar with Cover {K'ang- 
 
 hsi). Oviform, decorated with the "Laiige Lijsen" and plum 
 
 trees, the cover with hoys and blossoms. Alark, a leaf. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Height, i\'., inches. 
 
 (B) Two Blue and White Miniature Temple Jars with Covers 
 {K'ang-hsi) . Ornamented in various tones of cobalt-blue, in 
 elongated-leaf jKinels, with sprigs of blossoms, the long-robed 
 ladies, and romping boys. Mark, a blue leaf. Have stands. 
 
 Height. 4',4 '"'f' ■i'/l' iix'^ie.':. 
 
 (C) Two Blue and White Small Beakers (K'aiig-h.si) . Low, 
 spreading base, wide mid-band and high, flaring neck. Painted 
 in varying shades of cobalt blue with ladies and playing boys, 
 cloud-scrolls, small animals, and borders of ovate outlines en- 
 closing flower sprays. Each marked beneath the white-glazed 
 foot with the artemisia leaf in blue. On stand. 
 
 Height, 3';4 inches. 
 
 203— Blte 
 
 WhitI': Melox-shapeu ^'AsE {K\'i7ig-Ji.si) 
 
 With short ring-neck and spreading foot, decorated in eight 
 lobes with landscapes and flower sprays in two shades of blue. 
 Has teakwood cover aiul stand. 
 
 Height, 5 inches. 
 
7^^ 
 
 ''•'"t C'vi.lXniiUAl, Hl.TK. ANM) ^^' 1 1 II' K J5<)\\'l. OX LoW l''()()r (K'lilKJ- 
 
 lisi) 
 
 Kxti'i'ior witli a o-rouiul of brilliant cobalt-blue streaked with 
 darker lines, in representation of the breaking- up of winter's ice 
 m the spring', scattered with iiiti blossoms in white resei-\'e. Also 
 m white reserve, leaf and fan-shaped medallions adorned with 
 birds, insects and tlowers. liiscuit exposed in a narrow rinfr 
 within the rim. ^lark, a blue double rin^. 
 
 HeijihI. 31/, iiifhcs: (lidiiirli r. I iiiclnn. 
 
 20.5 — Bn'E AND White Cvi.ixdkicat. Vvv with ('o\'kr (iliicn-hiiuj) 
 
 Decorated in dark and lighter blue 
 ('"*■; with a l)and of archaic dragon, 
 
 scroll, between pointed, foliate and 
 scroll borders, the cover similarly 
 adorned ; the glaze a gray-white, 
 crackled in brown lines. 
 
 Ileiyhl. .5 inches. 
 
 206 — Bi.ri-: axd White Ovoid A'ase 
 ( Cliicn-Jiuig) 
 
 On flaring foot and with slightly- 
 spreading neck ; decorated in eight 
 panels of cobalt-blue with flower 
 sprays in white reserve, further 
 decoration appearing on the neck 
 and foot. Has stand. 
 
 Heiqht, (i'/j inches. 
 
 205 
 
 20* 
 
 -Blue axd White ('ylixdkicat. Jar with Covek (K'aiig-hai) 
 
 Detached groups of fruits and flowers encircle the bod}' in a 
 band, between a serrate base border and a foliated border with 
 pendants. On the shoulder a border of foliations. Cover painted 
 with landscapes. The glaze on the interior of the cover shows 
 a fine brown crackle and underneath the foot a giant crackle, 
 both in brown lines. 
 
 Height. 4. inches. 
 
 208 — Two Blue axd Wiirrii C'hamce-shaped C'nrs (K' aiicj-h.fi) 
 
 xVdorned with scrolling sprays and scroll and petal borders ; one 
 in dark blue, one in pale blue. 
 
 Heir/lit, 5% inches. 
 
^^09 Ht.IK AXl) WllI'I'K RosKW AlKK S I'l! IX K [.K It ( K' (HUJ-h xl) 
 
 In frourd-foi-ni on flaring foot, with attenuated neck. Painted in 
 colialt-blne with sprays of blossoms. (Repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 Hriijhl. T^'j Ini-Jies. 
 
 210 — Lakc;!', ]5Lri.; axd ^Vnrri-. Cri' « nn ('o\kh ( K'duy-hsi) 
 
 Painted in pale cob,dt-hhie « ith two women seated at a table and 
 (jne standing; on the cover, i-oni|)ing boys. Within the cir- 
 culai- handle of the co^er, a blue leaf. Four-ch;iracter mark 
 of C'ireng Hua ( apocryplial ) . Has stand. 
 
 hiniiif'l cr. 114 iiirhe.t. 
 
 ^l\\ Ix\ KKTI.Ii Pi; \li-SHAPI-; ]5[.TI. AXh W'UITK \'asi, { K\ni(/-Jl xi ) 
 
 With bulbous neck. Decoi-atum the "Lange Lijsen" and flowirs. 
 Xeek finishes in a metal rnii. Mark, a l)lue leaf. Has stand. 
 
 II ('milt . (i I :, Itirlies. 
 
 iil^2 — Bi.uK Axj) ^\'hite Boi'Ti.i-: {( h'itii-lii iig) 
 
 ai^^sH 
 
 J I .' 
 
 (ilohulai', tapernig to a slender net'k, \\'ith 
 cii'culai- foot. Kiicii'cled bv a b.uid of ai'- 
 cliaic tli-agon sei'oll between serrate and 
 foliated bordei's, with palniatioirs extending 
 U]i the neck. Has stand. 
 
 Ifrnlhl. :<\ hirhrs. 
 
 '^1 .'5 — Im.c-sh Ai'K 15i,ri-: .\xii W'lirrr .Iau (K'ang- 
 h.si) 
 
 Dense, \ihrant hai'd paste, generously deco- 
 I'ated Ml delicate penciling with syiiiliols and 
 motives from the "Hundred Antiejues." 
 Abirk, a double ring. Has e;ir\ed teakwood 
 co\ er. 
 
 II, i.ihl. i; hirhi:-'. 
 
 !;!14— ()\iiin Ri.ri: .\xi> ^^' u rr k Jai; with Covku 
 ( Xiiiitiinfli (_ 'cut iirii ) 
 
 High rounded shoulder with inserting co\cr 
 ^vitli knob handle. The o[)a(|iic cobalt ground cohu' is marked 
 A\liere\'er \isibli' with w.ivy shadings. Interrupting this in re- 
 ser\X' and in j)aler blue .iiid hatch are fi\e-clawed dragoirs .iiniil 
 flame and cloud scrolls. 
 
 IIi'KjhI. ,51 4 iiirJiis. 
 
-!•'' Bl.l'K AND AX'hITK GaRNIITKE ()!• FlVlO PlK( KS 
 
 (A) Tlu-cc Blue and Wliito Molon-forni Vasis (K'aiig-lixi). With 
 > ^^ molded ,ind convex foot and liat-sliaped cover. Decorated in four 
 ._ / foliate panels with leaf-and-brunch motives in cross-hatch, with 
 
 corresponding borders at base and neck. Have stands. 
 
 HeUfhl . 6% iiirlien. 
 
 (B) Pair Blue and WJiite Bulbous Vases {K'diig-hsi). Recurv- 
 ing in flaring lip, with molded and convex foot. Tripartite 
 ornamentation, in foliate expanding panels of double outline, 
 with tree-trunks and leaves in cross-liatch on white reser\'e. 
 Borders on base and exterior and interior of lip. Have stands. 
 
 Heighl, 5% indies. 
 
 216 — Beaker-shaped Blue and White ^'ASE (K\irig-hsi) 
 
 ^A'ith flaring mouth and foot. On the neck the long-robed ladies 
 — and pots of plants ; on band and base sprays of flowers and 
 
 fruit. ]Mark, a blue leaf. Has stand. 
 
 Ileir/ht. 6 inches. 
 
 217 — Seven Blue and White Saucers or Sjiall Pj.atks (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With shallow bowl ending in a straight flaring rim. Decoration, 
 
 reserved mei blossoms on a blue ground marked with dark lines — 
 
 the "melting ice" motive — over bottom and rim, with the rounding 
 
 p — of the bowl also held in reserve giving a ring of white about the 
 
 /! /_ circular medallion of the bottom. Under-surface of rim carries 
 
 '<^ sprays and leafless branches. The six-character mark of C'h'eng 
 
 Hua on two of the plates is apocryphal. The other five have 
 
 as a mark the four-legged incense burner. 
 
 Diiimf'ter, 614 inches. 
 
 218 — Blue and White Plate {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 On the surface of the bottom three women on a terrace. On the 
 
 y rim a ground of floral fret or lattice interrupted by foliate 
 
 ^ -^ medallions holding stems of flowers. On the under surface of 
 
 the rim various rockery. The six-character mark of C'h'eng 
 
 Hua has been reproduced underneath the bottom. 
 
 Diameter, 81/, inches. 
 
 219 — Two Blue and White Plates {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration, two women and a boy on tiie terrace of a pavilion 
 
 in pale cobalt and darker blue, with a border on the rim of close 
 
 grill work, interrupted by four foliate medallions in reserve, 
 
 ^~^^ heavily outlined and carrying blossoms of the wild prunus tree. 
 
 Beneath the bottom the six-character mark of C'li'eng Hua has 
 
 been reproduced. (Chipped.) 
 
 Diameter, 8% inches. 
 
2^20 — TmtKi: Bi.rt: .\xi) Whitk Pi.atks {K\ing-hsi) 
 
 One with two figures and a uillow tree at the corjier of a house, 
 
 and a border of gi'lll with i-eserved floral medallions, marked 
 
 K'ang'-hsj ; another with two of the "Langc I^ijsen'" on a terrace 
 
 and a border of })rolifle branches of plinn blossoms, marked 
 
 t'lfeng- Hua. 
 
 Diiimetcr, 8 and 814 inches. 
 
 221 — Blte axk Whitk Bowl (Earl// K\i)ig-h.si) 
 
 On a hif^h and narrow, cylindrical, sliglitly-expanding foot. 
 Painted with f^ronps of figures to the number of a score or less 
 about sunnnerhouses and tables and under trees. On the foot, 
 downward-})ointin<( palmations. In the intei'ior a seated figure 
 and a border of meander fret and gi'iU presenting tlie form of 
 the Greek cross. 
 
 llcujht. 1',, inrJii's: (liiimcti'f, o';4 iurhes. 
 
 222 — l)oriit.i:-i;ori!D Shafkd ]]lt-k Axn WiirrK A'ask { K'ang-Jisi) 
 
 Pure A\hite ])oi'Ct'lain, dense and heavy, cov- 
 ered with scrolling leaf fornrs in varying 
 tones of cobalt-blue. T'nderneath the foot 
 the six-char.icter mark of C'h'eng Hua. 
 
 Ilciijht, 9 iiichi'S. 
 
 22:3 — 1{f.ti( n.AiF.i) Bt.fe and White A .\se 
 
 ( ( irh'ii-iii III/ ) 
 
 Hexagonal, on six low feet, with narrow, 
 flat, in-tui'ned li]). The six (|aadrilateral 
 white panels of openwork, reticulate with 
 circular piircing, hold at their centers 
 scrolled itu'dailions in solid jiaste, peni'ilcd 
 with ])lants ,and blossoms, and are outlined 
 with ;i blue and white honeycomb. On the 
 lip an angular gi-ill. Interior and exterior 
 of bottom with a bro«n crat'kle. (One foot 
 replaced.) H.as carved stand. 
 
 ITiUihl. :, inches. 
 
 !24 — ]5fff \xi> ^^'urri-: Pirciuii BorriF 01; Ffff-.-moox Aasf (Cliicn- 
 Iiiiig ) 
 
 AVitli three looj) handles— the fourth broken off; on a low quad- 
 rilateral foot which is pierced on the two narrow ends. On the 
 two broad faces landscapes with figures, ,and on the narrow sides 
 blossoms and flying butterflies, the Jicck and foot ,dso orna- 
 mented. The glaze marked by a giant t'r.ackle in brown lines 
 which extends to the interior of both neck .and foot. Has st.and. 
 
 lldi/Jll. ~l^'_^ inclies. 
 
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 225— Tall Blue and White Tkapot (K\ing-hsi) 
 
 Painted in delicatolv outlined palmate medallions with .sasjcs and 
 / — attendants in two shades of blue. A fret border on the flanged 
 
 lip. ^lark, a double ring in blue within the circular foot. ^letal 
 cover and looped handle supplied. Has stand. 
 
 TJi'ight, Ti/i mches. 
 
 226 — Shallow Blue and White Bowl on Cikcular Foot {ICang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Dense sonorous white porcelain expressively and finely painted 
 with two robed figures, at three-quarter length, in close proximity 
 of tentative embrace, done in blue of varied tone and fine shading 
 and with the use of reserve. Six-character mark firmlv penciled 
 within the blue double ring underneath the foot. 
 
 D'uimeler. ly„ inches. 
 
 227 — Club-shaped Blue and White Yase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With bulbous neck and spreading lip. Painted in sapphire and 
 _ cobalt blue with the flowering mei tree and symbols and house- 
 
 hold ornaments in two delicately outlined panels, and shoulder 
 and neck borders, with palmations. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 8^4 inches. 
 
 228 — Blue and White Oviform Vase {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In temple- jar shape with hat-shape cover. Blossoms and leaves 
 f^ with scrolling stems painted in two tones of blue beneath a 
 
 brilliant glaze. Hatched borders at shoulder and base with a 
 deep blue pointed border on the neck. Mark, a blue leaf. Has 
 stand. 
 
 Height, T/^ inches. 
 
 229 — Pair Straight Cylindrical Beaker-form ^'ASEs (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With slightly expanding necks. Deep foliated borders in blue 
 
 ,^ with white reserve ornamentation depend from the rim and pro- 
 
 ~ ject from the base above a narrow foot-border, and conventional 
 
 blossoms and scrolls adorn the white field. ^lark, a double ring. 
 
 Height, ly^ inches. 
 
 230 — Blue and White Jar (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 In form of a mammoth pear inverted, with wide cylindrical neck 
 and everted lip. Undulating surface, glazed in a rich, milky white, 
 and painted in clear cobalt-blue with summer houses and pavilions 
 .2 — by the waterside and among trees, a man fishing in a boat, and 
 
 a background of distant mountains. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 5% inches. 
 
;-2;31 — Pair Goi-RD-sHAri;D Bi.ri; axj) White Bottlks with Slexukk 
 Xkck' ( K'diKi'hsi) 
 
 Decorated in pale blue a]id reserve witii a 
 cliain of foliated floral medallions girdling 
 the body between elaborated borders of re- 
 lated motifs, and on the neck wifli a floral 
 reticulation interrupted by otlier medal- 
 lions. Mark, a blue leaf. ( Xeck slightly 
 cliijiped. ) 
 
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 ^■Vi— Rl.TK II.A-I'KI) Bl.TK A.VU WhITK Te,\P0T 
 ( K'dlHj-hsi) 
 
 \\\\_\\ loo]) handle and recurved spout anil 
 metal mountings. Decorated with flowers 
 and lea\cs, the outer body jiierced at each 
 231 side in ))anels of hexagonal I'eticulation, 
 
 tliiinigh which ornamentation on \hv iimer 
 bodv mav be seen. ( 'o\er and foot also pierced. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 8<4 iiicln's. 
 
 2.'33 — CvT.ixiiKK Ai. ]io r ri.i.-sH A I'Kii BriE axu White A'ase (K'aiig- 
 hsi) 
 
 Heavy, dense white ])in'celain, ornamented in two units with a 
 highly Cdinintioiializcd scroll in two shades of blue with white 
 scrolling reseiAcs. .Mai'k, a leaf within the double ring. 
 
 H/UiJif. bii-hrn. 
 
 2.'34 — I'ah! Beie Axii ^^llll•l: Bk.\kei!s { K'tn/</-lisi) 
 
 Dense sonorous pure x\hite porcelain, ])ainted m a deep cobalt- 
 blue «itli up\\;n-d anil downward pointing palmations on neck 
 and base, the midljand adorned with scrolls and symbols. On the 
 foot, six-character mark of C'h'eng Hua in a double ring ( apo- 
 (.■ryph.il ) . 
 
 Iliirjhf. S inrhcu. 
 
 2:35 — OvoiDAT. BirrTLK-sii aim:i> ]5i,rE axk ^^'lt^rE ^'AsE (K'nng-hsi) 
 
 ^Vith tall neck carrying short animal-head handles in high relief, 
 and a cii'cular foot. The body covered with a multiplicity of 
 minute blossom-petals uniformly distributed, in pale blue out- 
 line, under a ])ointed slunildcr-border. Scroll border cm the foot 
 and a key-fret and foliate border beneath the rim. 
 
 Iliii/]if, 9 inches. 
 
'';5()- 1'aii; OviKiiiiM Bi,rr. .wn W'nirr, \'.\,si:s ( /{'(unj-lisi) 
 
 Short lU'i-k jiiul slin'liHv spi-radiiii;- foot. Filled with inrtal mouiit- 
 )T-- illii's to sii-xr as I'uiulk'st K'ks. ('oii\ cii tioiial diToratioii of flowers 
 
 and siTdUs and \ariovis borders in I)Iir' \\\\\\ white resei-\-e. .Mark, 
 
 - ' 'i l>lue double ring. (One with a flaw: one repaii'ed.) Have 
 
 stanils, 
 
 JIci(/lil, S iticlit'S. 
 
 -•37 — Gi.onri.Ai! BoTTi,E-siiAi'i;n Biai-: am. Wiiiri-: Vask ( ir(///-/0 
 
 ''4iJL8L"'* A\'ith tlan^a'd lip, loop-and-riiii;- handles 
 
 and C()nea\ o-ron\ ex spreadiiif^' foot, 
 ^'iirorously painted in brilliant sapphire- 
 blue with serolliui;- pluenixes and ti\e- 
 elawi'd drairons, and incidental tlanie- 
 sei-olls. Also with seNei-al \arie(l borders, 
 'i'he animal-head loop-handles sustain 
 loose rinri-s deeoi-ated \\\t]i a coneateiiated 
 sci-oll. Insei'ibi'd on the lip: Tti-Ming 
 ]]'ti)i-!i iiiiii-chili (.Made in the rei^-n of 
 \\'an-li of the o'l-eat .Alin^^r dynasty). Has 
 stand. 
 
 Ililijht, S inrln'H. 
 
 '2;38 — '1' 1 1 1! K K. Blie axi) \\'iirri-: 1'lates ( K'niuj- 
 
 h.si) 
 
 Bordered with a i;rill in lif^ht blue and 
 reserve and adorned within the circle ot tlu' Ixittom with two 
 vouiiff women on a Ijlutf' at whose edge a ban.ana tree grows. On 
 tlic lower surface of the I'iin, landsca})e suggestions. ^larked with 
 six characters. 
 
 IHinni'l i'i\ S inrhe^. 
 
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 2.S9 — Fn-E IJi.EE AND White Plates 
 
 Decoi'ated with various female figures in groups of two and three 
 ill indoor and outdoor scenes, witliin grill borders interrupted 
 by foliate medallions of fruits, flowers and symbols. TTnderne.ath 
 tlie rim, landscapes and bo.ats. Two marked lv"ang-lisi and three 
 
 niai'ked Ch'eng Hua. 
 
 Didincli'r, 8 incites. 
 
240 — Eight Octagonal Elue and White Plates {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decorated in various tones of blue with figures of sages among 
 the mountains and by the waterside, and with men in boats and 
 Xt^ t^ L fishing, these views occupying the entire interior of the bottom, 
 
 while the rise and flare of the rim are painted with landscape 
 and water compositions, flowers growing amid rocks, and with 
 smaller figures. I"nderneath the rim, the flowers of the four sea- 
 sons, and beneath the bottom a square seal within a double ring. 
 
 Dinmeter, 8 inches. 
 
 2-il — Blue and Whitk Deep Bowl (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Recurving sides with flaring rim; on circular foot. Decorated in 
 brilliant deep and paler blue with blossoming trees, a phoenix 
 perched on a rock, and smaller birds flying in the air. In the 
 interior of the bottom are shrubs about rocks, and around the 
 interior of the rim is a floral border. Six-character mark of 
 C'h'eng Hua (apocryphal). Has stand. 
 
 Diameter. 7','. inches. 
 
 242 — Blue axu White C'ikcular Bowl {K\mg-hxi) 
 
 On a short foot. Decorated in a rich dark blue with scrolling 
 sprays and branches of fruit, about the exterior, and with a me- 
 dallion ornament in the interior of the bottom. Underneath the 
 foot the rebus Pi ting ju i. "'^May it be fixed as you wish." 
 
 Diameter, rt inches. 
 
 24;} — Paie Bue axd White Fluted Vases with Covers (K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Inverted pear-shape on a spreading pedestal foot and with a 
 short neck. The body molded in a succession of spiral flutings 
 adorned with chrysanthemum scrolls and singing birds. On 
 the foot are lotus, scroll, grill, reserve and solid-color borders. 
 with further lotus borders on shoulder and neck, and the knobbed 
 cover is of conventionalized lotus form. ( Xeck repaired.) 
 
 Height, 12 inches. 
 
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~^-i — Bi.TK Axi) White Garxiturk of Fivk Pikcks 
 
 (A) Pair of Phoenix and Seasons Blue and White Wine Pots 
 with Covers (K'ang-lisi). The body, on a foliate foot, is In the 
 general form of a hollowed and enlarged lotus flower, with slight 
 lateral elongation, folding in to an angular neck which flares into 
 a circular, fluted lip, capped by a petaled cover. Recurved spout 
 in the form of an elongated, tapering bird's-neck ending in a 
 
 / " phoenix-head with open beak. Brilliant blue decoration of the 
 
 ^ y flowers of the four seasons, the winter-blooming wild prunus, the 
 
 rock peony of spring, the lotus of summer and the chrysanthemum 
 of autumn, with foliate borders and a narrow base-border of the 
 wave motive. The covers have been cemented on for security 
 but are removable. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
 (B) Three Bottle-form Blue and Wliite ^'ases (K'ang-hsi). 
 With low ovoid body, tall thick tapering neck with wide trumpet- 
 lip, low circular foot, and vertical side handles. Adorned in two 
 shades of blue with masses of luxuriant leaves and flowers on 
 body and neck, and on the lip, above a molded rim, with singing 
 birds and insects of the air among scrolling floral stems. 
 
 Height, 10i/4 inches. 
 (IIlu.<itr(ifed) 
 
 245 — Blue and White Cylindrical Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With rounded shoulder, contracted neck and spreading lip. On 
 the plain white lower body three circular medallions decorated 
 ,'1, in varying motives and having borders of key-fret. At the base 
 
 a scroll border. Beneath the shoulder a deep band involving 
 romping boys in an elaborate floral scroll, and on the shoulder 
 two landscapes, while the neck is encircled by palmations and in 
 the interior of the neck are further small landscapes. All in 
 blue of rich and especially brilliant quality. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, S% inches. 
 
 246 — Blue and White Beaker-form Vase (K'ang- 
 
 Dense, heavy, sonorous white porcelain, decorated in cobalt-blue 
 ^ with numerous figures in outdoor scenes, boys at play and pine 
 
 '^ — trees. Underneath the foot the six-characters of Ch'eng Hua. 
 
 Height, 9 inches. 
 
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 Bi.iE AND White A'ases {K\tng-h.si) 
 
 With ovoidal bodies, bulbous necks and beaker-shaped Hps, on low 
 circular feet. The pure white bodies and lower expansions of 
 the necks painted in Delft-blue with tripods, scepters, books, 
 emblems and flower-and-leaf scrolls, the body ornamentation in 
 blue on a white ffround between upward- and downward-pointing 
 pointed-leaf borders, that on the neck-bulb in white reserve on a 
 blue gi'ound — reserve e\er_vwliere being generoisly utilized; while 
 the higher and smaller bulb of the neck is glazed in a pale cafe- 
 au-lait which is continued to the whitc-rimnicd lip. 
 
 Height, 9^54 inches. 
 
 248— Tall Blt-e and White Wixe Tot {Ming) 
 
 Flattened gourd-shape with spreading foot and mouth, with loop 
 handle and high spout. Decorated with phci'nixes and scrolls, and 
 on two large ovate medallions molded in relief with figures in a 
 pavilion and traAcling. A})ocr_yphal mark of C'hia-C'iring (1522- 
 1566). Has stand. 
 
 Height, 101/4 inches. 
 
249 — Blue and Whitk Garniture of Five Pieces 
 
 (A) Three Blue and White Oviform Jars (K'ang-hsi). Witli 
 rounded shoulders abruptly flattened, and cap covers. A 
 curious interlacement of foliate, festooned and palmate medallion- 
 sections broadly outlined in pale cobalt with decorated reserve 
 enclosures covers the body, with a narrow panel of blue lattice 
 with white reserve on each of two opposite sides, the decoration 
 including the wild prunus and conventionalized flowers, with orna- 
 ments and symbols. Shoulder and cap encircled by crenelated 
 borders and the cap with an additional foliated border. 
 
 Height, 8% and 9 inches. 
 
 (B) Two Cylindrical Blue and White Vases (K'ang-hsi). With 
 short convex foot and flaring lip. Painted in pale and deeper 
 blue in numerous foliate and oblong sections with rocks, flowers, 
 vases and devices from the Eight Precious Things and the eight 
 Buddhistic emblems of happy augury, between crenelated lip and 
 base borders. (The lip of one repaired.) 
 
 Height, 9 inches. 
 
 250 — OviFOEJi Blue and White Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With spreading foot, flattened shoulder, wide neck with a molded 
 ring midway, and slightly spreading lip. Clear, resonant porce- 
 lain with an even glaze of creamy white. Two quadrilateral 
 panels lightly outlined on opposite faces. In one an ambitious 
 ■p S^^ composition presenting the corner of a pavilion with two ladies 
 
 with fans perceived through a window, and around the corner two 
 men in long robes, one with a fan, waiting to be admitted at the 
 double door, all in a brilliant blue of sapphire effulgence with an 
 effective use of reserve. On the reverse an inscription and dedica- 
 tion in more than sixty calligraphic characters, signed with a 
 seal. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
 251 — Cylindrical Club-shaped Blue and White Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ornamented in brilliant blue of differing tones and white reserve 
 
 ' y -ni.- with fierce kylins upon rocks in the midst of turbulent waves 
 
 and in the air a large bird flying. Mark, a blue double ring. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Height, 10% inches. 
 
 252 — Pair Blue and White Tall Jars (Late K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In the form of elongated cups with slightly expanding rim and 
 - heavy convex foot. Decorated in fifteen interwoven panels with 
 
 "" y leaf-and-branch motive in cross hatch, besides borders. (One re- 
 
 Aac/L, stored.) With carved stands. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
253— Bt. 
 
 Whitk Dkp'.p Bo\\-l (K\ing-h,Hi) 
 
 Scalloped, on a low foot. Dense sonorous hard paste. The 
 pliffnix and the four-elawed drafi-on in chase of the sacred jewel 
 amid fire scrolls alternate in the undulatinfr ])etal-fonn panels 
 about the exterioi' of the howl, while in a medallion in the interior 
 of the bottom an eao-Je ))erc]ies upon rocks risin^J' out of waves 
 luider a clouded sun, and within the interior of the rim is a deep- 
 ])lue l)order with ])ruiius blossoms and wa\ e forms in white reserve. 
 Underneath the foot, the six-chai-acter mark of Ilsiian Te. Has 
 stand. 
 
 DintiH'h i\ 8[:_. lllrlirs; hrli/hl. 4 iticJtC^. 
 
 254 — 0\-oii)Ai. ('i.rn-siiAPi:i) Bltk .wd Wurri-: ^'Asl£ (CJrioi-hnif/) 
 
 ^A'ith short contracted neck and exerted li]). Decoration a spotted 
 deer under a wide-spreadiiii;- pine tree, with another uns])otted 
 MJiich on hind lej^s reaches tow.ii'd a branch overhead. On the 
 shoukier two bat svmbols of hap])iness. Cream-white even trla/.e. 
 Has car\ed stand. 
 
 Heifihl. lOi/j i DC-Ik X. 
 
 255 — Paii! ()\iKoif.\i l$i.iM'; axi> \\'urrK \"asi:s (K\nif/-h,si) 
 
 ^Vith co)i\ex foot and short cvlindrical neck. Painted in twentv- 
 four sections Ijesidcs borders with altern.ating Horal sprays and 
 landsca])es with fiffui-es or maruie \iews. 
 
 I'rom the Collection Ktienne Delaunoy, Amsterdam. 
 
 Iliiijhl. 10 inches. 
 
256 — Gi-OBULAR Blue and White A'ase {Imperial Ware of Cliien- 
 liing) 
 
 With convex foot, wide neck spreading into an upright lip, and 
 scepter-head loop neck-handles. The body delicately penciled in 
 pale blue under the glaze with scrolled and conventionalized floral 
 -^ forms, the twin-fish, endless-knot, conch-shell and other emblems, 
 
 between foliate, key-fret, pointed and archaic dragon-scroll 
 borders, and the neck with tall palmations and carrying a foliated 
 border also under the lip. Crackled throughout in brown lines. 
 
 Six-character mark of Ch'eng Hua. 
 
 Heiqlit. 9 inches. 
 
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 257 — Globular-ovoidal Blue and White Vase {Cli'i en-lung) 
 
 With contracted neck spreading to a flanged lip and a short 
 
 convex foot. Decoration, a close interlacement of chrysanthemum 
 
 scrolls between borders which multiply on base, shoulder and neck. 
 
 (Repaired.) 
 
 Height, 11 inches. 
 
 258 — Blue and White Wine Pot {Ming) 
 
 In bag or bladder form with contracted neck, flanged lip, looped 
 handle and recurved quadrilateral spout. ]\Iolded ovate medal- 
 lions on either face are decorated in deep and brilliant blue with 
 ascending dragons in pursuit of the flaming jewel among fire 
 scrolls ; in one, one of the dragons has grasped a claw of the 
 other. On either side are detached fruits and branches of the 
 sacred fungus, with bat symbols and flying cranes. Six-character 
 mark of Chia Ch'ing. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 8 inches; U'idth, 9 inches. 
 
 259 — Blue and White Fish Jar {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ovoidal contour with wide mouth, in dense, resonant porcelain. 
 Penciled in cobalt-blue of varied color-quality, with precision and 
 7 ,-— __ freedom of brush, with an all-over decoration of carp and long- 
 
 snouted fish with formidable, spinescent dorsal fins, swimming 
 and curling in aqueous depths amidst aquatic growths and blos- 
 soms sprinkled over the surface of the water. Six-character mark 
 of Ch'eng Hua within a blue double ring (apocryphal). Has 
 
 carved teakwood cover. 
 
 Height, 6 inches; diameter, 8 inches. 
 
260 — Bi.TK Axi) WiiiTi-; Globi'lau A'ase {Ch'icn-hnig) 
 
 Contracting to a broad cylindrical foot and ta])cring to a slender 
 
 neck witli expanding lip. Resonant ])orcelain witli a milk-white 
 
 glaze of mottled effect, painted in pure cobalt with a sweeping 
 
 composition of a spotted stag under a gnarled pine tree, with a 
 
 doe or fawn beyond him on the slope of a hill. 
 
 HfifjJtf, 14 inches. 
 
 261 — CiKCT^i.AR Tripod Bi.ti-; axd Whitk Bowl (K'(ing-hxi) 
 
 Dense sonorous wliite porcelain in the form of ancient bronze 
 bowls, on three rudimentary feet. Wide form witli expanding 
 sides, gently contracted to afford a short neck, with thick everted 
 lip and \\ide mouth. Tainted in two shades of blue with a liberal 
 use of white reser\e with motives from tlie "Hundred Antiques."' 
 
 Hiiqht. 5 inches: diamcler, 9 inches. 
 
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 262 — Ovoid Blue and White Gingek. Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Painted in cobalt-blue with two flying phoenixes amidst a luxuri- 
 ance of blossoms and scrolled foliations. Has carved teakwood 
 stand and cover. 
 
 Height, 1% inches. 
 
 263 — Pair Ovoid Blue and White Ginger Jars (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Painted in two tones of blue, with white reserve, with the figures 
 , y^ of two phoenixes with tremendously long tails, amid profuse 
 
 " , scrolls of leaves and blossoms. Mark, a blue double ring. Have 
 
 ■-^^< '- — stands and teakwood covers. 
 
 Height, 8 inches. 
 
 264 — Pilgrim-bottle or Full-moon Blue and White Vase (Ch'ien- 
 lung) 
 
 j~j'~__ With cask-shaped neck from which spring loop handles. Con- 
 
 ventional decoration of persimmon and Buddha's-hand citron, 
 with the sacred fungus, with enclosing scroll borders, in various 
 blues. Has stand. 
 
 Height, I314 inches. 
 
 265 — Pair Blue and White Ginger Jars with Their Own Original 
 Covers {K'ang- 
 
 Dense hard paste with a clear, resonant tone; ovoid, the cylin- 
 
 (,"_ drical covers having flat tops. On a finely fluted surface four 
 
 , round medallions in reserve, penciled with gracefully posed young 
 
 ■Ca i^l^ women in "Lange Lijsen" robes in varying tones of blue under 
 
 a brilliant glaze. Base, shoulder and cover borders of graceful 
 
 floral sprays. Mark on one, Ta-Ming Clieng Hua nien-chih 
 
 (apocryphal). On the other a blue double ring. 
 
 Height, 91/2 inches. 
 
 266 — Blue and White Ovoid Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Painted in brilliant sapphire and cobalt blue with graceful young 
 
 — _ ladies variously amusing themselves, rocks and exotic trees and 
 
 '^ " distant visions of waves, all on a pure white ground with lustrous 
 
 glaze. Has teakwood cover. 
 
 Height, Sy^ inches. 
 
267 — Tall Blue and White Ceeemonial Wine Pot (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Oviform with rounded shoulder, tapering to cylinder form and 
 resting on an indrawn foot ; short neck with thickened lip, elon- 
 gated loop-handle and recurving spout held close to the shoulder. 
 A Ch'ien-lung reproduction of an earlier form. Below the shoul- 
 der, in a wide band of scattering blossom and leaf scrolls on the 
 /^ J)^'— brilliant white ground, are four phoenixes in archaic conventionali- 
 
 zation — the feng-liuang among its other descriptions having 
 variously the attribution of a dragon-body as here presented. 
 Borders surround the vessel above and below this band and on 
 the shoulder ; a grill encircles the neck, and beneath the lower 
 borders is a band of doivnward-pointing palmations. A strag- 
 gling crackle appears near the base, and the foot underneath is 
 
 covered with a crackled glaze, 
 
 Height, 16 inches. 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 268 — Pear-shaped Blue axd White Vase (Cliien-lu7ig) 
 
 With wide neck and flaring lip on a circular lightly spreading 
 
 7j^ _ foot. Adorned from foot to lip in purplish blue of varying 
 
 tones with conventional flower scrolls and a series of borders and 
 
 palmations which include the use of white reserve. Seal mark 
 
 of Ch'ien-lung on the foot. 
 
 Height, IS inches. 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 269 — Pear-shaped Blue axd White Vase {Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With flaring neck and low spreading foot. The body decorated 
 witji a band of conventional and continuous blossom and leaf 
 '^j" _ scrolls, between various foliate and scroll borders ; the neck 
 
 with a band of long leaves pointing upward and a lip border 
 disclosing a confused wave motive. Seal-mark in blue under- 
 neath the foot. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 14% inches. 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 270 — Spherical Covered Dish {Ming) 
 
 With polar compression giving it a broad, only slightly rounded 
 top ; on a low circular foot. Blue and wjiite heav^' sonorous 
 porcelain of almost stone-weight density. Decorated in two 
 ^ _ tones of blue, acented in black, with storks, scrolls, the sacred 
 
 fungus and other emblems, a profusion of them occupying a 
 large circular medallion overspreading the broad crown, and 
 the motive repeated in incomplete foliate medallions interrupting 
 a swastika lattice below, with intervening scroll borders. Mark, 
 in a blue double ring: Ta-Ming Wan-li nicn-chih. 
 
 Diameter. 11 inches. 
 
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 Slii;litl\' ll.iriii^' to\\ai'(l tlic l)asr, \\\\\\ 
 an uiKkTbddv foot; tulmlar neck, cii- 
 lar^'rd at \hv i\vv\) run. Dense, ]ica\ y 
 wliitr poiiH'lain, dccofatril on \\\v hodv 
 with cai'i) ainoii^' leaping' ua\i's amid 
 rot'ks, on tlir lU'ck witli a tlinc-claw t'd 
 dran'on pnrsnnii;' the tlannii;.;' jrwcl, and 
 ini tlic li|) witli borders of scroll! r<'t 
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 rine;. 
 
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 I--272 — Bi,i"K .\xi) \A'iirrK I.oti's Ctinci-.r Jar 
 ( J\"/ni(/-!isi ) 
 
 ()\oid body with liieli slioulder. slicjrt 
 neck and spreadine- foot. Pure white 
 sonorous K"an<^-hsi porcelain with a 
 luxuriant decoration of bold, con\en- 
 tionalized lotus scroll intwinino- the 
 entire bo(i\'. The short neck carries a 
 lesser and more compact ttor.d scroll. 
 -'1 AVithin a blue double riiii;- on the foot 
 
 .a six-charactei' mark of (ireiiij Iliia 
 ( a})ocryplial ) . INIade in the I'eign of K"ang-lisi. Has carxeil 
 
 teakwood liat-sliape co\er. 
 
 Tldi/hf. Si;, inches. 
 
 27-3 IxVKUTKJ) PF,.\R-Sir.\PE Bl.TK AND ^^' H ir K A'.\SK ( K' l( lUJ-ll Si) 
 
 Teniple-jar form with slifflitly flaring foot and car\ed teakwood 
 hat-shaped cover. Decorated below two neck-borders witli two 
 flying plutnixes among thick flfiwei' scrolls of conventional pat- 
 tern, the uhole in cobalt-lilue witli reserve. 
 
 IIc'Kjht, 9',4 inches. 
 
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 2T4 — Ovoin.^i, Blfk axu White Jak {Ming) 
 
 With broad cylindrical fo(jt and mound cover. Decoration in 
 brilliant blue witli wliite reser\e picturing a fire-breathing land 
 — dragon with cloven hoof, a Uog Fu and other animuls, with rocks 
 and pine and banana trees. Around the shoulder, incised in the 
 paste beneath the glaze and left uncohjred, a narrow band of 
 fine scroll. Heavy porcelain in unusual sh;ipe. Has st.aiid. 
 
 Ileighl, 11',/; inches. 
 

 ;75 — Rij'K AND AViiiTK Hawthorn Jar (K'ung-lisi) 
 
 Giiincr jar of ovoid form, covered with a n'laze of cobalt-blue 
 carving' in depth of tone and marked with dark Inu'S in the 
 semblance of cracking lee, with liranc-Jies of the winter-blooming 
 wild ])lum — the so-called "hawthorn" ])attern — springing from 
 the base and spixadmg about Hie \ase in white reserve. Carved 
 teakwood cover enclosing a carved jade medallion; car\ed teak- 
 wood stand. ]\Iark, a blue double ring. 
 
 n,i,ilil. rti^ inches. 
 
 276 — Tall ]5i.ri; and ^^'u^]■L I5k akkk-sh apkh A'ask { K'aug-lixi) 
 
 ('vdindrical. trum])et-lippetl neck on inserted pear-shaped body 
 with slightly s])reading foot. Painted in bright transparent 
 sapphire-blue «ith tlie spotted stag and his doe — one pair on the 
 body, one on the neck — emblems of longxA'itv — amid pine trees 
 and rocks, with the flying crane seen in the air above amid 
 scrolled clouds. 
 
 JJiight. IT-'i inrhes. 
 
S77 — Pair Blue and White Table Screens (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In carved tcakwood mounting. In one a quadrilateral panel de- 
 picting two elders, seated in an embrasure in a summerhouse, the 
 man embracing his consort, gazing fondly at two graceful young 
 ladies standing near by, one in the attitude of leave-taking. The 
 scene in cobalt-blue of varying tones, surrounded by a grill. Com- 
 panion, a decoration depicting a mounted warrior with sword 
 and battle-axe, followed by his gonfalonier, approaching a pa- 
 A'ilion in the mountains whence a sage looks out, greeting him 
 in blessing. 
 
 Panel: Height, fiy^ inches; width. IO14 inches. 
 Screen complete: Height. 1914 inches; width, 18% inches. 
 
 278 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration of blossoming prunus and magnolia trees, with birds 
 screeching at each other from rock ledges and one noisy in the 
 air, on a cream-white ground. Marked with the blue double ring. 
 (Repaired.) Has stand and carved teakwood cover enclosing 
 carved white jade medallion. 
 
 Height, lOy, inches. 
 
 279 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decoration in intense, brilliant blue of a landscape at the sea- 
 shore, with figures standing and seated in conversation upon 
 rocks near trees and buildings, and others in sampans on the 
 water below. Has carved stand and teakwood cover holding 
 openwork white jade medallion carved with dragons and lotus 
 flowers. 
 
 Height, 9 inches. 
 
 280 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Dense, heavy porcelain, in ovoidal form, decorated with an ex- 
 tensive landscape and marine composition in brilliant blue, pic- 
 /'j>~ ~ turing mountains, pine trees and the sea, a sage and attend- 
 
 ant, and a man in a boat. The carved openwork teakwood 
 cover has a handle in the form of a foliated medallion of carved 
 
 white jade. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 

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 281^0V0I1) Bl.Tl.; AND W 
 
 \'asi-; of GiXGEU Jai{ Fcirji (Mi»g) 
 
 Heavy, dense white ])()i'celaiii, wiHi a jirofuse decoration in 
 cobalt-blue of ducks swininiing and flying among numerous wafer 
 })lants. Has carded tiakwood hat-shaped cover and teakwood 
 stand. 
 
 Jli'filiit. IP4 inches: ir'tlh Iml mid slntid. l(i inches. 
 
 -I'aIR TaT.T. Bi;AKKIt-Sl[APF.I) Bl.TE AXI) WhITK \'asF.S ( K' (I HfJ-hsi) 
 
 AVith barrel-shaped mid-sections. Slightlv eX})anding foot and 
 spreading lij). Covered throughout with a broad scroll of loaf 
 fo)'ms and conventionalized lotus flowers in bright cobalt-blue 
 and white ix'serxe, w itli interruptions at the dixision of sections, 
 the middle section ha\ ing two .angular borders with trefoil en- 
 closures. 
 
 JTiieihl. IT inches. 
 
283 — Bluk and White Gingek Jar (K'cing-hsi) 
 
 Ovoid, decorated in bright blue with n mountainous landscape 
 ^ ^ at the borders of the sea, sages appearing in the recesses, two 
 
 /'-' "* figures gazing afar, and on the water a man in a boat. The 
 
 carA'ed teakwood cover has a medallion of wliite jade studded 
 
 with bosses. 
 
 Height, 8% inches. 
 
 284 — Pair Blue and White Hawthorn Temple Jars with Man- 
 darin Covers (K'ang- 
 
 Inverted pear-shape tapering gracefully and recurving to a 
 
 lightly spreading foot. Ornamented between crenelated borders 
 
 /^ " with limbs, branches and flowers of the mei or winter-blooming 
 
 / wild prunus — the so-called "hawthorn blossom" — in white re- 
 
 "^ serve on a solid blue ground of deep cobalt tone, marked with 
 
 darker lines in representation of the cracking or breaking up 
 
 of ice in the spring. (One cover damaged.) Carved stands. 
 
 Height, IT^U inches. 
 
 285 — Pair Tall Blue and AVhite Beaker-shaped Vases {K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 On low convex foot, with slightly expanded midband, cylindrical 
 'J'^- neck and flaring lip. Adorned in sixteen narrow panels with 
 
 stems of flowers and birds perching amongst them, together with 
 ^ftc/f^ numerous and varied borders, including a narrow border within 
 
 the lip. (Lip of one repaired.) With stands. 
 
