The JAMES A. THOMAS COLLECTION DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DURHAM. N. C. Date i MUMl / \ \ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal1918amer ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW 9 A.M. UNTIL 6 P.M. AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK FROM FRIDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1918 UNTIL THE DATE OF SALE, INCLUSIVE ANTIQUE CHINESE PORCELAINS CARVED JADES, CORAL, CRYSTALS, ENAMELS BRONZES, BEAUTIFUL OLD VELVETS AND OTHER CHINESE ART TREASURES TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS JANUARY 22nd, 23rd AND 24th, 1918 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING EACH AFTERNOON AT 2.30 O’CLOCK V '-•I ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE CHINESE ART TREASURES AND ANTIQUITIES FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF MR. EDWARD R. WARREN BOSTON RECENT IMPORTATIONS OF THE BOSTON HOUSE OF YAMANAKA & COMPANY AND A NUMBER OF RARE OBJECTS ADDED BY THEIR NEW YORK BRANCH TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED 138701 THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 1918 *- THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIRECTS ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 7 £ S / 7 ^ 5 Sr 7f CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either de¬ cide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the pur¬ chase money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the purchasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in de¬ fault of which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and without other than this notice, I'e-sell the lots for the benefit of such purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) aris¬ ing from such re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon pay¬ ment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other 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 onlv on presenting the bill of purchase. Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 138701 5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed by the Association for purchasers. The Association will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the purchaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Asso¬ ciation of the correctness of the description, genuineness or au¬ thenticity of any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of catologuing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which it is sold “as is” and without recourse. The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot correctly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trust¬ worthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly cata¬ logued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper foundation. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, CATALOGUE NOTE The objects coming from the private collection of Mr. Edward R. Warren of Boston, and which are to be sold for his account, are described under the following Catalogue numbers, viz: Nos. 200, 203, 204, 20.5, 206, 207, 210, 212, 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 230, 263, 267, 268, 271, 272, 274, 276, 279, 286, 291. FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1918 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 1 to 193, inclusive SNUFF BOTTLES 1— Opaque Glass Snuff Bottle Pilgrim-bottle or full-moon form; dense, rich yellow glass, each face decorated with a floral medallion in relief. 2— Jade Snuff Bottle Ovoid-jar shaped, flattened; translucent gray-white jade, studded with bosses carved as minute ideographic medallions and enwrapped in a minutely incised diapered brocade pattern. 3— Amber Snuff Bottle Ovoid jar form, slightly flattened; opaque amber of dark brownish-yellow, with mirror polish. 4— Pair Jade Snuff Bottles Flattened flask-shape; pure white translucent jade, with a fine and brilliant polish. 5— Amber Snuff Jar In form of a frog, squatting and much puffed up; trans¬ lucent brown amber, carved in relief and incised, and with soft polish. First Afternoon 6—Lapis-lazuli Snuff Bottle Slender flask shape. Rich and typical blue with grayish lines and markings, and a profuse metallic sprinkling of dulled-silver note. 7-—Porcelain Snuff Bottle ( Yung Cheng) Inverted pear-shape, flattened; deco¬ rated in relief with lotuses blooming in a pond, and swallows and dragon¬ flies hovering over them, the reliefs partly in white and partly in poly¬ chrome on a pure white ground. 6 Height, 3 inches. 8—Agate Snuff Bottle Dense opaque yellow agate with bright polish, carved in elongated bag-shape and with two emblematic bats in relief. 