 Height, 18 inches. 
 
 286 — Tall Cylindrical Club-shaped Blue and White Vase 
 (Early K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With short wide neck and delicately molded foot. Clear, vibrant 
 porcelain of K'ang-hsi, the milk-white body under a lustrous 
 '.J 5^_ glaze exquisitely painted in delicate values with pheasants on 
 
 tall rocks amongst a luxuriance of blossoms of the winter- 
 blooming wild plum tree which grows beside the rocks, other 
 birds on the wing appearing in the rear. On the neck, bril- 
 liant sprays of blossoms. Within a blue double-ring the six- 
 character mark of Ch'eng Hua (apocryphal). Has stand. 
 
 Height, 18;'| inches. 
 
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 287 — Blue and White Temple Jar with Hat-shaped Cover 
 {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 The high-shouldered body tapers downward in the lines of an 
 inverted cone, truncated to form the foot. Above, the sloping 
 shoulder contracts into a short wide neck. Between a scroll- 
 point base border and a shoulder meander the white body is 
 overlain by a deep band of contiguous foliated medallions of 
 cobalt-blue, carrying a profusion of flowers and Buddhistic 
 emblems, including the conch-shell and the twin fish, in white 
 reserve. Similar motives adorn the cover. 
 
 Height, 15 inches. 
 
 988 — Beaker-shaped Blue and White Vase Copied After an 
 Ancient Bronze (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Low, spreading foot, bulbous mid-section with four projecting 
 vertical ridges, wide cylindrical neck and flanged lip. Mid- 
 section displaying the lineaments of the t'ao t'ieh ogre boldly 
 overlying a ground in imitation of the incised fret of old bronzes. 
 Neck and base presenting deep borders pointing in opposite 
 directions of long banners alternating with short palm leaves, 
 the banners with the yang-yim. and other symbols and various 
 frets ; the vase as a whole carrying several narrow borders, 
 foliate, scroll and hatch, in addition. Dense porcelain with the 
 blue double ring of K'ang-hsi. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 14% inches. 
 
 289 — Squat Globular Blue and White Bottle (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With tall wide neck, bulbous at the lip. The body adorned in 
 varied tones of cobalt-blue with landscape and waterscape, sum- 
 mer houses, rocks, a reticulation of pine needles in the foliage 
 of a crooked-trunked tree, figures in converse, one fishing from 
 a rock-ledge and two in sampans. On the neck a flying swallow 
 and budding flowers. 
 
 Height. 16% inches. 
 
 290 — Small Blue and White Temple Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 High ovoidal shoulders contracting to a broad waist, with a 
 slightly spreading foot; short, cylindrical neck. Decoration in 
 various tones of blue on the cream-white ground, a succession of 
 detached units including six horses in various attitudes, patches 
 of surface growths about small rocks, and two sturdy pine trees. 
 On the neck some of the "Eight Precious Things." ]\Iark, the 
 sacred fungus enclosed within a blue double ring. Has carved 
 cover and a high carved teakwood stand with ball and claw feet. 
 
 Height, 9y, inches: icith stand and coccr, 20 inches. 
 
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 iN'i) Whitic Tai.t, ^^\sK, (Ktirl// K\iiif/-]i.si) 
 
 Of .'ui iinri'trd cl(>iit;'.'iti(l-j(r<ir shape, taper- 
 iiii;- i;Tiitly from the hiy-li shoultler to a low 
 uiul narrow waist «hieh recurves into a 
 sliglitly sprea(hnf^ foot, tlie shouhlei', uiiicli 
 also is narrow, supportin<;' a hif^h cylindrical 
 and \er_v slicrjitly spre;idinir neck. Pure 
 ■white dense, resonant porci'lain, painted in 
 pale cobalt and hi'illiant sa])[)liire colors with 
 the sense of an historical or leu'endarv inci- 
 dent of days of con(]uest, in which twehe 
 tii^'ures appear in hohl and expressi^•e execu- 
 tion. Beneath a blue brocaded canopy a 
 coquettish beauty kneels before a personage 
 who eyes her with sucli intiiisitv of intei-est 
 it is difficult to tell whether he had I'ather 
 embrace her and raise her to honors or cut 
 off her fair head. Around him are warriors 
 with battle-axes, stamlards and gonfalons, 
 while below, h.alf screened among trees and 
 rocks, and more battle-axes amid further 
 panoj)ly of war. Mark within the double 
 ring in blue beneath the foot, T/i-Miiuj Cilia 
 C'liing nicii-chili ( apocrvplial ). 
 
 Iliif/lit. _'lli ., hirliex. 
 
 292 — Tai.l C'ylixdhk'al Br.iE axd Wiirrf; J; 
 
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 With narrow shoulder and short neck \\\i\\ thickened lip. Dense, 
 sonorous porcelain, Avith a brilliant glaze. I'jxtensive and bold 
 decoration telling a bra\e story of ancient daj?s and presenting 
 an animated picture of exalted personages esca])ing on horse- 
 back — apparently with treasure — on a I'aft over turbulent rapids, 
 while a mounted company with battle-axes and lances pursues 
 valiantly and appears about to pi'ecipitate itself severally o\er 
 a rocky ch'tf' into the rushing torrent after them. I'ure cobalt- 
 blue with brilliant sajjphire tones. On the shoulder a delicately 
 incised border of leaf and flower scroll beneath the glaze. 
 
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 Jlcijjht, lG''n inches. 
 
293 — Blue and White Garniture of Five Pieces 
 
 (A) Three Tall Blue and White Beakers of the Eight Im- 
 mortals (K'ang-hsi). Inverted pear-shape body with expand- 
 ing foot and wide trumpet neck. The entire neck and body 
 covered, between narrow hatch borders on each, with a lattice 
 in pale blue, interrupted by eight broadly outlined foliate medal- 
 lions, each carrying a figure painted in two tones of blue on 
 the white reserve, and all done with expressive precision. 
 Martial Chung-li Ch'iian — messenger of heaven — with his sword, 
 is seen below Chang Kuo conjuring his mule from a gourd, 
 Chang Kuo being a Celestial and second Elijah who ascended 
 to heaven without suffering bodily dissolution, in the eighth 
 century A.D. Ts'ao Kuo-ch'in appears with his castanets, 
 and Han Hsiang-tz'u, who fell from the peach tree of the Genii 
 into immortality, is playing upon a flute. Li of the Iron Staff 
 leans upon his beggar's crutch, exhaling his spiritual essence 
 toward the clouds ; aged and disillusioned Lan Ts'ai-ho holds a 
 scroll, and Lii Tung-pin of robust frame holds a basket of 
 strange plants in lieu of the customary sword. Ho Hsien-Ku, 
 who was born with six hairs on the top of her head, and, after 
 eating of mother-of-pearl at the age of fourteen to attain im- 
 mortality, wandered lonely in the hills, speeding with the wings 
 of virginity, stands here like a "Long Eliza" smiling at space. 
 Mark, a firmly penciled blue leaf beneath the glazed foot. 
 
 Height, 1714 inches. 
 
 (B) Two Blue and White Temple Jars with Hat-shape Covers 
 (K'ang-hsi). Ovoid body with high shoulder, gracefully con- 
 tracting below and recurving to the spreading foot; short 
 cylindrical neck. On a ground of light blue lattice, foliate 
 medallions are broadly outlined, their white reserve enclosures 
 adorned each with one of the Eight Immortals in a landscape 
 setting; six appear on the body, two on the cover. Narrow 
 angular borders encircle base and shoulder, and the white neck 
 wears a circlet of upward-pointing leaves in outline. Mark, the 
 blue double ring. 
 
 Height, 16l^ inches. 
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294 — Tall Blue and Whitk C'vLixDnicAL Jak {Ming) 
 
 With rounded shoulder and short wide neck. Complex and 
 elaborate decoration in pale cobalt and rich sapphire blue pre- 
 senting an august personage advancing under a canopy and ac- 
 companied by retainers, his index finger pointing heavenward, (p c'" _ 
 and men below seated placidly on the ground holding up gon- 
 falons, while ahead and toward the left a man on a leaping 
 horse waves his whip and a man afoot spreads out his arms 
 toward a small herd of horses grouped in pairs, which are 
 variously disturbed. On shoulder and base, fine rings lightly 
 incised in the paste. 
 
 Height. 17% inches. 
 
 295 — Tall Ovoidal Club-shaped Blue and White Vase {K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 A figure carrying an ensign and a sword, and seemingly the 
 
 bearer of tidings, kneels before a mighty man whose sword hangs ^ S~ — 
 
 from his belt in front of him — a lady standing at his elbow — 
 
 who watches his news-bearer with pleased but keen scrutiny. In 
 
 the background a table with writing materials. 
 
 Height, 17 inches. 
 
 296 — Tall Oviform Blue and White A'ase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With contracted waist and spreading foot, high narrow shoulder 
 and wide short cylindrical neck. Six long panels in reserve, de- 
 marcated by finely reticulated floral scroll bands, depict birds 
 and butterflies soaring about fragrant blossoms of the mei and /^C — 
 
 other trees growing from rocks. Above and below a profuse 
 floral decoration and sundry borders in white reserve on a blue 
 ground. Mark, a blue double ring. 
 
 Height, 17% inches. 
 
 297 — Tall Cylindeical Beaker-foem Blue and White Vase 
 (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Clear, sonorous porcelain. Contracting slightly from the flat 
 foot the sides rise in shallow concave elliptical curves ending 
 in the gently spreading lip, a midband barely indicated in the 
 molding. The principal decoration, on the long neck, displays 
 ducks in and about a rocky lotus pond, one pecking at a leaf, 
 one swimming among reeds and two flying. The midband car- 
 ries a white border of sprays and below it is an alternating 
 border of down-pointing palmations, while beneath the lip a 
 delicate scroll border is incised under the glaze. 
 
 Height, 171/3 inches. 
 
298 — Tall Cylindrical Cllb-shapld Blue and White Yase 
 (K'ang-lisi) 
 
 The pure white body adorned ^\ ith a vigorous presentation of 
 two four-chiwed dragons rising amid rocks from tempestuous 
 waves and grasj)ing for the flaming jewel swirling in the air, 
 just as two carp also leaj) toward it from the turbulent waters. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Height. 1()"4 inrhes. 
 
 299- 
 
 -Blue and White Tejiplk Jar with Cover (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Dense white porcelain, painted with a bold decoration of two 
 huge Fu-lions with the brocaded ball, in two shades of blue, and 
 fire scrolls and long ribbon scrolls. ^Vround the neck are sym- 
 bols, and on the cover three Hying cranes. 
 
 Height, 17';4 inches. 
 
300 — Paik Bottle-form Blt;k and W)£ite Vases (Earlij K'ang-hsi) 
 
 On thick circular foot exposing the biscuit. Elliptical body 
 
 tapering to a wide neck with flaring lip; encircled by a band of 
 
 foliate medallions in Ijlue with ornamentation in white reserve, 
 
 above whicli are the eight Buddhistic emblems of happy augury. 
 
 Elaborate shoulder-borders of foliations and wave scrolls in blue 
 
 with white reserve, surmounted by bands of palmations with 
 
 ornate decoration. At the base a leaf-point border and about 
 
 the neck luider the rim detached spraj's in the form of open 
 
 medallions. 
 
 Height, 17'/i inches. 
 
 301 — Heavi' Bottle-shape Bltk anj; WiirrE Vase 
 
 Globular body of squat formation, tall wide straiglit neck and 
 low circular foot. The white ground co\ered with small, quickly 
 coiling .scrolled foliations and spi-ead with clirysanthcmum blos- 
 soms loosely painted. At rim and b.ase a border of scroll fret; the 
 neck with a molded ring in white reserve. Apocryphal mark of 
 Hsiian Te. 
 
 Height, 15 inches. 
 
302 — Blue and White Ovoid Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Decorated with flowering trees and flying birds in reserve panels, 
 
 and an abundance of floral scrolls and foliations in white reserve 
 
 I J^ within foliate border patterns and bands. Mark, the blue double 
 
 ring. Has carved stand and cover. 
 
 Height, 12% inches. 
 
 -Tall Double-gourd Shaped Blue axd White Vase {Ming) 
 
 Dense porcelain of the stone-weight vai-iety, the ovoidal lower 
 body with heavy shoulder contracting to a wide neck and re- 
 curving to form in expansion a full-bodied pear-shape or gourd- 
 shape vase, with short truncated neck. Wonderfully adorned 
 with an elaborate ornamentation in great vigor of execution, done 
 ^ in varying tones of blue of cobalt quality under a brilliant glaze. 
 
 T--^ The decoration comprises the great philosopher Lao-tze seated, 
 
 holding a scepter, and the eight Taoist Immortals in procession 
 around the lower body, approaching him ; cloud-scrolls, pine trees 
 and the spotted stag; a lattice band with reserved medallions 
 enclosing floral sprays ; and four of the genii riding over a 
 tumultuous sea, respectively on a carp, a dead tree, a stork and 
 a leaf. 
 
 Height, 20% inches. 
 
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 304 — Pair Extremelv Heavy Stoxe-weight Porcelain Blue and 
 White Jars (Ming) 
 
 Molded in foliate form with four lobes. Decorated in blues vary- 
 
 ^ ing from pale cobalt to purplish, ^-ith four boldly and broadly 
 
 5 /J -^ outlined foliate medallions enclosing alternately flying cranes 
 
 , among cloud forms and pecking peacocks among flowers, the 
 
 Ji, interspaces displaying sundry characters in circular and diamond 
 
 outline. Scroll, foHate, geometrical and medallion borders, with 
 
 reserve, encircle foot, shoulder and wavy neck. Have stands. 
 
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305 — Paik QrADKAxc.n.AR Blue and AVhite Jars (K'niig-h.si) 
 
 With short cylindrical necks rising from the flat tops, and flat 
 
 cylinder-covers. Sonorous stonc-wcight wliitc porcelain with a 
 ^ brilliant glaze, decorated on all sides, between familiar borders, 
 
 with conventional flowers and leaf scrolls in two shades of blue 
 acA^ with white reserve. On the flat top or shoulder four large flying 
 
 bats appear, amid further scrolls. Have stands. 
 
 Height, 13|', 'iiicIk'.i: iridfh, 9% inches; depth, 6 inches. 
 
 306 — Large Blue axd White Ovoid Jar {Cliien-lung) 
 
 Resonant, pure white porcelain of K'ang-hsi, richly ornamented 
 in two tones of blue, with eff'ective reserve. Besides sundry and 
 various borders the decoration embraces graceful and coy young 
 ladies on a parapet, one, with an attendant, walking in a garden, 
 to whom a figure approaches offering a fruit, elsewhere a figure 
 beside a stork which is standing on one leg, together with pavilion 
 domes with fluttering gonfalons, glimpses at interior views, pen- 
 dant foliage and pots of flowering plants. Mark, a blue double 
 ring. Has carved openwork teakwood cover. 
 
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 Height, li!</, inches. 
 
 307 — Tall Blue axd White Yase on a Deep Spreading Foot 
 {Ming) 
 
 Egg-shape, tapering to a long slender neck, spreading to a flanged 
 lip. The abundant decoration, in cobalt-blue of varying tone 
 and a liberal use of reserve, includes flying storks among cloud- 
 scrolls and seal characters, sundry bands and borders in wave- 
 form, foliate and geometric designs, a lattice and a neck circlet 
 of palmations. Dense stone-weight porcelain of the Ming dy- 
 nasty. 
 
 Height, 23 inches. 
 
 308 — Tall Oviform Blue and White Vask {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With an all-over decoration of chrysanthemum blossoms and fine 
 foliate scrolls, an angular-fret shoulder-border, a band of palma- 
 tions about the neck and a foliate and scroll border beneath the 
 rim. 3Iark, a blue leaf within a blue double ring. 
 
 Height, 31% inches. 
 
309 — Blue and White Temple Jae (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ovoidal with spreading foot and short cylindrical neck. Pure 
 white, adorned in brilliant sapphire-blue and paler tones with the 
 record of some ceremonial occasion, in which the two principal 
 personages, male and female, are seated, with an attendant in 
 waiting on each according to sex and standing behind the chair, 
 '3 (5 J) "' while a person appears before them standing on a blue carpet, 
 
 and several other figures stand giving attention nearby. 
 Through a window are seen sea billows and low-hanging clouds, 
 and on the reverse are banana trees and rocks. Crenelated 
 shoulder and base borders, with a circlet of filleted emblems about 
 the neck. Has carved teakwood hat-shaped cover and stand. 
 
 Height, 13 inches. 
 
 310 — Gigantic Double-gourd Blue and White Vase {Ming) 
 
 Stone-weight sonorous white porcelain, decorated in cobalt-blue 
 with the use of deeper blue outline with bamboo and pine trees, 
 blossoming rock-peonies and chrysanthemums, between complex 
 borders of geometrical lines and foliations — the principal central 
 border having foliate medallions on a hexagonal lattice effected 
 with white reserve. Has stand. 
 
 Height, I814 inches. 
 
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 311 — Tall Ovoidal Blue and White Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With full neck and flaring lip, on slightly spreading foot. Painted 
 in varied tones of cobalt-blue with conventional lotus scrolls and 
 / / '' ' archaic forms of the phoenix, conventionalizations of the bat, and 
 
 streamers interwoven with the swastika symbol, in manner char- 
 acteristic of the period, under a crackle glaze. 
 
 Height, 28 inches. 
 
 312 — Grand Blue and White Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Tall oviform, with hat-shaped cover. Elaborate decoration, 
 finely painted in brilliant cobalt-blue, of garden and domestic 
 ^ scenes and the representation of a tourney, within four upright 
 
 flf^ panels ; borders and bands of scepter-head scrolls, gadroons and 
 
 floral medallions. The cover decorated with numerous ornaments 
 known as the "Hundred Antiques." (Slight repair at lip.) 
 
 Height, 44 inches. 
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813 — Grand Blue and White Temple Jar (K'ang-lisi) 
 
 Oviform witli hat-shaped cover. The entire body embraced within 
 a profusion of blossoms, stems, leaves and foliar scrolls, between 
 Q " a base border with petaled ornamentation in reserve and a deep, 
 
 foliated shoulder border also with reserve ornament ; the neck 
 and cover similarly adorned, and the cover surmounted by the 
 figure of a lion in carved wood, gilded. 
 
 Height, 35 inches. 
 
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 BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAINS 
 
 ;314 MiXIATCEF, Bl.I'K ANIl WniTE SnFFF JaI! ( ( 'Illc/I-I IIIU/) 
 
 Painting, a lone fisliLTnian seated against a tree. Has stand. 
 
 315 — S.MALL Blue and Wiiitk Bottll-shai'ed \ask ( R'aiig-hsi) 
 
 Bands of foliations and fret worked in the 
 paste and develoj)ed with two shades of 
 blue and reserve. Has stand. 
 
 Tliight. :3 iiirln-s. 
 
 316 — MixL\TrRE Blue axd White Sxt-ff Jab 
 wrrH Si'oox {Cliicn-hinr/) 
 
 Decoration, a figure approaching a sage 
 among pine trees. Has stand. 
 
 317 — Bi.T'E Axi) White ^Mixiatcre Bottle 
 ( K\iug-hsi) 
 
 Decor/itioiis, dark blue hand with white dia- 
 mond reserves, and light blue swaving 
 flowers. Plas stand. 
 
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 318 — MixiA-rruE PiLGKi.M Bo-r-ri.E A'ase (ili"uii'hiu(j) 
 
 Painted with sages under trees to whom hearers approach, one 
 bringing a goose. Scrolling outworks for shoulder-handles mod- 
 eled in fine relief in the j)aste; the haiuiles broken off'. Has stand. 
 
319 — Blte axd White Globular Snuff Bottle (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Painted with a score of figures, in sundry' attitudes; ivory-white 
 with a liffht brown crackle. Has stand. 
 
 320 — Blue axd White Sxuff Uottle {Cliicn-Jung) 
 
 Painted in co))alt blue with Pu-lions antl the brocaded ball. 
 Stopper. Has stanel. 
 
 321 — BoTTLE-FOUJi Blue axd White Sxuff Jar (Cliicn-hing) 
 
 Decoi'ation, a four-clawed dragon after the 
 sacred jewel among cloud and flame scrolls, 
 with another dragon emerging from the roll- 
 ing waves below. Has spoon and stand. 
 
 Height. 3 inches. 
 
 322 — (>)uAi)nAXGULAR Br, IE Axn White Sxuff 
 Jai! (C'h'ien-hing) 
 
 Decoration, landscapes Avith pavilions, and 
 clouds. Has carved stand. 
 
 323 — Blue axd White Cyi.ixdruat, J.\r (C'h'icn- 
 huig ) 
 
 A personage on horseback followed bv an 
 
 attendant is being received bv two conical- 
 
 liatted figures outside a paAilion gate in a 
 
 Six-character mark of C'h'eng Hua. Has stand. 
 
 Hiiqht. 3 inches. 
 
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 321 — Sm,\ll t'YLixDKK ai. ( I. u i)-si 1 A p ko Jar (C'hlcu-hing) 
 
 Decoration, two figures appearing before a sage, in two shades 
 of blue. (Kepairetl.) Has stand. 
 
 Height, 3 inches. 
 
 325 — Blue axd ^^'HU^E Cylixdrkal Salts Bottle (K\iiig-lisi) 
 
 With hinged metal cover, rcpotis.sc. Decoration, blossoming 
 shrubs and bvitterfly. 
 
 Height. 3'4 inches. 
 
;5'2(i--'r\VH Hm-K ami \^'|MT1^ \ASh:s (K\lll<l-llsi 
 
 ()\(ii(l with IiuIIkius neck. P.'iiiihd in two 
 shades of bhiL' witli alteriiutiiif)- ixndaiit and 
 upspi-inoino- hands or hoi-dcrs of fohations, 
 si'paratrd hy uhitr iTS(_T\'r and connected hy 
 Hnks of })hie. Ha\e stands. 
 
 Hri(,hl. ay.; mid 3"/4 ilulu'S. 
 
 3iJ7 S.MAI. I, CyI.IXDKK .\1. Bl.TK. AND WllITF. BoTTI.E 
 
 ( y ling ChciHj) 
 
 Decorated with kvlins in various attitiules and 
 scrolls. On the foot, six-character mark of 
 3-'() Yunii- Cheiic. Has stand. 
 
 3i28 — ^IixiATTUK C'yt,ixi>ric.\t. Bltk .\xi) Wiirri-: J.\u (Yinig C'lu'iig) 
 
 Decorated witli fabled monsters in two tones of blue. Four 
 characters on the foot. Has stand. 
 
 329 — S.-\iALi, Cylixdhicat, Bm-k Axii Whtik Borri.K (i'h'ini-huig) 
 
 Decoration, a demon riding a horse, with landscape. Five-legged 
 stand. 
 
 Jliiijht. 3 iiirlif'f<. 
 
 330 — Blt'e axi) WfUTK Cyi.ixdrkal Jar (Yung C'lu'ng) 
 
 Milk-white glaze; tive-chiwed dragon and the flaming jewel in 
 sapphire-blue. Stopper with spoon. Has staiul. 
 
 Height. 'A'/., inclws. 
 
 331 — Bi.i'K AXI) WHrri-; C'yi.ixdkicai. Sxt-ff Jar {C'hlen-lang) 
 
 Five-clawed dragon pursuing the flannng jewel abo\'e leaping 
 waves. ]\Iatt surface. Has stand. 
 
 332 — Hk\ac;oxai- Blik axu Wjcite Jar (Yung CItnig) 
 
 Cream-wliite, painted with some dozen figures engaged in a cere- 
 mony. Four characters on glazed foot. Has st;ind. 
 
 Helglil, 3 iitclics. 
 
333 
 
 334 
 
 335 
 
 333 — Si\-sn)Ki) Ovii-ouTM Ri.ri-; AMI Wiirri', Jar {Yinn/ (lu'iuj) 
 
 WiHi f(lfri-s rdiiiidrd. ( 'tifr-iiii-liiif <t\;v/.l- ci'.-ifkled in deeper tone. 
 
 Fainted witli tweiNC fif^ures ent;vi£)-e(] in ceremonial ohserx'.'inces ; 
 
 one liolds a hii'd perelied on Ins extendi'd arm. Four characters 
 
 on tile glazed foot, lias stand. 
 
 lI('Hj}il , 31 ;. iiirhes. 
 
 334 — Hi.ri-, A\i> \\'iini': Sxrii- .Iak ( )'iiii(/ Chnu/) 
 
 Oxate, «iHi all-o\'er decoration of di-af^ons amone- waxes and floral 
 sci'olls. ('arx'cd stopper x\iHi spoon. On tlie foot .a di'a^on in 
 lilue under tlie i>l.i/e. \ eji-etaliie-ix oi' v carxcd st/md. 
 
 335 — Cv i.ixiiKK Ai, ]{li !■; .\Mi W'liiri: Sxni' .Iak {Cli'iiii-lini(/) 
 
 l''ix'e-clau('d drae-on mi dai'k lilue and the flaming jewel oxer an 
 5^ alhpervadnii^ f^-roiuid of flower scrolls in pali' iilue. l''our char- 
 
 acters on the glazed foot. Has carxed stand. 
 
 Iliighl , 31 :, inrhi's. 
 
 336 — Alixrx'rntii ( '-i i.ixdiik a 1, Hri 1; .xxn W'urii: dxii (Yiiikj (Iu'ik/) 
 
 Decoi-at ion, a landscape xsitli fie-iires in a summerliouse. On the 
 
 toot a liall-lengUi "Lone' I'",|iza."" lias stand. 
 
 From the A. I). Startseir (dllection. New \'o|-k, IDOf. 
 
337 — Smalt. Blue a^d White Cup 
 
 Semi-eggshell, trnnslucent porcelain, the white glaze crackled in 
 fine brown lines, decorated with two Fu-lions executed in varying 
 ' tones and reserve. Four characters on the crackle-glazed foot. 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 338 — OvoiDAL Blue axd White Jar {Yung Cheng) 
 
 Decorated with five-clawed dragons in the air amid cloud-scrolls, 
 7 — and midst waves of the sea encircling the base. 
 
 Height. 3 inches. 
 
 339 — Cylindkical Blue and White Sxuff Jar {Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Crackled glaze ; figure of one of the exalted, and emblems, in 
 varied tones of blue. Inscription in six characters near the shoul- 
 der. Has stand. 
 
 Height, S'/i inches. 
 
 340 — Blt'e and White Cylindrical Jar 
 
 Pale cafe-au-lait glaze with fine crackle. A man stripped to 
 // — the waist and with arms pinioned is about to have his head 
 
 chopped off, two executioners being present and the personage 
 who has ordered his death standing by with another who seems 
 forced to be a witness. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 3 inches. 
 
 341 — Octagonal Blue and White Snuff Jar {Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Conventional water plants on each face and on the shoulder five 
 flying bats — symbols of happiness. Crackled glaze. jNIctal rim. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 342 — Blue and W^hite Oviform Jar {Yung Cheng) 
 
 Crackled glaze ; painted with four figures engaged in a ceremony, 
 \-- _ and a young woman looking on from within a window. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Height, 314 inches. 
 
343 — Blue ax]) White Bei,l-shaped Cup (K'arig-lisi) 
 
 Crackled in brown lines and painted 
 with the four-clawed dragon and the 
 phoenix, emblems of the Kmperor and 
 Empress, between narrow Greek-fret 
 borders. The crackled glaze extends 
 throughout the interior of the cup and 
 underneath the foot, where there is an 
 apocryphal six-character mark of 
 C'h'eng Hua. Has elaborateh' carved 
 stand. 
 
 ■Hi — Bei'e axi) WiriTE Cyeindricae Sxuff 
 Jar (Ch'icn-Jung) 
 
 Dragon and phienix amid fire and cloud 
 
 scrolls painted in brilliant blue over 
 
 rolling l)illows. Stopper and spoon. 
 
 343 Has stand. 
 
 ntif/hl. 31/4 Inches. 
 
 34.5 — Cylixdkk'.ve Bete axu WurrE Sxeef Jar (Ch'icn-hing) 
 
 Cafc-au-l((it crackled glaze, extending underneath the foot, which 
 
 bears a l)lue seal. Numerous figures finely penciled in a group 
 
 abovit a banana tree. Stopper and spoon, the spoon inscribed. 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 Heiglit, ^'•/^ inches. 
 
 346 — Bei-e axii WitrrE 0\ieor.m Crackeed Sxeef Jar 
 
 Conventionalized spread blossoms form medallions amid fine 
 scrolls. Stopper and spoon. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 31,4 inches. 
 
 347 — Beee axi) WiiErE Pear-shaeed Salts Bottee {K'aiig-Ji.fi) 
 
 A^'ith engraved metal mounting. Decoration, the "Ijange Liisen" 
 and jars of jilants. Hinged dome-cover. 
 
 Height, 3% inches. 
 
 \' :> 
 
 348 — Bei'e AXI) WMErE Cee ( K'atig-h.si) 
 
 Clear tr.airsjucent ])orcel,'iin of semi-eggshell fineness, ornamented 
 on exterior .and interioi- u ith women amusing themsehes with 
 frolicking dogs. Single-character mark unilerneath bottom. 
 
 ]>i(nnclei\ 3'4 inches. 
 
349 
 
 Ulii-: axi) WniTK Mixta rntK Uosk ,Tau with ('o\-i:i! (Clilcn- 
 
 Iltliq) ,, -• ,1 ■ 1 r,il ■ 
 
 rjO-n--t()rin, the c-oxcr jjutccu. 1 Inn, 
 semi-t ninsliu'ciit ])iirc' wliitc ])orcc- 
 liiin, (Iccorutcd witl) laiulscipe and 
 tiij-urcs iit tlie watiTside, and a man 
 fisliino-; tlie c()\er similarly treatt'd. 
 Has stand. 
 
 350 — Bi.ri-; Axi) Wiiitf. Reticui.athd 
 Cvi' WITH l)ori!i,i-. Body (K'atig- 
 hsi) 
 
 The outer body pierced in a broad 
 lattice band between a concatenated 
 scroll base border and a border of 
 lesser scroll beneath the everted 
 rim, the lattice left wliite. The 
 349 entire interior of the inner, solid 
 
 body of the cup spread witli a con- 
 ventional decoration in cobalt-blue with reserve. Underneath the 
 foot, a bat symbol of happiness within a double ring. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Diameler. 3',4 iiirhes. 
 
 .351 — Blt'k AXI) White Retictt.atk C'rr ( K'ang-hsi) 
 
 On a short circular foot ; oviform, e\'ertintr at the rim. Decorated 
 between foliate and grill borders with five reserved medallions 
 S^'y painted in seascapes, the spaces between the medallions pierced 
 
 in the form of a lattice of interwoven circles. The biscuit ex- 
 posed in a fine line just beneath the rim and another at the foot. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Diameler, 3i/, inches. 
 
 352 — Eggsheli, Crp { K'aiifj-lisi) 
 
 Delicate, translucent hard-paste vibrant jjorcelain, painted in 
 cobalt-blue with a kneeling figure making an offering to a rishi. 
 5-1, an attendant standing by. On the reverse, an inscription in 
 
 twenty-one characters, with seal signature. Mark, the six char- 
 acters of C'h'eng Hua ( ai)ocryphal ) ; pr()bal)ly Yung Cheng. 
 Has five-legged stand. 
 
35.'3 — 15i.rK Axi> Whitk Rotgk Box (K\ing-h.si) 
 
 Shullow circular foiin witli expanded sides and flat cover. On 
 tlie shoulder a foliated border. On the cover, penciled in pale 
 cobalt-blue, one of the Genii crossing a turbulent sea on the 
 branch of a dead tree. On the foot, six-character mark of 
 ("ireng-hua ( ap(jcry})hal) . Has stand. 
 
 854 — WurjEit's Blt'e axd White Water Jar {Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 Thin white porcelain, in semi-globular form, painted witli a land- 
 scape and a fisherman fishing, in bright blue. Has stand. 
 
 iirio — C'Yr.ixDKicAr, Bi.i'E AND Whitf. ^'AsE (Cli'icn-luHfj ) 
 
 With I'ounded shoulder contracting to a short neck. Orna- 
 mented with a grou]) of sages under a pine tree discussing the 
 jjHng-jfm symbol on an unfolded scroll, ex(|uisitely penciled in 
 cobalt-hhie of \aried tone, the fflaze disclosing crackle in light 
 
 ^ o o o 
 
 l)ro« II lines. Has stand. 
 
 Jleiflhl. 4 inches. 
 
 3.56 — Paii! Bi.TK .\xi) White Sjiai.i, Ix\-ertei) Pear-shate Jars 
 ( ( liliii-linif/ ) 
 
 With bulging shoulder and broad 
 foot, :uk1 teak caps. Lummous glaze 
 (jf milk-white, ami decoration of 
 clu>ters (if pomegranates on their 
 stems or b.ranches in vari-toned bril- 
 liant blue. On carved stands with 
 five cabriole leirs. 
 
 •5.")T — ()\'iF()R.-M Br, IE Axi) White ^'ase 
 ( K'lnig-hsi ) 
 
 With spreading foot and lip and 
 sknder neck. Decorated with house- 
 hold turiii.sliiugs and ornaments in 
 brilliant blue. I las stand. 
 
 JJiinJil. I hn'hts. 
 
 'i:>r, 
 
 !35iS — ]5i,ri'; ,\xi) \A'niTi-. 15()T'|'i,i>sii-\i'i:i) \',\si-: ( h",i iig-Ji.si) 
 
 ^^'itll ciri-ular IkhIv and tall slim neck. Dec(u-;ition, chrvsantlie- 
 niiiiii s^-rolls, paliiiatioiis .■uid borders in cobalt-bhie. Has stand. 
 
 Iliiijhl. [V"\ inches. 
 
359— Et.i 
 
 Bl.l'K ANIl WillTE JaK ( h'\llUJ-llsi) 
 
 On sluirt I'ircular fodt. Drcoi-att'd with two st'.-itcd ladies at a 
 table ami t'on\ eiitidiial aeees.sories. lias stand. 
 
 lle'Kjhl. ;!i/j inches. 
 
 360 — BiA'F. Axn Wiiri-i-. UoiuiE Box and {'o\Kit (C'li'ieii'lnng) 
 
 (."oiiipressed spherical form, parted e(|uatoriaIl y to form the cover. 
 Decorated in brilliant blue with lantlscape and water scenes and 
 two fiii-ures driving a bullock or a water buffalo across a bridge. 
 Has stand. 
 
 3(jl — Bi.rt; Axii Whitk Bird Sf.hd Ctp (Cliu'n-huuj) 
 
 '-J^^lli.'k'/?-' 
 
 31(1 
 
 With pierced teakwood cover. 
 C'ircuhir witli sliglitly swelling 
 sides. Thin, light porcelain, the 
 so-called "soft-paste," painted 
 with a distinguished personage, 
 seated, resting beneath a tropical 
 tree and surveying the landscape, 
 an attendant sitting nearby. On 
 the side two parallel I'ings of 
 cvlindrical section, forming a 
 handle. Has stand. 
 
 362 — Six Blte and White Deep Curs 
 WITH SArcEus (K^ing-hsi) 
 
 Decoration, "Lange Tjiisen'' and 
 various entertaining musical 
 ladies, with flower sprays and pet animals. 
 
 363 — Sjiale Bi.i'e and White Jak with ('o\ek (C'lricn-lung) 
 
 Ovoid ginger-jar form. Four ferocious, fire-breathing, five- 
 
 jT. clawed dragons disport in the air over a billowing ocean, the 
 
 whole vigorously executed in cobalt-blue beneath a brilliant 
 
 glaze. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 3% inches. 
 
 36-i — Smali- Bei:e and White Jar 
 
 With carved teakwood cover. Squat body contracting to a 
 broad mouth, decorated with a floral-scroll band and two borders. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Diameter, 3 inches. 
 
365— Blue 
 
 White Rouge Box 
 
 Compressed spherical form on 
 short foot, the bowl decorated 
 with rolling and leaping waves 
 and the cover with five-clawed 
 dragons at their familiar pursuit 
 amid fire and cloud scrolls. Bril- 
 liant glaze, crackled; over the in- 
 terior and the foot a cafc-au-lait 
 crackled glaze. Four cliaracters 
 on tlie foot. Has stand. 
 
 Dknneter. 3 Incites. 
 
 366— Bi.i'E 
 
 White ('yi.ixdrical Rougk Box (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Of cheese-box form, split cquatoriall_y, making cover and box of 
 equal dimensions. The top of the cover white, with a pronounced 
 crackle, the sides and exterior of the bottom coated with a cafe- 
 au-lait which is carried througiiout tlie interior of the box, where 
 the crackle is of smaller spaces. Decorated on top and bottom 
 with coastal views. Has stand. 
 
 367 — B[,ii: Axi) WiiiTK Jak w rrii Tkakwood C'ovkk (C'liit'it-hing) 
 
 Bodv lightlv expanding to an abrupt shoulder of very slight in- 
 cline. Adorned in hrilliant blue with a five-clawed dragon grasp- 
 ing for the jewel of onmipoteiice, in the air, while portions of the 
 body of another dragon are seen projecting above the waves of 
 a turbuli'nt sea. On the shoulder, fire and cloud scrolls, the fire 
 scrolls in dark blue, the clouds in pale cobalt. 
 
 Diamcler. 31'^ inchi'S. 
 
 368 — Bi.i'E AND White C'o\ei!et) Cv\> on Swektmeat Box (Ch'u'n- 
 
 I'Ulf/) 
 
 Ovoid, A\itli donie-covrr. The entire top of the co\'er occupied 
 by a coiled dragon ,imid intricate scrolls finely jienciled, its rim 
 rescrxed in a ci-eamy-yellow crackled glaze: on the bowl sea waves 
 and a ciifc-iiii-hiit crackled glaze wliicli continues under the foot, 
 with a similar gl.ize in the interior of both cup and cover. Hsiian 
 Te mark (apocryphal). Has stantl. 
 
 Diameter. 3 iiiclies. 
 
3fi9 — Bite axd Whitk Rot rT,K-KOi(,\r A'ase (Chlcii-hiiu/) 
 
 y:Jk^-: tV^tc^n 
 
 i^. 
 
 Low bull)ous body .■iiid tall neck; (Iw'o- 
 ratt'd with conxentional floral scrolls, 
 borders and palniations. Crackled fi-lazc. 
 Has stand. 
 
 870 — Elongated Ovoidat^ Blue and White: 
 \'ase (Cli'icn-liiiHj) 
 
 Comcntional dccoi-ation of ti'ccs and 
 plants, and a butterfly. Crackled glaze. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 371 — ]?LrE AND WfnrE \'ase {C'li'icii-hnifj) 
 
 Cup-sliaj)e body on ju'destal foot, sloping 
 
 shoulder, and neck ex])an(ling into a 
 
 bulbous lip. Conventional decoration of sci'olls ami foliations, 
 
 with palniations about the neck. (Kepaii'ed.) Has car\ed 
 
 stand. 
 
 IJi/ight, 5'/_, inches. 
 
 
 369 
 
 372 — Bltte axd White Co\'ered Box (C'h'ien-Iiiiig) 
 
 Oviform with flattened top. Decorated with foliated scroll 
 borders and a close chrysantheniuni scroll on the co\cr. Glaze 
 shows a spacious cr;ickle with a smaller crackle on the foot. 
 
 Diameter, i incites. 
 
 SIS — Blte axd White Shai.eow Dish (CVicn-lung) 
 
 Expanding and folding slightly inward again to a thin lip about 
 the wide mouth. The exterior bears two borders, the interior 
 of the bottom a four-clawed hornless dragon with cloud and flame 
 scrolls. Crackled glaze extending under the foot. 
 
 Diameter, 5y^ incites. 
 
S'V 
 
 ST-i — Blue axd White Coupe (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Inverted bell-shape on a pedestal and 
 convex foot, with rudimentary side- 
 handles in the form of the elephant- 
 head with ring, modeled in relief 
 under the glaze. The glaze, both on 
 exterior and interior, with a pro- 
 nounced crackle in brown lines. The 
 decoration, a Fu-lion and a flourish- 
 ing tree in brilliant blue. Has in- 
 laid stand. 
 
 Height. 3^4 i"'''"'S- 
 
 yTo — 0\iFOR:\r Blue and 
 ( K\nig-lisi) 
 
 White ^'ase 
 
 Contracting gracefully and expand- 
 ing slightly to a spreading foot, 
 37+ with flattened shoulder and a short 
 
 neck finishnig in a metal rim. 
 Decoration, a lady on horseback holding a musical instrument, 
 accomj)anied bv a man and two women, one of whom bears 
 an opened umbrella; penciled Avith a fine ])recision in cobalt-blue 
 
 with delicati 
 Has stand. 
 
 shading. Crackled glaze, extending to the foot. 
 
 Hiiglif. I';, inches. 
 
 376 — Oaoidal Blue and AVhite Jar {C'li'icn-huig) 
 
 On convex foot : with carved teakwood cover. Decorated with a 
 
 land-and-seasca])e, pavilions, mountains and two bowing figures. 
 
 Crackled glaze. Has stand. 
 
 Hi'igiif, 4V2 inches. 
 
 -? n S'^ 
 
 n i ^ 
 
 \\0 
 
 ;3T~ — Blue axd White Doi-hle or Coalescext Vase (C'h'icn-Iung) 
 
 In the form of two incomplete ({uadrilatei'al vases united in one 
 body. Spreading foot, tall neck and short everted lip. Decora- 
 tion, the plurnix and dragon, three borders, and on the neck 
 alternate long and short ])ahnations. Small elephant-head loop 
 side handles. Has stand. 
 
 Height , 5^ '.. inches. 
 
 378 — Blue and White Globular Jar (K'aiig-Ji.si) 
 
 Ornamented all around the bodv in brilliant blue on a milk-white 
 ground with objects of household atlornment, a fan-shaped medal- 
 lion with a bird singing on a branch of the mci, and symbols. 
 Apocryj)hal mark of Chia Ching. Has carveti stand. 
 
 Height. 3 incites: dimneter. 414 inches. 
 
!579 — Bin-, A\M) ^^'lll■^l-■, l?ri,iiors ^'Asl<■, {Tiio l\iiiiii(/) 
 
 Mvcuvvlu^ to .1 lit;litl_v spreudin^ lip; 
 
 short i-ircular foot. Of ovntly niniplcd 
 
 surfiicc ;ui(l ni-a\'-u In tc i^'l.'i/.c, the dc^corji- 
 
 tioii, in two shiuk's of .-i brifj-ht hhic, u 
 
 liillsidt' h'indsc;q>c w itii surges .'uid uii ;it- 
 
 tondaiit uiuKt .i pine ti-cu, .'ind three g'oats 
 
 near by. Has stand. 
 
 Iliiijiil. .V;4 inches. 
 
 ;}8()— Ri.r 
 
 ^^'ll^|■|•; S(irAr IJi'.a 
 
 ( 'on\'entional form, rechiced to cup size. 
 Decoration, scroll and foliate l)orders and 
 palniations in dark blue on cream-white. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Heighl . \-\''.. im-Jiex: illiimi'ler at lip, 4:\'.. indies. 
 
 379 
 
 381 — Bi^i'E AXD White Vase (Earl// C'h'icn-lung) 
 
 Elongated ovoidal with truncated neck. Cream-white with brown 
 crackle: painted in cobalt-blue with a lantlscape and figures. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 IfeifflU. ;5% ini-lies. 
 
 SHil — Bli"e axij White ()\'oii)AL ^'ASE {i h'lcn-luny) 
 
 On pedestal-convex foot, with short, contracted neck and flanged 
 lip. Decoration, on a creamy ground ^vitll what has the appear- 
 ance of being a more or less incidental crackle, a spotted stag and 
 a pine tree — emblems of longevity. Has stand. 
 
 I-Iei(/lif, 7 inrhes. 
 
 38.'3 — Blee AXD White A'ase {Cliicn-luiuj) 
 
 Cup-shape, on convex foot, with abrupt, sloping shoulder, narrow 
 
 neck and slightly spreading lip. Covered with a conventional 
 
 decoration of the chrysanthemum scroll, ])etal borders and pahna- 
 
 tions. Has car\ed stand. 
 
 Height, 7 inches. 
 
384 — Sectional Cylindrical Blue and White Box (Ch'icn-Iung) 
 
 In four compartments lifting off one another, for different kinds 
 
 of sweetmeats or toilet requisites. Slightl}' crackled glaze. 
 
 Decoration, conventional chrysanthemum scrolls. (Cover-section 
 
 repaired.) 
 
 Heigltt. 474 inches. 
 
 r 1/ 
 
 38.5 — Pair Bli'e and ^^'HITK Inflated Ovoid V.\ses (K'ang-lisi) 
 
 The bulbous bodv on sliort circular foot 
 spun to ji slender short neck ending in a 
 \QY\ slightly spreading lip. Decoration, 
 in cobalt-blue with reserve, conventional 
 scrolls and foliations in medallion bands 
 and l)orders : on tlie neck ;i reticulation 
 witli foliate interruptions. ]\Iark. a ))lue 
 
 leaf. (Repaired.) 
 
 Hiifjht, 71 o invhra. 
 
 :386— Bi 
 
 ^^'UITE CVLIXDRICAL JaR 
 
 38,5 
 
 Gr.'iv-A\ hite glaze finely crackled in soft 
 brown lines, foot and intei-ior included. 
 Decoration, a sage beneath .a pine tree 
 receiving a gift from a Ijearer who stands 
 in front of him beside a table. Has >tand. 
 
 Hiifjht. 4% inrliix 
 
 I J ^ 
 
 387 — OvoiDAL Bltk, axii A\'iiirE Jar (C'iriiii-liing) 
 
 V^'hh triiiu-ated neck and short steep slioulder, and tajiering 
 slifi'litlv to a. Hat foot. The creamv-\\ hite ahize showinfi- a bold 
 crackle 111 brown lines, tJie decoration three iroats in different 
 
 tones of blue anions rocks. Has stand. 
 
 Hr'iqltt. 1^ niches. 
 
 It 
 
 388 — OviFoii.M Bi.TE Axi) White A'ase {C'h'ii-ii-hnig) 
 
 With high shoulder, t.'ipering gently, and Avitli very slightly 
 spreading foot. Cr.ickled glaze; decoration, a seasliore landscape 
 with sailboats ;ind small figures. (Foot and lip repaired.) Has 
 carved stand. 
 
 Jliight, G^''^ Inchis. 
 
389 Bn'F. AND WniTK GAltXITrUE OF YwK PlF.CK.S (K'lUig-llsi) 
 
 (A) Tliree Blue and ^A'liitc ()\oid J.irs A\itli Covers. .Alilk-wliite 
 porcelain, adorned with chrysanthcnium and other sprays in l)lue, 
 between deep, elaborated foliate l)oi'ders at shoulder and base 
 which are in blue with white reser\e. Have stands. 
 
 Htighl, 514 inches. 
 
 (B) Two Blue and White Cylindrical ^^■^ses with Narrow Flanged 
 Foot and Beaker-shaped IJglitlv-tlaring Lip. Faiibellished with 
 sundry foliations in brilliant blue with white reserve, the major 
 ones pendant and upsjiringing Ijetween an inverted crenelated 
 rini-border and rings above a hatch ))order at the base. The 
 white glaze applied also to the interior, with an interim ex- 
 posing the biscuit just within the lip. 
 
 Iliigltt . 5' :, iiiclies. 
 
 390 — Blue axd White Ovoid Jar (Ch'tcn-Iung) 
 
 Full-bodied witli short neck. Creamy-white, slightly rum})led 
 surface; decoration, a four-footed monster Avith dr.igon's head 
 and kj'lin's tail, chained to a pillar among rocks, and o\'crhead 
 two flying bats. (Tip repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 Ilehiht, 714 incheit. 
 
 .S91 0\-OIDAL-CYJ.IXDI!IfAI, BfI'E AXD ^^'H^rE \'asF. {ill'lcilAung) 
 
 Witli sliort, steeply sloping shoulder and truncated neck, and 
 
 flat foot. Soft white ground painted with the four-clawed 
 
 dragon and flaming jewel, and three bat-sjmbols of happiness. 
 
 (Repaired.) Has carved stand. 
 
 Ilciillil, !)!/, inches. 
 
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 jy 
 
 392 — Blue and White Vase (K\mg-hsi) 
 
 
 39;? 
 
 Pear-shape with broad neck, on deep, 
 
 spreading foot. Bold ornamentation of 
 
 chr_ysanthemums and scrolls in light 
 
 cobalt-blue with reserve, a heavy foot 
 
 border and a light scroll border under 
 
 the lip. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 814 birhes. 
 
 ;393 — Bi,TF. AXD WurrK Cylixdekal Jar 
 ( Ch'icn-lung ) 
 
 With short contracted neck and foot; 
 
 wide motith. Crackled glaze: decoration, 
 
 a lone fisheriiian under a tree, fishing. 
 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Ilrighl. lii^ inches. 
 
 ;394 — Br.TE AXD 'VA'jnTE Crackled Globelar 
 Bottle ( K\nig-hfii) 
 
 The entire surface crackled in brown 
 lines, gL'ize and crackle extended to the 
 interior of the neck and foot. Decora- 
 tion, firnilv painted, a sage under a tree, with an attendant carry- 
 ing an open parasol. Has carved stand. 
 
 Hriffht. 7^4 iiiche.^. 
 
 395 — Blte AXD WiUTK Gi^oiular Bottle (Cli'tcn-Iinig) 
 
 Det'oration, two pine trees gi'owing among rocks and a Fu-lion 
 with arclied tail standing imder one of tliem. Has carved stand. 
 
 Heir/lit. 10 iiiclie.i. 
 
 396 — Blee AXD Wnni; Cvlixdrdat, Jar { K'diig-li.si) 
 
 ^^'i^h metal rim and Avooden co\er. All-over decor.ition of boldly 
 
 executed conventional fioral scroll pattern. ]Mark, a blue leaf 
 
 within the tlouble ring. Has carved stand. 
 
 Hdghf. 10 inchvs 
 
 397 — Bi.i'E AXD White A'ase { K'nng-li.si) 
 
 Oviform, with trum])et neck and spreading foot. The entire 
 body covered with a })rofuse floral decoration in two shades of 
 blue, beneath narrow hatcli and dentated borders at the base of 
 the neck; the neck left A^hite, marked onlv l)v a pale blue ring 
 between dentated and dotted borders in deep blue. ^Nlark beneath 
 the foot, the double blue ring. Has carvetl stand. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
iJDN- Two C'vi.ixnunAi. Bi.ri-: and Wf{iti-, \'asi'.s { h"an(/-lisi) 
 
 
 Dc_H-i)r;iti'(l witli various b/iiuls ami bor- 
 ders, scrolls and foliations; in the center 
 a hand of mottled cobalt f^round with 
 Shih-LiuifT drations anionic fun<rus-forms 
 
 and nebula' in reserve. 
 
 Iliir/lit. 1 1 iiicliex. 
 
 ;599 Bl.I'K AXD WlUTK (jIXGKlt Jau (K\iiig- 
 
 hsi) 
 
 With cai-\ed openwork teakwood co\'cr. 
 Ovoid, with the "hawthorii"" decoration of 
 plum blossoms in wliite reserve on a 
 cobalt gi-ound of "crackinfr ic-e" jiattern, 
 between narrow crenelated borders, the 
 f]^round interrupted by three medallions 
 in reserve, ornamented with conventional 
 desig-ns and a landscape with firrure. 
 
 Hf'ir/ht. fl<;. infhfs. 
 
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 400 — IJi.iE Axi) Wjiitk GAKxmKi-; of Fivk I'iF.f ks (K'dug-lisi) 
 
 (A) Three Ovoid Jars with Cap Covers. Shoulder and foot 
 
 have scroll borders, and bands of ovate and attenuated palma- 
 
 tions. About the center is a broad girdle of large and smaller 
 
 medallions, with blue ground, the larger ones ornamented with 
 
 reser\'ed foliations. 
 
 Height, (r'4 inches. 
 
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 (B) Two Cylindrical ^'ases Flaring at the Lip and Foot. 
 Having the same borders as tlie jars, with an additional border 
 of angular fret at the foot. The medallions about the bod}', 
 instead of being linked, are detached and elongated. 
 
 Ileiqhl. 7 incites. 
 
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401 — Blue and White Globular Bottle-shaped Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
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 402- 
 
 With tall neck, slightly everted lip and 
 
 spreading foot. Pure white dense 
 
 porcelain decorated under the brilliant 
 
 glaze with vases of flowers, jars, and 
 
 seated maidens holding fans ; the neck 
 
 with borders and strewn blossoms. 
 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 10% i»chex. 
 
 -Blue and AVhite Globular Bottle- 
 shaped Xasy. 
 
 Companion to the jireceding. (Re- 
 paired.) Same period and height. 
 Has stand. 
 
 403 — Two Blue axji White Pruxus 
 Plates (K'(ing-hsi) 
 
 Shallow bowl with flaring rim, the 
 curve of the bowl held in reserve. Both 
 brim and bottom aix- painted with a ground of clouded cobalt- 
 l)lue, with a blossoming })rmuis tree and various branches in 
 A\hite reserve and shading o\ erspreading the bottom and en- 
 circling the l)or(lei-. Six-character mark of ('h'eng Hua within 
 
 a double hhie ring ( apocry])hal ) . 
 
 Diameter. lO',:, inches. 
 
 404— Bi 
 
 ^VI^ITE Garxituuk, of Fn'E Pieces ( K\itig-hsi) 
 
 (A) Three Blue and ^Vliite Ovoid Jars with Cap Covers. 
 Tail form with narrow mouth. A border of deep foliations 
 enclosing ornamentation in color and reserve encircles shoulder 
 and foot, the intervening liroad field carrving a few detached 
 sprays of flowers. (One co\'er rejiaired.) Have carved stands. 
 
 Height. $'4 i'lclie.'!. 
 
 (B) Two Cylindrical Blue and White ^'ases in the Form of 
 Flagons. Shallow-convex elevation, with the lip expan- 
 sion slightly exceeding the foot-spread : adorned with two deep 
 ornate borders of intricately scrolled foliations, springing from 
 the base and pendant from the rim, executed in brilliant blue with 
 white reserve and fine jtencilings. Interspaces dis])lav a single 
 flower-spray on pure wliite ground. With carved teakwood 
 stands, one inlaid. 
 
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 405 — Blue and White Tall Jar {Ch'ien-Itivg) 
 
 0\oid. With truncated neck. Clciir, vibrant white porcelain 
 with soft, creamy glaze, decorated in brilliant blue and exquisite 
 brushwork with three finely drawn figures, one a richly robed 
 female personage with a branch and something else in one arm, 
 which a man kneeling extends his arms to receive from her, while 
 back of her another man holding a ceremonial wine pot waits 
 deferentially a signal to approach. Back of and about the 
 group are various household furnishings and decorations, done 
 with the same remarkable fidelity and distinction, and above are 
 two flying-bat emblems of happiness. On carved stand. 
 
 Ileloht, 11 inches. 
 
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 406 — Blue and White Cylindkical Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With narrow shoulder, wide neck and slightly spreading lip. 
 Dense porcelain, decorated under the white glaze with peony blos- 
 soms and scrolls modeled in low relief in the paste; at foot 
 and shoulder foliated borders in blue with white reserve, on 
 the shoulder a hatch border and on the neck a circlet of palma- 
 
 tions, demi-forme. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 11% inches. 
 
407 — Blue and White Circular Jar (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With bulging shoulder, contracting slowly, and everting slightly 
 at the foot; carved teakwood cover. Conventional floral scroll 
 decoration surrounding the body; palmations pointing down- 
 ward at the base ; at the shoulder, borders of foliations and 
 
 scrolls. 
 
 Height, 8 inches; diameter, 8 inches. 
 
 408 — Blue and White Globular Bottle-shaped Vase (K'ang- 
 Tisi) 
 
 With spreading foot and tall neck, and metal base and lip.. 
 
 Decoration of household ornaments and seated ladies in six 
 
 panels, with scroll border and palmations. 
 
 Height, 12% inches. 
 
 409 — Blue and White Translucent-lattice Bowl (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Ovoidal contour with wide circular mouth. Between painted 
 
 borders of dark cobalt-blue the body of the bowl is encircled 
 
 by a wide band of "rice-grain" lattice excised from the paste, 
 
 the glaze being flowed over the apertures, which are revealed in 
 
 pale green opacity in the light, and in misty translucency against 
 
 it. 
 
 Height, 5% inches; diameter, 8% inches. 
 
 410 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Penciled in two shades of blue and outlined with the "Hundred 
 Children," the vase completely surrounded from shoulder to 
 base with merry boys at all sorts of games. Probably fifty figures 
 appear, all drawn with keen expression. Has carved teakwood 
 cover enclosing carved white jade medallion, and carved teak- 
 wood stand. 
 
 Height, 8% inches; (with cover), 9y„ inches. 
 
 411 — Blue and White Ginger Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With carved openwork teakwood cover. Ovoidal, with an elab- 
 orate decoration of numerous figures gathered about trees, in- 
 cluding graceful ladies and boys at play, in pale cobalt and 
 brilliant sapphire-blue, with the pigment in places tending toward 
 green. Two of the boys have made up as a romping Fu-lion, 
 with fierce head and thrashing tail, his spinescent dorsal ridge 
 showing above the cloth which covers the boys' bodies. The 
 "head" boy peeks at a small companion from within the beast's 
 open jaws. 
 
 Height, 9% inches. 
 

 
 
 412 — Pair Blue axd Whitk Glohui.ar Bottles {K'(ing-hsi) 
 
 Ornate decoration of conventional ornaments and foliations, 
 
 carefully spaced on the white body, with successive borders 
 
 encircling tlie tapering neck, all in brilliant pigment beneath a 
 
 lustrous glaze. Have carved stands. 
 
 Height, 11% inches. 
 
 413 — Blue .axd White Ginger Jar (K\uig-hsi) 
 
 Dense, heav^' porcelain in ovoid form, painted in glowing color 
 
 under a brilliant glaze with some thirty figures, including women 
 
 and boys, on some ceremonial occasion before a large, important 
 
 personage with an attendant behind him fanning him. Has carved 
 
 teakwood cover and stfind. 
 
 Height, 8% inches. 
 
 414 — Blue axd White Gixger Jar with Teakwood Cover {K'any- 
 
 Ovoid, with a decoration of blossoming trees, rocks, and a 
 pair of birds on the wing, beneath a crenelated shoulder-border. 
 
 Height, dy., inches. 
 
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 415 — Blue and White Circular Jar (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With vermilion laccjucr rim, and teakwood cover carved in open- 
 work, with a knob-handle carved in the form of fruits, flowers 
 and the sacred fungus. Decoration, a field of "cracking ice'' 
 in glowing blue with flowering mci branches in white reserve, and 
 three foliated reserved medallions painted with tripod vases. Has 
 carved stand. 
 
 HiUjht (irith cover), ll^'j iiiclws. 
 
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 416 — Blue and White Jar {K'ang-]i.si) 
 
 Inverted pear-shape with flaring foot, decorated in brilliant blue 
 with rocks, trees, cloud scrolls, and a stag and doe and crane. 
 With carved teakwood cover, hat-shaped. Has stand. 
 
 Height of jar. 10 inches. 
 
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 417 — Blue axd White Globular ^'ase {K\ing-lisi) 
 
 With bulbous neck and deep spreading foot. The globular 
 body adorned with ovate medallions with broad stems which 
 spring from the base, enclosing vague suggestions of the fao 
 t'ieh ogre lineaments with intermingling fret and other motives 
 found in the decoration of ancient bron/.es. Lesser ovate medal- 
 lions mark the interspaces. About the bulbous neck beneath the 
 short lip, broad palmations with clouded cobalt ground dis- 
 close in white reserve further suggestions of antique bronze orna- 
 ment. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 15% inches. 
 
 418 — Blue and White Globular Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 To match the preceding. 
 
 Height, 15% indies. 
 
419 — Tall Blue axu White Vase {Wan-li) 
 
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 (Up rep;iir(.'(].) 
 
 Ovoidal, witli liigli sliouldur, contracted 
 waist and flaring foot, tall slender neck and 
 trumpet lip. On the neck two elephant- 
 iiead side-handles molded in relief, the 
 trunks forming loops. Highly conven- 
 tionalized and ornate decoration compre- 
 hending scrolls, frets ajid foliations, emblems 
 and ornaments, trotting stags, and lantern- 
 bearers and trees and rocks, the entire 
 surface of the vase occupied with the 
 various eml)ellishnients. Under the lip, in- 
 tei-rupting a border: Ta-iMiiig Wan-li nicn- 
 
 chih in blue characters. 
 
 Height, \9\'., iiirlir'.-. 
 
 420 — Cylix])RI('Al ("i,T'n-s?iA]>ED Bltte and 
 WiHTE A'ase (C'h'icn-hing) 
 
 With wide neck and everted lip. Pure 
 white, vibrant })orcclain, the glaze showing 
 a colossal crackle in pale blue lines. Deco- 
 ration, a kylin done in brilliant blue with 
 a tine mastery of the brush, glaring at an 
 elephant executed in line, his huge ears 
 like veined lea\es. Btiieath tlie liji and about 
 the foot a narrow border of Greek fret. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Height. \t 
 
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 421 — Blif. axu WurrE Tk.aii'le Jar with ^NIaxdakix C'o\ek {K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 High flat shoulder, with ovoid expansion contracting below and 
 recurving to the slightly spread foot; short neck. Milk-white, 
 adorned with sprawling figures of the Dog Fu amid free and 
 0})en ribbon-scrolls, boldly painted in transparent cobalt and 
 glowing sap])hire color, with restrained use of white reserve in 
 limning the features of the Fu. On the neck some of the 
 "Eight Precious Things"; on the cover storks and more sym- 
 bols. (Cover repaired.) INlark, a blue double ring. Has carved 
 stand. 
 
 Height, ll)i(, inehes. 
 

 42!^ — Two Blue and White Deep Plates { K'nug-lisi) 
 
 Tlie interior of tlic bottom occupied hv .-i spirited jiainting of a 
 warrior witli two swords pursued h\ another son of Mars with 
 a halberd or battle-axe, both figures on horsel)ack and each 
 accompanied by an attendant bearing a gonfalon. The same 
 motive repeated in successive sections extending o\er both the 
 rise of the bowl and the rim. On the exterior, scepter-heads 
 and sprays. Apocryplial mark of C'h'eng Hua within a double 
 ring. Have stands, or racks. 
 
 Diameter. 13'/, inches. 
 
 42.'3 — Blie and ^^'nITE Gixger Jah (K'dug-hsi) 
 
 On a brilliant blue ground marked with tlarker lines in rep- 
 resentation of cracking ice in the spring, expansive blossoms of 
 the winter-ljlooming wild plum tree are scattered in white re- 
 serve. This ornamentation is interrupted by two foliate meilal- 
 jions in reser\e enclosing paintings of a horned monster among 
 leaping and rolling waves and fire-scrolls. The white reserve 
 witliin the medallions is crackled in fine wa\ y lines, and a crackled 
 "•laze covers the interior of the jar and the foot. ('ar\ed teak- 
 wood stand and cover. 
 
 Ilcicihl. 10'-:, inches. 
 
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 424 — Blue and White Garxiti're (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 (A) Pair Blue and Wliite Ginger Jars with Covers. Decorated 
 
 in two shades of blue with lotus plants and branches of flowers 
 
 between deep shoulder and base borders of foliations with white 
 
 reserve. The covers, with Buddhistic emblems, marked by a 
 
 giant crackle which comes through the glaze, on both exterior 
 
 and interior surfaces. Have stands. 
 
 Height, 11 indies. 
 
 (B) Ovoid Blue and White Ginger Jar with Cover. On a pure 
 white ground a profuse decoration of lotus flowers and plants 
 and other floral forms, in two shades of blue, between deep base 
 and shoulder borders of blue foliations with flower and scroll 
 ornamentation in reserve. Foot and shoulder have further nar- 
 row borders. On the foot the lozenge symbol of victory from 
 
 the "Eight Precious Things." 
 
 Height, lOy, inches. 
 
 (C) Pair Blue and White Tall Cylindrical Covered Jars. With 
 narrow shoulder and flaring lip. A profusion of flowering plants 
 and branches painted in two shades of blue over a broad white 
 field, between deep borders of foliations in blue with white re- 
 serve. Shoulder, imder-Iip and base borders. ]\Iark, the 
 lozenge symbol of victory from tlie "Eight Precious Things." 
 (One repaired.) 
 
 Height, 13' ^ incites. 
 (Illustrated) 
 
 425 — Tai.t. Blue axd AVHrrE Vask (K\iucj-lisi) 
 
 With dragon handles and loose rings. Lower body ovoid, on 
 a slightly spreading foot ; narrow shoulder and full, long neck 
 with lightly spreading lip. On the neck two looped dragon- 
 head handles carrying loose rings. Decoration, on the body 
 three coiling dragons grasping a quatrefoil embracing a char- 
 acter amid fire and cloud scrolls, each arranged as a medal- 
 lion without boundary ; on the neck two flving storks with 
 branches in their beaks; borders of waves, foliations and swastika 
 and key fret. jMark of Ch'eng Hua within a double ring 
 (apocryphal). 
 
 Height, IS inches. 
 
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 426 — Blue and Wfrrn-: Beaker-siiaped \'asi-: { K'aiig-hsi) 
 
 All-over decoration of closely interlaciiiff floral scrolls, ^^ith 
 wide-spreading highly conventionalized blossoms, in contour sug- 
 gesting moths with huge wings, freely introduced — the sapphire- 
 blue in these rernark(d)le blossoms being of peculiar depth and 
 brilliancy. 
 
 Height, \S% inches. 
 
 427 — Bet'e and WjfiTE Vase (Wan-li) 
 
 Tall ovoidal bottle-form, with bulbous neck. Elaborate deco- 
 ration of five-clawed dragons pursuing the pearl of onmipotence 
 amid an intricacy of floral scrolls and blossoms, with various 
 scroll borders. On tlic bulbous neck a deep-hanging circlet of 
 jeweled pendants. At the rim is penciled Ta-jMiiicj Wnii-li nieii- 
 chih. 
 
 Height, 21 y., inrlies. 
 
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 428 — Blue axd Wiiitk Gixc.kr Jah (K'ang-hxi) 
 
 Ovoid.il, covered with a creani-wliite crackled glaze which ex- 
 tends underneath the foot and covers also the interior of the 
 rim. Thin, vibrant porcelain. Decorated with luxuriant and 
 wide-spreading growths of the tree peony in an affluence of 
 floreation. Inset in the cover is a foliate medallion of carved 
 white jade. Carved teakwood cover and high stand. 
 
 Heif/Iit, 10 inche.i; [icith stand), 15 inches. 
 
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 BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN VASE OF THE K'ANG-HSI PERIOD 
 
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 \\\i\\ t ruiiijH'|--lip|)0(l w\(\v nrck cm .iii iii\< rtcil |)(;ir-sli;i|ic(l hinlv 
 \\itli tlarini;- foot. Vuvv while poi-crl.iin paiiitid in tones of i-it'li, 
 elowiiie- blue with fienies ,-iiul landscape. ( )n the hoih' a ])ei-- 
 sonage is seen riding' .i lio|-si\ .i stati' nnihrella hoiaie nwy liis 
 head by an attendant, and others of the i-etiinie foNow , while 
 .ahead a sage st.uuls pointing the w,-i\, ,i er.iiie H\iiig over his 
 head. Abt)ve, on tile neek, figures .are seen ;it ,i writing-table 
 in a sumiiK'r liouse, .and a teiirde figure is w.ilking outside. 
 Brilliant painting with a free brush in pure tone. Mark, .a blue 
 double ring. Has carved st.ind. 
 
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 430 — Hi. IK AXD \\'HrrF. Hawthokx (iixmac J.vii ( k"iii/f/-Ii.s/) 
 
 ()vif(jriii, with short neck, ll.ard p.istt' p(U'celaiii deiairated with 
 clusters of ])runus Ijlossoiiis, outlined m reserve on a lirilli.int 
 ojjaque lilue grouiul, which is marked w ith a series of d.irktr lines 
 to represent the cracking (jf ice. Has c.ar\cd wood stand. 
 
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 4.'31 — Pair Bj.uj'. axd AVhitk Tai.i, Bi;akkks ( K'diKj-hsi) 
 
 ^^'itll a bold decoration distributed o\er the entire surface be- 
 tween narrow \\\> and Ijase borders, presenting the pliienix and 
 the kylin among tall branches of flowering trees. ^I.irkcd with 
 tlie blue doufile ring. Have carved st;uids. 
 
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 432 — Blue and White Tall Ovoidal Jar {Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 With liiirh shoulder, short contracted neck and everted lip. 
 Thin, clear, sonorous white porcelain carrying a bold, broadly 
 treated decoration of an alert kylin standing with raised paw 
 at the foot of a group of two pine trees growing among rocks, 
 the painting done in deep blue of remarkable brilliancy and ac- 
 centuated by a delicate use of white reserve in minute Heckings. 
 Beyond the trees two flying bats appear. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, IS'/o inches. 
 
 43.3 — Brilliant Blue and White Hawthorn Ginger Jar (K'ang- 
 h.n) 
 Branches of the blossoming wild prunus or winter-blooming plum 
 tree — the so-called "hawthorn" — depend from a narrow hatch 
 border beneath the cover, and in A\hite reserve embrace the body 
 of the jar o\er a luminous blue gi'ound of mingled cobalt and 
 sapphire quality, marked with the dark eccentric lines used to 
 denote the disintegration of the Avinter ice at the approach of 
 spring. The cover, of later ]ieriod, similarly adorned. Mark, 
 the blue double ring. On a high carved teakwood stand with 
 five cabriole legs. 
 
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 (A) Tlu-L'c 'J'all Oviform ,^:n■s with High Necks and Hiit-shaped 
 l'o\ors. 
 
 (li) Two Tall l?ral<rr-sha])c(l ^'a.scs with Slig-htly Spreading 
 Foot, Ivxpaiuhnt;- .Midsertioii and Tall Spreading' I.ip. 
 
 All overspread with a eoiiventional flower and leaf scrolling 
 decoration in deep blue varied by lighter tones, on a ground of 
 white reserve, between scroll borilers. On the beakei's, an ad- 
 ditional fret or lattice border within the rim. Each marked with 
 a blue leaf within the blue double i-Ing. (Show repairs.) Ivich 
 has stand. 
 
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 43.5 — Pair Blue and Wnrrr: Tejipi.e J.vus v\ rrjr II.vt-siiaped Covers 
 ( K'tnig-hsi) 
 
 Decorated under the lii'illi.ant gla/c with I'ocks and pine trees 
 and scrolling clouds, storks ,ind a spotted stag and doe. ]\Lirk, 
 a blue double ring. 
 
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 436 — Blee and White Temple Jar with Cover {K'ang-lisi) 
 
 Dense sonorous white porcelain with lustrous glaze, decorated 
 
 in brilliant blue of vai'ied tone with rocks and luxuriant pine 
 
 trees, cloud scrolls and emblems, .an amorous spotted stag and 
 
 doe, and cranes; on the cover, rocks .and trees, and two frisky 
 
 horses at largo. 
 
 Ifiiijlft, 18 inches. 
 
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 437 — TirKi;E L.vrge Deep Bj.ee .\xd ^^^IIITE Peate.s { K'ang-liai) 
 
 Known as monkey plates. From the relatively small circular 
 center and bottom of the plate, which contains two fciig-liiKtng 
 among floral sprays, the sides rise in broad spiral tlutings with 
 easy curves to the bro;idly scalloped rim. The sinuous lobes 
 thus formed decorated altern;itely with ifowei" motives and pairs 
 of monkey's in trees. On the exterior, each of the lobes car- 
 ries a large spray undei'iieath. ]\Iark, a blue leaf within the 
 double ring. 
 
 hiiniicl cr, I.')!'; inches. 
 
438 — Blve axd White Gakxituee oe Three Pieces (K\mg-hsi) 
 
 (A) Pair Tall Oviform Blue and White Jars with High Necks 
 and Hat-shaped Covers. With high, narrow shoulders, and 
 tapering graceful] v to a vcr_y slightly spreading foot. Adorned 
 with fifteen figures of the "Lange Lijscn" in three bands of 
 panels, with alternating panels occupied by sprays and potted 
 shrubs, the five "Elizas" in the uppermost band accompanied 
 by sportive boys climbing througli a balustrade. Motive con- 
 tinued on the button-topped covers, where the fair ones are 
 seated, alone. Mark, a large blue leaf within the blue double 
 ring. (One jar and both covers repaired.) Have stands. 
 
 Heiflht. Ifl'/'j 'nehes. 
 
 (B) Double-tier Blue and White ^'ase. The lower bod}', melon- 
 shaped, supporting a pear-shaped vase with wide neck. Deco- 
 ration corresponding with that of the jars. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 18^^ iiirhcx. 
 
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 439 — Taei. Bt.te axd White Beaker {K\nig-hsi) 
 
 Ovoidal body with spreading foot ; cylindrical neck with flaring 
 lip; without midsection. Sonorous porcelain with a lumuious 
 white glaze. Decoration, in brilliant hues, sages among moun- 
 tains and at the seashore, and figures in boats. ]Mark, a blue 
 double ring. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 18 inrhe.". 
 
 440 — Tai.e Bli'e axd White Beaker {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Similar to tlie preceding, with sages among mountains, pavilions 
 and trees at the seashore, Ijut with no figures in boats, and with 
 sliglitly narrower mouth. 
 
 Height. I?-', inches. 
 
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 441 — Pair Blue and Wuitk Tall ^'A.sKs (K'(tng-hsi) 
 
 C'ylindricul clulj-sliapc, witli slioi't, wick' lU't'k and Hanged lip. 
 Each displays in its white ground an elalxirate decoi-ation in 
 tones of cobalt and brilliant sap])hire-blue in\olving rocks, pine 
 trees and eiglit various figures, done with great delicacj' of 
 brush and distinction of execution. A tall Nixlti, perhaps the 
 great sage Lao Tz"u, stands at full length, leaning condescend- 
 ingly forward and holding a scepter. Before him a hooded 
 figure holds an object which may be the peach of longevity, or 
 the figure may be Li l"ic]i-kuai e\'olving from a gourd con- 
 tracted at the center the five bats emblematic of the fiyc bless- 
 ings — longe\'ity, riches, peacefulness and serenity, the love of 
 virtue, and a7i end crowning the life. At liand arc 'J'ung Wang 
 Kung and attendants. Have st/mds. 
 
 Height, 17 '/^ inches. 
 
442 — 'l\\T.i. Cyt.ixiirk Ai. Clvb-shaped Blue axd Whitr A'ase (K'lincj- 
 
 Wide l)(i(lv of clear, ^()nol■ous ])oreclain with a inilk-wliite n'laze. 
 decorated in sparkiiiifi' .saj)pliire-blue witli a mountain and sca- 
 sliore composition Inciiidinfr several figures, two of tlieni mounted 
 on asses and others walkinf^ and in a boat. On the nec]<. fret. 
 sci-oU, foliated and dot borders. jNIark, a blue double rin.i;'. 
 
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 44.'3 — C'l i.ixDUK at. ('i,r-ii-sn a i'ki) Bi.rE and WnrrF. \'ask { K'uikj-Iis'i) 
 
 Milk-white i^'laze, with a \ig'orous decoration mmutelv executed 
 in varied tones of blue representing three Fu-lions ni\ ohed in the 
 scrolled ribbons of the filleted sphere. On the neck tliree retir- 
 intj borders. i\Iarked with the blue ring. Has staiul. 
 
 Ili'lijht. lT-'4 inches. 
 
444 — Urx-shapei) ]5i.rE axu Whitk. \'a.sk (K'aiif/-lisi) 
 
 ^\ ith Ijulbous hoclv conlractinir to a hi'oad uvvk and ixciirviiig 
 in a lightly flaring li[); on a deep, slightly cMrtid foot. Fine, 
 thin, hard-paste porcelain, witli a clear hell-tone. Soft, creamy- 
 white glaze, with an elaborate decoration in varying tones of 
 brilliant blue comprehending trees, rocks and waterfalls, figures 
 conversing on broad tables of rock, a small comj)any in a ])leasure 
 barge being propelled over the water, and motives fi'om the 
 "Hundred Antiques," witli crenelated, flower-bud, hatch and 
 scroll borders. On tall carved teakwood stand. 
 
 lIcKlht. l;!;', incliix: irilli .iliilul. IS iiirlii'.i. 
 
 44.'5 — Pair Bi.rj-: axu Wiiitk TK.Mri.i-: Jaks with ('oners (K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Dense, resonant porcelain with a soft, liumiious, milk-white glaze, 
 decorated in l)rilliant l)lue with the ivimpant figures of three 
 Fu-lion.s ann'd bold ril)l)on-scrolls, besides borders and emblems. 
 On the cover three storks, with fui'tliei- ornament. (Covers 
 chipped.) IMark, a blue double ring. 
 
 IJeight, 17 tachfa. 
 
446 — Large Blue and White Ovoid Ginger Jar {K\tng-hsi) 
 
 Sonorous porcelain, coated with a milk-white glaze, on which 
 
 four deep foliate medallions extending from shoulder to base 
 
 enclose lively scenes of accomplished ladies in graceful attitudes, 
 
 playing boys and sportive figures, painted in varying tones of 
 
 brilliant blue. Unusual shoulder border in a tree motive. 
 
 Marked with the double ring in blue. With carved teakwood 
 
 cap-shaped cover. 
 
 Height, 13 inches. 
 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 447 — Large Bi-ue and White Ovoid Gixgee Jar (K'ang-hfti) 
 
 Similar to tlie preceding. Dense, sonorous, pure wliite porcelain, 
 with a luminous glaze, ornamented with four foliated panels in 
 heavy outline depicting gleeful boys at pla}' about a graceful 
 lady, the grouping in each panel differing from that of its 
 nciglibors. Mark, a blue double ring, ^^'ith openwork teakwood 
 cover. 
 
 Ileifiht. 13 inches. 
 (Illnstrated) 
 
 448 — Blue and W]nTE C'etb-shaped Vase (K'ang-h.si) 
 
 Invested with a brilliant white glaze and decorated in luminous 
 cobalt-blue with seated figures of Lu Hsing, the "Star God of 
 Rank," and Chung-li C'lTuan and Lii Tung-pin of the Eight Im- 
 mortals, painted in reser\ e panels surrounded by brocaded fillets. 
 Encircling the slioulder and neck are narrow bands of fret and 
 scepter-head scrolls. 
 
 He'iqht. 181'^, inches. 
 
 449 — Large Blte and A^'uite AVarrior Plate (K\i)ig-h.'ii) 
 
 With broad scalloped brim. Representing two figures of ancient 
 story, each v.l\]\ two swords, each attended bv a gonfalonier, 
 one, the pursuer, on a horse of solid color, the other, and pur- 
 sued, of feminine caste of features, on a piebald horse. All 
 appear in the central medallion of the interior, about which 
 are six white reserves containing alternately pursued and pur- 
 suer in the same relative attitudes, each ahvavs accompanied b^' 
 his proper ensign-bearer. On the exterior, sprays and foliations. 
 ]Mark, the six characters of C'h'eng Hua in a blue double ring 
 (apocryphal). 
 
 Dif'mefer. 15 inches. 
 
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 (A) Cram! Hliu- anil ^^■|liU• Cinder Jar. Ovoid, with a, liif;-h, 
 flat nIuiuI(1i_t. Ornate ilrta)rat ion in cohalt-hluc of \ai-ioils tf)nf.s 
 on a ncanu -w liitr around vinik'r a lii-illianl- n-la/c. l''oui- foliated 
 nu'dallions extend fiaini a double hase liordtT (|\lifc to the tojj of 
 tlie l.ody at the Hat shoulder, whii'li carries U\i) more borders. 
 The medallions, hea\ilv outlined, enclose on tli(ar ri'servcd 
 ground siu'olls, books, paA'ilions, a tie'ure ncai' a bridge, and 
 liDUseliiild ornaments, skilfully ])enciled, the composition the 
 same in each. The spaces betwa'cn the medalhons are occupied 
 bv tiower groups and sprays. On the foot, \vlthin the bkie 
 double rino-, the lozeiiije — symbol of victory — from the "Eifrlit 
 l'recn)us Thino-s." Has cai'\ed tcakwood co\ir and stand, the 
 co\er enclosini;' a carved medallion of A\ luti.' jade. 
 
 TJihihf. 11 -'i inrhfu. 
 
 (B) Large ]5lue and White Ginex'i- Jar. ()\i>idal, with carved 
 tcakwood co\er enclosino- a (.'arved jade medallion. Decorated in 
 four larg'c foliate panels with figures, pa\'ilions and ornaments, 
 the interxening spaces with the lotus and other Horal forms. 
 Four bortlers. ^lark, a filleted leaf. Has car\ed stand. 
 
 nrif/ht. liy^ inches. 
 
 (C) T^argc Blue and White Ginger Jar. Similar to the pre- 
 ceding and a companion to it. Same period and mark. Carved 
 co\XT with carved jade medallion. Has car\ed stand. 
 
 Ifiii/lit. 1 1 U, inches. 
 
 (D) Pair Blue and White Cylindrical A'ases. Slightly spreading 
 at foot and lip. Rudimentary beaker-form. Decoration deli- 
 cately penciled in cobalt-blue of figures, ornaments and cmblem.s, 
 within foliated panels, and below and betuccn the panels various 
 floral sprays. i\Iark, a filleted leaf. 
 
 Jlrii/hl. 13 inches. 
 
 (Illustrated) 
 
451 — Paik Cylixdiucal C'i-itb-shaped Elite and White Vases 
 
 Full bodied, on a low foot. Coated with a pearl-gray glaze having 
 a giant crackle, glaze and crackle continued underneath the foot. 
 Decorated on opposite faces with two Fu-lions, each with up- 
 raised paw and tail, glaring at an eagle soaring overhead. At 
 rim and foot a band of Greek-fret in reserve on a blue ground. 
 
 (Repaired at the lip.) 
 
 Height, 18% inrhes. 
 
 (in It. strafed) 
 
 452 — Tai.i. Blue axd White Beakkr-shaped \'ase ( K'auy-hsi) 
 
 The lower section of inverted pear-shape « itli slight contraction 
 and expanding foot, su})porting directly the wide cylindrical 
 neck with flaring lif). Pure white sonorous porcelain decorated 
 in brilliant sapphire and cobalt blues with jiictures of cere- 
 monial events, six figures appearing on the up})er section and 
 eight on the bodv. One of the figures below is a juggler, bal- 
 ancing on his head a mace, before an important personage over 
 whose head a peacock fan or banner is borne. Another figure 
 kneels on a rich blue carpet or fold of brocaded silk. The 
 accessories include trees, rocks and fences. Mark, the blue 
 double ring. On a car\ed and inlaid stand. 
 
 Hciffhl. ISVi inchr.s; with stand, '21 inrhi'K, 
 
 453 — ( 'yEixi>Ri('Ai, Cluh-siiapei) Blue axu White ^'ASE (K'ling- 
 h.ri.) 
 
 Brilliantly decorated in two tones of blue and efFcctively used 
 reserve with an impressive ceremonial composition involving nine 
 figures, besides hangings, clouds and landscape. An important 
 personage is attended by two mace-bearers. Before him are two 
 robed figures, facing each other at a distance of a few paces, 
 holding what might be sliort swoi'ds and might be symbols, and 
 in attitudes such that it is difficult for the Occidental mintl to 
 determine whether tliey have been commanded to ilo away with 
 themselves or are about to complete some function or ceremony 
 l)efore the mighty one, who carries a conventional leaf. On the 
 neck, scroll and foliate borders. 
 
 Height, 17|4 inches. 
 
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 454 — Ovoij) Blue axd Whiti-; .Jak with Cap-shaped Co\i:k (K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 Beautifully painted with garden scnies and graceful figures and 
 numerous varied hoj'ders in l)i-illiant coljalt-blue of rare quality. 
 Mark, a filleted leaf. Has stand. 
 
 455 — Blue and Wih-j-k 1'kmplk Jak ( K'tiiig-hxi) 
 
 Decorated under the l)rilliant glaze witli a ricli, conventionalized 
 design of pendant and swaying floral forms, and web-footed birds 
 in flight among them, in cobalt-blue of depth and transparent 
 quality. Mark, a blue ring. 
 
 Height, 13% inches. 
 
456 — Tai,l 0\ifoi{m IJi.te axi> Whitf. Jar {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Elaborate and coni])lex decoration of tioral forms, jars of plants, 
 geometrical desig^ns and landscapes, with \arious borders. The 
 tall teakwood cover carved in bold openwork with branch and 
 fruit motives. Has stand. 
 
 Hiiyhl. IS inches. 
 
 457 — Blue axd WnrrE A'ask { W(in-U) 
 
 Tall globular bottle-form with bulbous neck. Ornate decora- 
 tion in blue under the brilliant glaze, jiresenting two five-clawed 
 dragons in pursuit of the flaming jewel amid floral sprays, and 
 two phoenixes, on the body : on the neck. Buddhistic emblems 
 amid foliar scrolls, and on the bulbous lip palmations. At the 
 rim, Ta-Ming ]V(ni-U nun-chili. Botl\ this and the preceding 
 vase are of dense, heavy porcelain of the stone-weight variety. 
 
 Height. ~~\'2 inches. 
 
458 — Beautiful Gourh-shaped Vase (K'aitg-hsi) 
 
 With triple lobe. Clear white hard paste. Beautifully embel- 
 lished with sprays of peonies, chrysanthemums and lotus medal- 
 lions, numerous four-clawed dragons and leafy scrolls reserved 
 on a pulsating ground of brilliant sa])phirc-bluc. (Has been 
 broken and rejoined beneath the upper lobe.) Has carved teak- 
 wood stand. 
 
 Height, 28 inches. 
 
459 — Beautiful Gourd-shaped Vase (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 A companion to the preceding, but painted in pale cobalt-blue. 
 (The lip has been repaired with a metal rim.) Tcakwood stand. 
 
 Height. 28 inches. 
 
 460 — Large Globular Blue and Whitf, Jar (Cliia-Cli'ing) 
 
 Ovoidal contour, the mouth finished with a metal rim. Richly 
 painted in deep INIussulman blue. In one panel women are walking 
 in a garden with bo_ys, another woman watching them from a 
 window, and in a second a dignified man with attendants is 
 watching some boys at play. A third panel pictures some persons 
 crossing a bridge, one on horseback, approacliing a house, and 
 in a fourth a sage writing in a pavilion is being served with a 
 cup of tea while several other figures are seen near at hand, this 
 scene apparently being in winter-time. Floral-scroll shoulder 
 border and a paneled border at the base. Carved openwork teak- 
 wood cover with a carved medallion of white jade. ^lark, pen- 
 ciled in blue under the glaze beneath the foot: Ta-Ming Chia 
 
 Ching nieii-chili. 
 
 Ifiir/h/. U- inches: diameter. IS^A inches. 
 
 461 — Tall Bulbous Blue and WHuru \'ase (Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Body slightlv contracting from the foot, swelling gracefully and 
 receding again to a slender neck which finishes with a trumpet 
 lip. Soft white brilliant glaze, of peon d'oriinge surface; vigor- 
 ously painted in underglaze blue of rich cobalt fjuality with the 
 figure of a huge Fu-lion clutching tlie filleted ball, and a smaller 
 J\i-lion in r;niipant attitude. (Repaired at lip.) 
 