9 —Two Glass Snuff Bottles Pilgrim-bottle form; one in amethystine, one in azure- blue, glass, both transparent. 10—Glass Snuff Jar Ovoidal contour; somewhat flattened, with narrow sides, and each face shaped in three flattened lobes. Trans¬ parent glass of pale sapphire, with deeper notes. 11—Coral Snuff Jar Rich pink coral with white mottlings and soft polish, carved in the form of a bag-shaped jar with two Fu- lions climbing about it in bold relief. First Afternoon 12—Amber Snuff Bottle Carved in the form of a very fat boy squatting on one heel and holding a branch of the sacred fungus on his right shoulder. Dark brown translucent amber with brilliant polish. Height, 3 y 4 inches. 13 — Two Amber Snuff Jars One ovoidal in rich reddish-brown amber, with plain mirror surface; the other globular, with a light golden-brown translucence, and carved in sensible relief with bamboo trees and an inscription. 14 — Jade Snuff Jar Flattened flask-shape with low foot; grayish-white jade with brilliant polish, and with two handles running the full length of the sides, in the form of lizard-dragons carved in the round, one ascending and one descending. 15— Cameo-glass Snuff Bottle ( Ch’ien-lung ) Ovate, with delicate foot; transparent pale ruby glass, with trees and birds in relief in dark emerald glass, and blossoms in the color of cinnabar lacquer. 16— Cameo-glass Snuff Bottle ( Ch’ien-lung) Pilgrim-bottle form. Brilliant opaque glass of pure white, finely carved in delicate relief with ornaments, birds and animals, in a soft, warm and rich brown. First Afternoon 17— Amber Snuff Bottle Ovoidal, flattened; surface carved in low relief with baluster forms in close and intermingled alignment, so close as to suggest at first a rough-surfaced fruit. 18— Amber Snuff Bottle In fresh fig shape, carved in light relief with flags, rocks and flowering trees; brown and yellow amber with golden translucence; amber stopper. Height, 3% inches. 19— Pair Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottles Flattened flask shape, with short neck and low oval foot. Both fashioned in particularly rich and glowing fei-ts’ui jade, the emerald areas heavily predominating, the deli¬ cate translucence green-toned throughout, and all sur¬ faces brilliantly polished. 20 — Two Amber Snuff Bottles One of irregular shape, carved in relief with the Bud- dha’s-hand citron; mottled rich brown and golden trans¬ lucent amber, with brilliant polish. One of opaque brown amber carved in irregular jar-shape, with bamboo and prunus motives in relief. 21— Amber Snuff Bottle Flattened flask-shape. Brilliantly polished amber with a pale old-golden translucence, carved in relief with the pine and other trees and several merry figures. 22— Amber Snuff Bottle Bulbous flask-shape. Carved in relief with the bamboo and the rock peony, a stag and a bird perched on a rock. Brown amber with a varied translucence and a spangling of gold. First Afternoon 23— — Amber Snuff Bottle Largo flattened flask-shape. Brilliant opaque clouded amber, carved in light relief with two dragons above the waves. 24 — Three Lapis-lazuli Snuff Bottles One flattened flask shape, tapering to a delicate foot. One jar-shaped, carved in relief with a gourd-vine and animals, and one carved as a fruit cluster with a swallow perching on a stem. 25 — Two Amethyst Snuff Bottles One pear-shape, with floral and animalistic carvings in relief; the other of irregular form, carved in relief with stems and leaves, the leaves lightly veined by incision. 26— Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened elongated pear-shape; opaque jade of sage- green, with rich light green mottlings and numerous small black fleckings. Height, 3 inches. First Afternoon 27—Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened flask shape. Fei-ts'ui jade richly and beautifully mottled in fine emerald-green, white and a vaporous grayish-white, and bril¬ liantly polished. 28— Crystal Snuff Bottle Translucent hair crystal with a profusion of the black lines, in ovate leaf shape, thin and flat. 29— Amethyst Snuff Bottle Oviform and slightly flattened. Clouded amethyst with bright polish, carved in low relief with the id bamboo and a phoenix. 30— Ivory' Snuff Jar Inverted pear-shape, slightly flattened, with high shoul¬ der and small delicate foot. Carved in high relief and undercutting with children gathered around an adult in a garden, and approached by a shepherd, and on the opposite face with figures on a balcony, all on a finely incised ground. Delicately tinted, and touched with a warm patina. Height, 3% inches. 31— Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Ovoid jar form, slightly flattneed. Fine fei-ts'ui jade of delicate translucence, with broad areas of richest emerald, and a mirror polish. 32— Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle In the form of a graceful ovoid jar, somewhat flattened. Translucent fei-ts'ui jade of nebulous grayish-white, with a single patch of richly mottled emerald-green enriching the shoulder and trending down one face. Brilliant mirror polish. 27 tree peony First Afternoon 33 — Amber Snuff Bottle Irregularly oviform; carved in relief with sages under pine trees, and a bullock. Brown amber with golden translucenee, and a golden amber stopper. 34 — Lapis-lazuli Snuff Bottle Flattened flask shape with mask-and- rang handles at the shoulders. Richly mottled blue, with silvery spangling. 35— Ivory Snuff Bottle Flattened flask shape with low foot. Ivory mellowed to rich warm tone and penciled lightly in black lacquer, on one face with a female figure and attendant, and on the other with a landscape and architecture. 36 — Agate Snuff Bottle Flask shape; gray agate, with a dragon carved in an adjacent layer of black agate on the shoulder, and a tiger in a red layer at the base, both in relief. Bril¬ liant polish. 37— Jade Snuff Bottle Bulbous flask form with low foot. Dense greenish gray- white jade, with a “skin of jade,” or layer of soft yel¬ lowish-brown color on one face, this layer being carved with figures of immortals in a supernatural landscape, in relief. 38— Carved Ivory' Snuff Bottle Flattened inverted pear-shape, the entire body carved in relief and undercut with dragons in the waves of a turbulent sea; stopper with dragon grasping the jewel of power. Height, 3y 2 inches. First Afternoon ORNAMENTS IN TURQUOISE, MALACHITE, AMBER, AMETHYST, JADE AND OTHER MATERIALS 39— Turquoise Cabinet Ornament Upright carving of natural turquoise, in openwork, representing three birds among blossoming peonies around a bit of garden rockery. Height, 3 inches. 40— Pair Amber Cups Small and shallow, carved of transparent brown amber of brilliant golden translucence, the larger portion plain and the exterior ornamented with flowers and birds in bold relief. 41— Jade Wine Cup Inverted bell-shape with delicate foot; translucent sage- green jade with black fleckings, and unctuous surface softly polished. 42— Pair Jade Wine Cups Inverted bell-shape with low, spreading foot; pure even- toned translucent white jade, brightly polished. 43— Jade Box with Cover Quadrangular, with low dome cover. Dense jade of dark fog-gray with rich malachite markings, with the light on it; seen against the light, either box or cover sepa¬ rately exhibits a delicately greenish-tinted translucence, with the deeper markings of rich note. 44— Lapis-lazuli Box with Cover Oval, carved with a large boss and umbilicus at one end, while from the other end issues a vine stem; possibly representing a melon and its vine. The stem, carved in openwork, branches and entwines the melon, and leads to blossoms, tendrils and small fruits carved in relief. Lapis of rich quality and soft polish. First Afternoon 45—Amber Coupe Opaque clouded amber, in rich dark brownish-yellow or well-colored meerschaum tones, with light yellow mot- tlings, carved as a branch and cupped leaf of a magnolia tree, with buds and blossoms in relief about the exterior. 46— Amethyst Ornament Figure of a quail, squatting, with a large sprig of rice in its bill, carved in the round of natural amethyst, the deeper-toned parts brilliantly polished. 47— Amethyst Carving A fruit and vegetable group, including a large egg¬ plant, a small pomegranate and other varieties, with a bird and an insect seen on different leaves; the egg-plant in a rich and fine tone. 48—Turquoise Desk Ornament A small block of turquoise of a fine and rare quality, carved as the fruit of the Buddha’s-hand citron lying beside a melon, and overlapping a fisherman’s basket over which a crab is crawling. Softly luminous polish. 49—Pair Turquoise Rouge Boxes with Covers Oval and shallow; the whole exterior surface carved with plum trees in blossom, and birds among them, in relief and undercut. 50 — Tray of Miniature Ornaments A dog barking, in white jade, a cow recumbent, with head raised, in turquoise matrix, and a female figure in carnelian, all on a square plinth of translucent gray agate mottled in brown. First lifter noon 51— Tray ok Miniature Ornaments Standing figure of Shou-lao leaning on his staff, accom¬ panied by his emblem the spotted stag, and a doe, all three of pure white jade and carved in the round, posed on an oblong plinth of rich blue lapis-lazuli with soft unctuous surface. 52— Group of Miniature Figures Five Chinese boys, each separately carved, in amethyst, in various romping postures of play. On carved wood stand. 