 Height. -26'''_i inches. 
 
 462 — Tall Cylixukical C'lt'b-siiaped Blue and White Vase 
 ( K\nig-]i.si) 
 
 The body exquisitely and forcefully painted in brilliant color in 
 six panels, with different motives and arranged in two tiers. A 
 swooping eagle, and a Fu-lion standing on rocks in a turbulent 
 sea, glare at eacli other, with the elusive fiaming jewel soaring 
 over the lion's head. Elsewhere the lion appears without the 
 eagle, and landscapes with figuro, and emblems and ornaments 
 from the "Hundred Antiques," occupy other of the panels. On 
 the shoulder is a lattice with medallion reserves, and on the neck 
 a succession of varying borders. Mark, a blue double ring. Has 
 stand. 
 
 Ileiqht. \!9^'i inches. 
 
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 ONE OF THREE MASSIVE BEUE AND WHITE PALACE JARS 
 
46^ — Thuk.k ^Iassink Bi.uk and "\A'hitI': Tkiwi'lk Jars — Palack 
 PiEt'Es (K"(iiig-]if;i) 
 
 Bcautit'ullv dr;i\Mi sprays of tloncrs and leaves cover Hie white 
 ground all about the body of the \ase, interrupted by four oval 
 medallions modeled in the paste and outlined with a band of 
 white reserve, eontainini;- })ortraits of AInie. de Maintenon seated 
 in different attitudes. ,\n elaborate border of foliations sur- 
 rounds the shoulder, and other bcu'ders eiieirele the neck and 
 base. The painting is in eobalt-blue of rieli ((uality, under a 
 glaze of great brilhanee. ^Mandarin covers, similarly adorned. 
 (The buttons of the co\ers havt' been rej)aired.) These three 
 jars were formerly the property of King ^^'illli;lm III of Hol- 
 land. A duplicate trio is m the Dresden ^Museum. Have tidl 
 teakwood stands « itii marble to})s. 
 
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 464 — Two Bn'E and AA'piitf. Palace Jars (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ornate decoration in rich cobalt-blue arranged in wide contigu- 
 ous bands of varied foliations, scrolls and medallions, under a 
 luminous glaze. l"he most cons|)icuous of the bands exhibits 
 foliar scrolls and tortuous archait' dragons reserved in a mottled 
 cobalt ground. Xcck encircled by ])almations. On elaborate 
 gilded bronze stands. 
 
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 465 — Large Bei'e .\nii Whej-e Fish Bowi, (K'dug-hxi) 
 
 Decorated all around in rich deep blue with carp and other 
 fishes, large and small — and a crab — swimmming in \arious direc- 
 tions and seen among flower yjetals and grasses which have fallen 
 to tlie surface of the water. Has tall teakwood stand with 
 marble top. 
 
 He'tqht, Ifli/- iiirlir.'i: dinwrtcr. '3^'/. iurJns. 
 
FOURTH AFTERNOON'S SALE 
 
 FRIDAY, I'KBRT'AUV ^7, 1!)U 
 AT THE AM KK I CAN AHT GAT.T.ERIES 
 
 UEHIXNIXU AT il.'M o'clock 
 
 Including Catalogue Nos. 467 to 637 
 
 DECORATED PLATES AND BOWLS 
 
 467 — Thkee ^NIiNiATrRF. Plates ( Yung Chctic/) 
 
 Flowers painted u\ clolicatr enamel coloi-s. Six-cliaracter mark. 
 
 468 — Four Small EggshelIj Plates (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Tree peonies and plum in blossom painted in enamel colors of 
 the famille roue. 
 
 469 — Four Smat.l Disuks (C'iricn-Iung) 
 
 Three decorated «ith huttertlies, lotuses and chrysantliennims, 
 finely painted in naturalistic colors; the other decorated with 
 fishes and seaweeds. 
 
 470 — Two Saltcers (K'ting-lisi) 
 
 Thin porcelain. Five-color decoration of floral branches and 
 border design. 
 
 471 — E<;gs([kle Pla-ll (Ch^lcn-hnig) 
 
 Dragons, j)ha'ni.xes and lotus decorated ui coral-red and gilding. 
 
 472 — Decorated Plate (Ch'icn-Inng) 
 
 TJnder-border decor/itimi of archaic winged dragons and con- 
 ventional peony in rose-color. 
 
473 — Two t'iR('ri„vit Di;kp Dishes ( Ytuig Clung) 
 
 Sonorous hard paste. Peonies and clirysantheniunis painted in 
 
 enamel color and famiUe rose. 
 
 Diameter, 8 inches. 
 
 474 — Two C'lRcri.AK Dkkp Dishes {Yung Cheng) 
 To match the preceding. 
 
 Diameter, 8 inches. 
 
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 475 — Imtkeiaj, Yei.i.ow Pi.ati; { K'ling-lisi) 
 
 Two tive-clawed dragons, tire emblenis and the sacred pearl, 
 painted in lirilliant undtrglaze hhie. Four-character and ring 
 mark underneatli the toot. 
 
 Diameter. S\/^ inches. 
 
 476 — Famiei.e Rose Plate ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 I'ree jX'onies, pheasant and other designs painted iu brilliant 
 enamel colors. 
 
 Diameter, ^■'•[^ inches. 
 
 477 — Decokatki) Plate (K\ing-h.si) 
 
 Deep form on low foot. Basket of flowers finely painted in 
 enamel colors of finiiille 'eerte. 
 
 Diameter. 9i,4 inches. 
 
•ITS— Sham, ow Howi, (I'lnnj C'lirinj) 
 
 Si'iui-<.'ii-nsln^.|| C'liiiK'so "'arden .scenes, puiiitcd in hrilliaiil iiiaiiiel 
 colors. 
 
 hlamt'lir. .> indict. 
 
 ■i79 — Smai.1, ]?ii\\ 1, (C li'i(ii-linii/) 
 
 C'oii\L'ntioii;ilizi'(l lotus ami Irat'v scrolls ]);untc(l in \\liil:i' and 
 i;Tccii enamels on a dark hlue n'round. I{esei'\es of Sansci'it 
 character in o-ildint;'. Seal mark. 
 
 1 I'm uiit rr, \ I ^ liirlie.t. 
 
 480 — C'oN-iiEKi) Bow I, (Cli'irii-linu/) 
 
 Finely })ainted decoration ni enamel colors of pomei^i'anates, 
 peaches and flowerint;' plants, on an opa(]ue tur(|uoise-L;i-een 
 ground. Seal mark. 
 
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 iSl — Pair Impeuiat, Bowi.s (Ch'icii-Jung) 
 
 Decor.ation of t'onventionali/.ed flowers and leafy scrolls in bril- 
 liant enamel colors on an Imjjerial yellow ground. Seal mark. 
 
 l)'ni)iirlev, t''^ Ini'hrs. 
 
 482 — Decorated Bowe (K'aug-h.si) 
 
 Inner and outer surfaces completely coyered with a decoration 
 in brilliant green, turquoise-blue, purple and yellow, of wild 
 hor.scs, waye designs and cloud forms and blossoms. 
 
 /Hiniii'tcr, .j\'\ iiirlirs. 
 
 483 — Shallow Bowi, (Ch'tcii-hnig) 
 
 Decoration of peach, ])omegranate and Buddha's-hand fruit, the 
 emblems of the "Three Abundances," detached blossoms and 
 symbolical l)at, painted in brilliant enamel colors on a dai'k blue 
 ground mai'ked with a reticulation of white lines to resemble 
 cracking ice. Sansci'it chai-acter-mark in yellow. 
 
 J fill IIH'I t' l\ .) illrlirs. 
 
 484 — ('o\'EKEO Bo«-E (('h'ien-liiiirj) 
 
 Outer surface decorated with numerous figures, fishes and wa\'e 
 patterns, representing ;i Cliinese legendary subject, which is 
 carved in relief and painted in brilliant enamel colors. 
 
 l>i<iiiii'ti>r. 111/, illrlirs. 
 
485 — Decorated Bowl (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Sonorous liard paste. Decoration of branches of fruits in deli- 
 cate enamel colors. Six-character mark. 
 
 Diameter, 5% inches. 
 
 486 — Palace Bowl (Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 Engraved Imperial yellow ground over which is a decoration 
 
 in brilliant enamel colors of lotus and leaf scrolls. Within four 
 
 circular panels are landscape views delicately penciled. Seal 
 
 mark underneath the foot. 
 
 Diameter, 5% inches. 
 
 487 — Pair Palack Bowls {C It'icii-hing) 
 
 Kosc-color engraved ground, witli conventional flowers and leaf 
 scrolls j)aiiited in brilliant enamel colors. Within four circular 
 reserve panels are various ornaments and symbols finely deco- 
 rated in enamel colors and gilding. On the inner surface in 
 underglaze blue are various svmbolical devices, flowers and in- 
 sects. Seal mark. 
 
 Diameter, 5% inches. 
 
 488 — Pair Five-colored Bowls {K'ang-Jisi) 
 
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 Thin hard paste. Decora- 
 tion of Cliinese ladies in a 
 garden, painted in brilliant 
 enamel colors of the famiUe 
 vcrfe. Six-character mark 
 of C'h'eng Hua. 
 
 Diameter. (> i)iches. 
 
 489 — Di:c()RATKi> ]](iwi, ((h'u'n-Jung) 
 
 Lemon-yellow ground, over which is an elaborate decoration of 
 \;irious flowers and leaf scrolls finely painted in brilliant enamel 
 colors. On the inner surface fi\e symbolical bats in coral-red. 
 Seal mark underneath the foot. 
 
 Diameter. 5'\, inches. 
 
 490 — Decorated Bowt, (Cliicn-lung) 
 
 The outer surface t-o;ited with a A\hite glaze, which is covered 
 with an engraved pattern of leaf scrolls. Decoration of flowers 
 jjenciled in delicate enamel colors. Seal m;irk. 
 
 Diameter. (J incties. 
 
491 — DiuoiiATKi) Rowi. ( h"iiii(/-li.si) 
 
 Soiiofou.s hard paste. Dcc-Dration of (li-a^-oii boats, fire rinhlcins 
 and other (lesions in imderojaze l)hie and in I'ed, oi-ceii and 
 velKiw enamels. Si\-eharaeter mark of the period. 
 
 Diiiiiii icf, (i iiu-lies. 
 
 49^^ — Pau! rAi,.\ci- BowL.s {Cirifn-hDif/) 
 
 Kno'raxed vose-color ground. Covered with flowers and leaf 
 scrolls in enamel colors and four reserve i-irtailar ]),anels filled 
 with ilowers and fruits finely ])aintcd ui enamel colors. Tlie 
 inner surface decorated in underglaze blue. 
 
 Diitiitf'fer, G iiicJn.t. 
 
 493 — Decokated Bowe (K'ung-hsi) 
 
 T h i n sonorous porcelain. 
 Decoration of branches of 
 fruits and flowers, fi n e I y 
 painted in brilliant enamel 
 colors of the fiimiUc vcrte. 
 Six-character mark. 
 
 Diami'tfr, 7 Inches. 
 
 494 — Lakge Bowe (Ch'icii-Iung) 
 
 Imperial yellow ground, over which is an elaborate decoration 
 of various flowers and leaf scrolls, beautifully^ painted in richly 
 combined enamel colors. Seal mark. 
 
 Z)iiniu'ter, 1'^/.^ inches. 
 
 495 — Decoeatei* Bowe (Chiu-Climg) 
 
 Deep rose ground, over which is a decoration of flowers and 
 leaf scrolls in various enamel colors. Four reserves of land- 
 scapes and river views. On the interior surface a floral me- 
 dallion and border. Seal mark. 
 
 Diameter, 7 inches. 
 
 496 — Decorated Bowe (K'<iiuj-hsi) 
 
 Thin sonorous hard paste. Decoration of fi\e-clawed dragons, 
 cloud forms and fire emltlems, painted in coi'al-red, ))urple anil 
 green. Borders of wave designs and fret, in green, yellow and 
 purple. Six-character mark of Hung-Chin. 
 
 Diinncler. 7y„ inches. 
 
497 — Pair Lakge Bowls {Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Sonorous hard paste. Engraved lemon-yellow ground. Four 
 circular reserve panels within which are the flowers of the four 
 seasons, exquisitely painted in enamel colors. Seal mark. 
 
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 498 — Paii! I^iPKKiAi, Bowi.s ( Yung Clu'ng) 
 
 Thin soiiordus porcelain of the shape of the famous Yung-lo 
 (140-'3-14a4) bowls. Tile outer surface decorated with two bold 
 five-clawed dragons, rising from the sea amid cloud forms and 
 fire emblems, in pursuit of the sacred pearl, all of which is 
 artisticallv executed in brilliant enamel colors and underglaze 
 blue. Six-cliar;icter mark underneath the foot. 
 
 l>i<nn('(cr. 7"'o inciit.''. 
 
 499 — Large Dkcorated Bowi, { K\nig-hsi) 
 
 Thin sc^norous porcelain. Profuselv decorated with floral 
 spravs, grasses and butterflies in bi-ilhant enamel colors and 
 opaque underglaze blue. Six-character mark underneath the 
 
 foot. 
 
 Tt'intnrh')-. 7"^3 hichii^. 
 
 500 — Famii.li-: A'i;rte Bowl (K\nig-hsi) 
 
 Sonorous hard ])aste. Decorated ui five-color enamels with 
 figures of the lMiq)eror antl other dignitaries in conference and 
 garden scene. Six-charactei' mark of Ch'eng Hua. 
 
 IMiimeler, 7-;4 inches. 
 
501- T.Anr.K 1U>\\ I, {h"(m(/-li.\i) 
 
 'riiiu sonorous port-olaiii. Dfcorahoii of four fi\c-cl;i\\ cd dru^oiis 
 ainul cloud tonus and firr (.'nihlcnis, paiiifcd ui lirillianf fi'rcrri. 
 Border di'sii^n ui undrri;la/r liluc. Six-cliaracfcr niai'k under; 
 neatli i\w foot. 
 
 hhnni't I' r. S \ '.. inches. 
 
 ">0^■2 — I,aiu:e Dlhouatkii Bowi, ( l\'iiii(/-hfii) 
 
 Thin sonorous hard paste. Oetaoimah with indented edije. 
 Decoration of ttoweriiiij plant, ])iuni tree in hh)ssoni, roek and 
 g'rasses finely painted m enamel colors of the iiiiii'iUc vcrte. 
 
 I t'iniuit i'i\ S' ,', incltt'S. 
 
 oO^ — Lae(.;e Man-|)ai!ix Bowt, {Yung C'hiiig) 
 
 Klahorately decorated in l>rilliant en/unel colors, enhanced l)y 
 gilding, with \arious scenes ref)resentiiig ChiiU'se in)bkAVonien 
 and children in gardens, and landscape views. 
 
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 DECORATED TEAPOTS 
 
 oOi — Tf.ai'Ot axi) Tray 
 
 Decoration of floral designs, and lotus petal panels in black, 
 red, yellow and "reen enamel colors. 
 
 505 — Two Ti;ai'ots axd Thavs 
 
 Decorated with figure and flo)'al subji-'cts in taianiel colors of 
 famille rose. 
 
 506 — Two Tkai'Ots axj) Tkays 
 
 Decorated with lotus and other flowers h ithin petal-shaped panels, 
 in brilliant enamel colors of the finniUv rose. 
 
 507 — Tkai'OT AXJ) 1'rav {( li'ien-hiiiy) 
 
 Decoi'atioji (jf fioi'al sprays motleled in high relief and enameled 
 in colors. 
 
 508 — Dj-x'oratei) Te.\ pot 
 
 JJoys astride ox, peonies ;ind willow trees painted in brilliant 
 enamel colors. Stem and branches of blossoms f(M-miiig handle 
 and feet. 
 
509 — Decorated Teapot {Ch'icn-hing) 
 
 Base luid cover of chrysanthemum sl)ape. Two reserve panels, 
 filled with flowers in brilliant enamel colors. Green ground, with 
 scrolls and blossoms in colors. 
 
 510 — Df.coi!Atei) Teapot 
 
 A companion to tlie preceding. 
 
 511 — Decorated Teapot (C'h'icn-linig) 
 
 Thin porcelain, fashioned in sliape of a lotus bud, the stem 
 forming handle and feet, and tlie lid in sliape of a lotus leaf. 
 Decorated in naturalistic colors. 
 
 512 — Pair Teapots axd Tkays ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 The cover of teapot and tlie trav of clirvsantliemum shape, all 
 decorated in enamel colors of the famiUc rose. 
 
 51.'5 — Pair Decorated Teapots (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Flower-shajie, a\ itli stem forming liandle and feet. Decorated 
 with cocks and floral designs in brilliant enamel colors, in the 
 stvle of the eiiibelishment found on eggshell plates. 
 
 514 — Talt. Decorated Teapot {( li'ien-Iiing) 
 
 Floral sprays and pierced bosses modeled in relief and decorated 
 in brilliant enamel colors and gilding. 
 
 Sl-'j — T.\Ei, Decorated Teapot witu Tray 
 
 Both pieces decorated with floral sprays, pierced bosses and other 
 designs modeled in relief and painted with brilliant enameled 
 colors, enhanced with p-ildint;'. 
 
 516 — Decorated Teapot {Ch'ien-hing) 
 
 Lotus in bloom moileled in relief, tlie stem forming handle and 
 spout. Decorated in enamels of naturalistic colors, and gilt 
 outlines. 
 
 517 — Decorated Teai'ot [Ch'ien-Iiing) 
 
 Glolnilar sliape, witli scroll handles. Decorated with fishes, sea- 
 weeds and floral designs in enamel colors and gilding. 
 
 518 — Decor.\ti\-e Teapoi- ( K'ung-Jisi) 
 
 Cone-shape, divided into eight ujiright panels, eacli of which is 
 decorated with flowers and grasses in fl\e-color enamels. Has 
 top handle and metal spout. 
 
519 — Two Bi.ACK Axi) Goi.n Ti:Ai'ors (K\ni(i-hsi) 
 
 Cylindrical, with loop handle, rcciu'vinf;- sjiout and flat cover 
 with knob. Thin white hard paste, eo\ered with a lustrous 
 black glaze, the rim of the cover glazed in uhite. Penciled in 
 gold with a dragon and pluenix (on each pot), cloud-scrolls, the 
 swastika and other de\ices, and hatch borders. 
 
 Ifl'il/Ilf. 1- ilit'lies. 
 o'ilO PoWDKR-HI.rE (J\0II>AI. TkAI'OT ( ]C (I lt(J-]lsl) 
 
 Ijoop handle and recur\'ing spout. Overg'laze decoration of 
 four-cla«ed dragon, plui-nix and angular fret border ])enciled in 
 gold. 
 
 Ih'iglil. ■[•'■y_i inches. 
 
 o21 — Tat.l Decgratkd Teapot with Tkav (Yuiuj Chciicj) 
 
 Oviform. Floral reser\es and blossoms on a dotted ground 
 painted in enamel colors of famille rose. 
 
 522 — Decoratf.d Teapot {K'aiig-h.si) 
 
 Quadrdateral shape, «ith top Toi'i-shape handle. Decorated 
 with various oi'naments and Buddhistic emblems in enamel colors 
 of famiUe vcrtc. Metal mounts. 
 
 523 — PowDKR-iiLr'i-: Gi,oiiri,.vi( Tkai'ot (K'aiuj-li.u) 
 
 Loop handle and reciir\'ing spout. f)\erglaze decoration penciled 
 in gold of floral spi'ays, a hittice and crenelated bordei', and 
 further pencilings on the cover, the knob or button of which 
 has been supplied. 
 
 Ilcif/lil. .5 inches. 
 
524 — Decorated Tkapot (K'ang-h.si) 
 
 Oviform, in very tliiii clear porcelain, the spout and handle of 
 bamboo clesign. Decoration of floral spraj's and medallions 
 finely painted in delicately blended enamel colors. 
 
 525 — Large ]\Iaxdarix Tkapot {Yung CJu'ng) 
 
 Globular shape, with side handle. Chinese garden scenes with 
 figures of ]\Iandarin ladies and cliildren and reserves of birds, 
 flowers and landscapes, painted in brilliant enamel colors. 
 
 526 — Large Decorated Teapot {Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Oviform, witli side handle. Two reserve panels filled with tree 
 peoiucs finely painted in enamel colors. Turquoise-blue ground, 
 with conventionalized lotus, peach-fruit and scrolls in various 
 enamels. Seal mark underneath the foot. 
 
 527 — Larcje De( orated Tkapot (CJt'icn-Iuiig) 
 A pendant to the preceding. 
 
 528 — Skt ok T•\^■o Teapots axu Two ^NIit.k Pitc. ffkrs 
 
 With tr;iys. Old Canton porcelain, 
 commonly called I>o«estoft. Each 
 ])iece decorated «ith a European 
 coat-of-arms in blue, coral-red and 
 rose color enamels, and enriclied 
 with gilding. 
 
 5^9 — Decorated Cyi.ixdricae Vessel 
 ( Yiiiig Clung) 
 
 With tiara-})ointed top, and divided 
 trairs\ersely by molded bands into 
 three sections, the middle one bear- 
 ing a spout. Used for seed fruit 
 syiTips. It has two mask handles 
 modeled in bold relief and is 
 decorated with floral sprays and 
 butterflies, which are artistically 
 drawn and ])ainted in delicately 
 bli'iided enamel colors. 
 
 5^!) Hciqht. 1-3 inchis. 
 
FIVE-COLOR AND OTHER DECOR AH:U 
 PORCELAINS 
 
 OSO SWK.ETMKAT TliAV ('/'((() KllltlKj) 
 
 Boat-shajH'il, tlu' rxtrrior coated with a coral i;la/.e with bam- 
 boo stalks and lca\cs in white itscvxc ; the intci-ior f^hizrd in 
 white, anil sown with sprays in eohjrs of tile fiiiiiillc vcrtc. 
 
 Ltin/fh. 1 I :. iiifjirs. 
 
 oJil — Two Smai.t, Ovoidai. Jars {Cli"uii-lniir/) 
 
 With low, slightly spreading foot and shoi-t contracted neck. 
 
 Of soft-paste quality, covered with a rich cream-white gla/A 
 
 -> the lip glazed in bi'own- -and decoi-ated with 
 
 ^^X rock ])lants in blue, green, vtllow and 
 
 ____ _ (luhi-rcjiiic, witli gilding; on tlie shoulder a 
 
 winded insect. 
 
 
 
 lliiilhl. |.i \ hlrlHS. 
 
 .5;3'2 — Si.KxiiKi! In\kutei) Pk Aii-sH Ai'liD \'ase wmt 
 C'oNER (Cli">cn-]iing) 
 
 Pui'e white, the t'litire body decorated, be- 
 tween diverse borders at shoulder and foot, 
 with an elaljorate conventional fruit and 
 floral scroll in various enamel colors, inter- 
 rupted at opjjosite sides of the shoulder by 
 two bats ])enci]ed in coral. On the foot, 
 glazed in ])alest of sky-blue, the seal of 
 Cirien-lung Jii coi'al. lias sfand. 
 
 //( /(/// / . J iurJics. 
 
 533 — SuuAT Bkakek-sh.xpkh A'asi-; (Cli"uii-hi iuj) 
 
 In tlie form of a small globular jar overshadow id by the deep 
 ;uid widely flaring truiiij)et lij) v\liicli issues directly from it. 
 \'ibrant \sliite jiorcelaiii « ith niiiipjed surface, supporting a 
 decoration of chr vf^'inthemiiiiis and oilier tlowers, with leaves 
 and steins, modeleti in bold relief and outstanding, glazed in 
 blue, green, red and yellow and gilded. Within the rim is a 
 broad coral band penciled with an elaborate Horal scroll in 
 gold. 
 
 Ilr'njJil. t'/j iiirlii'^: tllniiicfi r nl rim. 5 iin-Iifit. 
 
534< — Pair Qitatkefoit, C'yijndrical Jars {Cli ien-lung) 
 
 Slighth' flattened. Within slightly depressed panels on ob- 
 verse and reverse, nine sages — perhaps the Eighteen Ahrats — 
 discussing manuscripts or at table games, in a garden with 
 pavilions, banana and pine trees and potted plants, each care- 
 fulljr modeled in low relief and minutely painted in colors of the 
 famille vertc. Surrounding and separating the panels, a ground 
 of blue marked by the "ice-crack" lines in white and sprinkled 
 with pink and white blossoms of the wild prunus, signifying the 
 breaking up of ice at the approacli of spring. Interior and 
 foot glazed in pistache-green. Have stands. 
 
 Height, Syo inches. 
 
 535 — Theee-coi.or Cyi.ixdricae A'ase (Eighteenth Centuri/) 
 
 With short tubular neck and flanged lip, archaic dragon side- 
 handles and convex, petaled foot. On a sunken Imperial yellow 
 ground two archaic animals with branches in their jaws are 
 modeled in relief in turquoise-green, and about them are fungus 
 branches in aubergine, the whole between aubergine molded floral 
 borders. Slioulder, neck, lip, foot and handles in turquoise- 
 green, minutely crackled. 
 
 Height, 514 inches. 
 
 536 — Four Saecehs (Chia-C'h'ing) 
 
 Decorated in over and underglaze ]iainting with tree-trunks 
 in yellow. Seal mark in red penciled on foot, reading "^lade 
 for the Ilsieh Bamboos." 
 
 Diameter, 514 inches. 
 
 -Pair Ovoid Jars with Their Owx Original Covers {Chia- 
 Ch'ing) 
 
 Decorated in over and underglaze painting with fruit trees, 
 flowers and the sacred fungus, growing among rocks, and with 
 butterflies in aubergine, pale yellow, green and dark orange- 
 yellow with a coral trend. The covers, inset, have a similar 
 decoration and a knob handle. 
 
 Height, o>4 inches. 
 
538 — Paik Three-color Dog-Fu Fj,owek ok Ixckxsk-stick Holders 
 (K'ang-lisi) 
 
 The guardians of the tlireshold, on tlieir liauiiches, arc seated 
 on low pedestals with curvilinear feet, which are mountetl on 
 metal bases. The brocade ball of the one, reticulate and hollow- 
 molded, plays on an upright molded rod between the Fu"s upraised 
 forepaw and the pedestal; the cub attaciiiiig to the other climbs 
 up its forepaw and shoulder. The movable jjrotruding e_yes are 
 detacliable. Treated tliroiighout in green, iinbcrginc and vellow, 
 with wliite reserve. 
 
 Ilriglit, H incites. 
 
 .539--DotjiiLK-c;oiiRi) Shapei) A'ash (C'h'ic7i-hi>i(j) 
 
 Soft milk-white glaze. Decoration modeled in bold relief and 
 sepai-atelv glazed of a gourd viiic in beai-ing and encircling both 
 bulbs of the body. The vine, with pale aubergine stems, and 
 bright green leaves \eined in black, displays nvniierous small 
 double-gourds in deep coral, and in jjale yellow, green and 
 (nihergine flecked with blue. Carved stand. 
 
 Ilfiijht, 8'/i inches. 
 
540— Paiu I) 
 
 F,<()I!ATK1I 
 
 Jars wittt Oricixat. Covers ( Yinuj Cheng) 
 
 Iiivertrd jKar-shajic, flith spreading foot and sliort cylindrical 
 neck ; the co\ ers liat-sliaped. Covered with a monochrome over- 
 glaze ])ainting of la\ ender-])ink hue and ])i(iu d'ordngr surface, 
 with peach and fan-shaped reserves — two of the latter on opposite 
 sides of the waist, two of the former on the alternate sides of 
 the shoulder. The white reserves Ijrilhantlv ])ainteil in enamel 
 colors, with branches of the tree peony and plum, in blossom, 
 and flving insects, and the pink ground having a .seme of plum 
 blossoms and clir\santheiiuuiis reserved and enameled in \ai-ious 
 bright colors. Covers similarly treated. (One cover re]);ured.) 
 
 llciqhl. U hichrs. 
 
 541 — P.\ir Ukakkr-siiapei) ^'ASEs (Yiiiif/ Chiurj) 
 
 Body in form of an imerted })ear-shaped vase with spreading 
 foot, sujipcjrtlng a full neck Avith flaring lip. Painted in enamel 
 colors with a rich floral decoration comprising the peony and 
 other forms, with liutterfiies, in \arious sh.ides of green, pink, 
 blue, red and yellc)«, (One rep.iired.) 
 
 Ihiqlil. !li , i„,his. 
 
542 — Two OviFOKM Jars witpi Original ('o\i:rs {K'oiuj-hxi) 
 
 Five-color decoration of foliations in deep shoulder and base 
 borders, with the fa\'orite blossonilntr trees or plants springing 
 from alternate ineniliers of the lower border. On one the outline 
 leaf forms of tlie borders are alternately long and short. The 
 cap-shape co^■ers liave a plum blossom in a central medallion 
 within 2*L'tfil ancl scallo])ed borders. 
 
 Ifcii/Jil 
 
 'il S' :. iiiclua. 
 
 543 — Pair C^i.ixriKK at, \"ask,s (K\ni<j-hsi) 
 
 Straight jjodv, sliglifly flaring lij) ami con\cx foot. Fi\e-color 
 decoration in overglaze and enamel ])anitnig, consisting of deep 
 lip and base borders of downward and upward pointing foliations, 
 a pointed boi'der on the foot, and blossoming trees spi-iiiging from 
 alternate foliar units of the base border. 
 
 Urit/lil, (M:, ilK-hix. 
 
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 544 QuATREFOIL ExAJIEI. A'ask { C'li' ifii-Iiuig) 
 
 With liirrh sliouldtr. the lobes eontructing g-eiitly to a flat foot, 
 and wide neck with spreading lip. The entire exterior surface 
 of the vase covered u itli a niagniticent decoration in enamel colors. 
 The ground of btjth body and neck is a pale yellowish-green, 
 carrying multicolored fruit and floral scrolls, bats, the twin fish 
 and the endless knot, with scepter-hcad, key-fret and panel 
 borders. Interior coated with a pale turquoise glaze disclosing 
 a faint crat'kle. Has stand. 
 
 Ileight. 9 inches. 
 
 545 — Five-cot. OR Jar \\ riu Ti;ak\\()0I) Cover (Miiuj) 
 
 Ovoid, with rounded shoulder, short neck and widi' mouth. Sono- 
 rous white porcelain, lu'avv and dense, the bodv carrving a ver- 
 milion diajier ground interrupted by the po])j)v and other floral 
 forms in vermilion, underglaze blue, and enameled leaf-green, pale 
 yellow and iiuhcr(jiiu'-]n-(>^\n. On the slioulder a wave-form 
 border in vermilion line and white reserve, and on the neck a 
 down-pointing leaf-form border in \erniilion, undcrglaze lilue and 
 green enamel. The cover is hat-shaped in openwork car\ ing. 
 
 llfiqitt. 7 iilflu'S. 
 
546 — Paiu Hr niniis tic Siwrr I'/ri'i-.s ( K'liiu/'lisi) 
 
 St.'uulmt;' tiq-ui-fs, on lotus bases, facli holding' a water jar at his 
 breast, one sup[)ortini;- it on bis rij^bt band and one on liis left,, 
 and eaeli with a boy ehnf^'inn- to liis siile under the arm ()pf)osite 
 that Nvhu'b bears the «eiirht of tlu' jar. Tliev \^■ear body ajid 
 sboulck'V bands deeoi-.ited in enanu'l ,tnd o\ei'^laze eolors in 
 o-reen, eoral-pmk and retl, pale yellow and aiihirj/iiie, witli gihl- 
 uii^', the decoration bein<^ of floral forms and foliations, with 
 pendant IJuddhistie emblems antl fillets. The bases are encircled 
 by coral lotus bancls modeled in the paste, between narrow borders 
 of the wave pattern in green. (One of the jars repaired.) 
 
 Jtiiillil. ^'■'>'^ iiichfu. 
 
 547 SmAT.I, C'VLIXllKUAl. ('l.ri!-SllAPl',l> \ ASK {K'(nif/-llxi) 
 
 On low circular foot, with sliort slightlv incurved neck finishing 
 with a metal rim. Dense })orcelain, glazed in a soft milk-white 
 tone, decorated in both underglaze and overglaz.e painting with a 
 scene invohing four figures, of whom three seem to be in attend- 
 ance upon one of more importance. The colors include under- 
 glaze blue and a light sandy-yellow, overglaze coral-brown, and 
 
 green and aubergine enamel. 
 
 lli'igjil, 91/0 iiiches. 
 
 548 — Peachrloom and Blti-: Jar {Cli'ieii-linu)) 
 
 Globular-ovoidal ; rudimentary neck and small mouth. Ground 
 of a large "hone\comb"" lattice 111 ]ieachbloom, the cellular out- 
 lines in blue, interrupted by three white reser\'e metlallions in leaf- 
 form and scalloped, enclosing a tire-breathing land-dragon and 
 kylins, their bodies in j)eachl)l(Kjm and manes and tails in blue. 
 Besides these large medallions there are lesser interruptioirs of 
 scattered blossoms in white reserve outlined and penciled in blue. 
 At the rim a narrow border of blue "honeycomb" with \\hite 
 reserve. Klaborately car\ed teakwood cover, with ciirved and 
 pierced white jade medallion inset. Carved stand. 
 
 Height, 8% iiiclies, 
 
 549 — Paik Famili.e A'ekte Gixgek Jaks with Orioixae C'ovkrs 
 {Ming) 
 
 Ovoid, on circular foot; with short neck. Fnderglaze, o\'erglaze 
 and en;imel decoration dej)ictiiig Ilsi '\^'allg ^lu mounted on a 
 kylin, and several other figures, all done uitli freedom of imagina- 
 tion and confident jirccision, in a landscajie of cobalt rocks, 
 emerald pine trees and vermilion fenct's, these colors in the ap- 
 parel of tlie figures being varied by delicate apj)le-green and pale 
 coral-pink. Hook border at the base, uitli a floral Ijorder on 
 the shoulder. On tJie covers are skylarking boys. ( Lip of one 
 jar has slight rejjair.) Ha\e stands. 
 
 JI(i(jJit. 11'/:! inches. 
 
550 — Bi.rE ExA.-MEi, Gixgkr Jar {Ch'icii-Iuiu/) 
 
 O\'oi(l, of ck'.-ir sonorous liiird ])astu, i^nainelecl with ;i dense, 
 op.iqiie frl.-ize of }io^\(l(_r-l)luL- (jualitv hut deeper tone, with ln"il- 
 hant surfaee and sh'filit nietaUic luster. On opposite sides two 
 white reserve niedalhons of foHate outhne are j)ainted in green, 
 pink, eoi-al, \vhite and l)hie with the )iiri and otlier hhissoniinn; 
 trees, and the saered funtfus. Carved teakwood eover with white 
 jade niedani(jn earved and pierced, its ornamentation including 
 two figures. 
 
 //( it'/ht. inchf>\ 
 
 551 — Largk Dix okatki) 1?owi. (C h'lcn-htng) 
 
 ()\(>i(l, with Hat foot ; wide iiioutli. Sonorous Avhite porcelani of 
 tile stone-weight vai'ietv, with a multicolor decoration in under- 
 glaze .and enamel ]);iintiiig. Four foli;ir medallions .are enclosed 
 A\itliin mterhu-mg foliations and scrolls which surround the hodv 
 between a paneled base binaler and .a double border of scepter- 
 lieads, blossoms ,and foli.ations beneath the brim, all in filue, green, 
 yellow, orange .and pur})le, with siindrv v.ariations of tint. Carved 
 stand. ]Mark, se.al of ( irieii-lung. 
 
 Ilciilhl, 7^^ nirhrii; iVnimil tr. W^i^ niches. 
 
552 — Paii! Five-color Beaker-shaped Vases (Ming) 
 
 With bulbous central section, slightly spreading foot and daring 
 lip. Decorated in tlie colors of the fdmillc vcrtc with clusters 
 of peaches on the base, sprays of blossoms on the bulb, ami in the 
 upj)ei' section pictures of a ceremonial occasion presenting sc\en 
 figures. 
 
 l/iH/lit. \r> ill, -lies. 
 
554; — Ovoid Jae with Original C'ovkr (Ming) 
 
 Painted in enamel colors and underglaze blue Avitli scenes of 
 numerous children having a happy time at play and masc[uerading. 
 Two of them have made up as a Fu-lion, the head of the leader 
 seen within the wide-open jaws of the beast. One is beating a 
 drum. Near tliem are two groups of ladies and more romping 
 boys, two of the ladies carrying infants at their shoulders. 
 Shoulder border of the "cracking ice"' pattern ; on the neck 
 sprays of blossoms, and on the co\ er three more of the playing 
 boys among rocks. All in red, green, blue, yellow and aubergine. 
 
 Heiglil. 13 >/^ inches. 
 
 555 — Blue Gixcer Jar with Dixorations (C'liicn-lung) 
 
 Ovoid, of pure white resonant porcelain, enameled with a rich 
 and brilliant ghize of powder-blue quality but deejier note, which 
 thickens in its flow at the perfect foot. On opposite faces two 
 foliate medallions in wliite reserve, painted in overglaze and enamel 
 colors with the rock peony and other flowering trees, and two 
 birds chattering at each other among the branches. Carved teak- 
 wood cover enclosing an ojienwork medallion of carved white jade. 
 
 IJt'/r/Jif. 8'^. inches. 
 
 556 — FivK-coT.OR Bf,aki-:r-shai'ei) A'.\se (Ming) 
 
 Decorated on tile base with branches of peaches and pome- 
 granates, on the mid-section with clirvsantliemum and other 
 sprays, and on tlie upper part with tree peonies and birds of 
 bright plumage, « hile underneatii the lip is a narrow scroll border 
 in red. All in enamel colors and underglaze blui. — some of the 
 blossoms etched ill tlie paste, the glaze removed. 
 
 Hiiqht. 1(1 1 o inches. 
 
 557 — Fi;-E-coT,OR Reakkr-shaped A'ase (Ming) 
 
 Similar to the jjreceding but slightly shorter. Branches of fruit 
 on the base and of flowers on the mid-section. The upper portion 
 decorated \\ith elaborately ornamented vasus and jars of plants 
 and fruits, under a narrow scroll border underneath the lip. All 
 in the cliaracteristic colors of the family. 
 
 Hi ifilit . 1.5-j inches. 
 
 558 — FivE-fOLOit 0\iF()RM Jar (Ming) 
 
 In undergl.ize, o\erglaze and enamel painting, the entire body 
 of the jar co\ere(l with a red, green, blue, (titbcrginc and yellow 
 ornamentation com])risiiig six pluenixes represented in swift 
 motion amidst a peony scroll with an affluence of blossoms. 
 Shoulder and short neck with concordant borders. (';ir\ed stand. 
 
 IIei(/Jil. ll'^4 inches. 
 
')o9 — Cv i.ix lUiUAi, ( 'i.r li-siiA I'Ki) \'ask (Yiukj (Ik'iii/) 
 
 Tapcriiii;- \rr\- sllohtlv from the sliDLiKIrr down; tln' slioiildcr 
 slopiiii;-, and (.•iir\lnf^ into the ^iracut'ul neck w lin'h ixpands in a 
 lightly tlarinii- lip. I'ui-c whitr rcscinant ])i)ri-ehun, i-ichly ])!iintcd 
 in enamel colors and etched, w ith a group, Fii, Lu and Slum, the 
 latter attended hv a bov and over his head a()pearing a flying 
 bat. On the i-everse a jar of flowers and fruit, and a butterfly, 
 and on the shovildir and neck plant-sprays, a bundle of books and 
 other devices. All brilliantly I'Xecuted in rich green, glowing 
 yellow, pale (iiilHr(/'uu\ vhtir-<Jc-hnu\ coi'al-red, lavender-pink, 
 cobalt-blue and black. 
 
 Hcirihl. I(i;/, illrli(.i. 
 
 560 PaiU IjK.XKKIi-SHAl'KI) \'asi:s (Yllllf/ CIu'llCj) 
 
 In foi'ni an o\'oid jar with abrupt, short, sloping shoulder, and 
 short lip merging in a slightl v-contracting neck which flares to 
 an upright flange lip; on a low pedestal-convex foot. Body 
 painted in enamel colors of the famiUc rose with a group 
 of fi\e sages — possibly the "l^'ive Old ^len," spirits of the 
 planets — discussing the ]i<i!i(i-jf\ii symbol and two of the l'>ight 
 Trigrams, on a scroll : on the opposite face a green, bhu' and 
 auhcrcjinc tree and a gi'owth of the sacred fungus in coral. On 
 the neck one of the genii, seated, holding a scepter, beside a jar 
 containing the sacred fungus. Insci'ijitions of ekvcn and twehe 
 cliaracters pricked m the glaze at the foot. 
 
 Iliiljhl. 1 1 ■■j illrlli'S. 
 
 561 — '^I'af.l Beakkr-sh.m'ki) \'ask [Yiukj (Iu'ii(j) 
 
 Clear, ^•ibl■ant porcelain, the soft cream-white ground cmbellislu'd 
 in brilliant enamel colors with sfoi'ied mcidi'iit repi'esentetl by 
 several figui-es mounted and on foot, with incidental landscape 
 details. On the body a magnificent figure in tur(|Uoisc-green, 
 cobalt-blue, coi'al and Inij)erial yellow, on an Imperial yellow 
 horse, under a yellow banner, is in the act of unhoi'sing one of 
 only less magnificence on a pearl-white mount under a purplish- 
 red stand;ird with yello\v sti-eamei's. On the neck another 
 gorgeous figure on a sjxitted horse, accomjjanied by an attend- 
 ant bearing a yellow gonfalon, halts befoi'e a sage who is stand- 
 ing. ]\Inrk, a blue double ring. 
 
 Ifiiilhl. 18 iitrhes. 
 
562 — Tall Beakee-shaped Vase (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Resonant porcelain with a creamy-white glaze, its decoration 
 depicting in rich enamel coloring the same incident or event as 
 that presented in No. 561, but in another phase. Here the pur- 
 sued, in a robe of turquoise truitc, on a yellow crackled horse, 
 brandishes two swords over his head as he turns back toward his 
 pursuer who in varicolored apparel rides an aubergine horse. 
 Above and between them anotlier figure raises a battle-axe in 
 defense of the pursued. On the neck a mounted figure interced- 
 ing with a sage, or rislil. At base of neck a meander and floral 
 border penciled in black line over robin's-cgg blue. 
 
 Heiffht, 171/2 inches. 
 
 563 — Fajfili^e "W.rte Tall Vase with Original ^Iaxdakin Coveh 
 (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Oviform, with spreading foot and deep neck. Dense, sonorous 
 porcelain, richly painted in enamel colors of metallic luster on a 
 soft white ground. The brilliant ornamentation is profuse, and 
 precisely distributed, with much delicacy of detail, the principal 
 motives being enclosed within four outline leaf medallions of 
 varying forms, and four panels, two of them foliated. These 
 picture landscapes, A\ith figures ashore and afloat, butterflies and 
 singing birds among flowers, a k^'lin and a tiger. Intermediate 
 adornment of sprays and foliations ; on the shoulder a parti- 
 colored lioneycomb trellis ; cover continuing the general scheme. 
 Has carved teakwood stand. 
 
 Height, 19y, inches. 
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 564 — Famii.le Verte Tall Cylindrical Club-shaped Vase (K'ang- 
 hsi) 
 
 With sloping shoulder, short neck and flanged lip, and short, 
 contracted circular foot. The abundant decoration includes a 
 mountainous landscape at the seashore, with a tall pagoda, figures 
 on ledges of the shore looking afar off, and others in boats on 
 a rippled sea, the foliage of the pine trees executed in a deep 
 emerald-green. High under an overhanging pine there is an in- 
 scription of seventy or eighty characters, headed by a coral leaf 
 and signed with a coral seal. On the shoulder a scepter-head 
 border and a fret border interrupted by Buddhistic emblems, 
 and on the neck four storks with spread wings shaped as medal- 
 lions. Mark, a blue double ring. Has stand. 
 
 Height. ITij inches. 
 
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56ij — Fajiii.i.k \'h'iiri' "^rAii, ( '^■ i,i\ nuK'A 1, ( 'limi-sii aimhi \'asi-; (K'hikj- 
 hsi) 
 
 ^^'itll .slcipint;- sliouldrr, (Ircp lU't'k ;iii(l Han^'cd lip: tlic l)()(ly coii- 
 tr.-iftiiii;' >^li,i;'liH\' at Hu' l)ott()m to a low circular foot. KrsplcTid- 
 cnt tlccoratiou cxhibitino- twchc co(|Ucttisli and ^aily attii'rd 
 vounn' woiiion mounted asti'idc on fi-allopini^ liofscs, ruling' in 
 c\crv dirt'ction about an enclosure wlule tlii'ee nu'ii with lip 
 tufts and mustaches, in mandarin i-ol)i's, look down from a hal- 
 conv. their hands raised alio\c their shoulders in admiration. 
 The horses ari,- coral, tux'am, piehald, dark hrown, pale iiiilxTi/hte 
 and white, and the a[)i)arel of tlu' women and men includes fPreeTi, 
 blue, vellou, t'oral, white and (iiihirij'iiic. One of the riders is 
 coniill<T throur;-]! an aiH'JR'd f^atewav of swastika lattice in a 
 bamboo stockade and another is just emert^'inii' from a doorwav, 
 lier steed springinir o\er the sill. Swastika-fret border on 
 sliouldcr; iieck painted \\ith land- and seasca))es \\\\\\ fiii-ures. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Jlciflhl. IS inch fa. 
 
 {Ill list rated) 
 
 ^GG — C'vi-ixDHK .\t, Ci.r H-sii Ari;i) \'.\si-; (K\iii<j-lisi) 
 
 ^'el•v slio'htlv taperintr from an abru})t shoulder: litjlitly flariiiij 
 lip. VwYv white ])orcelaiii with a decoration in l)rilliant enamel 
 colors. On one face are seen two figures on horseback, one, in 
 purj)lish-red, on /t horse of Impei'ial yi'How : the other, in frreen. 
 on a horse of li<f|it, })ale (inhcrgbu-hvoww color. On the O})- 
 posito face are three ])ersons seen within the window of a house, 
 all in elaborate I'obes of blue, yello\^', f;'reen, black and red. The 
 neck is decorated with a sin^'le flower, and (.'arries also as a 
 mark, penciled in coral, a downwai-d-pomtinn- leaf o\er a S((uare 
 .seal. Has carved teakwood stand. 
 
 Jliii/Jll. Hi- I !ii,-lirx. 
 
 ."567 — UKAi-nFr-f, ('r,ori)K]i-s.\i'PinnK Ulik 0\if()k.m \ ask with Gild- 
 ing ( Y'liif/ C hiiuj) 
 
 'V\\is deef) blue nia/.e of cobalt quality lilfhtens in tones of the 
 powder-blue, and covers the \essel from the \\liite rim of the 
 short and ^r;u'eful neck to the flat foot whose eile-e is unqlazed. 
 Decorated on one face in (rold with ranibline- blossominn- trees, 
 and two birds perched on branches, one pi])iiii;- to the other. 
 (A part of the rrildilifr has \anislicd.) Has carx'ed stand. 
 
 IliiijhI. I.j'', iin-lir.K, 
 
568 — Tali. Beaker-shaped Vase ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Clear sonorous white porcelain with a multicolor enamel decora- 
 tion of warriors in personal encounter. On the lower, inverted 
 pear-shape section with spreading foot, a vicious, whiskered man 
 raises a short-handled battle-axe over an unarmed man lying on 
 the ground, while a benevolent figure raises a protecting arm 
 restraining the assailant, who is followed by another man with a 
 sword. On the neck another whiskered being raises a sword 
 behind a man of the type of the protector below, who wears only 
 the long drooping mustache, this man in the attitude of fleeing, 
 though with a sword in each hand. (Lip repaired.) 
 
 Height, 17 inches. 
 
 569 — Cylindrical Club-shaped Vase (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Tapering very slightly downward from the shoulder, the line 
 from shoulder to flaring lij) giving a crescent neck. Pure white 
 sonorous porcelain, carrving a highlv elaborated decoration in 
 brilliant enamel colors. A dignitary in a lavender-pink robe, 
 mounted on a white horse and accompanied by an umbrella- 
 bearer and other attendants who arc all gleeful, is looking with 
 intent interest upward at a noble lady who holds in her arms 
 an infant and stands between two other richly gowned ladies, 
 on a mass of jiarticolored scrolls, all three gazing down upon 
 him with beaming countenances. They are clad in pale blue and 
 light yellow, lavender-pink, gray-blue, coral, green and black, 
 and the men's apparel and the horse's trappings involve the 
 same colors. On the neck is a reclining figure to whom a man 
 comes offering a cup. Has carved teakwood stand. 
 
 Height, lOy^ inches. 
 
 570 I'OWDER-BI.I'E A'aSE WITH GiLDIXG ( K'dUg-ll.^i) 
 
 Cylindrical club-shape, contracting slightlv at the Ijase to a 
 low foot ; with rounded and slo))ing shoulder, full neck slightly 
 tapering, and flanged lip. With the exception of the white 
 rims of the lip, coated with a luminous glaze of the powder- 
 blue variety, adorned in gold. The major portion of the body 
 is occu])ied with an inscription in twentv lines, running from 
 shoulder to base. The remaining surface reveals palatial piles 
 of Oriental architecture in gold, between base and shoulder 
 borders, and the neck holds further landscaj^es and inscrip- 
 tions — considerable sections of the gilding having vanished with 
 the centuries. 
 
 lleiqht . 17 1 ^ inches. 
 
^allUia. 
 
 571 — Pair Thrke-color Tall 
 Covers {Ch'icn-luiig) 
 
 Yasks with Original ^Iaxuarin 
 
 O\'iform, with liglitly spreading foot and short neck. Clear 
 white, heavy, sonorous porcelain, decorated under the lustrous 
 glaze in two tones of blue and white reserve with a base-border 
 of tossing billows — bubbles of spray in the air al)ove them — 
 and masses of scrolling clouds. Among the clouds, his enor- 
 mous body almost encircling the vase, a fierce five-clawed dragon 
 is boldly penciled in sliaded roucjc-de-cuivrc over the glaze, 
 reaching amid coral fire-scrolls for the flaming jewel, the jewel 
 and the interior of the monster's mouth appearing in aubergine 
 enamel. On the cover a border of blue swastika-fret and coral 
 bats flying among blue scrolling clouds, and on the knob or 
 button a coral Shou character. Have carved stands. 
 
 lleiyhl, 21 inches. 
 
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 -l'.\iit ()\()ii)A(, .Iaiis «itii ^Iaxdakix C'c)\KKS (Millf/) 
 
 Dense, sonorous white pori'elain, deeorated m undercrlaze and 
 o\'ei'glaze colors and enamel jiaintine-. in deep, I'icli notes and 
 delicate tints, witli numerous children at ])lav ui a garden, and 
 graceful, long-robed ladies watching them. Blue, green, yellow, 
 red and iinhcrt/iiu'. ni varied hue and with the (jualities of the 
 ]Ming colcu'ing, make up the I'ieh chromatic composition, and the 
 dehneatujn ot the figures is done with a liold confidence, vigor 
 and ju'ecisioii. On the co\er iiKU'e hoys, witli ])ines and rocks, 
 riaxe stands. 
 
 Iliii/Iil. Kii,:, inches. 
 
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 -),;) 1'aiu t'lr h-sii a ri'ii A rr iiijc i'; \'asi:s ( X iiirl iciiI Ii Cciiliir//) 
 
 l\v:i\y, soiKirous pmn'cl.uii ol rinnplcd sii rtacc uiHi .'in cxtcnsixc 
 .•mil ilnri'sc (k'ciiraHoii t'i)iii[)(is('(l of ohji'cts iiKidilrd .-ind ;i|)[ilicd 
 to the pastr ;uid .•i})pi'arini;' iii liiyli rrlu't wiHi .uccnsoi'k .s in 
 l(i\\ itIk'!' -Hirniselvcs decorated in distincl ivr i;la/.i's as well as 
 in o\crola/c and lai/unrl |iaintint;', and H'ildini;-. 'I'licsr adjuncts, 
 in luanv tailors, distriliutcd m separate units oxer liod\- and 
 neck, include scroll })aintines, iiooks — \arious objects ai (lii- 
 nese study -\ases of Howers, of peacock fcathci's and coral 
 liranch, peaches and sacred fundus, stems of the hlossoiniiiii- 
 mci. chess-hoai'ds, iiu-eiise urns, rhinoceros horns, a seal, the 
 tuiii;'irs o-rowine- ainon<;- rocks, butterflies, some of the subsidiary 
 e'lazes showing' crackle. 
 
 Ilciilhl, \^*']\ ilirhcs. 
 
 ■574 — Ma.m'.stic Bo'i'Tia-'. (Cliiii-CJi'iiif/) 
 
 Globular-oyoidal body, \\ith full lU'ck slinhtU' expandinq-. The 
 entire surface a represt'iitation of a turmoil of sea wa\a's, amoiii;' 
 which a})pear nine Fu-lions of \arious sizes, and oxer the \va\is 
 fire-scrolls, all modeled in the paste in relief, the \\.a\es and the 
 lions' manes and tails biint;' further emphasized by incised con- 
 centric scrolls throuf^'hoiit. The billows are ^'lazed a liicht sea- 
 g'rceii, their tossing spra\' being reser\ed in the N^hite biscuit. 
 The lions ai'c glazed in blue and rose soNfpr. the manes and tails 
 in a deej)er gi'cen, the ifodies of two of the larger ones being 
 gihk'd in place of the soiiffic coloring. The o\erlying tire-scrolls 
 
 are glazed in a flaming coral-red. 
 
 Hrhihl. :: inrhes. 
 
 SPECIMENS OF PURE WHITE PORCELAIN 
 
 575 — ^^'ll^TI■; ^Mixia-ituk Cm (Lute K'dtKj-h.si) 
 
 ()\oidal, ^vltll two paralkl handles of c\lindrical sections. Ti'ans- 
 luci'lif porcelain of the "soft ])aste"" type, with foliations etched 
 ill outline in the ])aste. Has stand. 
 
 576" — ^\'Hl■I■I•; .AlrN-iA'rcKK Sfi.\i.i.o\\-(r p (Yiukj Clu'iif/) 
 
 S(|uat foi'iii, \\\f\] two parallel handles in the form of c\lindrical 
 sections. Of the so-called "soft jiaste," with criain-w hi te glaze 
 co\( rinc' both exterior and intt'iaor. Has stand. 
 
 577 — ^^'Mrrl■; f)\()iiiAi. MixiAiriii; A asi, (I.iifc h'/iiij/hxi) 
 
 Thick porca'lain coated with 
 cream-white. ( I^ip rejiaii'ed.) 
 
 ^ Thick porca'lain coated with an e\ en luminous <r\n/.v of soft 
 
578 — Rare Hoex-shaped Fuchien Cup 
 
 Fine, thin, vibrant, translucent porcelain, hexagonal in contour, 
 with a delicate and interesting ornamentation of groups of horses 
 etched in the paste beneath the soft, even, creamy-white glaze. 
 
 Height, 3 inches. 
 
 579 — Fuchien Coupe {Ch'tcn-Imig) 
 
 Inverted helmet-shape. Translucent, resonant hard paste, coated 
 with a glaze of rich, creamy white, and decorated with branch 
 and blossom of the wild plum tree modeled in relief in the paste, 
 the branch or trunk extended laterally bene.ith the bottom and 
 modeled in the round to foi'm a foot. 
 
 Ileitjlil, 3';4 inches. 
 
 580 — Pearl-gray Crackle Vase (Ch'ien-Iung) 
 
 Squat, ovoidal body, the neck bulbous in 
 hexafoil expansion beneath the lip. Clear 
 hard paste coated with a pearl-gray glaze 
 crackled in darker lines, tlie crackle 
 coarse on the shoulder and fine on neck 
 and undcrbody, and continued underneath 
 the foot. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 4' i inches. 
 
 ."jSI — Bkll-shaped White A'ase (K'cnig-hsi) 
 
 The neck thick, and marked by a single 
 molded ring; the vase otherwise un- 
 adorned. Porcelain of "soft paste" type, 
 co\'ered witli a lustrous glaze of cream- 
 Avliite, ricli and even. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 4% inches. 
 
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 582 — White Por< f.laix S.mall "\'ase ( K'aiig-hsi) 
 
 Pear-shaped, on a short spreading foot. Coated with an ivory- 
 white crackle-glaze over a decoration carved in the paste pre- 
 senting the sacred fungus and other scrolling forms beneath 
 a deep border of elaborated foliations. Glaze continued under- 
 neath the foot and on interior of neck. 
 
 Heiqht. 31., inches. 
 
 58.3 — WiHTE Ovoid Jar (Cliteii-hing) 
 
 With contracted nei-k. .Ml-round decoration of flying bats 
 amongst cloud and fungus scrolls ctclied .■md modeled in the 
 paste, and covered witli a j>ure wliite lustrous gkize. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 3 '•4 inches. 
 
58-i 0\lFORM \'.\SK {Cll'i(ll~hui(/) 
 
 Doiiso pori'olniii, ciiatcil with a creaiiiv f^lazc with sli^-ht ctife- 
 (lu-hiit tino-o, crac'kU'd in hrown hues. Mas stand. 
 
 Ili'ifilil, .'> iiicheii. 
 
 585 — ^^'ll^^K Hot ri,K-siiArr,i) \'.\sk. ( K'diHj-Iixi) 
 
 Glohular-Dvoidal hody witli full luck. Covii-fd with a soft white 
 1' , glaze, briioath whicli a fish-dran-on enu'ro-iii<>- fr(jin hillouiiig waves 
 
 is etched in the paste, as are nehuhe in the air oxei'head. Has 
 stand. 
 
 Ifriflll/. ,>14 illcllCS. 
 
 58(5 C'o:M PRKSSKD ROTTI.K-FORM WhITE A'aSF. ( CJi' ICII-l lltig) 
 
 ~ Squat ovoidal body and tubidar neck, 
 
 on short circular foot. Coated with a 
 white, unctuous friaze, c r a c k 1 c d 
 throuo'hout. Has stand. 
 
 Ileiqhf, i in<-hfs. 
 
 587 — DoTi!T.F.-FORM ^A'uiTK ^'ASE (K'aiig- 
 h.u) 
 
 Low globular body surmounted by a 
 small ovoid jar with short narrow 
 neck, the whole covered with a bright 
 glaze of pure white. Has stand. 
 
 TlfKilil. 5 ini'lics. 
 
 586 
 
 588 — Crkaji-whitk Bottt.e {K'(ing-lisi) 
 
 Coated uniformly with a rich, creamy glaze, delit'ately crackled. 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 Ui'lijlil, .V'/j iitrhcs. 
 
 589 — GiET-MOUNTEi) Ffciiiex Coufe (Millfj) 
 
 ^lolded in the shape of the rhinoceros-horn cups, and decorated 
 with archaic dragons, the f)ine tree, tiying stork, deer and otiier 
 symbols modeled in I'clief in the paste, the whole covered, l)oth 
 exterior and interior, with the charactt'nstic rich cream-colored 
 glaze, r'oot and rim mounted in gilt, the run sust.aming a loop 
 
 handle. 
 
 Diiiiiiclcr. '>'/., iiii-Iirs. 
 
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 590 — Fi'CHiEx Coupe (Ming) 
 
 Inverted helmet-shape, with an undidant rim, on an openwork 
 base of rockery whence spring brancli and blossoms of the wild 
 primus tree, modeled in bold relief in the paste beneath the rich, 
 creamy glaze. 
 
 Diameter. 3 iiirhe.^. 
 
 591 — WurrF. Bkakek (Cliien-hiiig) 
 
 Foot narrow, motith ^\idclv flaring: midband molded in three un- 
 dulations. Base and neck encircled by bands of palmations 
 etched in the paste, and beneath the rim is a border of sccpter- 
 head scroll similarly incised. Has stand. 
 
 ITi'ighf. 5 nirhes. 
 
 592 — Slender Gotud-shapki) M'urrK A'ase {( h'ifit-hnuj) 
 
 The bulbous body elongated into a full neck, expanding to the 
 rim. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 6% inches. 
 
 593 IxAEETED PeAR-SITAI'E WuITE ^'ASE (Cli' ieii-l lirif/) 
 
 With short neck and \\ ide mouth. Dense poi'celain coated with 
 an even glaze of nnlk-white. Carved stand. 
 
 Uiii'iht. ,)'"'4 iiirJie.^. 
 
 594 '\\'l(IlK l'l)l!( EEAIX IJoTII.E { ( ll' ic )l-l II )!(/ ) 
 
 (ilobular, on lirculai- foot, i\itli tubular neck finisliing with a 
 metal hp-rim. Carxed in tangible i-elief with an intricacv of 
 fungus-scrolls and foliations jind the arcli.iic jiluenix, and coated 
 with a soft white glaze having a delicate crackle. (Lip re- 
 paired. ) 
 
 Ifiifilit. (114 iiirhex. 
 
 595 — "^^'irrri, Cveixdkicat. Jai! {C'lilcii-hnig) 
 
 A\'ith I'ounded shoulder ;uid wide cylindrical neck. Flowers, buds 
 and winged cre.itures delicately etched in the paste and tinted in 
 ]).de Molet. On the neck two .inimal-head .uid ring handles 
 modeled in hold i-elief. Has carxed teakxMiod stand. 
 
 Ill iijlil . ."(i^ iiii-hes. 
 
59.")./ Rorri.K-VOlOl DuAt^OX ^■ASK { K'lllKJ-Il.si) 
 
 (iloluilar hdily, siiriiiinintrd hv a small pi'ar-sliapcd \asr uliicli 
 forms the iicck. On the body is liirhtly pciicikd in })aU'st of 
 l>luc a four-clawed draffon, j)ursuinfr the tlaminj^ jewel, under 
 a pure white ijla/.e of metallic luster. Has eai-\'ed teakwood 
 stand. 
 
 Ifriifhl, 'i hiring. 
 
 59 () — ]5()rri.F,-su.M'F. n ^ ask (K'tiiKj-lixi) 
 
 0\()id body and straifjht tubular neek. 
 Of the peaelibloom family. Dense porce- 
 lain, coated with a pui'e white luminous 
 fjla/A'. Shoulder and neck encii'cled by a 
 three-clawetl dragon executed in the se\- 
 eral tones characterizino' the |)t'acht)lo(jm 
 pieces, with reserye, and the addition of 
 black for the monster's eyes. Has stand. 
 
 Jfright, T''4 in<-ln'S. 
 
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 597 — Bn.Bois Fiii'rr-sii.M'Kii 
 ( K<ni(j-]i.s'i ) 
 
 Dense liard })aste ecnered with a \\hite 
 glaze of nurror quality; fashioned ui re- 
 semblance to an eight-hjbi'd melon, 
 elongated, ami ccjiitracted both at top 
 and bottom U) form the neck and foot. 
 
 Has ti\e-Ii'gged stand. 
 
 .5t»t) 
 
 Ihighl. 9i/( iiirliis. 
 
 .59S — I5()T-ir,K-i-OK.M W'lHTK ^'Asl•. (K'niig-Iisi) 
 
 Coinjjressed globular Itody on a low conyex foot, with a tubular 
 neck molded in representation of a bamboo stalk and marked 
 by a single fluted expansion. Delicately incised in the paste 
 about the shoulder is a nai'row scroll border l)ehnv a border 
 
 etched in straight lines. Has carxed stand. 
 
 n('i(fh/. 7 'nii-lieif. 
 
599— White 
 
 PoECELAix Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Of ovoidal contour, and flattened, 
 with a slightly spreading foot, 
 deep neck conforming to the 
 shape of the body, two side 
 handles in relief on the body and 
 two more attacliing to shoulder 
 and neck. The whole in the pat- 
 tern of ancient bronze vases, and 
 decorated with low-relief carvings 
 of the archaic dragon-scroll in 
 bands and borders on bod}', 
 shoulder and neck, with further 
 borders of bosses and key-fret. 
 Coated with a luminous white 
 glaze, the surface of orange-peel 
 suggestion. Has stand. 
 
 Height, ly, inches. 
 
 600 — Bottle-shaped White ^'ASE (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Wide ovoid body with a steep, inclined slioulder, slender neck 
 
 and flaring lip, covered with a uniform mirror-glaze of pure 
 
 white. Has carved teakwood stand. 
 
 Height, T'/, inches. 
 
 601 — GouRD-SHAPED Whitk Bottle (Nineteenth Centuri/) 
 
 Deep inflated body and short tapering neck. Four-clawed 
 dragons and fire wheels amidst nebulae and flame-scrolls incised 
 in the paste under a brilliant white glaze. 
 
 Height, 9y^ inches. 
 
 602 — WiDE-MOUTHED White Jar (Cliien-lung) 
 
 The body ovoid, with narrow inclined shoulder, the neck tall 
 and wide. The decoration, all incised in the paste, comprises a 
 band of leaping waves at the base, bubbles of spray flying 
 from them and butterflies hovering over them, a shoulder- 
 border of scroll-fret, and a deep band of pahnations encircling 
 the neck. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, ly^ inches. 
 
603 — White Porcelain Bottle-shaped \'ase {Cliien-lung) 
 
 Bulbous pear-shaped body on low foot, with short slender neck 
 and trumpet lip. Clear hard paste with a rich embossing of 
 varied blossoms and foliations covering the entire exterior of 
 the vase above a pointed base-border ; scepter-head borders at 
 lip and foot. Brilliant white glaze throughout, which is con- 
 tinued underneath the foot with biscuit exposed at center. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Height, 11% inches. 
 
 60-i — AVhite Porcelain Bulbous Vase with Teakwood Cover 
 (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 The body in mammoth inverted pear-shape on flat foot, with 
 sloping shoulder tapering into an embryonic neck ; wide mouth. 
 Clear white hard paste with an all-over bas-relief decoration of 
 conventional blossoms, scrolls and foliations, between panel, fret 
 and scepter-head borders, the whole coated with a brilliant soft 
 white glaze. 
 
 Height, 8 inches. 
 
 605 — Slender Beaker-shaped White Vase (K'ang-h.si) 
 
 With narrow spreading foot and trumpet mouth, the slightly 
 expanded mid-section defined above and below by two molded 
 rings ; the whole covered with a lustrous white glaze. 
 
 Height, 9 inches. 
 
SPECIMENS OF TEA-COLOR, CAFE-AU-LAIT 
 AND FLAMBE GLAZES 
 
 606 — ^MixiATi'RE Jar {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Globular on low circular foot, witli short contracted neck and 
 everted lip; coated with a glaze of metallic luster and iron-rust 
 hue on both exterior and interior, the rim in a brownish-white. 
 
 607 — Pkari.-gray Flowkr Vasi-; (Ming) 
 
 In the form of ancient bronze vases. Quad- 
 rilateral, on a pedestal base, the sides of 
 the body bellying and coining back to a 
 (juadrangular shoulder whence springs the 
 four-sided incurving neck. On two sides 
 of the neck loop handles, carrying hollow 
 scjuares in place of rings modeled in the 
 paste. Coated with a glaze of delicate 
 pearl-grav, mai-ked by a fine crackle. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Height, fi'/i inches. 
 
 608 — C'AFK-Ai-r.AiT Gai.t.ifot (Ming) 
 
 Dense jiorcelain, coated with a ctifc-an-hiit 
 glaze whose surface has a faint pcau- 
 (Voriingc suggestion, of a dull and slightly 
 (j07 metallic luster, and marked throughout by 
 
 a \\\'k\ crackle in darker lines, the glaze 
 overflowing the small mouth. Has stand. 
 
 HeiqhI. 
 
 iiifhes. 
 
 609 — Tf.a-dt'st Jar (Ch'ienAnng) 
 
 Ovoidal or jiear-sliaped with truncated neck and wide mouth. 
 Clear hard pastt' with a ringing note, coated throughout exterior 
 and intei'ior surfaces and the iniA with a monochrome glaze of 
 tea-dust hue having a dull luNtei'. Seal mark of Ch'ien-lung 
 impressed underneath the foot. Has stand. 
 
 Height. ,j'4 inches. 
 
 610 — Irox-ri's'j- Gat.i.ipot (Cirivn-Inng) 
 
 Conventujnal shape, coated with a brdhant glaze in representa- 
 tion of iron corroding under tlie weather, and revealing in- 
 numerable minute metallic fleckings. Glaze continuetl under- 
 neath the foot; interior of lij) glazed in teadust hue. 
 
 Heiqht. 5 inches. 
 
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 Cll — C'.\KE-Ar-i,Arr Gallu'Ot {C'li'iiii-liiin/) 
 
 ()t oTiu-ofiil ('<)iih)iir, sli^-litlv incurving 
 as it swci'ps (lownw/ird from the full 
 slioiilder, with slioi-t contracted neck. 
 Coated with a ciift'-tiu-liiit <r\n/.e of vary- 
 ing and dappled hue, in places light and 
 in others a soft rich brown, with crackle 
 in light lines. Has stand. 
 
 lliighl, fi'/^ liirlies. 
 
 61~ — Pair Tea-t.i:\f >'asks {XiiictcciitJi Ccn- 
 tiir//) 
 
 Squat bottle-form on low circular foot, 
 with short thick neck. Coated with a 
 pale Ijrownish-green glaze marked by 
 commingling wavy and wandering stria- 
 tions of lighter tone, representative of 
 tlie hues of tea leaves after the brew. 
 Have stands. 
 
 Oil 
 
 ()l;3 — Flajibe Vase (Ch'ien-Jung) 
 
 Squat bottle-form on low slightly spreading foot, with short 
 neck and lightly flai-ing lip. Covered with a lustrous glaze of 
 prevalent pale turquoise and gi'eenish yellow tones, streaked 
 faintly in purples, lavenders, niauves and blues, and marked 
 throughout b}' a pronounced crackle. Has stand. 
 
 Iltiiihl. 
 
 Inches. 
 
 61-i: FlAMBE ^'ASE ( Cli' if ii-hiiig) 
 
 Dense, heavy porcelain, in inverted })ear-shape with flat foot 
 and narrow embryonic neck, covered with a brilliant fiambt' glaze 
 in whicli tlie fiarig-de-hwtif reds are streaked with a fine cataract 
 of purples, the shoulder disclosing light greenish-gray niottlings 
 — the whole variously crackled. Has stand. 
 
 Height. Sy, inches. 
 
 61-5 — Bkilj.iaxt Fj-ambe A'ask (Cli'lcn-hing) 
 
 Bottle-shape on deej), slightly spreading foot, uith full and 
 rather s(|uat globular-ovoidal body, full, incurving neck and 
 lightly flaring lip. Covered with a l)rilliant, rich iiambc glaze, 
 iridescent and metallic, txlubiting rich reds and soft yellows, 
 blues, greens, purfdes, and many intermediates. I'/laborately 
 carved stand. 
 
 Ueiijhl. 17 iiirhin. 
 
SPECIMENS OF CELADON 
 
 616 — Cei.adon Cur {Sung) 
 
 Expanding from a narrow foot in a gentle elliptical curve and 
 
 spreading sliglitly at the thick lip. Coated with a grayish glaze 
 
 of celadon quality with slight greenish tinge, and crackled. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Diameter, 414 inches. 
 
 617 — Small Celauox Jar {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Ovoid with brief contracted neck and wide 
 mouth. Coated with a glaze of light sea- 
 green tone and subdued luster, with a 
 
 617 
 
 fine cafc-au-lait crackle. 
 
 IIel;iht, 4 inches 
 
 618 — Celadox Bottle-shaped Vase {Yung 
 Cheng) 
 
 Cylindrical body, flattened shoulder, full 
 
 neck and everted lip. Coated with a 
 
 glaze of dark sea-green tone with a bold 
 
 crackle in black lines. Interior of neck 
 
 and foot also glazed and crackled. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 From the Heber K. Bishop Collection. 
 
 Height. 6 inches. 
 
 619- 
 
 -Two Celadon Tazzas {Sung) 
 
 Ovoidal cup everting slightly at the rim, on short thick stem or 
 spreading foot. One with a petal border upspreading from the 
 stem and above it concentric rings, on the exterior, and a further 
 ornament in the interior of the bottom, all etched in the paste; 
 the other with exterior plain, and primitive devices etched in 
 the paste in the interior, both in panels about the sides and in 
 the center of the bottouL Botli cups with a pale grayish sea- 
 green glaze, and brown at the riui from the biscuit being partly 
 exposed. 
 
 Blight. 314 inches. 
 
 620 — S^LVT-L Celadox Bottle {Ch'icn-hing) 
 
 Ovoid, with thick neck slightly expanding. Coated with a grayish 
 sea-green glaze over a decoration modeled in relief in the paste, 
 consisting of blossoms and foli.-itions, borders and a neck-band 
 of pahiiatioiLs. Interior of neck glazed in white. Has stand. 
 
 Ileiqht, 
 
 inches. 
 
O'll — C Ei.A no N J A u ( K \i iit/-]i xi ) 
 
 Klon^'.'itc'd ovokIuI form, with sliort neck 
 and wide niouHi. ('(ixei'ed with a lihiish- 
 green celadon glaze, with ciifc-iiu-ldit 
 crackle, the glaze applied also to the in- 
 terior of the neck and under the foot. 
 
 Jliiijlil. (II,:, inches. 
 
 6~- — CiiACK 1.1-; Jak (('iricii-hiii(/) 
 
 Ovoidal, with ti'uiicated neck and ^\ide 
 
 month. ('o\eiH'd with a pure glaze of 
 
 palest celadon tone, marked by a giant 
 
 ciifi-ini-Jtiit crackle. T/nderneath foot 
 
 the seal of Ch'ien-huig. 
 
 llri(/lif. 51/1 iiirlies. 
 
 iiJl 
 
 623 — Cet.adox 0\iform ^'ase {CJi'icn-lung) 
 
 Witli short full neck and everted lip. Covered with a luminous 
 
 sea-green glaze o\er an extensi\c decoration modeled in the paste 
 
 and etched, consisting of a hold flcnver antl leaf scroll and three 
 
 borders, with a necklet of palmations. 
 
 Ilc'ighl. 614 inches. 
 
 624 — P.\LE C'ki.adox A'.vse { K\ing-hsi) 
 
 Cylindrical at the base, the body exf)ands to a bulbous center, 
 contracting again by a gentle sloj)e to a slender bottle-neck with 
 slightly spreading lip. Dense porcelain, co\ered with a mono- 
 chrome glaze of dull luster in the palest of sea-green tints, like 
 the smother of ;ur-churned turbulent water swirling in the 
 
 shallows among tortuous shore-rocks. 
 
 IJcii/Jil. I(li;. inches. 
 
 625 — Ceeadox Jar with Uixg Neck (Ming) 
 
 Inverted peai'-sliape, the juncture of slioidder and neck marked 
 by raised modeling in tlic paste, the neck short and marked 
 midway bv another raised modeling in the paste giving the 
 effect of a ring; lip slightly everting. Coated with a sea-green 
 glaze of e\en cjuality except where it thickens and dee])ens in 
 tone above the raised modelings, lea\ing their edges light. 
 
 Ileiijhl. S1/4 inches. 
 
626 — Pale Celadon Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Globular bottle-shape on low, slightly 
 spreading foot, with short slender neck 
 and bulbous lip. IModeled in the paste are 
 conventional petal borders at base and lip, 
 and a ring around the neck. Covered with 
 a luminous monochrome glaze of purest 
 sea-green tint, very pale, the glaze deepen- 
 ing in hollows of the decoration, darkening 
 in tone and so bringing out the details of 
 
 the modeling. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 714 inches. 
 
 -Celadox Globt'lar Bottle (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 With defined foot, and slender neck shghtly 
 expanding at the lip. Dense, sonorous 
 porcelain, coated with an even sea-green 
 glaze, the bodv decorated with blossoms in- 
 volved with scrolling foliations etched in the paste. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 10 inches. 
 
 liJii 
 
 G28 — Celadox \'ase (Sling) 
 
 Inverted pear.-shape, slightly spreading at the foot, with high, 
 fidl, round neck expanding abruptly at the lij). The lower body 
 fluted, the upper body encircled by a scrolling vine modeled in 
 relief, and the neck carrying three U{)right leaf groups in relief 
 modeling. Brilliant sea-green glaze, eff'ectivelv \arying and giving 
 a shinmier to the surface as it accumulates in and about tlie 
 reliefs and spreads thin and almost white over their higher 
 details. 
 
 Height. 11 inches. 
 
 629 — ('l:laiiox OvoiiiAL Jai; (Ch'ieii-hnig) 
 
 Heavy sonorous porcelain, coxered with a dense glaze of bright 
 sea-green tone and dull luster, the glaze continued in the interior 
 and underneath the modeled foot. 
 
 Height, S inches. 
 
(i.'>0 — C'et.ahox Pn.c.Rnt Bottt.e 
 C't'iittirif) 
 
 l"'i'T.T.-MOOx ^^\SF. {Xinetccnth 
 
 On convex foot; cli/iractt risHc sliort 
 neck, the lip slifrlitly everting; with- 
 out luuidles. ("o.'ited with a deH- 
 cato liglit scii-grcen glaze ot bril- 
 liant luster, o\er a decoration 
 modeled in the paste and etched, 
 consisting of medallions enclosing 
 the ph(enix and dragon, with wave 
 forms, fire and cloud scrolls, and 
 palmate borders and an encircling 
 flower and leaf motive. Has car\ed 
 teakwood stand. 
 
 Ili'lqlit. 7'o int'hes. 
 
 (i;3I — ('klai)Ox GrxGEii Jar with I'k.vk- 
 wooD CovF.R { K'uiig-Jtsi) 
 
 (j30 ()\oid. Dense sonorous porcelain, 
 
 with an extensive decoration, cover- 
 ing most of the surface, modeled in the j)aste. At the base is 
 a deep border of sci'olling petals, and at the shoulder are 
 borders of scepter-hcads and the key-fret, while the body is 
 encircled bv a wide band of floral scrolls and foliations, the whole 
 covered with a brilliant celadon glaze of bluish-grav tone A\ith 
 a giant crackle in dark brown lines. The cover has a white 
 jade medallion, carved and pierced. Has teakwood stand. 
 
 Hriolit. SI :, inrlir.t. 
 
 632 C'eI-ADOX GaLJJPOT or IxVK.RTKD PKAR-SHArK A' 
 
 {Ming) 
 
 ^Modeled in five lobes as of sections of a fruit, giving a ])entafoil 
 rim and foot. Coated with a rich glaze of celadon qualitv in 
 which the green }iote has almost entirely gi\en way to a grav, 
 the glaze traversed hy ji bold, emphatic crackle in brown and 
 black lines. Glaze continued within neck and underneath foot; 
 rim and Q(\g^: of foot glazed in black. Has stand. 
 
 Ilfiilhl. II;, iiirhen. 
 
633 — Cei,ai>ox Bottle-form Yast. (Ming) 
 
 Squat body in tlic form of a melon of many narrow lobes, some- 
 what compressed, on a low circular foot, and with a tall, full, 
 cylindrical neck. The lobes are modeled in the paste, largely 
 by incision, and above the melon a foliate border is modeled 
 and etched where the shoulder joins the spreading root of the 
 neck. The neck itself has a decoration of bamboo trees and lotus 
 })lants carved in the paste, and extending nearly to a serrate 
 l)order under the rim. The whole covered with a light sea- 
 green glaze which takes a brownish trend in effect owing to the 
 presence of a well-defined crackle in brown lines, the decoration 
 being effectively- brought out by the thickening of the glaze and 
 its deepening in color in the depresMons. 
 
 Ilcif/ht. U-/, hiches. 
 
 63-1- — Tat,!, Ovifokji Cki-adox ^'ase ( Yung Clung) 
 
 634 
 
 Of graceful contour, the body slightly 
 spi-eading from the low waist to meet a 
 heavy con\ex foot, the higli sloping shoul- 
 der recur\ing in the neck, which expands in 
 a lightly flaring li)). Dense, sonorous porce- 
 lain with a gl.ize of pure sea-green tone 
 "onderfully worked in representation of sea 
 water when churned and lightened by millions 
 of small air bubbles — the eft'ect produced 
 within the glaze by what appear to be in- 
 numerable minute bubbles, some of which 
 Jire represented at the surface bj^ in- 
 finitesimal depressions which produce there 
 the equivalent of the "orange-peel" finish. 
 
 Height, 16 inches. 
 
 635 — GitACEFui. ("eladox Jak (Ming) 
 
 In inverted pear-shape or eidarged gallipot 
 form, the high globular body contracting 
 gently and tapering to a narrow foot ; short 
 cylindrical neck. Heavy sonorous porcelain, 
 covered with a dense glaze of light sea- 
 green tone and mirror-like brilliancy. 
 
 IlriqhI. 15';, inches. 
 
636 — Ckt.aiiox Jau with 'I'kakwooh (\)\Kit (M'ukj) 
 
 C'oUissal inverted ()i';ii'-sh;i|H' with licaxv IDot (locjjly icccsscd. 
 Sonorous stoiu'wciu'lit porcelain with cirar note, curved with a 
 deep base-border of pahiiatioiis, loiii;-, slender and sliarp-])ointe(l, 
 and foHate medallions ent-losin<;' flower and fruif niotivt's, and 
 between tlie medallions with blossoms and foliations. IJi'illiant 
 sea-g-reen glaze, ('oxer carved and pierct'd and surmounted by a 
 malachite knob handle ear\(.'d as a group of the sacred fungus. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Iliii/hl, ili;j iiiilicx: iliiiiiNlir, \t'y^ iiirhcs. 
 
 637 — Celadox Tripod Jar with Tk-vkwood Cover (Earli/ Ming) 
 
 Circular, slightly expanding, the lip folded inward and flat, with 
 the inner edge rounded; on three short feet, with heavy knees 
 modeled in relief as ancient masks or monster-heads. On the body 
 three elliptical medallions enclosing flower and leaf sprays modeled 
 in low relief, with incised veining, and two borders of foliations 
 incised in the paste. Covered with a Ijrilliant glaze of sea- 
 green tone and metallic luster and marked by a bold crackle in 
 brown lines. Glaze continued in tjie interior; bottom pierced. 
 Cover carved in relief with fungus scrolls and grotesque animal- 
 heads, and surmounted by a vermilion lacquer knob handle lightly 
 etched with plant forms and having three small seal marks im- 
 pressed. Has elaborately car\-e(l teakwood stand. 
 
 l/cii/hl. 91/, liirlns: diitiiicli'r. 1;!'/, inches. 
 
FIFTH AFTERNOON'S SALE 
 
 SATIKDAY, ri'JUU'AUV ^2S, i;)lJ< 
 AT THE AMERICAN AUT GALLKIMES 
 
 HEOIXXIXG AT ':1M0 <)"(1,0( K 
 
 Including Catalogue Nos. 639 to 814 
 
 SPECIMENS OF SINGLE-COLOR PORCELAINS 
 
 639 — ^IiNiATiKE GitAY-nr.rK Bottle (Ch'icn-J/nif)) 
 
 Globular, with .ibbroviatcd nock; covered with a histrous jrlaze 
 of even quality and a dark gray-blue tone. 
 
 640 ^MlXIATT'ItE CliACKI.lCl) IJoTTl.F. (Cli'im-hiiif/) 
 
 Flattouod pear-shape with short foot : lirrht greenish-yellow glaze 
 with fish-roe crackle. 
 
 641 ^IlXIATTRE PEAC'HIiT.OOJl ('rACKI,ED .TaK ( C'k' illl-lu Hfj) 
 
 Dense white poi'celain, covered with a gla/e of the ])eachbloom 
 ^•arietv in a solid dull pink, through »hich runs lightly a coarse 
 crackle. 
 
 642 — Yeleow Sxeff Jar {C'li'iin-hnirj) 
 
 Cvlindi-ical, covered with a bi'ight yellow glaze, with aTi under- 
 glaze decoration in velvety brown of a four-clawed dragon chasing 
 the flaming jewel amid fire-scrolls. Four-cliaracter mark of 
 C'h'eng Hua under foot ( aj)Ocryphal ) . 
 
 lleiqhi. ;! iiiclii'!:. 
 
 643 ]\IlXIATIT!E "SOE'J- Pas'J-e" IJoTTI.E (Cll'lCtl -llUKj) 
 
 Slender pear-shape with shoi't foot. Shai-ply uicised decoi-ation 
 of a fi\'e-clawed dragon among cloud and fii'e scrolls; coxei'cd with 
 a white glaze with the faintest pale yellow tinge. 
 
644 — Wbitek's Mixiatube Sang-de-boeuf Water Receptacle 
 (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Circular and shallow. Coated with a glaze of rich, deep and 
 dark ox-blood red, of mirror-quality and with a light crackle; 
 interior of lip with a ftambe glaze showing purple markings ; in- 
 terior of vessel with a grayish-celadon crackled glaze. 
 
 645 — Twix Snuff Bottles ix TrEauoisE-GKEEx (Eighteenth Cen- 
 tury) 
 
 Cylindrical form, the bodies joined the 
 full length of the cylinder. Coated with 
 a glaze of pale turquoise-green hue, with 
 rare mottling and an infinitesimal crackle. 
 Has teakwood stand. 
 
 646 — SjrALL Crackled Vase (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Flattened flask-shape with low foot; pale 
 yellow glaze of greenish trend with fish- 
 roe crackle. 
 
 Heif/ht, 3 inches. 
 
 645 
 
 647 — Writkr's ]\IiNL\TriiF, Watku Receptacle (Ch'icn-Jung) 
 
 Sciuat melon-shape, with eight lobes ; coated evenly with a light 
 coral rrlaze. 
 
 648 — ]\IixL\TrRK Blfe Jar (K'aiig-li.ii) 
 
 Globular, with wide mouth; glazed in cobalt-blue marked by 
 encircling fine lines. (Lip repaired.) 
 
 649 — ^IixiATURE Calves'-liver Cup (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Clear, delicate, vibrant white porcelain of semi-eggshell fineness, 
 with ringing note, in the shape of half an eggshell. Exterior 
 coated with an evenly toned glaze of calves'-liver hue ; the foot 
 penciled in undcrglaze blue with the six characters of Yung 
 Clieng. 
 
650 — Smai.i, C'i! acki.kii .Iau (Clt'itii'linif/) 
 
 Ovoulal contour, sonu'what (i'ltttiKd, on low I'ooh Coakd witli 
 a brilliant glaze of greenish canary- yellow having a tine crackle. 
 
 Ihli/lil, '^ iiichf'H. 
 
 651 GUHEN SXT-FF BoTTl.K [C ITic ll-l II llj/ ) 
 
 Flattened tlask-shape, with short foot; covt'red with a soft glaze 
 of matt surface in dark malachite-green, with a mimite crackle 
 running through a larger ramhling crackle, and continued under 
 the foot; the lip with a hard ghize of chocolate-hrown. 
 
 /fcii/Jil. 3 inches. 
 
 652 — Yellow C'KACKLEn BcrrTM-; (C'lrieii-Iinicj) 
 
 Gloliular-oxoidal, with flat foot and short tubular 
 neck; glaze a pale greenish-yellow with a fish- 
 
 rackle. Has stand. 
 
 }Ji'njhl. ia4 lllcJlfS. 
 