53— Table of Miniature Ornaments Two figures, one standing and one reclining, of pure white jade, a standing heron in earnelian, and a pillared shrine in lapis-lazuli, on a low teakwood scrolled table. 54— Table of Miniature Ornaments Group of a supple lady and a boy at play, carved of pure white jade, a standing goat in lapis-lazuli matrix, and another animal, recumbent, in light yellow clouded amber, on a low teakwood scrolled table. 55 — Two White Jade Ornaments A smiling monkey trainer, walking, with a monkey climb¬ ing over his shoulder, and a heron watching for food, both in pure white jade, on a base carved in openwork as rockery. 56— Four Miniature Bird Statuettes Four ducks, in different attitudes, two carved of lapis- lazuli and two of pure white jade; on carved wood stand. 56a—Group of Four Miniature Bird Ornaments Two onagadori —“the long-tailed bird”—carved in white jade smoothly polished, and two smaller birds carved of turquoise. On carved wood stand. First Afternoon 56b—Flock of Birds in Miniature Six birds carved of white jade, all with wings spread and all but one with beak open, their postures differing. On a long stand of pure white jade of fine quality, with ivory feet. Length of stand, 9 inches. 56c— Flock of Birds in Miniature Six small birds, all with wings spread and each in dif¬ ferent attitude from the others, carved in amethyst and placed upon a long stand of pure white jade of fine qual¬ ity, mounted with ivory feet. Length of stand, 9 inches. 57— Tray of Miniature Carvings A standing heron in black jade, its head and crest white; a stork preparing for flight, in green jade; and a stand¬ ing, sinuous figure in lapis-lazuli matrix; all posed on a rectangular plinth of pure translucent white jade, hollowed underneath. 58— Four Jade Ornaments Two spotted stags in white jade brightly polished, and a swaying figure waving a lotus bud above the head, in dense sage-green jade, the three posed upon a white jade pendant laid flat. The pendant is pure white jade of fine quality and delicate translucence, carved on the obverse with plum blossoms and a flying bat in palpable relief, and on the reverse with a seal, perhaps the seal of an order. 59— Group of Miniature Carvings on Ornamental Base Two standing figures of women in graceful attitudes, one in white jade and one in lapis-lazuli, and two minute bovines in white jade, one grazing and one with head raised, all posed on a mottled soapstone base carved as a mass of rockery, in a modified triangular form. Length of base, -iy 4 inches. First Afternoon 60—Gito up ok Five White Jade Bird Ornaments Five storks in different attitudes, each separately carved and three of them standing on as many leaves, all carved with great delicacy and brilliantly polished. On wood stand, its base teakwood supported on four ivory ball feet. 61—Three Miniature Bird Ornaments on White Jade Stand Standing storks in different postures, one craning its head toward the water, and all with wings spread or partly spread, one bird in black jade with its head carved in a vein of white, one in translucent dark green jade, and the third in carnelian. The stand is quadrilateral, of pure white jade with a delicate, vaporous translucence, on two broad button feet. Length of stand, 3 inches. 62—Three Jade Ornaments Miniature figures of two stags carved in light yellow soft jade, their spots lightly incised, one animal grazing and one looking upward, posed upon a quadrilateral base of translucent gray-white jade, its corners foliate and sur¬ face carved in delicate relief with a flying-fish above a lotus pond. 63—Three Jade Ornaments A spotted stag standing, and his doe partly recumbent, carved in miniature in dense dark green jade with a soft, unctuous polish, posed upon an oval plinth of delicately translucent pure white jade, with a soft, restrained polish. Diameter of base, 3 inches. First Afternoon 64—Group of Eight Miniature Carved Ornaments Five boys, one carrying a smaller boy “pick-a-back,” all in brightly polished white jade, at play with three mon¬ keys, one monkey of fei-ts’ui jade, one of coral and one of pink tourmaline. On elongated quatrefoil wooden base resting on inverted lotus petals conventionalized and tinted in resemblance to green-tinted ivory. 65—Jade Paperweight A water buffalo recumbent, leash in nostril and a small boy climbing on his back, finely carved in pure white jade with a delicate greenish-white translucence and bril¬ liantly polished. 66—Turquoise Vase with Cover Quadrilateral, with slightly ovoidal contour and bold foot, completely embraced within the branches of pine trees and peonies growing from rocks; on the obverse a phoenix, and on the cover a swallow looking down. Height, 3 y 8 inches. 67—Amber Statuary Group Brown amber of rich tone, and very slight translucence, carved as the figure of an elderly woman holding an in¬ fant on her knee and against her breast. The back has the fine warm tone of ivory that has long felt the in¬ fluence of incense fumes. Height, 3 y 2 inches. 68—Pair Agate Coupes Oval, with ovoid contour and low foot, and two dragon¬ head loop handles with loose rings. Thin, translucent, grayish-opalescent agate, brilliantly polished. Length, 3% inches. First Afternoon 69— Arrangement of Three Animal Sculptures Three Fu-lions, one in translucent tourmaline of deli¬ cately varying tone, couchant, and holding a spray of the polyporus lucidus on its back, on a carved and per¬ forated teakwood stand, flanked by two active com¬ panions, one in opaque gray-white jade and the other in malachite of rich color and brilliant surface. Lengths, 2% inches, 3y 8 inches, 3y g inches. 70— Two Ornamental Boats One of pure white jade, containing the boatman and a passenger who holds a lotus blossom showing the seed- pod. One of lapis-luzuli, with a solitary boatman hard at work. Length of jade boat, 3% inches. 71— Turquoise Water Cup with Cover A writer’s water cup in the form of a lotus seed-pod, rest¬ ing upon stems and leaves of the plant carved in relief and undercut, with lesser seed-pods on the sides and nude hoys climbing over the edges. Another boy playing with a fish is seated on the disc cover. The whole in natural turquoise of pale hue. Tinted ivory stand carved in openwork. Height, 3 inches. 72— Coral Vase with Cover White-mottled pink coral, brightly polished, carved as a carp rising on its tail. In relief and undercutting about it is a blossoming branch of the tree peony, up which a small boy is climbing. Cover with blossom finial. Height, 3% inches. 73— —Jade Ornament Figure of a genial boy, holding up a double-gourd shaped vase from which issues cloud vapor, above it being an emblematic bat; carved in white jade finished with a soft polish. Height, 3i/g inches. First Afternoon 74— Agate Vase Carved in representation of a fish dragon with mouth opening upward, and tail curling up in undercutting and supporting a smaller dragon, all in grayish opales¬ cent agate, while on one face a third dragon glaring at the flaming jewel is cut in adjacent layers of white and bluish-green agate. Height, 3y 2 inches. 75— Lapis-lazuli Vase with Cover Carved in the form of a recumbent spotted stag, his spots being represented bv detached prunus blossoms in low relief, the animal bearing on his back a slender cylindrical vase, which is embraced by the antlers and has a low dome-shaped lapis-lazuli cover with scrolled loop handle. (Cork inserted in cover for stability.) Height, 3y 2 inches. 76— Soapstone Carving Monju, goddess of wisdom, seated on a lion which is lying down with head turned to its left, the direction in which the figure of the goddess faces. The goddess’s robes incised with embroidered borders and her hair colored in India ink. Height 3% inches. 77— Lapis-lazuli Vase with Cover Flattened pear-shape on low foot, with slender neck and bell-shaped cover. Continuous scroll handles run prac¬ tically the length of the sides, and a lesser scroll, in accord, arches over the cover. Rich blue lapis with light diagonal veins and patches, brightly polished. Height, 3% inches. 78— Lapis-lazuli Pi-t’ung Conventional cylindrical form, carved of a solid block of lapis-lazuli, the veins a rich blue in a soft grayish ground and the whole sparkling with minute silvery deckings. Exterior carved in low relief with ducks stand¬ ing and flying, in and over a lotus pond. Height, 3% inches. First Afternoon 79— Set of Three Jade Cups Deep bell-form, with bold foot slightly expanding. Carved of rich dark green jade of delicate translucence, and b rightly polished. 79a—Set of Three Jade Cups Companions to the preceding. 79b—Fei-ts’ui Jade Coupe Delicately fashioned, in ovoidal jar shape, with short lip the equivalent of the low foot; on one side a grass¬ hopper, carved in relief and undercut, forms a handle. Translucent fei-ts'ui jade with brilliant polish. 80— Carved Amber Vase In the form of a deeply-cupped lotus leaf, with buds, leaves and blossoms carved in relief all about it, on an openwork base which continues the lotus motive and exhibits in addition a frog. Translucent brown and yellow amber, with areas of opaque yellow of which ef¬ fective use has been made in the carving. Height, 3% inches. 