 652 
 
 65.'3 — ]\IiNL\TrRi-; ^'.\sK. (K\nu/-Jisi) 
 
 In\'erted ])ear-shapc, raised on a white unglazed 
 foot; with slnjrt narrow neck. Coated with a 
 brifi'ht, luminous jjlaze of rich, dark ox-blood 
 red, mottled and lightly flecked, the glaze ex- 
 tendintc to the interior of the neck. 
 
 654 — Pi:.A(H]iLOOM WixE C'i'P (Yviig Clu'iig) 
 
 Delicate sonorous porcelain, tlie exterior cov- 
 ered with a rich but delicate glaze of varying ])ink resembling 
 the downy coat of the peach. Penciled in brilliant blue imder 
 the glaze of the foot is a double I'ing enclosing the six-i'haractcr 
 mark of the reign: Ta-C'h'ing Yung Clu'iig nicn-chth. Has stand. 
 
 D'Hfmrfcr, 3 inches. 
 
 655 — Cylindrical Tnuir-oisE Jar {Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Under a ti'ansparent turquoise glaze, with minute crackle, there 
 is penciled in black (or dark color) a landscape skt'tch in 
 which a spotted stag is depicted under a pine tree. 
 
 TIfiijht, 3 inches. 
 
656 — CoBAi.T-Bi.uK KouoK Box WITH CoN'ER (K'(ing-hsi) 
 
 Delicate decoration in white reserve outline of scrolls, books and 
 orniinients. Has stand. 
 
 657 SmAT.T, PEAClIBI.OOjr BOTTT.K (Cli'lVlt-llUHj) 
 
 Dense porcelain, coated witli tlie "jieachbloom" ^laze in pink 
 
 and <rrav ashes-of- roses hue. 
 
 Ileiilht, 31/4 inches. 
 
 658 — ;\iixiATi'RE ^^\sK 
 
 O^oidal, elonfiated, on a low foot ; coated with a brilliant glaze 
 of rich sdiKj-dc-liauf red, mottled with grayish-white and 
 crackled. 
 
 659 — C'oKA[> C'rp (Ch'icti-Iung) 
 
 Of o\()idal contour, sprnigmg from a low foot with slight ex- 
 pansion. Delicate ])()rcelaiii, coated witli an even glaze of coral- 
 red : white gbize in interior and underneath the foot. (Cracked.) 
 
 660 SjIAT.T. C'l.AIR-DE-T.rXF. BoTT I,E-SH A T' ED A'.\SE ( K'tl llfj-hsi) 
 
 Ovoidal, A\ith slender neck; dense porcelain, covered with a elair- 
 de-Iu)ic glaze of palest grayish tint o\er a decoration of flowering 
 plants liglitly etched in the paste. Has stand. 
 
 Ihiqht. \-''\ inches. 
 
6(51 ImI'ERIAL YkI.IOW IUiITI.K-SIIAI'KD \asK (K'dlKJ'hul) 
 
 ni\.io()n,il, on low pcdc'stiil foot. \i base ol' neck 
 and on lip incised foliate bordirs. Scnii-transku-cnt 
 porcelain, coated with a glaze of Imperial yellow 
 note and lustrous surface, lias stand. 
 
 Ilcif/hf, 3 inches. 
 
 662 — Smaii, Black Botti.k (K'tiiig-lixi) 
 
 Ovoid, tlie sloping slioulder tapering into a short 
 
 slender neck very slightly expanding in tile upward 
 
 (hrection. Coated with a brown-black glaze of 
 
 mirror quality, the rim with a wliite glaze. Has 
 
 carved stand. 
 
 Iliiqhl. P'j iiiclies. 
 
 (Oil 
 
 663 ^IrSTARD-YEI.l.OW CkACKT^KD JaU { Cll' ic II-] llllfj) 
 
 In the shape of a truncated and inverted cone, ("oatcd with a 
 
 light mustard- A'cllow glaze of slight greenish tint with a fine 
 
 fish-roe crackle, which extends over the li{>; foot glazed but not 
 
 crackled. ( Repaired.) 
 
 Ili'Ujhl. \- litrhes. 
 
 66i — Small Turqioise A'ase (Ch'icii-hiiif/) 
 
 After tlic double-gourd form, with a globular jar-shajjcd body 
 supporting a pear-shaped \ase for neck, the whole coated with 
 a turquoise glaze of delicate hue, nu'nutelv crai-kled. 
 
 Tfiifihl. 1 1 o iiirhes. 
 
 665 — Blue Bottle {Ch'icn-luiig) 
 
 Ovoid, with thick neck; covered with a somewhat mottled blue 
 glaze of lapis (juality. Has st;ind. 
 
 IfrlffJif. .> 1 ., inches. 
 
 666 S.MALL \ VAAMW ( ' H A ( K 1. Kl) BoTII.K ( ( IT itil-l II llf/ ) 
 
 Squat o\()id bod\' on low circul/ir foot, with flattened shoulder 
 and tubular neck, the lip de/ined by an incised ring. Coated with 
 a light greenish-yellow glazi' of bright surface, with a fine crackle. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Jhcii/hi , ;{i :, iiich(s. 
 
66^ 
 
 -Sj:all Coral ^'ask {Cliien-lung) 
 
 0\'oidal, with flat foot and short narrow 
 neck with spreading hp. Glazed in a light 
 coral tone, the interior of neck and the foot 
 in white, and showing on one face the lines 
 of a plant-spray decoration originally 
 painted in gold. Has stand. 
 
 Uetfjht, 5 inches. 
 
 668 — Sjiall TrnqroisE Bottt>e (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Ovoid, rather squat body, with sloping 
 shoulder and straight tubular neck. Coated 
 with a glaze of delicate turquoise, with char- 
 actei'istic striations, presenting faithfully 
 the texture of the stone. Has carved stand. 
 
 Heifiht, 5 inches. 
 
 669 — Starcii-kluk Globi-t.ar Water Jar (Ch'icn-Iung) 
 
 Dense hard paste, covered with a monochrome glaze of opaque 
 starch-blue of a soft luster. Has stand. 
 
 670 — Two Yellow Cabixet A'ases {K\i)ig-hsi) 
 
 With spreading foot, expanded body and flaring trumpet lip, the 
 rim and mouth glazed in white. One with spherical body, coated 
 with a lemon-yellow glaze with greenish tinge ; the other with 
 ovoidal-globular body and glazed in canary-yellow. Have stands. 
 
 IIci(fht. 5 inches. 
 
 671 — Slate-guay Peak-s}l\ped ^'ase (K'(uig-]isi) 
 
 With long neck and short exerted lip; on a low circular foot. 
 Covered with a cobalt-blue glaze so pale as to be in effect gray, 
 and exhibiting innumerable dark fleckings, which appear also 
 in the white glaze on the interior of the neck. Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 5 inches. 
 
67'-! Dotlll.K-litMliO SlIAPKn TirluJIiOLSK \'asK. (C ll'lCII-l II IKJ ) 
 
 673 
 
 111 the form <it' tlii'cc doulilc-i^-ourds hound 
 together hv a rihhoii tiiil in u bow-knot, 
 \\iiich is iiiodelrd in the p.'islc, the bodies of 
 the e'ourds eoah'st'ini;' and fornniifr a siiifjle 
 vase, l)ut tht'ir neeks retainiiie- their indi- 
 viduahtv, ^'iNuii;' the \essel three mouths or 
 apertures, lias stand. 
 
 lliUlhl. 1':, ilirhiK. 
 
 673 — S.\i>riiiiiK-]ii,nK BoTTLK ( Ch'lcii-hiiig) 
 
 O\oi(l body Mith tubular iiet'k and flat 
 foot ; eo\en'd « itli a lapis o-laze whicji on 
 tile net'k and shoulder pales a little toward 
 lavender, while about the underbody and 
 foot it is a deep, brilliant sap])liirc-bluc. 
 
 Ilf'u/lil. !j-['^ incht'.f. 
 
 674 — AsuES-OF-RosES Pear-.shaped A'.\se (C'h'icii-Iiiiig) 
 
 Full-bodied, on a low circular foot, and contractinrj slowly to 
 a short slender neck with flariiif)- lip. Coated throughout the 
 exterior surface with a glaze of ashcs-of-roses hue, varying from 
 the pinkish tone to grayish-brown ; interior of lip white. Under 
 the foot a four-character mark of Ilsiian Te ( a[)ocryphal) . 
 
 llciglit, 5',4 inches. 
 
 17-3 — Gkkkx Twix-fish Tr.w {C'h'icii'hi in/) 
 
 A circular tray or sliallow dish, modeled in the bodies of two 
 car[) in the "twin-fisir' device, the scales and fins brought out in 
 the modeling, the dors;d fin in bold relief. Glazed in malachite- 
 green, the tone \arving according to the modeling; tlie eyes 
 glazed in black. Has car\i'd stand in accord uith the motive. 
 
 ItiiiDichr (IciKjIh (if fixh), S'/j inclu'S. 
 
 676 — rowuER-iir.rE Bo'r'ji.i; ( CJi'icii'liiiirj) 
 
 Ovoid bodies and tubular necks. Invested with a brilliant glaze 
 
 of dark powder-blue. 
 
 llii(ilil. 5 iiiclii's. 
 
677 — S5iALi> Coral Jak (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Oviform, with flat foot, high shoulder 
 and sliort neck. Unctuous glaze of 
 mottled coral tone with strong metallic 
 reflections, carrying a decoration of 
 flower sprays penciled in gold, of which 
 considerable vestiges persist. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 5 inches. 
 
 678 — BoTTi.E-Foii.M Ti'RiiCoisE Vase (Cli'leti- 
 hing) 
 
 Ovoid bodv with tubular neck. Covered 
 with a brilliant glaze of rich "turquoise- 
 green," or the hue of the washed stone, 
 with a delicate fish-roe crackle, the glaze 
 about the entire body marked by numer- 
 ous and successive striations. Has 
 
 carved teakwood stand. 
 
 Height, jiA inches. 
 
 679 — Yellow Beaker-suaim;!) Crr (Ch'icn-hing) 
 
 Glazed in a pale canary-yellow, brilliant and without the cus- 
 tomary metallic glint. Inscription on the foot. Has stand. 
 
 Height. HV;. inches. 
 
 680 — B[iowx Bottle-shaped A'ase {Chien-lung) 
 
 Ovoidal-globular body on sliort circular foot, with neck slightly 
 expanding at tile mouth. Covered with a monochrome glaze 
 of brown tone which shows the flecks or clots of the saiig-dc- 
 httnfs, but by contrast mostly in lighter key than the body 
 color. Has stand. 
 
 Height, 6 inches. 
 
 681 — ^loTTi.Ei) Lai'is-hi.ie \'ase { ( W ic ii-ltuig ) 
 
 Ovoid, with bulbous neck; co\ ered with a bright glaze of \arv- 
 ing tones in the hues of lapis, with suggestions of powder-lilue 
 
 quality. Has stand. 
 
 Hf igiil . ^i .. incited 
 
682 — I'KAK-siiAri'.ii Lisri'ii Nasi: ( K\iii</-li.\i) 
 
 On a i'(iiu'a\ ()-i-()ii\ rx loot, the oxoid.'il l)o(l\' rfcii rxjiii;' m a sIkjiI 
 
 wide iK'i'k to u flarino- lip. Coaled with a hi'ow riisli-hlaek i;la/,e 
 
 displaviiin- a lirilliaiit iiietallit' i rideseeiiee ; iidei'ioi- with a daik 
 
 brown ijiaze of yellowish trtaid; rim with a \vliite f;la/e. Has 
 ear\ed teak\voo(l stand. 
 
 Ifii)/li{. .') iiirhis. 
 
 6S;5 — rnwiiF.ii-Bi.ri-: Rottlk (Ch'icii-hi in/) 
 
 ()\()id body and tul)ulai' neck, e\hit)it inj[; .a 
 brdhant <i'la/e of dark now (lir-blne. 
 
 Ilcii/hl . 
 
 ill, 'hi 
 
 683 
 
 6S4 — Yi:t,i.<)w C'iiACKM-:n iJoi'ji.io (i'li'icn-huifj) 
 
 Globular, ^\■ith slender neck sliglitly expand- 
 iiifT at lip, on low circular foot. Mustard- 
 yellow f^'laze of f^reenish tin<;'e, ])ei'int'ated 
 by a tine tish-roe crackle; o'laze, but not the 
 t'raekle, continued under foot; ulterior of 
 lU'ck Ml tui'(|Uoise-f^reen ; Yi\\\ \n ])lack. 
 
 Itiinlil. .-.■j liirh,:,-. 
 
 i^^r (jS.3 JioTTI.K-l.QH.M "I'lKQIOlSK \'asK {Cll'llll- 
 
 linif/ ) 
 
 Ovoid body, with slender neck and flaring 
 lip. Den.se porcelain, enameled with a thick, ci-ackled tur(|uoise 
 cflaze, the shoulder in the characteristic delicati' blue, the fflaze 
 elsewhere trending to the line of the green or Avashed turquoise. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Ifri^/lll. .3' 4 l.liclll .^. 
 
 686 — Pi:ACHiir.oo.\r Botti,i-;-shaim;i) \.\se (Ch"un-Jnu<i) 
 
 Globular, on short circular foot, with sloping shoulder taper- 
 ing into a slender neck. Coated with a peachblooin glaze almost 
 e\enlv of a pinkish-brown tone, lightening to aslu's-of-roses, with 
 a surface of the delicate, suggested crinkle of the li\ei'-color 
 glazes. 
 
 Ifiii/ll/. ?':, ilirJiix. 
 
 687 I^KTTITE-GRF.F.X J.\R { Cll'lV ll-Jll lUj) 
 
 Elongated, slightly ovrjirlal, with high and short sloping shoulder 
 and abbreviated neck. Coated with a lusti'ous clouded glaze of 
 fresh lettuce-green, resenililing those jades with markings as 
 of snow or snow-ice melting in green ^vater. Has st.md. 
 
 Iti ii/hl. ,)l :, liirh, X. 
 
688 — Mustard-yellow Crackled Bottt.e (Cli'ien-lung) 
 
 Ovoid body with flat foot, and slightly expanding neck. Mus- 
 tard-yellow glaze of slight greenish tinge with fine crackle, ex- 
 tending to interior of neck and underneath foot. Has stand. 
 
 Ileir/lit. 514 inches. 
 
 689 — PowDKii-BLrE Bottle (Ch'ien-hinrj) 
 
 Ovoid body and tubular neck. Coated with a brilliant dark 
 powder-blue glaze. 
 
 Iliight. 6 inches. 
 
 690 — Sqlat Bottlk-shai'ed Turquoise A'ask {Ch'icn-Jiing) 
 
 
 The squat body, on a pedestaled foot, 
 encircled equatoriallv bv a narrow, 
 channeled band, the base of the neck 
 defined in raised molding, the lip 
 everted and flanged. Turquoise-blue 
 crackled glaze, j)aling and deepening 
 according to the modeling of the paste, 
 and extending into the interior of the 
 neck. 
 
 Height, 4i/, inches. 
 
 691 — Two ]\Itstard-yki.t,ow Beaker- 
 shaped Cui's (ili'ii'ii-hnig) 
 
 0\'oidal hotly on low foot, supporting a 
 short, wide, flaring neck. Exterior 
 covered with a brilliant nuistard-yellow 
 glaze with metallic luster, the glaze 
 deepening to dark orange in a fine 
 ring defining the neck and foot. Underneath the foot a four- 
 character inscription in coral-red. Have stands. 
 
 Ileiqht, 31/. inches. 
 
 C'l'- 
 
 690 
 
 692 — Bottle-form TuR(iuoisE "\'ase (C'h'ioi-hnu/) 
 
 0\()id, with tubular neck; coated Avith a mirror-glaze of tur- 
 Cjuoise tone and fish-roe crackle, blue about the slioulder and 
 trending toward "turquoise-green" on neck and underbody. 
 Has carved stand. 
 
 Height, 51/2 inches. 
 
(J9;J — PKAni mooM S All 1 K-nisii (( h'ii-ii-linn/) 
 
 Sli;ill(i\v t'irt'iilar fdrin on low foot. 'I'Ir- cxti'rioi- .iiid intci-ior 
 roati'tl with a rich |)c;u-hl)h)oiii i^'la/A' of an c\in, soft pmk tone 
 and lirilhaiit surf.ua', thr rim white. I'lulorneiitli the uhite (I'l.i/.rd 
 toot, six-c'h.ar.u'ter mark of K'ang-lisi jjcnciled in hi-i^'ht blue 
 under the glaze. 
 
 Gd-i — Ix\K,i!TKn l'i:.\ii-sn AIM'; Tr itciioisi'-, \'.\sp. (Ch")cu-lini<i) 
 
 ^^'lth shoi't net'k and thiekened foot. Co.ited with a full-colored 
 tur([iioise i^la/e marked hv sundry tine tlcckuii;s, the ^l.ize deep- 
 enmij to a d.irk hue "here it thickens about the modeled foot. 
 Has car\ed stand. 
 
 Jlih/lil. .»i' iiirlirx. 
 
 69.) — Gi!.\v-Bi,rK ^'AsE (Cli'uii-hnici) 
 
 Low, o\(iid.il bod\' on a circular foot: lonif 
 neck and tiarinn- lip. Coated with an unctu- 
 ous (rl.ize of (rriseous hue from toot to the 
 rim, ^\ hich \\ith the inner surfaci' of the 
 lip is (T lazed white. ( l*'oot sliehtl v chipped. ) 
 Has stand. 
 
 If ('mill, .ji^ iiirhrs. 
 
 696 — Yki.i.ow ('k-\( k'i.c, A'-\si-; (ClCiiii-Unui) 
 
 O\oidal, with hii;h shouldei', short neck and 
 spreadinf^ hj), and tlat foot. ]$right yellow 
 <j\:v/.v, \\itli fine t-rackle extendintr to the in- 
 tenor of neck; foot elazed but not t'rackled. 
 
 H.is stand. 
 
 llrinhi. :,'■ , ill, In. I. 
 
 697— ('Ai-i'"s-r,ivKR \'ask (Ch'uii-huKj) 
 
 Inyerted peai'-shape \\'\[\[ sloping;- shoiildiu-, slit;litly spreading 
 foot, slender neck and tlai'ine- lip. Co.ited evenly with .a liimiinius 
 glaze in cal ves"-llvei' hue, and surface in eonfoi-inity with the ap- 
 pearance represented; intei-ioi- of lip in white. Has stand. 
 
 Jfrtiflll. (i ilirlu'.^. 
 
698 — OvoiDAi, Jar with C'arvkd Teakwood Covek (Chien-lung) 
 
 Narrow form, glazed in a soft slate- 
 gray, 
 foot. 
 
 gray, the glaze continued under the 
 
 Height. 41/4 inches. 
 
 699 — Lai'is-hi.i-k Bgtti.k (C'h'ien-Jniig) 
 
 Ovoid, A\ith straight neck. Coated with 
 a glaze of lapis-blue, whicli on one side 
 of the body deepens to a mirror-black. 
 
 Ifeiffhf. .5% inches. 
 
 700 — IjApis-bi.tk Bottlk (CJi'icn-lung) 
 
 Ovoid, with slender neck, its brilliant 
 monochrome glaze in rich deep lapis- 
 
 bk 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 (i9>^ 
 
 Heiqht. 6 inches. 
 
 701 — Yklj.ow C"ha( ki.ei) Jak (Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Elongatetl ovoid form, A\ith sloping shoulder and abbreviated 
 neck. Glazed in a mustard-yellow of greenish tinge, with fish- 
 roc crackle. H.as stand. 
 
 Ihiijllf. 'y^,:. illchl.^. 
 
 702 — C'ajif.i,li.\-eeaf Guei;^- Bow i, ( K'aiig-li.si) 
 
 On short circular foot. The interior covered with a camellia- 
 leaf green glaze having a fine crackle. The glaze on the exterior 
 is lightei-, a watermelon-green, which continues underneath the 
 foot and is also crat'klcd; rim ghized in broAvn. 
 
 Diumeli r. 5 inches. 
 
 703 — ^Mazakixi-.-hlie Bottm-: {Clt'ieii-Iuiig) 
 
 Globular, ta])ering to a slender neck, on a circular foot. C'o.ited 
 with an even, luminous glaze of dark mazarine-blue, which cx- 
 tcntls to the interior of the neck. Has stand. 
 
 Heif/ht. (i inches. 
 
704 — ()\(iLi) Hi, IK ,Iai; with ('aimim) Ti^AKWodn CoNiJc {('li'irii l/iiij/) 
 
 ('oatcil uitli :i iiioiiot'lirDiiic ^l;i/c ot 
 f^THVisli-lapis tone, a (Iccdfatioii ot 
 spi'ays, blossDins and iiist'cts pi'iicilid 
 in ligliUT krv on tlic pasfc rrxcalmi^- 
 tlaaiisolx t's tliriuinli Hir ;;la/,(_'. lias 
 stand. 
 
 Ihiillll. :{■■■ I ilirhis. 
 
 i't).") -Bd'i' ri.K-ii)ii.\i Ti iKiioisi.; ^'asi-: (('h'uii- 
 hiiKj ) 
 
 ()\(ii(l lioilv with thick neck, tlic tur- 
 i|U(iisc-hhic n'lazc niai'kccl by lateral stri- 
 ations and a tine ci-ackle. lias carved 
 stand. 
 
 Ill iiilil . ,V'| hi, ■Ill's. 
 
 701- 
 
 7('(j — ( 'ai.\ks'-i,i\ i;l! Vask (Yiukj C'Jiiih/) 
 
 Of bulbous form, as of an in\erted pear-shape vase niei'(>'infr 
 with a o'lobidar l)(ittlt'-slia|(e vase, with slif^'htU' spreadin^r foot, 
 aiul short slender neck lightly expandiiii;;- at the lij). ('o\ered 
 witll a brilliant f^iaze of maroon tone and classed as Iner-color. 
 
 Ilihlhl. -,■■■, iiirhrs. 
 
 rOT — Bi.rE-iii.Ac K BoT'i'i.E (Ch'un-luiKj) 
 
 f)\oid, with tubular liet-k, its en\elopin;j monocliroiiie f;Iaze of so 
 deep and dark a blue as to l)e almost black. Has car\ed stand. 
 
 lliiyhl. a inches. 
 
 TOM — GiiAY-ii i.i'K HoT'ri.K (C'liltN-linijj) 
 
 Globular bodv, taperiiiif to a short, straifiht and slender neck; 
 with lo\^' circular toot. ('o\ered with a monoclirome o-|a/,e of 
 subdued luster m a fi'rav-blue or dee|) })ou(ier-blue tone and 
 e\X'n distribution. Has stand. 
 
 I f I ii/ll I . .V' , i nrlir.s-. 
 
 70!) — S-j-.\Rf'ii-iir.rK HoiTi.K (( It'icii-hnKj) 
 
 Ovoid with tubular neck, co\cred with an unctuous fj-laze in the 
 hue known as starch or slati'-bliie, with d;irk tleckirin-s. Has 
 c/ir\'ed stand. 
 
 II riifhl . .r^ I illrhct. 
 
710 — Rare Turquoise Bottle (K'ang-hsi) 
 
 In bulbous pear or graceful gourd shape, 
 drawn into a tall, slender neck ; luxuriant 
 floral scrolls and foliations etched and 
 modeled in tlie paste : flooded with a lus- 
 trous glaze of delicate, mottled turquoise, 
 wliich, deej)eniiig in the incisions, emphasizes 
 the outlines and details of the decoration. 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 Hiiiijhl, fii/o liichix. 
 
 711 — BoTTT.E-FORji TuRQUOisE Vase (Ch'ien- 
 lung) 
 
 Ovoid, with tubular neck: coated with a 
 bright glaze of turcjuoise-blue having a fish- 
 roe crackle. Has teakwood stand. 
 
 Heiyht, 5;4 inchis. 
 
 71!-^ — Bkkf's-i.iver A'ase (Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 On circular flat foot ; swelling center and 
 short wide cvlindrical neck, in form as of a pear-shaped vase 
 posed upon an inverted pear-shaped base, their bodies coales- 
 cing or merging at the greatest diameter. Covered with a 
 rich brown liver-colored glaze whicli deepens in tone toward 
 the base and contains the minute surface markings conveying 
 
 an intimation of the texture represented. 
 
 Height, 71/, inchea. 
 
 71''5 Cue rMDER-OREEX ^'ASE ( A" tl ll(/-hsi) 
 
 Ovoid, on low circular foot, with crescent neck ending in flaring 
 
 lip; Ijrilliant crackle glaze of cucumber-green tone with a slight 
 
 metallic luster. (Lip re})aired.) 
 
 Height, 5' v. i)ich(x, 
 
 711 — r>APis-iii,i'K BoTTi.E (Cli'icn-hitig) 
 
 Globular, with sleiuler neck, on a circul;ir foot. Covered with 
 a lustrous glaze of pure lapis-blue. Has carved stand. 
 
 Hcil/llt, (i ill(ln.-<. 
 
 715 — Peak-shapkd PowDER-iu.TE ^'AsE ( C'h' ifu-Juiig ) 
 
 Tapering to a slender neck, with e\ertitl lip; on low circular 
 foot. The monochrome glaze a luminous powder-blue and ex- 
 tended to the interior of the neck. (lap chipped.) 
 
 Iliiiiht, ,3' ,_. in, Ills, 
 
rK) — I'MurK 1'ka 
 
 ■:aiii hi, (Id 
 
 M W'lM'. 1V)1' ( K'llll(/-llsi) 
 
 III tile iOi'iii (if u slif^-litly 
 cloii^viti^'tl pcjicli Ndincwiiat 
 tl;itt(.nc(l, (in :i CdiiNCX tdcit ; 
 with Idd]) liandk' and vc- 
 (■ui'\(.'(l sjidiit. Tlicre is no 
 (ipciiin^- in \\\r td|i. 'J'he 
 Ncsscl is fiil(_'(l liv iin'crtiiig 
 it aiul jidurint;- the wine 
 tliroiio-lL an orifice in the 
 toot which is the entrance 
 to a tunnel exten(lin(j nearly 
 the depth of the pot. 'J'lie 
 tilled pot heinjr stood upon 
 its toot af^'ain is ready for 
 service. Coated «itli a irravish-greeii peachlildoiii ola/e in the 
 liue of the green fruit, with a mottled jiinkisli and green flecked 
 patch toward the top where it is beginning to ripen. 
 
 II riifht, I ' '^ iltrJiry. 
 
 717 — (tr.w'-jili'k Bottlk (C Ji'ii'ii-huig) 
 
 Globular, with tapering neck, on a low tdot ; the lustrous glaze 
 of a deep grav-blue, with mottled suggesti(jns of the powder- 
 blues. Has car\cd stand. 
 
 Height, 5-;4 incJii.i. 
 
 718 — Pear-suai'i;!! TiRciroisE ^'ASE {Ch'iru-Iuiuj) 
 
 Tapering to a full neck witli everted lij); on low circular foot. 
 Dense porcehiin, covered with an unctiKJus glaze (jf rich tur- 
 quoise-blue, of dull luster, the glaze m(j(lulated in slightly 
 darker lines encircling the vase and becoming more distinct and 
 emphatic on the neck. Has carved stand. 
 
 llfiijht, G inches, 
 719 Cue rjIBEK-GKKEX BoTTI.E ( K'll llfj-ll .si) 
 
 Ovoid, With fiat fo(jt and tubular neck; dark cucumbei--grecn 
 glaze, having a fine crackle. 
 
 Ileiijlit, 5;i iiiclnn. 
 
 720 — OviEOrt.M 'J'ri!(ir(iisi-; Vase {(li'ii'ii-liunj) 
 
 Coated throughout with ;i mottled tur(|U(ilse glaze, minutelv 
 crackled, the hue changing in jiatclies to tur(pi(iise-green. Has 
 carved stand. 
 
 ffiii/hl. (iK'^ ill, -Ins. 
 
721 — RoYAT. Bi.i'K (^rAi!iiAxc;T-i.AK Tkapot { Ch' icn-luiig) 
 
 In each face u depressed panel. Archaic ch-a^on-head loop 
 handle and recur\in(i- spout. I'lie wliole covered with a ricli 
 glaze of roval hlue, delicately mottled. Xeck and cover coated 
 with metal, the cnwv surmounted by a metal Fu-lion croucliing 
 on his forepaws, with rump upraised and tail flourishing. 
 
 Leiiijfh. 7 inchi'K. 
 
 722 — St.kxi>i-.r ( 'i,Aii!-i)E-T.rxK A'asf, (K'inig-hsi) 
 
 The circular body, with fiat foot, expands very slightly to a 
 shoulder which « ith a steep slope cur\es into a slender neck with 
 lightly expanding li[). C'oati^d with a transparent vhiir-dc-lune 
 glaze of ))earh-gray hue through which is seen a decoration 
 etched m the paste. This consists of })lants with blossoms, on 
 the body, a hatched shoulder border, and on the neck foliations 
 and a point or rudimentary palmation Ijorder. the latter above 
 two etched rings. Has stand. 
 
 Ill ii/hl . S' ., iiiclii s. 
 
 72.'3 — Si.KxnKit Tr i!(jioisK-(:itEKx A'ask {dilai-linn/) 
 
 A rare example. Pear-sha])ed, on circular foot, gracefully taper- 
 ing to a slender lU'ck, «ith lightly s|M'eading liji. Glazed in a 
 dark turquoise-green, Iriiitc, the lip in or hniiii running from 
 scal-bro«n to a sott golden \ellow. Has stand. 
 
 lU'nihl. 6 inrlii'.':. 
 
^m 
 
 \ 
 
 7-24, 
 
 7-^() 
 
 724 — Peachbloom Gi.oiui.Au Jar (C'h'nii-liiiig) 
 
 Pure white \ ihi-.-int jiorccbiiii coated with a peacliljloom jtfla/c 
 
 of brilliant siii'face and uniform color quality, the hue being a 
 
 deep, rich pink. Ha^ stand. 
 
 Dioiiiclrr. !i ' :, iiirlti s. 
 
 -C'OKAI.-KEI) BcjTTI.li-FOIt.M \ ,\SK ( C ll'w H-lx llfj ) 
 
 Squat ovoidal body on a circular foot, with sloping shoulder 
 and tubular neck, the neck iiiai'kt'd by a slightly depressed 
 nioldefl band, aiul a stej)ped bulbous expansion just below the 
 short lip. Delicate «hite porcelain, covered with a uniform 
 monochrome frlaze of iMcli coral with dull luster. Has stand. 
 
 Ileiijlil. (j<4 iiichin. 
 
 726 — S-rAiUH-nr.ri-; Rrr.Hors \ ,\sv. {Clilrii-hnuj) 
 
 Globular l)od\' \(ith slendei' neck ^^hlch has .a bold bulbous ex- 
 pansion at the lij). I'nifoi'in glaze of bhush-grav or starch- 
 blue, of lustrous surface. Has stand. 
 
 I/i'ighl, 5';, lurtua. 
 
727 — C'oKAL-BED 'N'ase (Cliien-lung) 
 
 Elongated ovoidal form, with sloping shoul- 
 der and short, truncated neck. Covered 
 witli a mottled coral glaze of dull luster, 
 which discloses the lines of a floral spray or 
 plant cluster, extending from base to shoul- 
 der on one face, which originally was gilded. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Hciyht, ()'/., (iirhex. 
 
 728 — Cltb-shapkd Ttrqcoisk A'ase (Ch'ien- 
 lung) 
 
 With slender neck and everted lip. Coated 
 in turquoise-blue of brilliant surface, the 
 glaze deepening in tone at the base of the 
 neck and about the foot and revealing a fine 
 fish-roe crackle througliout. Has stand. 
 
 Htif/ht. 7 inches. 
 
 729 — ^lAZAiuxE-Bi.n-: Bottle (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Globular, on a low foot, the body tapering to a short, straight, 
 slender neck. Covered with a lustrous glaze of depth and rich- 
 ness in an even (juality of pure mazarine-blue, with mirror- 
 surface. Has cai-ved stand. 
 
 Height, 6i;4 inches. 
 
 730 — MoTTi.Eu Coral \'ase (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Oviform, with high shoulder recurving ni an abbreviated neck, 
 the body contracting gracefullv to a convex foot. Coated with 
 a eor.'il glaze slightly mottled, wJKjse dull luster is almost barren 
 of the custoniarv met;d]ic I'eflections. Has stand. 
 
 Hiiijht. 71,4 inches. 
 
 731 — ]\It-st.\i{1)-yeei,ow ]?ottt,e ( Ch'un-Juiig) 
 
 Globular, «ith slightly expanding neck; coated with a brilliant 
 glaze of light mustai'd-vellow. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 7 inches. 
 
 732 — Two PowDEU-Hi.r E ]}o\\ i.s (K'ling-lisi) 
 
 Widely flaring from a low circular foot. Exterior and interior 
 coated uniformly with a cobalt glaze flecked and mottled in a 
 fouettc effect, the thin rims whiti'. Clear porcelain of sonorous 
 tone. 
 
 I'idini / 1 r. S'> , i iii-Ih s. 
 
riu' surtaco iiiolilid in representation ot tlie feathers of the liii'd, 
 and eoatod with a larli tiiriiuoise f^'laze of brilliant sui-faee uliicli 
 \arit's 111 I'oior (|uality aecordiiii;' to tlie niodelini;- of the paste. 
 Has metal loop handle. 
 
 7;54 COUAI.-KKII ^'ASK (Yilllf/ CJu'llj/) 
 
 Inverted pear-shape on convtx foot, with short iieek. Rieh, deep 
 eoral glaze of dull luster with inetallic notes. Mas stand. 
 
 1 1 ( itjli 1 . 7 i lirin .V. 
 
 l-io C'LAlR-DE-l.rXli SjlALL J.\R ( K' ll lUJ-ll si) 
 
 Glol)ular-o\didal, on flat foot, with- 
 out neck and with \\ ide mouth. 
 C'o\'ered with a cltiir-ilf-luiic glaze 
 of pale la \ t'lider-gra V tone. 
 (Cracked.) Has stand. 
 
 Dlanirl rr. S'^ inrhrs'. 
 
 7-36' — ^^'I!I■rKu"s ^^^\Tl■:l( Rkcki't.vci^k in 
 I'kaciiiu.oo.m ( K\ui(/-]i.si) 
 
 shallow circular form, the ovoidal 
 
 sides infolding to a witle mouth. 
 
 73,5 Coated with a peat'lil)looiii glaze of 
 
 ashes-of-roses hue mottled with 
 
 many deep pink fleckings. Intirior and foot glazed in white, 
 
 the foot tjearing the six-character mai-k of K"ang-lisi ])enciled 
 
 in blue under the glaze. Has stand. 
 
 Vitiiiif'/f'i'. 41:, inr]n's. 
 
 rST Al'PJ.K-CKKKX Gl.OBri.AK Jak {h"llllf/-ll.u) 
 
 Dense sonorous jiorcelaiii, coxered with an apple-green glaze 
 having a bold crackle in l)ro\\n lines; interior and foot with a 
 pearl-white glaze and the same crackle. Has stand. 
 
 DidiiH'l rr. t''^. iiiflics. 
 
 (lUustriilcJ) 
 
r^S Al'PI.E-GREEX Cl!A<Kr,ED JaR ( ICcUig-llsi) 
 
 Globnlai'-ovoidal, witli rudimentary lip and wide mouth, on low 
 circular foot. Sonorous porcebun, coated with a crackle glaze 
 of liffht apf)le-green, the crackle in pale brown lines ; foot and 
 interior with jjearl-^xhite glaze and brown crackle. Has stand. 
 
 T>'utiiif'i(' i\ 4'Vi, iiiclu'i- 
 
 {Illustrated) 
 
 739 — Pkac'hbloo.m Jar with Teak wood ('o^'ER {K\i!tg-hsi) 
 
 Ghjbular, with wide moutli, to 
 which is fitted the hat-shaped 
 carxed co\'er. Coated with a lu- 
 minous glaze in the mottled 
 grayis]i-])ink hue of peaches that 
 are ripennig, the color deepening 
 toward the foot. Has stand. 
 
 iJiinnvt i'l'. 3 inchea. 
 
 740 — Pi-:ACHiii.o().M Jar ( K'diig-hai) 
 
 Squat, heavy pear-sha])e body, 
 compressed, recurving in a short 
 neck to form a slightly flaring 
 lip; A\ide mouth: low foot. Ex- 
 terior coated with a luminous 
 peachbloom glaze of rich quality, 
 varying fi'om a luscious red to 
 rosy puiks, aslu's-of-roses, and 
 greenish-gray mottlings ; interior 
 xvitii a gray-white glaze having a 
 niilai- glaze with smaller crackle under 
 
 739 
 
 cdfc-iiii-litit crackle 
 foot. Has stantl. 
 
 h'linnrh i- . \ iiirlx 
 
 {Illu.sfrtital) 
 
 r-ti— s 
 
 \ppHiRi:-])i,TE Gaetjpot ( CW ic nAu)tg) 
 
 Dense porc-elain. enameled with a lustrous glaze of sa})phire- 
 blue, trending toward gray, of richness and depth, and thick- 
 ening evenly and characteristically about tlie foot. The lip 
 glazed in \\liik\ H.is stand. 
 
 ILnjhI. :> ■, hlrhai. 
 (Illustrated) 
 

 
 ■J 
 
 2, 
 
^■1- I'-Mli AA'Arr.liMKl.OX-CKKIvX ^'AS|.■.S (K\lll(/-]lxi) 
 
 OxifoiMii, with short neck anil spiT.-uiini^ lip; 
 (.■ojitrd witli a histrous nl.-i/c of w iitcmicloii- 
 UTri'ii, tniiti', the i^lazc tlowiiif;- to the inti'rior 
 of thi' hp and contiiuicd under the foot. (Lip 
 of one chipped.) IIa\e stands. 
 
 U(iiflil, .V;'| ilirhry. 
 
 i'-i;} — Co I! AT, -If I'll Jau \vrn[ Ti;akwooii Conkk 
 ( ( 'h'ii'ii-hi lu/ ) 
 
 ()\(iidal, with hijrli shouhler and trune.ated 
 uet'k ; flat foot. ('o\ered with a liiiiiiiKius 
 <jla/,e of mottled eoral. N'estio-es of a f^ilded 
 decoration. lias stand. 
 
 I/d./Jil. (i-| in, ■In:-:. 
 
 fii — Gkkkx ('i!A(Ki.k Bo'i'TTa-; (( ]i"uu-lini(j) 
 
 O\oidal-frlot)ular body with fulnilai' neck. ('(nfred with a lu- 
 minous (r|a/e of apple-e-reeii hue, tliounh dift'enn^ m color- 
 cjualitv from other apple-^'rei'ns, and carr\'ini»' a small, tine 
 crackle in firm lines, tlie ojaze extendiiii;- underneath the foot. 
 A^'hite fflaze on lip, o\erflowino' to the interior of the neck where 
 it is crackled. Has stand. 
 
 fliii/hl. ,",14 inches. 
 
 (Illiistrutcd) 
 
 745 — Cajiklija-lkaf Grkk.v A'ask ( h'\ni(j-h.\i) 
 
 Bottle-shape, witli ovoidal hody on short spreadiilfr foot, abrupt 
 
 shoulder of flat slope, and tubular neck. Coated with a iiiono- 
 
 chi-onie f^laze of camellia-leaf green, the neck and shoulder of 
 
 unctuous surface and dull luster, the under-hody with a bright 
 
 sui'face. Has stand. 
 
 Ili'i'ilit. 5''''j iiicJi<'.-<. 
 
 (1 (Inst rat id) 
 
 746 — Ai'i'r.K-f:Ki;j;x Jak { K\iti<j-]isi) 
 
 Qyoid, with cAci-ting lip; coated with a light ap|)K-green glaze 
 boldly crackh.'d in brown lines, the foot and interior and the rim 
 luu'ing a peai-1-white glaze with brin\ n crackle. H.as car\'ed teak- 
 wood lotus-flower stand. 
 
 Ifeiljllt, ■I'Y^ ilichl'.i. 
 
 ( Illustrated) 
 
747 — Writk.r's PKAciriii.ooM Watkk Rkckptacle mith Silver Cover 
 ( K'aug-hsi) 
 
 Sliallow circuliir foi-ni on \o\\ foot, the expanded siiles infolding 
 to a. « ide inotitli. Clear, resonant jjoi'celam, glazed in tlie rich, 
 shaded and clouded ])inks of the co;it of the ripening peach, 
 with green fleckings ; under foot and on interior surface a Avhite 
 glaze, the foot ])enciled Avith the six-character mark of K'ang- 
 hsi in bright blue. The eo\er has a rej)ousse floral scroll deco- 
 ration in three expanded foliate medallions about a pierced- 
 blossom center. Has stand. 
 
 748 — Pi-;Acui)T.()0^n Gat.eii'ot ((_ h'tcu-Juug) 
 
 Dense white porcelain, corLted with a glaze of the peaclibloom 
 family but diff'ei-enti.ated from the peachbloom glaze of the 
 earlier reigns — a cruslied-strawberrv hue, the color thinly spread 
 except at base of neck and foot, where it deepens, elsewhere 
 runnijig in light or rosy mottlings and on some surfaces almost 
 vanishing, leaving the body white. Has stand. 
 
 lliiilhl. (i iiii-h(S. 
 
 749 — Aprri:-(:RKi:x ]5or'ri,K ( h'\nif/'Ii.si) 
 
 Squat body on low circular foot, with short, full, very slightly 
 expanding neck. Dense porcelain, with an a})})le-green crackled 
 glaze, the glaze continued under the foot: interior of neck liaving 
 a gray-white glaze with bi'owii t'rackle. Has stand. 
 
 Th'iqht. .3^ .> 'inchis. 
 
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750 — Writkr's Pkachih.oo.^i Watf.u Rkckptaci.t, { h"ii)i(j-hsi) 
 
 St'ini-globular, with fiat foot, and narrow iiioutli with siher lip- 
 rim. Dense porcelain of K"ang-hsi, coateil with a j)eachbloom 
 glaze lia\ing a bold crackle. The glaze presents \aried notes of 
 pink, with rosy flei'kings, and m its transparency reveals three 
 scrolling cloud medallions etched in the paste. I'enciled in bril- 
 liant blue bcne/ith the uhite glaze under the foot, Ta-Ch'ing 
 K'ang-hsi nien-chih ( ^I.ide in tlu' reign of K"ang-hsi of the great 
 C'h'ing dynasty — the dynasty overthrown in the late revolution). 
 Has stand. 
 
 J>i.iim('lf'i\ 5 hictn'S. 
 
 751 SEMI-ClLOBri.AK P i;A( Illl f.OO.M JaK ( K'tt IKj- ll.si) 
 
 ^^'^riter^s water receptacle, on flat foot, with narrow nioutli. 
 Dense porcelain, with thi'ce sciadi medallions etched m the paste 
 and barely distinguisjiable. The glaze ])i'esents a ground of 
 ashcs-of-roses hue, thickly bespread with deep pink and reddish 
 spots or fleckings, which appear almost as though in swarms over 
 it. AVIiite glazed foot with tln' six-character K'ang-hsi mark 
 penciled undei' the glaze in blue. Has stand. 
 
 I >iif nut I' r, .) ilirliis. 
 
 (Ilhistratc(l) 
 
752 — SEJii-Gi^oiii'LAK Pkac ]ii!Looji Jai! (K'diig-hsi) 
 
 Writer'.s water i'ece])tafle, on flat foot, with silver mouth-rim. 
 Dense porcelain, <i'lazul in the rose-pink or aslies-of-roses liues of 
 the well-known family, with numerous small fleckings of deeper 
 note. Tliree circular medalhons of cloud-scrolls lig-htlv etched in 
 the ]).iste under the whize. On the whitt-^lazed foot the six-char- 
 actei- mai'k of K"ang-hsi pDicilcd in blue undi'r the fj'laze. Has 
 stand. 
 
 I}iin)ii'ter, 5 iiicJir^. 
 
 {IlhistnifriJ) 
 
 53— r 
 
 ;a( H]n.()().M OviFoioi 
 ( h"(nu/'lixi) 
 
 ,Iai[ with ('ar\'ed Teakm'oou Coyer 
 
 Dense porcelain coated with a 
 crackled o-hize of the peachbloom 
 class, the i)ink in places deepening 
 almost to .a brick-i'ed and elsewhere 
 tlrifting to light mottlings and ex- 
 ])osing the gi'avish-white undercolor, 
 and about the foot taking a greenish 
 tone. Has stand. 
 
 Hi'ii/ht. Ij'j i)trh/-x. 
 
 754 — MoTTi.i.i) ('oi!.\i, ^■.\sE (CJiien-Iung) 
 
 ()\ifoi-m, with high sh(julder, taper- 
 ing to ;i fl/it foot, and recurvuig to 
 tcii'm the sliort neck and short, 
 spreading lip. Coated with a mottled 
 coral glaze of rich quality, unctuous 
 surface and dull luster without metal- 
 lic reflections, and liearing a decora- 
 tion of leaning, slender trees penciled 
 in gold. 
 
 Hi:iilht. 7 inrhts. 
 
 755 — EroxoAi-Ki) Bi.iK A'.xsk (K'diig-hsi) 
 
 Oxitorm, its Miles slox\lv recurring in a long, shallow sweep to 
 toi'iii a mildly spreading foot; short wide neck witli spreading 
 lip. Co\ered «itli a monoclirome glaze of dull luster in one of 
 the tones of the laj)is-blues ; interior of the neck white. Has 
 stand. 
 
 Height. T-y, indies. 
 
I •5() — Laxg-V-\() Ix\i;irii;ii I'KAit-snArK \'ask { K'niig-hsi) 
 
 C'()\ercd with ;i xa iKj-ilc-Ini /if ijl.izc (if rich, d.irk-rrd tdiio, in 
 j)hic(_'s trcndiiii;' towai'd the hi(F-h\rr lii-(i\\ii, and with the ti'X- 
 tural surt.ice (if the h\ (■|--c(ihii- poi'fcl.iins, \\)v (rjazc tinishmg 
 (-'Venlv at a white fodt : the iiKiuth, at the sh(ndder, fitted w itii a 
 metal rim. Has .stand. 
 
 757 — A SrpKiM! A i'i'i,i,-(.;i! ia:x ]5()T'ii,i; ( K'niuj-hsi) 
 
 It is of frhjbidar shape with a tali tuhuLar neck. Tlie exterior 
 siu'faee is mai'ked with a iiefwork of dark lines over wjiieli has 
 been skilfully applied a moiKn'liroine ir|;i/e of pale aj)ple-ereen of 
 beautiful translucent iiuality. Hound the mouth is a defined rim 
 of ^vhite and the inside of the neck is coated with a white t'raekle 
 fi'laze. Has car\ed teakwood st.ind. 
 
 Ilcif/Iil. (i''':\ liirlic.i. 
 
 (lU/isfnitciJ) 
 
 758 — A Sri'KKii C'oi!Ar,-i(p,i) Galmpo'i' ( K'ini<i-hsi) 
 
 Of exceedinf^lv graceful sha[)e and perfection of finish. Tlie 
 o-laze, which is of the rarest coral-red color, has lieeii evenly 
 apjdied and so as to ]ea\e a defined run around the short neck, 
 and exhibits a surfac(.' of ex(a;ediiifi- siiioothiuss throughout. Has 
 carved stand. 
 
 Ilciilhl. 7 iiii'liiK. 
 
 (fllu.sfriifcd) 
 
759- 
 
 -Dark Saxi 
 Chaig) 
 
 -DE-BOUT 
 
 Vase with Teakwood Cover {Yung 
 
 Oviform, witli truncated neck. The 
 glaze has taken a brownish-red tone, 
 deepening in places quite to the brown 
 of the liver-color pieces, and is abund- 
 antly marked by the "tears" or darker 
 flcekings of the clotted blood; surface 
 with the '-orange-peer' suggestion that 
 characterizes the liver glazes ; has 
 crackle. Underneath foot and on in- 
 terior of neck a grayish-white glaze 
 with brown crackle. The cover carved 
 and pierced. Has stand. 
 
 Hcir/lif, 6% (iirhe.-. 
 
 760 — I>iGHT Appt.e-gbeex Vase (K'ang- 
 h.si) 
 
 With swelling center, the neck and 
 foot equivalent, or as though a pear- 
 shaped and inverted pear-shaped vase 
 were united into one vessel at their 
 points of greatest expansion. Dense 
 porcelain of K'ang-lisi, covered with a 
 pale apple-green glaze of brilliant 
 metallic luster and boldly crackled in brown lines. Interior 
 with a pearl-white glaze with brown crackle, wliicli is also found 
 underneath the foot. 
 
 Height. 7% iiiclHS. 
 
 761 — CoRAi.-KEi) ^'.\SE ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Of full-bodied pear-shajjc, on deep, spreading foot, with large 
 neck and flaring lip. Pure white porcelain coated with a coral 
 glaze of rich cju:dity, huninous with a dull luster and having 
 metallic reflections. The glaze is of delicatelv mottled aspect 
 and on the neck, undcrbody and foot reveals an intricate re- 
 ticulated crackle in wandering hair-lines. Interior of the neck 
 white. Has stand. 
 
 Hr'Hjht. 8'4 hirhis. 
 
-T.AXt;-VAO Tw Kiel' I'. II ri'.Ali-SII Al'l', \'asI', ( K'lUKJ'hs'l) 
 
 Biulv contractiiii;' <;T:iri't'ull v to a ulif^litly sprr.'uliiin- foot, and 
 
 with a liii;-li, slio-htlv tlattt'iicd sliouldcr and short i-yhndiical neck. 
 
 (.'iKitcd with a sini()-(h'~l)(t iif n-la/.c of darki'iU'd hue, a red(hsh- 
 
 hrow n. with many darktT o|ol)uh's of the ehttted lihiod, the siir- 
 
 taoe with tlie '"feel" of the liver-eohired f^'hi/.es. 'i'lie (rluze is 
 
 flowed uniforiiilv to a perfei't foot, the eohir eeasiiif^ at an even 
 
 hne just before the termination of tlie How, and is eontinued in 
 
 tile interior of tiie \esseh Under the toot a pale eekidon gh^ze 
 
 w itli eraekk\ 
 
 Ifiiifltf. fi '■ I iiirJn'!t. 
 
 (Illiisfnifi-i]) 
 
 7(k'5 — Talk Ari'rE-cuF.KX Gat.m lavr { h"<ii)(/- lisi) 
 
 Sonorous jioreelaiii, tlie exterior eoverid 
 with a hriUiant olaze id' \erv lif;ht apple- 
 i^reeii color and metallic luster, which is 
 not exteiuk'd under the foot, the entire 
 surface crackled in lit;'lit lirowii lines; in- 
 terior (d' lip ijla/.ed in pe.irhwiiite with 
 brown crackle. ( Has been broken and 
 mended. ) 
 
 //( iqlit. SI :, inches. 
 
 7(i-i — PK.\<inii,()OM BiriTia-; ( K\iiit/-hxi) 
 
 Globular, with slender neck. Dense wdiite 
 \ibrant porcelain, covered with a lustrous 
 mottled peaclibloom o'l.aze disclosing 
 various pinks and ashes-of-roses tones, 
 with sundry fieckings, the nei'k showing 
 ,a wandering retuailation or crackle in 
 dai'ker tine lines. Has stand. 
 
 Iliiilht. 9 inche.i. 
 
 76.5 — Ci.Aiii-iJE-r.rxK Botti.k-sh a i-kd '\'ask (Ch'hii-htini) 
 
 Squat form, on low circadar foot, with compressed ovoidal body 
 and tubular neck. Pure white porcelain, evenly coated witli a 
 luminous clair-dc-hnie glaze of pearly lihilsh-gray tone, which 
 overflows the i-im .and is continued underneath the foot. Has 
 stand. 
 
 Jliiijlit. 9 iiirln'.i. 
 
766 — Ci.AiR-DE-LuxE BoTTLE-sH APED Vase ( Ck' ieii-Juiig) 
 
 Ovoid, cup-sliape body on flat foot, with 
 |; abrupt, straight, sloping slioulder and 
 
 tubular neck, the neck having two side- 
 i"-'' liandlcs in the form of archaic dragons 
 
 •'' modeled in full relief. Coated with a 
 
 soft clair-de-lune glaze 'twixt "moonlight- 
 blue" and "moonlight-green" ; foot sim- 
 ilarlv coated. Has stand. 
 
 Ilclt/Jil. 7 inches. 
 
 r67 — Dark-bli-k A'ask (Clih-u-lung) 
 
 Low. ovoid bodv. with sloping shoulder, 
 full neck with slightly spreading lip, and 
 short circul.'ir foot; covered with an 
 unctuous iiionoclirome glaze of grayish- 
 blue. T'nderne.ith tlie foot, seal-rnark of 
 Cirien-lung in blue. Has stand. 
 
 Hciilht. 71, Inches. 
 
 768 — Sapphire-blue Gi.OHri.AR Bottle (Ch'icn-luiifj) 
 
 Pure white porcelain, coated with a monochrome glaze of sap- 
 phire-blue, with pctiii il'uraiuje surface. H.is st;md. 
 
 Height. Sy, inches. 
 
 769 — ]5ottle-shaped ^'ask ( ( li'lcii-hnKj ) 
 
 Globul.ir-ovoidal bodv "ith full, tubular neck. Dense sonorous 
 white porcel.un, coated \\\\\\ .a mahog.inv-bro\\ n glaze sometimes 
 described as beef's-livei- coloi', of iusti'ous surface and ])resent- 
 ing an apyiearance as of infiiiitelv minute crvst.illine structure, 
 the qualitv used to re])resent texture in the li\"er-colored glazes. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Ill Ir/hf. 31. _. inches. 
 
 -C'lair-de-luxe Bri.BOTs A'ask { h"(i)ig-Jisi) 
 
 In the form of .an in\erted pe,-n--s]iape v.ase ;uul ;i globular bottle- 
 shape v.ase, their bodies co;ilescing in ;i liulbous center, standing 
 on a slightlv s])reading foot, \\itli ;i sieiuk'r bottle-neck. Covered 
 uniformlv with ;i chiir-di'-hi iic gl.ize of pearl-grav tone, over a 
 decoration of scrolbug f(jliiitions lightly etched in the paste. 
 
 Height. 11 ',4 inches. 
 
771 MOTTI.KD C'OKAI. \'asK (C IT ic ll-l II II</) 
 
 swastik 
 incised, 
 dragon 
 with a 
 
 S([uat l)i)ttli'-f()rui, on sli(jrt, sliglitly 
 sprradinj;' foot, with widr neck cx- 
 [).-uuhiig ill thr u])\v.'ii'd (hrection. 
 C'()\erL'd with a gla/.r of rich, dci'p 
 coral line and soft iiidtthnt;', ha\iiig 
 a tluU luster, with iiictalhc reflec- 
 tions. 'I'he i,''l.'ize 111 certain liirhts 
 reveals the tornis of flowers and 
 foliations which ori<;]iiall v it hore as 
 a n'ohl dec()rat](in, on hody and 
 under the li|). 1 las stand. 
 
 I f( iiili 1 . 7 ' 'i nichvu. 
 
 77t2-— TrKoroisK TitH'oi) J.\it (Clt'icii- 
 hiiKj ) 
 
 Circular o\'oidal hodv on three 
 hroad h'os \^ hu'li i-omu'ct with a 
 dee}), cirtailar base or foot. Deco- 
 rated on the shoulder with a l)order 
 of (ireek fret, on the neck with a 
 ii-fret haiul, and on file hody with Shoii characters, all 
 after the manner of ancient bronzes. Two rei-ur\ inc^ 
 handles in relief ( ime broken). The ^\hole co\ered 
 glaze of pure turquoise hue, with a tine fish-roe crackle. 
 
 Height, (i',4 inchc.i. 
 
 771 
 
 77-3 — I.ioHT ;\Irs-r,\i(ij-vi;i.i.ow Jar ( J\"inn/-li.si) 
 
 O\'oid, on low spreading foot; with short c\lindrical neck. 
 A'ibrant white j>orc(_laiii, c(jated with a inonochroine glazt' of light 
 mustard- yellow c(jl<;r and iiiirror-(|uali t \', Avhich extends all the 
 way to the rim. Has car\ed teakwood hat-shaped co\cr. 
 
 Ilc'njht, T'/j iiivhes. 
 
774 — Laxg-yao Bottt.k (K'ang-Ji.si) 
 
 Glol)ular bodv, with full slightly ta})eriiig nt'ck. Dense por- 
 celiiin, corttetl with a rich sdncj-de-hauf trlaze of pcau-cT orange 
 surface, liaving a delicate, scarcely perceptible crackle, its colors 
 varying from the red of cooked tomato to the deep, dark tones 
 of the clottetl ox-blood, and mottled with tlie fleckings or "tears" 
 of congealing blood : at the foot it takes peachbloom tones. The 
 interior of tlio neck is glazed in white with a delicate crackle, 
 and underneath the foot the glaze exhibits the peachbloom fleck- 
 ings. The s(tn(j-dc-baaf glaze «as a revival of the ancient sacri- 
 ficial red, and the precursor of the peau-de-pcche; this example 
 is interesting for studv, in presenting the elements of the transi- 
 tion or development — the ox-blood and the peachbloom having a 
 common origin. Has stand. 
 
 Iliiijlil. 9 iiirhcs. 
 
 775 — BoTTi,i:-sHArKi> A'asf. (( lili'ii-hiiig) 
 
 Globubir bodv, Avith flat foot .and short thick neck. Sonorous 
 white porcelain, coated with a monochrome glaze of rich, dark- 
 reddish or mahogany bi'own, sometimes described as of "beefs- 
 liver" color, with an "orange-peel" surface and dull luster. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Height, 81/4 inches. 
 
7(j -I'xKiiK (()iAi>i[ii.A ri'UAi, V i;i.i.o\\' \'asi-: (('Ii'iiii-Ihikj) 
 
 licsl 111^' on low iindci'hody molded 
 (|U,idi'.uii;ular foot, the fouf sides 
 c-oin iTf^in^' as tlicy I'isi' and unit- 
 ing III a s(|iiarL' straight neck ot 
 small (liiiK'iisions. Clcjir, sonorous 
 wliite poi'celain, coated with a 
 lime-yellou' fjlaze, luminous, and 
 with a surface representing the 
 texture of the skin of the fruit 
 imitated. Has stand. 
 
 Iffii/ht, 7 1/4 incite.'-'. 
 
 777 — Hark T r ki^ r ois k I x \' i ■, k -r k i ) 
 1' K ,\ i{ -s II .\ !• K \'ask (Ch'ien- 
 huKj ) 
 
 W\\.\\ })roloneed and gracefully 
 776 curving neck. '^I'lie entire surface 
 
 given to a \ague and interesting 
 ornamentatKjn of cranes tl\iiig amid scrolling clouds, lightly 
 penciled over the paste, the whole coated with a fish-roe crackle 
 turquoise-glaze of mirror quality and reiiiarkahle evt'iniess of 
 tone. Has stand. 
 
 Iliiyhl. si;; ilirlicx. 
 
 -Stakcu-hhk Oaifoioi A'.xsk { K'lnty-hxi) 
 
 Tapering to a slender neck with flaring lip. Pure white, dense, 
 
 yibrant j)orcelain, coated with an even monochrome glaze of 
 
 opaque stai-ch-l)lue, deepening at the perfect foot. Interior of 
 
 neck glazed wliife. Has stand. 
 
 II light, 8 inches. 
 
 779 OliAXGK-PKKI. SqI'AT B(JTTI,K-SH A PEI) A'aSK, 
 
 On low spreading foot, witli sloping shoulder, and short neck 
 expanfling ;it the lip. Glazed in a pinkish liver-color, the sur- 
 face slightly of the "oi'angc-[)eel" order. Has stand. 
 
 Ileii/hf, 7 incite:. 
 
 780 — SApi'HiRK-jH.ri-: Gi.oiif I.Alt Ho'r-ri.i-; {Cli'ini-lii ng) 
 
 Pure white poi'celain. Coated with a inonochi'ome glaze of 
 sapphire-blue, witli pca/i iVoiutnyc surface. 
 
 Ileit/hl. H'/.. incltci. 
 
781— Ci 
 
 LuxK Jar (Ch'icn-Iuiig) 
 
 Ovoidul, on a circular foot, with 
 short cyhndrical neck ; in the form 
 of ancient bronzes. At tlie base of 
 the nec]< a key-fret border modeled 
 and incised in tlie paste, inter- 
 rupted Ijv t«o rudimentary side- 
 liaiidles in bold relief in tiie form of 
 animal-heads supjjorting rings, anfl 
 fd)o\x- tlie foot a corn'entional petal 
 border also inodelrd m the paste. 
 Coated with a cliiir-de-linif glaze of 
 ;i bluish do\x-gray liuc, e\'enly dis- 
 tributed excejit (jver the decora- 
 tion^, "here it thickens aiul deepens 
 111 trnie in the de]jre^^ion> and 
 lighten-^ to tlie jjoint of colorle^sness 
 o\i:r the [jromineiices. Iija\ing tliem 
 partly or clearly white. Has stand. 
 
 ILuiht. :,l'^ nirhlx. 
 
 78-2 — C '.\j,i-\-T.i\i.ii ]](j rri,K-MiA I'Ki) Wask { ( h'uii-linif/) 
 
 Sijuat o\'oidal form "ith sloping >lioulder. full neck and ^llglltly 
 
 e\"erted lip. I'ure «hite jjort-elain co\"ei'ed with ;i maroon or 
 
 pinki-li-brown. hxcr-colored glaze, lunnnou^ and with a surface 
 
 of minute crinkle. 
 
 ILiqht. 71 i inches. 
 
 78^3 iMlltKOK-llI.ACK J A I! { h"llll(/'llxi ) 
 
 Kloiigated. of o\'oid contour, u'ith narrou' mouth. (lear white 
 ])oi'celaiii, coated with ,a llen^e gl.aze of lirilh.ant mirror-black, 
 and drcorati'd in Lfolil ^^'ltll trce^ springing from among rocks 
 ;uid blo>>oiiiiiig. bet«"i rii ,-i pamd border ;it the ba^e and slioulder 
 borders of >croll-. and reticulation^ — .i con^ideratilc part of the 
 gold ha\iiig \ani^lied. 
 
 IleiqI't. s inch,.'!. 
 
 7S4 — 'J'iU{nroi>K ('i;Ar Ki.K Bor'rLi-: { C li' it-ii-l lou/ ) 
 
 Globul.i.r. with tap(;niig neck, on lo«' circular foot; coated with 
 a luminous glaze ot ]>ure tur((Uoi>e hue. minutely cr.acklcd. 
 
 Ilciqlil. 10 inches. 
 
78.) — ()\()m ,l.\i; ()'iiii(/ (lii'iii/) 
 
 W'itli liii;h, IiiiIIhuis sIiouIiIci', the 
 liculv t'lliv iiin- i;-ciill\' (l(i\\ ri\v;ii-(l aniJ 
 ii.irrow inn- fcju.n-d tlic ti.it fncit ; the 
 sliDuldrr ili-.i\vii iiih) a iiarrim slicirt 
 lU'fk. A|)|iaiiiiH y rclatcil to the 
 ]i( achhliHim laiiiiU, a Lar^e jiropcir- 
 tiini ot the ohi/e piavsciit iiii;- a pale 
 ii'i-eeiiisli-n i-ay, with faint iiKhcations 
 III pinkish trend in pate Iks; aljont 
 the ha.se a hiaiw n riiii;-. (ilaze eciil- 
 tiniies under the fciot. wliei'e it car- 
 rus within a l)hie dmihie rintj the 
 six-eharaeter iiiaik of Vun"' Cheiifr. 
 Has stand. 
 
 Ifl ii/Jll. :,' .. Illrhrs. 
 
 78(j — LAPis-BLn; ()\'iKonji \ ASK WITH Tai.i. \ K( K AXU FlAllIXi; I^JP 
 ( C h'hli'lillH/ ) 
 
 Coated iinifornilv with a rinrror-fjla/e of la|iis-lihie, of jieiin 
 (Fonnuji- sui'f.iee, \\hieli dtepiiis to a dai'k, almost hiaek. tone in 
 an even riii^' uliel'e it thiekelis round the perfeet foot. Interior 
 of tile neck gl.ized ill uhite. (Lip cheeked.) 
 
 //re//,/. l!l hirlics. 
 
 787 — Tai.i, Pi;.\( hhi.oo.m \ .\sk (Yiiiuj (In hi/) 
 
 Clear, resonant white jMjreelam, the hodv ret re.it ine- \erv hrietlv 
 from tlie flat foot, swellmcr eraeefullv, and t.i])erinii; into a 
 tall .slender ueek with flariiii;- lip. Co.ited \\ith a hrilliant mono- 
 chrome o'l.aze of I'icli dee{) ))nik, the peachhloom (|ii.(lit\', which is 
 of e^eji tone over tlie f^reater }j.iit of the \ase. lighter on the 
 upf)er neck and d.arker or richer tow.ird the toot. H.is stand. 
 
 Ilnilht. 11% iiirJu.s. 
 
 788 — Bi..\f K Bo'rTi.i:-sH.\i'Ki) \',\sk ( K'lniy-hsi) 
 
 The hodv nai-)-ow and eloneated, of OAoidal contour; short, 
 
 slenfler neck. Dense, hea\v uhite jiorcelain coxered with a 
 
 hrown-hlack i^laze of mirror properties hut not in the note of 
 
 the mirror-blacks. 'I'lu're are faint tract's of an orinin.al e'ilded 
 
 dec(H'ati(jii, of which about all tli/it c;ui be made out is ,a sce|)ter- 
 
 liead border at the should(.'r. 
 
 //.;,//,/, noi inches. 
 
789 — Peachbloom Bottle {K'ang-hsi) 
 
 Globular body, on low circular foot, 
 drawn up to a slender neck which 
 expands slightly, finishing in a 
 lightly flaring lip. Coated with a 
 rich, lustrous peachbloom glaze, the 
 greater part of the surface in a 
 deep, full pink, in places mottled, 
 and passing to ashcs-of-roses, with 
 a few of the much-prized green flecks 
 of minute proportions. The color- 
 quality of the glaze is that of the 
 K'ang-hsi peachblooms, while the 
 porcelain suggests a later origin, 
 though ancient. Has stand. 
 
 Height. S'i inclii'S. 
 
 r90 — Pk.\chbi,oom B()ttt,e-.shaped A'ase 
 {CIt'icn-Iung) 
 0\ oidal-globular body, witli some- 
 what flattened shoulder and slightly 
 expanding neck. Covered with a 
 peachbloom glaze which varies from 
 a full, deep, rich pink to the grayish- 
 brown of ashes-of-roses, with light 
 (Lip repaired.) Has stand. 
 
 Iltiilht. 9 inches. 
 
 7S9 
 
 lottling's and sliadincfs. 
 
 791 — Statu H-m, IE 0\ieorm \ ask (Ch'u'u-luiuj) 
 
 \\'ith sloping slioulder and slender, trunc.ited neck; on broad 
 
 flat foot. Knanieled with a uniform monochrome ghize of opaque 
 
 starch-bkie, or slate-blue, thickening around the perfect foot. 
 
 Four calligraphic cliaracters delicately penciled in black on the 
 
 foot, which is glazed in the palest of jjale-green celadon. Has 
 
 stand. 
 
 Ileiqht. 10 inches. 
 
 79™ — Bitow X BoTTLK-sH.M'En A'ase { C h' iot-luiif/) 
 
 Low ghjbular body on deep foot, with sloping shoulder, rather 
 short full neck and flaring lip. Pure white sonorous porcelain, 
 covered with a rich reddish-brown or fresh liver-color glaze of 
 even tone antl mirror-quality. Has stand. 
 
 Ileiglit. 1114 inches. 
 
7!).'l A Iti u nil I, (Iauniii Hi: itv 'I'liiii'i ( t\ i iim .\i ,Iaus ('(in- 
 sisi'ixc: oi- 
 
 (.() An lm|icii;il \('lli>\\ ,l,ir { h'd in/ hsi) : 
 
 ()l (iNiliirm nIi.i|ii\ Willi ,i liro.'ul iiiciiilli, uliirli is dclincil li\ ii 
 while run, ;iiul iil \r[-\ nr.'ici'fiil (■(iiilmir. II is I asliioiiril in 
 clc.ir uliilr li.iiil |).\sl(' Mini pincrl.i in, .iiiil is iiiaiiulcd Willi a 
 nioiKu'liroiiu- i^Li/r (il liii|>iri;il \cllciw cil rvcn, I i;i iisl iicin I (|ii.il- 
 il\, wlinli cxiiiliils .in 1 nilc'sc rill liislcr. I ' ndi-riii.i I li llic lonl in 
 iiiilil cli.i r.'irl lis, winch .iic iicnciii'il in niiilci'ul.r/i' lihic, is Ilic 
 mark nl llic ICani;- lisi iirniul. 'I'lic |ar is sii niKinnl I'd liv a 
 doiui' sliajH'd iii\ri' iil IcalxWdml winch is carxi'd in (i|icii\\ nrk, and 
 has iiiscilcd 111 I he l(i|i a cai\cd while \Ai\r circular [laiicl. Mas 
 carxcd sland. 
 
 Iliiiihl. Ill , ill, Ins: ilhiiiirlrr. ", ' .. hi, -Ins. 
 
 ( li) An Aiilicreiiic Jar [ h 'ii iii/ h .•<!) : 
 
 ()| the same ^racclnl sliape, (|Ualil\ and si/.e as Ihe |)recedini;' 
 |ar. II IS inxcsled Willi a miiniich laiiiie i^la/e iil dee|) iiilhil'ijilii 
 cciliir, which has lieen e\iiil\ a[i|ilic(l and (!is|ila\s a iiiotlled anil 
 \er\ hisl rolls as|iecl. 'I'lie liicil iindernea I li is lanered with a 
 while ela/e, and hears a si\ i-|iaracler mark cil Ihe |)eriod, winch 
 Is [icaicilcd 111 coliall hliie underneath Ihe i;la/e. lias a doiue- 
 sliaped cover cil leakwiiiid, which is carved in iipenwiH'k and 
 I'nrlher enhanced li\ a while jade ciiaular panel which is iii- 
 serled in the lu|i, and a carved stand. 
 
 11, i, ill/, !'' . ill, ■Ins: ,li,i III! ! ,■ r. 71.. ill,'!,,:,'. 
 
 {() .\ ( iicumlicr L;re< II d , a r { l\ ' mii/ li.si ) : 
 
 ()l Ihe s.iine sli.i|ie. i|u.ilil\ .ind si/c .as the Iwd |)recedini;' |.ars, 
 (if which this s|ieciiiien ciiiii|ilel es the e.irniliire. 'The exteruir 
 Mirl.ice is laivercd Willi .1 iiiniiiuh idiiie el.i/e iil ciKaimlier-e'reeil 
 111' hrilli.iiil i|ii.ilitv, sh.idiiii;- t'riiiii ,i p.ale t r.uisluceiil lono to a 
 d.irki r line, which is inleiisilicd li\ .1 lust riiils iridescence. .\ si\- 
 ch.ilMcler m.irk id Ihe K",ine' lisi periiid underiic.i t li Ihe liiol is 
 iiinciled in coh.ilt hlue. Siirmnunted hv .1 le.ikwixid doino- 
 sliaped iiiver, vvhicli Is c.irved ill iipenwiirk .and li.is iiiserled m 
 Ihe liiji .1 circnl.ir |i.iiiel id' liiielv carved Imperl.al j.ulcite, ,aiul 
 
 li.as c.irved sl.ind. 
 
 Ihiiihl. :" . ill, Ins: ,li„iii,l, r. 7 e. in, -Ins. 
 
 ( llliislnil,;!) 
 
79i TURQTOISR-CREEX Gl.OBT'LAK BoTTT,E ( Ch'icn-luncj) 
 
 With full, straight neck. Clear white porcelain coated a baffling 
 tur(juoise glaze, more green than blue, of lustrous surface, and 
 exhibiting a fine crackle. Has stand. 
 
 Height. 13 inches. 
 (lUiistrafed) 
 
 r95 — .AIisTAED-YKLi.ow BoTTi.E { Ltitc Cli' icn-J luig) 
 
 Globular-ovoidal, with full neck. Clear, sonorous porcelain, cov- 
 ered with a bi'ight glaze of a light niustard-vellow color, with 
 cloud-like niottlings or shadings and a slight metallic luster. Rim 
 glazed in rich seal-bi'ow ii. Has stand. 
 
 TJilfihf. 1314 inches. 
 
 (lUiOitritlc-d) 
 
 rDG — Bi;i;f"s-i.iver Globii.ai! BoTrLE (Ch'ioi-hnig) 
 
 With short neck, vei-v slightly exjianding. Coated from white 
 rim to the perfect foot witli u monochrome glaze in the hue of 
 fresh liver, of subdued luster, and surface representative of the 
 texture of the subst.mce copied. The body marked by a deli- 
 cate crackle Mith no ch.inge of hue, in wandering longitudinal 
 lines. Has stand. 
 
 Ileii/ht. 1-3 inches. 
 (lUii.ff rated) 
 
 797 — Large Pka< hut.ooji Bottle-suaped ^'AsK {Cli'icudiinej) 
 
 Spherical body on bold circular foot, with short tubular neck. 
 Delist', resonant white jiorcelain, coated with a brilliant glaze of 
 the peachbloom xariety in a rich, full-bodied ])ink, delicately 
 mottled. 'Thv color is rich throughout the body of the vase, 
 
 lightening and becoming more speckled on tli 
 altogether below the rim. Has staiul. 
 
 -k 
 
 and ceasmff 
 
 Height. \Y\ inehe 
 
 798 BOTTEE-SHAPEI) A' ASK { ( ll' it'lld llllfj) 
 
 GIobular-o\oidal body with Hat foot and straight full neck. 
 Resonant Avliite porcelain, covered with a reddish-brown or liver- 
 colored glaze with the suggestion of an "orange-peer' surface 
 and boldl}- crackled in darker lines. Has stand. 
 
 Hiiqhl. 13 incites. 
 

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 y< 
 
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7!)!' ( (Hi \ l.-li I |i (il.dlM I Ml lid 111, I -SI 
 
 \ AM, ( ) II llij ( Ih' III/) 
 
 (h\ low. circular lunt, lln' lull .^w ell iiii;' liiiih' I apcrlni;- In a short 
 lUck with tliickciU'd lip. Dense pdreelaiii, coated \\itli all e\eil 
 e-ja/e ot ncli cnral color, liaxiiio- a soli, dull luster \\itli metallic 
 lines. Interior ol lieck i;la/ed in while; hp ejlded; white uiider- 
 loot. Nistie-es ot .meieiit eildine- lineer. lias stand. 
 
 //( ;.////, im ,, illrlu'S. 
 
 sod AI A/Ai!ix I -II i,r r, Hdi'iMi-: (( li' icii-l ii ii</) 
 
 (ilohiila r-o\ onlal liod\. \\ 1 1 h ll.il foot .ind short neck. ('o\- 
 ercd with .a iiia/anne-l)hie elaze ot siiliihied hister, the underliody 
 \\ii\\ an ■"or.ine^e-peer" siirt.aee, and the "la/c cxtcndinn' to the 
 interior ol the neik. 
 
 lliiilht. 1-'' iiirhi'S. 
 
 SOI Hiid\\ N Hot- 
 
 iriii ^ .\si-: ( 'I'iKi h II, nil/ ) 
 
 I.ai'ec o\ oida I i,''loliiila r liod\ on llal loot, wilh :\ lull luliular 
 neck. Soiididiis white |iorcelaiii, coaled with a pnikish-hrow il 
 or li\ er cohH-ed tjla/e ol niollled texture .and hinnnous siirlace 
 of niirror-i(iia II I \ . Se,-il mark ot ( 'Ii'k n liini;' in undere|,i/e lihio 
 heneatli the wliiti' i^Li/ed toot. lias st.ind. 
 
 Ihiilhl. II', inches. 
 
802 — Brit.t.iaxt rowDKE-in.n-: Globilar Bottle (K'ung-hsi) 
 
 Dense, lieavv, resoiuuit porcelain, ])erfeetl_v modeled, and cov- 
 ered with a luminous "laze of powder-blue, with Hecks, mottlings 
 and dri])pings in lif;hter and darker kev. Has carved stand. 
 
 Ileii/ht. ll'/j incluf:. 
 
 803 — Larue Teroi'oise Bottt.k (C'h'icn-hoig) 
 
 Globular-o\ oitlal body, with full neck and flat foot. Covered 
 by a minutely crackled turquoise g^laze with characteristic lateral 
 and dark fleckinfrs, the glaze extending well into the 
 
 striation 
 
 interior of the neck 
 
 Has stand. 
 
 IliiflJit. I'^Vi inches. 
 
 804 — Buii.TjAXT Rei> BoTTEE-FOR.^r ^'ASE (Ch'irii-hing) 
 
 Heavy, vibrant ])orcelain, coated with a uiirror-glazc in rich, 
 deep red of the .tarig-ile-bunf note but not liaving the character- 
 istics of that glaze. On the exterior and interior of the lip, 
 and abcjut an interruption of the ifow on the lower bodv, these 
 flash in grayish-bhie and j)ur]ile in piinibi' aspect. Has stand. 
 
 Height. I314 inche.':. 
 
so,") — Miiiiiou-iiL.UK Hoi Til'. ( K\iiii/-lisi) 
 
 SOj 
 
 (ilol}ul,-ir, on lou ciiciil.ir foot, wiHi 
 tall sK'iidi'r iicrk uliosc lip is glazed 
 in wliiK'. Co.ttrd with a l)i-illiaiit 
 inoiKH'liroiiic ulazc of iiiii-i-oi--black, 
 uliicli iT\('als the lirirs of its once 
 t'X(|uisitc L;-ildinn-, all trac'o of the 
 acfual n'old of nhich is iroiu'. 'i'he 
 ani'irnt cnibellishinrnt, it can l)e 
 seen, included landscapes with fif>-- 
 ures, hlossoinino- trees enlivt^ned hy 
 l)irds, c'arp in a medallion leapiiifj 
 anions waves, l)u tterflies, and 
 draf^'oiis anioni>- tii-e-scrolls in pursuit 
 of the tlann'nt;- jewel. Has stand. 
 
 llii;llll. 1 |lj iiirhl'S. 
 
 806 'i\\{A. ()\()lli.\l, Cl.Cll-SII.VPKI) Tuii- 
 
 (iiGisK 'N'asis (Ch'hn-liitKj) 
 
 W"\\\\ short w ide neck e\'ertinfr at the 
 lip. Enameled with a luminous tur- 
 (|Uoise i,daze «ith all the characteris- 
 tic manifestations and carrvino' a 
 nunute crackle. Has stand. 
 
 Ilciqiil. i:!'', iiirheK. 
 
 807 — Large Dark TrRQrorsE Bottle (C'Jili'n-hnig) 
 
 With g]obular-o\oidal body and wide straight neck. Coated with 
 a brilliant glaze of deep turquoise hue, a fine crackle repealed 
 in dark lines, jind the tone modulafetl b\' wa\'ering paler patches 
 like tenuous pendants of vaporous clouds. Has stand. 
 
 Jf(ii/hl, ]2 iiuhf'S. 
 
 808 — Peachju.oo.-m I5oT'ri.E-sii.\i'Ei) \'ase (i'h'lcii-liuKj) 
 
 Globalar-o\oi(lal body, with full nei'k slightly expanding, and flat 
 foot. Dense vibrant porcelain, coxei'cd with a peachblooin glaze 
 wliicli is lightly and finely flecked and mottled on neck, shoulder 
 and parts of the body, dee|)i'ning on the underbody to the 
 characteri.stic full pink of the jjcachbloom class. Has stand. 
 
 Jfrii/ht, l-''i in<-)n'it. 
 
809 I^APIS-liLIE BOTTI.K (YtlUCJ ihiu(j) 
 
 Globular, with slender neek and expaiidinr;-, lndl)oiis lip; on cir- 
 cular foot. Coated with a moiiochronie grayish-blue glaze 
 trending to lapis quality, the hue uniform throughout, and with 
 suggestions of the "orange-peel" surface. White glaze at rim 
 and underneath the foot, which carries a seal mark in blue. 
 
 II(ii/ht. IT iiirhcf. 
 
 810 — Bltk C'yi.ixiiRK ai. X'ask (C'h'ieii-liuig) 
 
 ^Vith sloping shoukki-, wide neck and gracefully spreaduig lip, 
 the body contracting slightly to a circuhir foot. Coated with a 
 brilliant glaze of evanescent and elusixe color properties : reflect- 
 ing at times a glowing lapis hue, again a mazarine tone, ancl 
 (.Isewhere sugesting the powder-blues. Has stand. 
 
 Ihiilht. 141 4 inches. 
 
 811 — Tai.t, FowuKR-iirnc ^"As^•, ( K\ni</-Jisi) 
 
 Cylindrical club-shape on low foot, with rounded shoulder and 
 flanged lip. Sonorous, pure white dense porcelain covered with 
 a luminous glaze of the ])ow der-blue variety with emphatic and 
 interesting markings. 
 
 Ilrlijht, IT''^ iiichrs. 
 
812 — Biiii.LiAXT SApriiii!i-:-]n.i'K Botti.e-shapkd A'ase (C'li'icn-Iuiuj) 
 
 Ovoidal body, witli sliort tliick neck. \A'liitc jxjrcclain, of a 
 clear, ringing note, coated with a brilliant glaze of sapphire- 
 blue with grajisli trend. 
 
 Height. 16'/4 inches. 
 
 813 — Tali, PowDKR-jiMK \asv: ( K\iiifj-Ji.si) 
 
 Cylindrical club-sjiape on low foot, with sloping shoulder and 
 flanged lip. Pure wjiite i-esoiiant ])oi'celain coated witji a lustrous 
 glaze of powder-blue, mottled and shaded and with ])ronounced 
 markings. 
 
 //( /(////. IS ill, -he.-!. 
 
 814 — Pair Grkkx Pottkry Qi'ai)I!ii-ati;rai, Beakkr-shapi;!) ^'ASES 
 (Ming) 
 
 Enameled witli a i-ich green glaze of brilliant metallic luster and 
 finely crackled, extending o\e)- the interior of the upper section, 
 the glaze thickening and deepening to a ricii lustrous black on 
 ledges and at some horizontal outlines of the architectural de- 
 tails. Have stands. 
 
 Itiiijlit, n iiirhvs. 
 
SIXTH AND LAST AFTERNOON'S 
 
 SALE 
 
 AIONDAV, .MAUCII ^2, 1!)U 
 AT THE A.ALKKRAX ART c;ALl.EiaES 
 
 lU'.f.INXlXti AT !2.;5() o'clock 
 
 Including Nos. 819 to 1027 
 
 819 — PoiuEr.Aix SxuFF Bo'iri.K {Cli'iiii-lii 
 
 ",'/ ) 
 
 S19 
 
 Cirful.-ir, with obvcrso and reverse re])i'e- 
 seiltilli^' :i Cliinesc «ateli-(li;i.l. ImIitcs 
 decorated in deep liluc. ('oi-;d stopper. 
 
 >f| 820 I'OUCKI.AIX SXCFF BoTTFI'. ( ( ' ll'ic ll-l llllj/ ) 
 
 ifi Tiirt|Uoise-l)lue glaze, decoration of a 
 
 dragon, chrvsantliemuins and h.imhoo in 
 white and black enamels relie\ ed by gild- 
 ing. Seal mark. Coral stopper. 
 
 821 — ^VnITF Jadf Sxi:ff Bottff (Cli'icn- 
 hing) 
 
 ^Melon sliape. Coral sto})per. 
 
 822 — Pale Yft.low Jade Sxuff Bottle (CJi'lt'ii-In ii;/) 
 
 Double-gourd sliape, liiglilv j)olislied surface. 
 Ruby glas.s .stopper. 
 
 82!} — Ao.VTi-: SxTFF BoT'i'LE (Ciridi-hiiif/) 
 
 (j-ray and brown mottled texture. Pink coral 
 .stopper. 
 
 824 — ItocK Ciivs'i'Ai, Sxri-'F Boi-tlk (('li'icii-lnn(f) 
 
 Incised decoration oi ilowcring plants. Jade 
 .stopper. 
 
 S22 
 
825 — WiiiTK Jade Sxtff Bottle (Cli'ii'ii-Iiing) 
 
 Highly polished surface. Ked glass stopper. 
 
 826 POECEEAIX SXCFE BoTTEE ( Cll"ir)l-1 II lU/ ) 
 
 The outer casing pierced and carved in 
 relief with the eight Buddhistic emblems 
 of hajijiv augurv and enameled in colors. 
 V? Seal mark. 
 
 ^ M!-2T — Hair C'kvstae Sxuee Bottee {ih'kn- 
 hiuij) 
 
 rr(mounced markings and liighly polished 
 surface. Fink coral stopper. 
 
 8^0- 
 
 828 — Wheee Jade Sxuee Bottee (Ch'icn- 
 liiiij/) 
 
 Flattened circular shape, with plain 
 polished surface. Ked glass stopper. 
 
 829 — Bkomx Cr.YsTAE Sneee Bottee {C Jrifii-hiiig) 
 ]\Ielon-shape, wdh indented ridges. 
 
 830 — A\'iiErE Jade Sxeee Bo'I'tee {(Ji'iiii-hnig) 
 
 Flattened, «dh plain polished svirface. t'oloreil ivovv stopper. 
 
 8;31 — Agate Twix Sxeee Bottees {C'ir'uii-Iuiii/) 
 
 L'louded light brown color. Highly 
 polislu'd surface. Fri-t.s'iii stopper. 
 
 8;32 — Haiu t'lnsTAE Sxeee Bottle 
 ( CJi'icii-hiiii/) 
 
 Circular shape. Fink coral stopper. 
 
 .S;}.'5 -(iiAss Sxeee Bottij'. {C'h'icii-liiiif/) 
 
 Fale blue stre.iked with red and brown. 
 Feai'l and coral stopper. 
 
8;)-4 — l''Ki-rs"i'i Snim.'i-' Hori'Li'-, (C'li'ii'ii-lii ii</) 
 
 S3 1 
 
 Moltli'd wlulc, K\\\\ ciiu'i'alil-o-i't'cn 
 iii;irkinj;'s. 
 
 8;}") Lauci', Rock ( 'insiw i, Sxihi' Hdiri.K 
 ( ( h' itii'liniij ) 
 
 OutiT surface decorated witli piiic and 
 plum tree, liul. and I'ocks, cue-i-avcd in 
 low relief. I'ink i[uait/, stopper. 
 
 S!5()- Roc K CiiisrAi, S\i i-i- lio'i'11,1'. (('h'liii- 
 I II III/) 
 
 ]\I vtlioloe'ical monster, I'arx'ed in relief 
 ill the matrix. Coral stop[)er. 
 
 S;57--S 
 
 r — nxr i-K norri.K 
 
 H( 
 
 Imitation of varicg-atcd aeatc. (Iri'en 
 ^lass stopper. 
 
 8;3S II.MK CkVST.M, SxCKF HoTTI.I', ((ll'il'll-Illlll/) 
 
 Flattened ((Uadrilateral shape. Imitation green jade stopper. 
 
 8.'39 POIK KL.AIX SXLKF BoTTLK (C'll'ic ll-l II III/) 
 
 f-K^. 
 
 U'lie outir case pRi't'c'd antl carxi'd m re- 
 lief \\ifh pluenix and liragon anntl cloud 
 forms, i)\vv which is a coating of dee[) blue 
 enamel. Aletal stopjier incrusted with 
 coral aiul malachite. 
 
 \§\m** ^^" Amktiivnt Sncfk Hot 
 ^'.''f -•TL.'l*'- f I'liiMUxes car\ed in low 
 
 ■•n.F, (Cli'icii-Iiniij) 
 
 ,,..-_,. , . ,. , i-elief in the l)anels. 
 
 ij'o.'^iO^ ^ I Monstei--Iiead handles. Jade stof)per. 
 
 ' VV^ ,'■ " 841 riiii'i.h: (Ji.Ass SxFFF Bor'rFF (('li"u-ii- 
 
 l^*-rfj^ 
 
 n;sn 
 
 Monster-head and ring handles iiiodek'd m 
 relief. I\()r\- sto|)per. 
 
842 — Jade Snuff Bottle (Ch'icri-lung) 
 
 iMoss-giTcn. Amphora sliape, with two 
 dragon haiulles carved in rehef. Pink 
 glass stopper. 
 
 , 84!3 — AcATK SxcFF Bottle (Chiton-lung) 
 
 Pale brown, with markings in white which 
 resemble sea coral. Fci-ts'ui stopper. 
 
 844 — GiiAY Jadk Sxt-ff Bottle (Ch'ien-Iung) 
 
 ('ar\e(l in design of a carp with lotus 
 plant in relief. 
 
 845 — Haiii CiivsTAr, Sxtff Bottle (Ch'ien- 
 hing) 
 
 Pronounced markings, highly polished 
 surface. Inntation jade stopper. 
 
 846 — Sjlm.t, Jadk Sxlff Bottle {Ch'icii-hing) 
 
 Carved in design of a melon, with bird on branch and insects 
 in i-elief in ffi-tx'ni. Green glass stopjier. 
 
 347 C'lXXABAK LACliIEK SxUFF ]}oTTLK { ill' if n-1 11 llg) 
 
 Artistic.'illv carved in high relief with 
 figvires of mandarnis and their at- 
 tendants, ]iine tree and mountainous 
 landscape. ]\Ietal stop})er incrusted 
 v.hh coral and tinted ivory. 
 
 
 X: A' . 
 
 iirrE Jadk Sxuff Bottle (Ch'ii'n- 
 JiDig ) 
 
 84T 
 
 Pomegranate and peach trees in bear- 
 ing, and symbolical bat, carved in 
 low relief in two jjanels. ^Monster-head 
 liandles. Coral stopper. 
 
 849 — Jade Snuff Bot'tle 
 
 Pale yellow. Plain polished surface. Green glass stopper 
 mounted in metal. 
 
!^'")0 — I'oKc II Aix Sxri-i- Hoi'iii: {('li'i,ii-lii ikj) 
 
 Inipi'ri.'il bo.'if lilt;' scriics, iiitcnoi' \ir\\, lotus plants and I'dckv 
 (-■lirts, n\(uli'U-(l in liin'li irln'f and ilriMiratcd in ln-lllian|- enainul 
 folors. l\(ir\' stii[)pir. 
 
 f^-Jl — CiuAV AMI (iitF.Kx Jauk S X t k k ]5()iti,k (( h"uii-hni(/) 
 
 Svniholical liats, SIkiii svmhol, cranr and lotus j)lants. Carved 
 in lou relict. Pmk (|uart/. stopper. 
 
 y.")|-^ — Com rosiriox Sxri'F lJo-|"ri.i; (Ch'iiii-linir/) 
 l\cd and Yellow, fi-i-t.s'/ii stopper. 
 
 85:3 MoTHKR-OF-PKAIil, SxiFK ]{(irTI,i: { ( ' IT icil-l IIIK/ ) 
 
 ('ar\ed to represent a melon, with \ine anil 
 leaves m relief and iindei'eut. 
 
 / •1^SLJJ^\ ^'^^ — Pali; ^'kt.i.ow Crvstai, Sxii-f Hottle 
 
 / ^^^T/l (Ch-ic-ii-huK/) 
 
 ■ i 
 
 j Deeoration of lotus plants, earved m low 
 
 I relief. I\orv stoj)per. 
 
 jt/ 855 — Agate Sxuf'f Botti.k {C'h'it'ii-Iitiig) 
 
 Of red, ivhite and pale brown a<rate, highly 
 
 1^,53 
 
 polished surface. Stopper to confori 
 
 8.56 — Haik Crv.stai. Snifk Bottee {Cli'it-ii-luiif/) 
 Pear shape. Agate stopper. 
 
 8.57 — Hair Crystai. Sxeff Bottle (Ch'ifii-hinf/) 
 
 Gray and brown, with pronounced hair masks. Green glass 
 stopper. 
 
 8.58 — RofK Crystat, Sxiee Bottt.k {(It'icn-hiiu/) 
 
 Intricately decorated on the inner surface with landscape and 
 mountain scenery. Pink (juartz stopper. 
 
 859 — Ja]>eite Sxijfe Bot-i-ee {Cli'icn-hnu/) 
 
 Palo gray, with \arious markings of imperial green. Metal 
 stopper, incrusted with coral and malachite. 
 
860 — White Pokcelaix Sxukf Bottle {Ch'icn-hing) 
 
 Of tlie so-called "soft paste." Ornamented 
 with numerous figures of Buddhistic priests 
 which are artistically modeled in high re- 
 lief on a ground of wave design. Stopper 
 to conform. 
 
 861 — Gray and Browx Agate Sxuff Bottee 
 {C'h'it'n-lung) 
 
 Decoration of imps, holding floral branches 
 
 and two crows. Carved in I'cHef in the 
 
 black matrix. Green glass stopper. 
 860 
 
 862 — Bnu-: Glass Sxief Bottek (C'h'ieii-Inng) 
 
 I>otus flowers moileled in )-elii-f in carnelian red. Green glass 
 stopper. 
 
 863 — Paek Yei.eow Acvtk Sxi'ff Bottle (Ch'icn-huig) 
 
 Chinese hov with svmbols, monkev and 
 ha«k. Carved in relief in the brown 
 matrix. Green glass stopper. 
 
 86i ClXX.MtAH IjACaUER SxFFF BoTTLE 
 
 ' ' ( C'h'ien-luitg) 
 
 Cliinesc domestic and garden scenes. 
 Carved in high ix-lief. Shoii mark under- 
 neath tlie foot. Imitation crvstal stop- 
 per. 
 
 865 — Gray Jadk Sxeff Bottle (Ch'icn-hing) 
 
 Flattened shape. Blossoming shrubs, 
 fungus, and grasses, carved in high re- 
 lief in the matrix. Motlier-of-pearl stopper. 
 
 H(i:! 
 
 866 — Rock C'Rvs'rAL Sxeff Bottle (CliiLii-hiitg) 
 
 Outer surface carved to I'ejjresent wicker basket pattern. Imita- 
 tion green jade stopj)er. 
 
 (Illii.'itrtitc(l) 
 
 867 — jVc.vte Sxi'I'F Bottle {Ch''icu-hing) 
 
 Opalescent Cjualitv, ^\\t\\ interesting markings of moss-green and 
 brown. Imitation jade stopper. 
 
809 
 
 870 
 
 868 — ^Vhite Glass Sxuff Bottle (C'h'icii-Iuii(/) 
 
 Tlie sides ornauK'ntcd with two circiil.ir ])anels, the innei- sur- 
 faces of wliich are decorated witii liorses ])ainted in various 
 enamels. ]\Ionster-]iead side handles in hkie. (ireen jade stoppei'. 
 
 869 — White Jade Sxeff Bottle {Cli'ifii-hi/u/) 
 
 C'ar\'ed to rejjresent locust. I'artialh' wrapped in a lotus leaf. 
 
 870 — PoRt ELAix Sxi-FF BoTTLE (Cliicn-luug) 
 
 Of the so-called "soft paste." The ornamentation, wliich is 
 modeled in hifrh relief, represents an Imperial lioating party, 
 equestrian figures of warriors and symbolic' dexices. Ivory stop- 
 per. Seal mark underneath the foot. 
 
 871 — Lai'ls-lazuli Sxuff Bottle {C'li'icn-hniy) 
 
 Gray ground, with proninniced ULarkings of brilliant hue. Im- 
 itation jade stopper. 
 
 872 — Pale Yellow axd Greex Jade Sxeff Bottle (Cli'ien-htiig) 
 Highly jtolished surface. Agate stoj)])er. 
 
 873 — C'keaji-wiiite Sxefk Bottle (Ch'icit-hnuj) 
 
 Of the so-called "soft paste." Ornamented with a ceremonial 
 gathering of Buddhistic priests artistically modeled in high relief. 
 
ST-i — Yei.xow Agate Sxtft Bottt.e (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Carved in design of Buddha's-hand fruit. 
 
 875 — Amethy.st Sxtff Bottle (Ch'ien-Iung) 
 
 Flat shape. Higlily polished surface. 
 Imitation jade stopper. 
 
 876 — Rock ("hystae Sxtef Bottle (Ch'ien- 
 lung) 
 
 Octagonal, with archaic dragon scrolls 
 carved in relief on two of the side panels. 
 Fci-tx'iii stopper. 
 
 87-t 
 
 877 — AjU'/i'irvsT Sxtff Bottle (Ch'icn-hnig) 
 Pear shape. Higlily jiolished surface. 
 
 878- 
 
 -Mii.K-wniTE liocK Cryst.\l Sxt'ff Bottle ( Cll' ifll-I luig) 
 
 Douhle-gourd shape. Bats of longevity 
 
 ^ a)ul Shoii characters carved in low re- 
 
 ™ lief. Lotus stopper. 
 
 879 — C'eystai, Sxfff Bottle (Cli'icn-lung) 
 
 imr 9 
 
 iP' 
 
 r 
 
 \ 
 I 
 
 / 
 
 Pale gray. Grasses carved in Ioav relief. 
 A })eony carved in the matrix. Imita- 
 tion green jade stopper. 
 
 H 880 — Jade Sxfff Bottle (Ch'icu-liing) 
 
 M Flat shape. Gray, with moss-green 
 
 «' markings. Ruby glass stopper. 
 
 881 — Tall Porcelaix Sxfff Bottle {Cli'icn- 
 luiig) 
 
 The outer casing pierced and carved in 
 878 relief to represent the dragon and pluvnix 
 
 amid t'loud forms and fire emblems. 
 The wjiole coated with a pure white glaze. Coral and metal 
 stopj)er. 
 
SSSJ- -Pai.k \'ki.i.<)«- ,1aiii-; Smii' Moirii: { ( 'irhii-l i( ii</) 
 
 l''lat Irilcd sli.ipc, side p.iiiils (Iccoi-.iird 
 
 »ith piiir and phiiii hie and ('llill('^(■ 
 
 fxH'iii. ('ai-\i'd III \<)\y rrlicl' and iiiiimiI. 
 Fti-tx'iii sti)|)|ii'|-. 
 
 88;5- - l'(iK( I'M.Aix Sxri-i- Hoi-i'i.i-; {('iririi-hnu/) 
 
 TIk' ci^-ld IJuddliist rinhlc'ins of liappv 
 augury rai-wd in low i-rliif. l^naiiiik'd 
 111 rt'd ill iimtatiiiii of finiiabar lac(|ii(r. 
 AK'Kd stopper. 
 
 i^S 
 
 8S4--Hi)( K ("uvsTAi, Sm I- I- ]{i) rii.i.: {(_'Ii"n/i- 
 huiy ) 
 
 lilossoiniiii;- pimn \rvv carved in ri'lief in 
 the matrix. On the rexcrse. iris car\e<l 
 111 h)»' rehi't. ( 'onijiosit nni stojiper. 
 
 8S.5 — '\^'HI■^K Gt,.\ss Sxri'K Uotti.k (Ch'icti-Jtnig) 
 
 Cyh'iidrieal fonii. Plid'nix, <^rasses and cN)!!!! forms modeled 
 ill reHef in sappliire-bhie. Coral stopper. 
 
 S86 — Amkthyst SxiKi- Boiri.K ((.h'lcii-luinj) 
 
 Octao'on shape. Hi(;lily p(jlished surfaee. Stopper to eonform. 
 
 887 — Bkowx C'livsTAi. S.xri'K l?{)i"ri,K (CIile/i-liiii(/) 
 
 .Melon shape. \ iiies and lea\es ear\ed in 
 low relief. Cor.al and metal stopjier. 
 
 888- -lloiK CiivsTAi. Sxri'i' lio'i'Ti.K (Cli'ifii- 
 Ii/iig ) 
 
 'r.all oviform, intricately decorated on the 
 intt'rior surface with tlouers, sliriihs. mi- 
 nute birds and fislies. Tiiik o'lass stii])|ier. 
 
 889- l{ii( K Ciivs'i-Ai, Sxri-i'- Bo'i-rri-: (I'li'itii- 
 linif/) 
 
 ^*^' Lotus carved in relief in the ijreeil matrix. 
 
 On the reverse, millet and (hicks. I'ink i;lass stopper. 
 
890 — Gkav Jauk Sxi-ff Botti.k (C'Jilev-liiiig) 
 
 C'Hr\ed in designs of melons, tlie \ ine 
 and leaves carved in relief in green 
 and brown matrix. Fci-ts'ui stopper. 
 
 )S!)1 — Gr.Ass Sxi'FF BoTTLH {Ch'icn-Jung) 
 
 Flattened sliape ; in imitation of I'ock 
 crystal. Tlie decoration intricately 
 painted on the interior surface. Pink 
 glass sto})per. 
 
 y9!-2- -C'lXXAHAK I.ACC-irKR Sxi'KF BcrrTi.E 
 
 ( ( 'h'icn-huig) 
 
 Ai'tisticallv car\ed in liigli relii'f with 
 *^"0 a scene representing a tea party m a 
 
 garden, children at pl.'iv, a pine tree and othei' designs. Brass 
 stopper in design of a dragon. 
 
 S9-'3— (am I'HOlt Gl,.\SS Sxri'K BoTTIK ( ( ' ll' icH-1 tl II (j) 
 
 Imperial figures m garden, plum in blossom and other designs 
 modeled in relief in sappliire-bhie. Pink glass stopper. 
 
 894— Ri',1) Ami!i:u Sxi i-i Hoiri.i', (C'h'uii-liiiig) 
 
 804 
 
 (arxed iii design of a doubled carp, 
 ('oral stopper. 
 
 89o- -Ao.vrK SxiKK Boiti.i'. {('iricii-lii iir/) 
 
 l''ine green color, with slight markiiigs 
 of brow n. Monster-head and ring handles 
 car\ed in relief. Pink gl.iss stop})er. 
 
 89(i -S.MOKi. CitvsrAi, Sxri-i' Botti.k (Ciriiii- 
 1 II III/ ) 
 
 I'Matteiied t-ircular sli.-ipi'. Inscription and 
 [)ine tree, with Greek-fret bordt'i's carved 
 111 low relict and incised. Fii-ts'iii stop- 
 per. 
 
 897 — .Mo'rri.iU) J.vdi', Sxri'i- Horria: (Cli'icii-lii iig) 
 
 Brown and white, with iii.'irkiiigs of emerald green. Stopper to 
 conform. 
 
898 C'lNXAUAl! Lai-QUKU SnI'KK l$()TTI,r. (I ll' ic III II ll</ ) 
 
 C':ii'V(_'<] ill liioli rolifl' wiHi iii;iii(l;inii 
 figures, ti'ccs ;iii(l iiiouiifaiiioiis lajid- 
 scapc. Grorii glass st<i|)|)i'r. 
 
 899 — Crvstai, Glass Sn-ii-k Uotti.ic 
 (C'li'iiii-hiiKj) 
 
 Decorated on tlu' intei-ior sui'taeu. 
 Imitation jade stopper. 
 
 900 — Agate Sxi-kf Botti,!-: (Ch'icii- 
 luiif/) 
 
 Mottled brown. (iret'ii glaze stop- 
 898 per. 
 
 901 — Imperial Jadeite Sxuef Bottle (C'li'icii-hi iuj) 
 
 Flattened shape. ^lottled white and emerald-green markings. 
 Coral and metal stopper. 
 
 902 — Soft Paste Sxeef Bottle {CJi'icii-hnifj) 
 
 Ornamentation of "tlu' eight Biiddhistie 
 ■*^ emblems of the happy augur v" eai-vcd in 
 
 high relief and enameled in brilli.int colors 
 on a creamy white ground of cloud 
 forms. Carved iyorv and metal stopper. 
 Seal mark underneath the foot. 
 
 903 — Gray Agate Sxuek Bottle (C'h'kn- 
 lung) 
 
 Highly polished surface. Monkey in re- 
 relief in the brown matrix. Green glass 
 902 stop])cr. 
 
 904 — Amktjiyst Sxtfe Bottle {Cliicii-hing) 
 
 Hexagonal, with lotus plants and stork carved in high relief 
 in tlie matrix. Coral stopper. 
 
 905 — Yellow Agatk Sxtff Bottle (Cli'ifii-hiiirj) 
 
 Highly polished. Tree in blossom, monkey and insect car\ed 
 in high relief in the y)r()wn matrix. Imperial jadeite stopper. 
 
 906 PoRf'ELAIX SXUFF Bo'l'TLK { CJl'lfll-l II ll(/) 
 
 The entire outer sui'face covered with an ornament.ition of kyliiis 
 sporting with brocaded l)alls, and cloud forms, which is carved 
 in high relief and coated with a pure white en/unel. 
 
907 — Camphok Glass Snuff Bottle (Cli ten-lung) 
 
 907 
 
 Flowering plants, modeled in high relief 
 in emerald-green. Glass stopper. 
 
 908 — Amethyst Sxtef Bottle 
 
 Hexagonal shape. Horses, pine and 
 bamboo carved in relief in the matrix. 
 Jadcite stopper. 
 
 909 — Agate Sxeff Bottle (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Golden-brown, with blossoms carved in 
 high I'elief in the white matrix. 
 
 910 — Hair Crystal Sxlff Bottle {Clt'ien-luncj) 
 
 Pale pink color. Highly polished surface. Green glass stopper. 
 
 911 — Ajibee Sxuff Bottle (Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 911 
 
 Golden-brown translucent quality. Of 
 melon shape, with vine and insects carved 
 in low relief. Jadeite stopper. 
 
 912 — Brown Agatk Sxuff Bottle {Cliien- 
 111 tig) 
 
 Quadrilateral. Plum tree and peony 
 carved in high relief in the matrix. Green 
 glass stopper. 
 
 913 — AiiF.TUYsT Sxi-ff Bottle (CVicn-lung) 
 
 Animals carved in relief in the matrix. 
 On the rcAcrse, Chinese characters and 
 seal in low relief. Jade stopper. 
 
 91'1 — Haiu C'RYs'rAL Sxi'ff Bottle {Cli'icii-hiiig) 
 
 Translucent brown color, with hair markings. Highly polished 
 surface. Jadeite stopjter. 
 
i^l"'— 'i'ri!(iro[si>iiLri; (ii.Ass Sm mk Horj'i.i.; {Cli"i,)i-lini,;/) 
 
 Onmiiioiitcd A\itli two rlrciil.ir pjuirls, wliicli ju-c (Iccoruted on 
 tlie roviTsr side with Hmircs (if C'liiiu'sc hoys. MoiishT-lie.'ul ;ui(] 
 riui;- liaiulli.'s in relief in red. 
 
 9Ui — Ca.mphoi! Glass Sxiff Botti.k (C'lrh/i-luii;/) 
 
 ^■M| T.-imst fii>-in'i_'s, «avc designs and cloud form 
 
 jpmgl^ modeled in relief in Ijlne and l)ro\VTi. 
 
 917 — .'\Iii.K-\\iirrK Glass Sxttfi.- Bottlk {CWien- 
 1 II III/) 
 
 I'ylindneal shape. Storks, deer, pine and 
 bat symbols of lonirevity, modeled in relief 
 in carnelian-red. Ixory stopper. 
 
 918 
 
 91S — ('a.\ii'ik)r Glass Sxuff Bottle {CJiicn- 
 liuig) 
 
 Flattened oviform. Highly polished sur- 
 face. Quartz stopper. 
 
 919 — Agate Sxuff Bottlf (Cli'ifii-Iiiiii/) 
 
 Pale brown, with monkeys, pine branches, crane and lotus carved 
 in relief in the dark brown matrix. Green glass stopper. 
 
 920 — Agate Sxfff Bottlf (C'h'ifn-lii iiij) 
 
 Flattened o\'iforiiL 'I'ranslucent |)ale brown, with i)amboo 
 branches, the sacred fungus and flowering plant carved in low 
 relief. Pink coral stopper. 
 
 921 — Agate Sxuff Bottlf (Cli'un-liuig') 
 
 Gray-white, with dark brown markings. Green glass sto[)per. 
 
 922 — I.MPERiAL Jaoeite Sxiff Bottf.e (Ch'len-liing) 
 
 With flattened sides. Of rare emerald green color mottled witli 
 gray white. Stopper to conform. 
 
 923 — C'oMi'OsiTiox SxFFF ISoTrLi') { CJi'icii-Iiiiig) 
 
 Black, with pme, magnolia and stoi-k modeled in relief in red. 
 
92-i — Jade Snuff Bottle {Cliien-hing) 
 
 Flat shape. Pale brown and gray, with profuse moss-green 
 markings. Pink composition and metal stopper. 
 
 92.5 — Yellow Jade Snuff Bottle (Cli'ien-liuuj) 
 
 Two kylins carved in high relief in the matrix. Imitation jade 
 stopper. 
 
 926 — Large Hair Crystal Sxtff Bottle (Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 Flattened ovifornL Pink glass stopper. 
 
 92T — Ivory-white Porcelain Sxuff Bottle 
 ( Ch'tcn-Iung) 
 
 Profusely ornamented with figures of 
 kylins sporting with brocaded ball, with 
 I'ibbon filets on a ground to resemble 
 cloud forms, all of which is carved in 
 high relief. Stojtper to confornL 
 
 928 — iMoss Agate Sni'ff Bottle (C'li'icn- 
 Juiig) 
 
 Highly polished surface. Imitation jade 
 stopper. 
 
 929 — Agate Snuff Bottle {C h'ioi-hirig) 
 
 'I'raiFshicent pale l)rown, with monkey on ]iorsel)ack, blossoms 
 and ni.sects carved ni relief in the matrix. Jadeite stoj)per. 
 
 930 — KocK Crystal Sniff Bottle {Cliliii-hing) 
 
 Lotus plants and crane, carded in high relief in the matrix. 
 Green glass stopper. 
 
 9-51 — Wftefe Jade Snuff Bottle (C h'ieii-hing) 
 
 Quadi-ilateral shape. Fabluous bird, .iiiimal and symbols carved 
 in low relief. Pink coral stopper. 
 
y;}'^ — (iit.w AiiA'L'i', Sm'ki- Horn, hi {Cli'uii-lii ik/) 
 
 Hawk 1)11 piiH' l)raiirli, ci-.il) and loins cai-vrd in i-clief in tlic 
 matrix, (iixxai "lass stopper. 
 
 !);>;) SoKT Pastk Sxri-F Bottle {Ch'icii-liiiu/) 
 
 Tall o\'lt'()nn. The ontci- casinj.^ pierced 
 to resi'nihle clond foi'iiis and (ire einlilenis, 
 oxei' \\lneli, \u Ini^li relief, is a drai>-on and 
 pluenix. Tile wlioji- coated witli a soft 
 i\(ii-\ -\\ liiti' e'la/.e. .Mot lier-of-](earl stopper. 
 
 7 O.'J-t- Com I'osrriox Sx'i'ff Bo-r-ri.i; {(h'icii-linicj) 
 
 .Mottled red, velloNS and l)ro\\ii. (ireeii ^'lass 
 stojiper. 
 
 y;3.5 K0( K CuiSlAL S.N'IIFF BoTTI.K (C'll'u'n- 
 
 hintj) 
 
 Two kyliiis sportiiirj with a brocaded ball 
 modeled in high relief in the green matrix. Coral stopj)er. 
 
 936 WitlTE-GLAS.S SXFFF BoTTI.E { Cll'icil-hl ll(j) 
 
 Buddhist emblems, fruits and flowers 
 modeled in I'elief in cariielian red, .sap- 
 phire-blue, enierald-greeii, ;uid leinoii- 
 vellow. Imitation jade stopper. 
 
 !).'57 — Rock Ckys'iwi, Sxtff Bottt.f (Ch'it-ri- 
 lung) 
 
 Bird on plum tree car\ed in I'elief in the 
 white matrix. Stopper to conform. 
 
 938 Buow.x ACATE SXFFF BoTTi.i-: (Cli'icii- 
 lini(i) 
 
 Daiiiiio figui-c, pine tree, bat, and 
 
 monster-head handles car\i(l in high relief. Fci-fs'iii stop})er. 
 
 939 — Brown Agate Sxfj'F JJo'i-i'j.I'; {Cliicv-lvrifj) 
 
 The God of Longevity, deer and stork car\ed in high relief in 
 the matrix. Composition stopper. 
 
940 — Agate Snuff Bottle (Cliicn-luiig) 
 
 Translucent pale brown peculiarly mottled. Imitation jade 
 stopper. 
 
 941 — Soft Paste Snuff Bottle (Ch'ieii-lung) 
 
 Figures of the Inmiortals, and view of the Taoists' Paradise, 
 modeled i7i high relief and enameled in brilliant colors. Seal 
 mark underneath the foot. 
 
 942 — Agate Snuff Bottee (Cliien-lung) 
 
 Clouded gray, with hawks modeled in the 
 
 dark hroA\n matrix. Highlj' polished sur- 
 face. Green glass stopper. 
 
 94.'3 — Yki.t.ow Jade Snuff Bottle (Cliicn-lung) 
 
 Carp rising from the sea, hawk on rock, 
 symbolical bat and cloud forms carved in 
 high relief in the brown matrix. Lapis 
 stopper. 
 
 941 
 
 944 — Laege Rock Crystal Sxuff Bottle (Ch'icn-Iung) 
 
 Taoist genii, deer, stork and palms carved in high relief. Pink 
 glass stopper. 
 
 94.5 — Large Amber Snuff Botti^e (Cltlcn-Iung) 
 
 ^jSUlt^LUZ, 
 
 945 
 
 Golden brown color. Two lion-head 
 ring-handles carved in relief. Jadeite 
 stopper. 
 
 94() — Porcelain Snuff Bottle (Cli'tcn- 
 lung) 
 
 Lnperial boating party and mytho- 
 logical subject carved in high relief 
 and enameled in brilliant colors. Ivory 
 stopper. 
 
 947 — Yellow Agate Snuff Bottle 
 (Ch'icn-Inng) 
 
 A tiger and symljolical bats carved in 
 high relief in the brown matrix. 
 
9i8 — Fei-ts"l'i Sxrbv ]3i»Tri.i-: (C']i'ifii-Iini(/) 
 
 r 
 
 Fljith'iud lu'ai-t-sIi,i])o. Mottled 
 gray and wliitr, beautifully 
 marked with cinerald-fi-rcen. 
 Stopper to match. 
 
 948 
 
 949 — AcATK S\iM-F Bcrr'iia-; {Cli'ien- 
 luncj) 
 
 Pale brown. Hawk on rock 
 modeled in the m/itrix. Highly 
 polished surface. 
 
 9.')0 — WiuTi'. Jadf, Sxvkf Botti.f. 
 ( ( It'lcn-hnifj) 
 
 ^futtoii-fat quality. Figure of 
 Chinese boy car\ed in high relief. Coral stopper. 
 
 951 — SxuFF Bottle (C h'ien-luiicj) 
 
 Composition in imitation of agate. Fii-fa'ai stopper. 
 
 952 — OyiFORji SxuFF Bottfe {C]i'i<r>i-liinfj) 
 
 Red and yellow composition. Green glass stopper. 
 
 953 — White Jade Sxuff Bottle (Cli'icn-hnuj) 
 
 Melon-shape. Buddhistic sj'mbols and nion- 
 ke}' carved in high relief. Coral stopper. 
 
 954 — Rock Crystal Snuff Bottle {Cli'ien- 
 
 \ lung) 
 
 )^ 
 
 \ Chrysantliemum carved in relief in the brown 
 
 i matrix. On the reverse, plum tree and bani- 
 
 j boo. Green glass stopper. 
 
 / ' 
 / 955 — Ro( h- Crystal Sxuff Bottle (Ch't-en- 
 lung) 
 
 ^^■^ Intricately decorated on the inner surface 
 
 witli miniature landscape, birds and insects. 
 Metal stopper, incrusted with turquoise and coral. 
 
956 — Laege Snukk Bottle 
 
 951) 
 
 Sapphire-blue glass. Over the 
 outer surface is an ornamenta- 
 tion of European execution in 
 applied silver of trellis and 
 floral designs. Glass stopper. 
 
 957 — Large Amethyst Snuff 
 Bottle (Ch'ieii-Iung) 
 
 Pino and bamboo carved in 
 low relief. Imitation jade 
 stopper. 
 
 958 — Rock Crystal Snuff Bottle 
 (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Boating scene and pine tree 
 carved in relief in the matrix. Ruby glass stopper. 
 
 959 — Brown Agate Sntff Bottle (Ch'icn-Iung) 
 
 Censer and ornament carved in low relief. Jadeite stopper. 
 
 960 — Green Jade Sni-ff Bottle (Clt'ic/i-Iung) 
 
 _^., Carved in design of a double-gourd. Stem 
 
 and vine in high relief and imdercut. 
 
 961 — T/Arge Rock Crystal Snuff Bottle 
 ( Ch'icn-hnig) 
 
 Bat, fungus, and cloud forms carved in 
 low relief. Imitation jadeite stopper. 
 
 96^2 — Jadeite Snuff Bottle (Ch'icn-hmg) 
 
 Gray-wliite, marked with emerald-green. 
 Stopper to conform. 
 
 963 — AoATE Snuff Bottle (Ch'icn-luiig) 
 
 Pale brown. Rooster and flowering plant 
 ^^^^ c:',rved in high relief. Turtle stopper. 
 
964 LaHCK C'ltVsrAL SmKI'- IJoTTLK { C ll' ic III II ll(/) 
 
 Two kvliiis and l)roca(li' hall, 
 car\c(l ill lii^'li relief in tlii' ma- 
 trix. On tlie re\'er,se, a j)ine tree 
 in liiw relief. jVinetliyst .stoj)per. 
 
 1)()0 — IjAiuiF, .iXcA-rK S^'IIKK Bottle 
 ( ( 'h' if II -I II III/) 
 
 9(i4 
 
 Transhicent pale Iiroun eques- 
 trian fi<Tures and pine branch, 
 carved in relief in the matrix. 
 
 966' — AciArF. SxuFF Botti.k {Cli'icn- 
 IniHj) 
 
 j\I(ittletl ff-reen and hrown. T>ion- 
 licad and i-inij handles carved in 
 relief. 
 
 967 — Large Crystal-glass Sxuef Bottle (Ch'icii-hnirj) 
 
 Two carj) and lotus plant*; 
 modeled in high relief in red. 
 Stopper to conform. 
 
 968 — .\i;ate Sxi'FF Bottle (C'h'icn- 
 hiiifj) 
 
 Pale brown. Rooster and 
 fuiifrus carved in relief in the 
 matrix. jNIalachite and ivory 
 stojiper. 
 
 969 — A M i; -r H V s r Sxim-f ]?ottle 
 (C'lricn-hiiif/) 
 
 Taoist genii, ])ine tree, bat and 
 cloud forms, carved in relief. 
 '■^^' Tinted ivory stopper 
 
 970 — Mock CuYsTAr, Sxiiff Bot'I'i.k (CIi'icii-Jiiiki) 
 
 Pine trees and landscape carved in low relief. ]{ose quartz 
 stopper. 
 
971 — "Twin" Sniff ]-5ottt.e (Cliicn-luug) 
 
 Aiiietliyst car\ rd in reprcsiiit.itioii of two carp rising from the 
 
 972 — Large Rock Crystai, Sxfff Botti.f (Ch'ien-hing) 
 
 With two nionstcr-liead and ring handles carved in relief. 
 Stopper to conform. 
 
 97''5 J.\.SPF,B SXTFF BoTTFF. (C h'tCU-l lUig) 
 
 Two monster-head and ring handles carved in relief. Highly 
 polished surface. Blue glass stopper tipped with coral. 
 
 97'i — White Jai>f Sxfff Bottle (C Jt'it'ii-Iung) 
 
 Brancli of ])him lilossoms, car\ed in relief in the red matrix. 
 
 975 — Rock C'hystae Sxt-ff ]}ottle (Clilcn-Iung) 
 
 Pine tree and crane carved in high relief in the matrix. Green 
 glass stopper. 
 
 976 — Agate Sxfff Bottfk (C'li'icn-Iuug) 
 
 Amher yellow and gray with moss markings. Highly polished 
 surface. Quartz and metal stopper. 
 
 977 — Agate Sxfff Botti.f {Ch'icn-liuig) 
 
 Streaked pale brown. Highly ])olished. Fci-ts'ui stopjDcr. 
 
978 — Laucu-, CiiiNKsr. .Moss-Ai; A'l'h'. Smi-i' l{(ii"n,i'; {Ch'iciilii ii(/) 
 
 Mollstor-lu'.-iil .■111(1 niii;' haiullrs (in I lie Iwd l'IkIs. Jlitrlily {xjl- 
 islu'd surface, (."oral .stci|)])cr. 
 
 979 — Smokf, CiivsrAi, Sxri-'K RoT'ri.K, (Cli'icii-luiu/) 
 
 Ijotus plant carved in relief in Hie gray ni.itrix. Iiiiit.'itioii 
 aniothy.st stopper. 
 
 980 — Wni'iE Jade Twix-flsii Sxtff Bottle (Ch'icn-hnig) 
 
 Carved in desig-ii of two c.-ir]) st.aiidint^ on their t.iils. Tinted 
 ivorv .spoons with niiniatiire cr\st,-il-hall stopper-lie.-ids. C.'ir\ed 
 teakwood .stand. 
 
 981 — S.M.M.i, \^'ll^rl•; J.mh: C.minixc (Ciricn-hunj) 
 
 Cliinese bov with (Joiihle irinircl. Teakwood stand. 
 
 982 — Two \A'iHTE Jauk A\'ixe C'rrs {C'li'icii-bnig) 
 
 Highly polished surface. Carxcd te.ikudod st;uids. 
 
983 — ]\IixiATUEE Teapot {Cliien-hing) 
 
 Of rose quartz. Tree peonies carved in low relief. Carved 
 teakwood stand. 
 
 9841 — ^IiLK-WHiTE Glass A'ase (Cli'icn-lung) 
 
 Oviform bottle-shape. Floral branches mod- 
 eled in relief in dark blue. Teakwood 
 stand. 
 
 -PoRCEEAix SxuFF BoTTT.E ( Yuiig Chcng) 
 
 Doublc-ri-ourd sliapc. Decoration of haw- 
 thorn blossoms in brown and white, on an 
 opaque l)lue ground. 
 
 „»>.-.»»* 986 — PoRCEEAix SxuFF BoTTLE {Ch' len-Iung) 
 
 Cylindrical shape. Five-clawed dragons, fire 
 emblems and sacred pearl, in brilliant enamel 
 ilding on an engraved white ground. 
 
 987 — PoRCELAix SxTFF BoTTi.E (Yung Clu'iig) 
 
 Ovoid bottle-shape. E(|uestrian and other figures delicatel}' pen- 
 ciled in enamel colors. Seal mark. 
 
 988 — PoiiCELAix SxTFF BoTTi.E (Ch'icn-hmg) 
 
 INIiniature gallipot-shajjc. Dragon in underglazo blue, amid 
 cloud forms painted in gray and brown tones. 
 
 989 — PoKCELAix SxFFF BoTTi.E { C'h'icn-l II ug) 
 
 jNIiniature gallipot-shape. Conventional lotus in undcrglaze blue 
 on a black ground. 
 
 990 — PoRC'Fi.Aix SxiTFF BoTTi.E { K' aiig-lisi) 
 
 jMiniature galHpot-sha])e. Of fine quality li.ird paste, decorated 
 with numerous five-clawed dragons amid cloud forms and fire 
 eml)lems, in brilliant undcrglaze bhie and roiigc-dc-ciiivrc. Six- 
 character mark underneath the foot. 
 
991 — ^IiMArrui-, \'as|': {C'li'i<-ii-liiiit/) 
 
 Pciu'-isli.'ipi'. Drt'or.itiou (it dia^-oii and cliuul foi'iiis in iindri- 
 <;'lazo bliR' and roiuji-di'-cuivrc. Six-cliararlrr iiiaik midrriii'atli 
 the foot. 
 
 99'2 — MixiAiTui': ]?(>TTi.K-sHAi'Kii \'asi: {('It'un-I/nu/) 
 
 Dragon and I'loud fiirnis jiaintrd in praclililoiini tints. 
 
 DECORATED CUPS AND CUPS AND SAUCERS 
 
 993 — S.MAI, T- T.iiiATHix Vrv {l']i"icii-hni</) 
 
 Poacli-slia})i'. with stem fonniiiij haiidh'. Drcorafcd in natural- 
 istic cohirs. 
 
 994— WixF. Crp {Yinif/ Clu'iu/) 
 
 Peonies and vines, p.amttd m enamel eolovs on a red i^round. 
 
 995 — Small C'o\kkf.d ('i'p (('irh-ii-hnu/) 
 
 Semi-ewfi'shell porcelain. (iarden scene and fii^'ures, p.ainted in 
 brilliant enamel colors. Seal mark. 
 
 996 — T\\o A\'ixE C'i'ps {Yiiiif/ Clu'iu/) 
 
 Semi-eg'frshell, ]andst'a])e and floral disit;iLs, p.iinted m enamel 
 colors. Gold ground ^^ltll blossoms m reseiAi'. 
 
 997 TllKKI-; ASSORTKI) AViXE Cri'S (YlllKJ C'lltlU/) 
 
 Semi-eg-irshell. Deeoi'ated with tigin'e and floral suli'|eets in bi'il- 
 lianf enamel colors. 
 
 998 — Four E(;os[iet.l Wixk Crrs (Yiiihj Chnu/) 
 
 Annnals, flowers and landscape, |iiunted in bialliant enamel eoloi's. 
 
 999— Two Talt, Wixl Cri's {i'lnu/ Clinn/) 
 
 Thin porcelain; flowers, blossoms and birds finely painted in 
 naturalistic colors. 
 
1000— Two WixE Cups (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Dragons amid cloud forms and fire emblems 
 penciled in coral pink and gilding. Six-character mark of the 
 period. 
 
 1001 — FoTR Wine Curs {Cliien-'lung) 
 
 Decoration of dragons amid cloud forms and fire emblems pur- 
 suing the sacred pearl, painted in enamel colors and gilding 
 on a brilliant ffrcen ground. 
 
 1002— Four Wine Cups (Ch'icnAitng) 
 
 T-otus shape and decoration, the latter fineh' executed in bril- 
 liant enamel colors. 
 
 1003— Tall Cup {Ch'icn-lung) 
 
 Reserve j)anels of landscape and water views in colors and 
 gilding. Turquoisc-blue ground. 
 
 1004 — Three Cups and One Saucer (Ch'ien-lung) 
 
 Cups of lotus design; saucers of clirysanthenmm shape. All 
 decorated in colors of famillc rose. 
 
 1005 — Three Cups anij Saucers {Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. l{eserves of figures and flowers in enamel 
 colors. Gold ground, v>it\\ fioral sprat's outlincti in red. 
 
 1006 — Two Cui's AND Saiceks ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. One decorated with floral .subjects in colors 
 of famille rose, tlu- other «ith Chinese domestic scenes in bril- 
 liant enamel colors. 
 
 lOOT — Two Cups and Saicers ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-cggsliell. One with reserves of roosters and flowers in 
 gilding, lapis-blue glaze ground ; the other, with reserves of 
 figures and garden scenes in brilliant enamel colors, and border 
 of flowers in violet color. 
 
1008 — Two Crrn .wn S.\rcKus {Yinif/ CJiriif/) 
 
 Tliiii porcrlniii. One wiHi i;-arilcn scirics and figures in cnaincl 
 colors, the otliei- «itli Hoi-al (Irsiniis in palc-siir- pi'ilc. 
 
 1009 Two Cl'l'S AND SAlCFliS {YinUI C'lll'lKj) 
 
 Scnii-OiTirslu'll. l\rsrr\rs of (ii>-iirrs and landscapes jiainted in 
 brilliant enamel colors. l{cd and i;-i)lil lioi'dei-s. 
 
 1010 — TiiKEK Curs AMI Two SArci-.iis (]'iiiii/ CIicikj) 
 
 Egg-shell porcelain. Kose-pink urmmd willi i-esir\es of figures 
 and flowers in brilli.irit enamel cdlors. 
 
 1011 — Pair Cups axd SArcrits (Yutuj CJu'iif/) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Roosters and flowers painted In v.ii'ious enamel 
 colors. Scepter-head scroll borders. 
 
 1012 — Pair Curs and Sauckrs {Yung Clinig) 
 
 Eggshell porcelain. Decoration of flowers and ornaments in 
 enamel colors of the famiUc rose. Borders to correspond. 
 
 1013 — Pair Cups and Saucers (Yung Citing) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Flowers, fruits and iirsects painted in l>rilliant 
 enamel colors. Six-character mark of the period. 
 
 1014 — Three Cups and Saucers 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Reserves of figures and flowers in enamel colors. 
 Gold ground, the detached blossoms outlined in red. 
 
 1015 — Four Cups axd Thrkk Sai'cers (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Flowers and grasses in enamel colors of famillc rose. 
 
 1016 — Three Cups and Saucers (Ynng Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Lotus plants and a(|uatic birds j)ainted in 
 enamel colors and gilding. 
 
1017 — Four Cups and Saucers 
 
 Boating scenes in brilliant enamel colors. Coral-red borders. 
 
 1018 — Four Cttps axd Five Saucers ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Floral sprays and reserves, finely painted in 
 enamel colors of famillc rose. Rose-pink fret borders. 
 
 1019 — Four Cups axd Five Saucers {Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Wild horses, landscape and flowers in brilliant 
 enamel colors. 
 
 1020 — Three Cups and Six Saucers ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Thin porcelain. Fan, l)rocade and other designs executed in 
 brilliant enamel colors and gilding. 
 
 1021 — FivF. Cups axd Saucers (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Decorated with European subjects and finely 
 combined enamel colors. 
 
 1022 — Eight Cups axd Sevex Saucers ( Yung Cheng) 
 
 Eggshell porcelain. Chinese rustic scenes, finely painted in 
 enamel colors. 
 
 1023 — Six Cui's axd Thuee Saucers (K'atig-lini) 
 
 Decoration of floral designs in enamel colors of faniiUe verfe. 
 
 1021 — "]\Iaxi)Arix" C\'v axd Sau( ek ( Yung Clieng) 
 
 Semi-eggshelh Decoration of mandarin figures in garden, finelv 
 painted in enamel colors, enhanced bv gilding. Reserves of 
 landscapes and flowers in red and otlier colors. Gilded scroll 
 border. 
 
 102.5 — Cup axd Saucer (Yung Cheng) 
 
 Semi-eggshell. Peonirs and willow tree painted in enamel colors 
 enhanced bv trildina'. 
 
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 Stiiii-i'nijslK'll |i(iircl,un. I )ci'(ir.il loii (il Dnlcli >lii | i]ii n l; sci im , 
 iiaintid in linlliaiil niaiiu'l mlor^. 
 
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 l''.,H'i;>lK'l I [iiircila I II. I )iTiiiati'(l in lirilliaiit (iianicl laildi'.s witli 
 .-talK' lit H>lui man and laiiiilx. williiw Irrc. |ic(iii\ anil nfliia' 
 (k'.-ii'lis. 
 
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