81— Pair Green Jade Bowls ( Ch’ien-lung ) Deep inverted bell shape with bold expanding foot. Dense dark green jade with restricted translucence and some opaque portions, and a bright polish. Carved in low relief with a ju-i border under the lip and a con¬ ventional petal border above the foot, and between them with a band of highly developed conventional lotus scroll. Underneath the foot, the six characters of the reign, incised. Diameter, 3% inches. 81a—Pair Flowering Plants in Miniature Shrubs with long lanceolate leaves of chloromelenite, their veins lightly etched, and tiny amber blossoms. In tripod jardinieres of softly polished lapis-lazuli. Height, 3 inches. First Afternoon 81b—Jade Miniature Plant A chrysanthemum plant with leaves of green jade, and varied flowers of yellow and white jade, lapis-lazuli, tur¬ quoise and pink tourmaline, in an agate jardiniere having three short feet. Height, 3 inches. 81c—P air Jade Miniature Plants Buddha’s-hand citron and pomegranate, with leaves of green jade, and flowers and fruit of white jade, amber and pink tourmaline; in jardinieres of fei-ts’ui jade, with three low feet carved and pierced. Height, 3 y 2 inches. 81d—Pair Miniature Plants in Varied Stones A chrysanthemum plant with leaves of green jade and blossoms of agate, turquoise, lapis-lazuli, and white and yellow jade, and a winter-blooming plum tree flowering in white jade, agate, lapis-lazuli and amethyst. In fei-ts’ui jade jardinieres, octagonal with four low feet. Heights, 3^ and 3S/J inches. 81 e—Pair Miniature Trees Wild plum trees, one blossoming in white jade and one in agate, each tree in a many-sided jardiniere of mottled green jade. Heights, 4 and inches. 82— Rhinoceros Horn Cup Exterior carved in bold relief and undercutting with pine trees, waves and a pavilion, and figures at a game, the interior with cliffs and clouds in light relief. Height, 4 inches. 83— Jade Bowl Broad inverted bell shape with low retired foot. Thin, translucent jade delicately fashioned, grayish-white with greenish trend; soft polish. Under the foot, Ch’ien-lung nien chili in seal characters, incised. Diameter, 4% inches. First Afternoon 84—Covered Coupe in Pure White Jade Ovoidal, carved throughout in lotus motive, with an en¬ tanglement of buds, stems and leaves surrounding it, a heron appearing among them, all carved in relief and undercutting. Brilliant polish. Carved and inlaid teak- wood and tinted ivory stand. Length, 4 inches. 85 —Coral Group Twin figures of smiling young women, in touch back to back and leaning to opposite sides, in coquettish atti¬ tudes, one holding a peony above her head with one hand and resting her other hand on the head of a stork at her feet, from which a leash leads to the upraised hands of her companion. Rich pink coral brilliantly polished. Height, 4 inches. 86—Coral Statuette Sinuous figure of a lady, smiling and carrying a lute which is carved with the head of a ju-i sceptre. Bril¬ liant pink coral with white mottling. Height, 4% inches. First Afternoon 87—Equestrian Ornament Figure of a horse lying down, with His head turned to look behind him and just touching his back, carved in delicate pink and white quartz, and brilliantly polished. Length, 4% inches. 88—Chinese Glass Bird Group A rare and beautiful clear emerald-green glass carved in the form of two crested aquatic birds, one smaller than the other, standing amid lotuses; wing and tail feathers in relief and incised. Blossoms delicately veined in re¬ lief and by incision, and one appearing in the seed-pod stage. Height, 4% inches. 89—Rhinoceros Horn Cup Carved in relief and undercutting with trees, rocks and figures in a boat, against a background of overlapping and incised waves. Height, 4% inches. 90 — Carved Ivory Vase Ovoidal with low spreading foot, high narrow shoulder, and short neck with expanding lip. Foot and shoulder carved with floral borders in relief, the neck with fisher¬ men in boats. Entire body carved in cavo-rilievo with many figures, and buildings, against an incised back¬ ground; two Fu-head and deep ring handles. Height, 4>4 inches. 91 — Jade Pi-t’ung ( Ch’ien-lung) A slender cylinder on four low ju-i feet, carved of trans¬ lucent gray-white jade with heavy black veins and patches; the whole with soft polish. Underneath, seal mark of Ch’ien-lung. Height 4% inches. First Afternoon 9*2—Agate Vase Deep cup-shape, carved as an inverted bell-shaped flower rising from its stem, a blossom of many petals, and sur¬ rounded bv stems, leaves and buds in relief. Dense car- nelian agate of rich tones, with a soft polish. Carved wood openwork stand. Height, 4y 2 inches. 93—Lapis-lazuli Ornament A crudely fashioned boat, carved as a dugout from the root of a pine tree, with the tree trunk curving up to form a high stern, and a long branch extending for¬ ward almost as far as the bow, overshadowing a boat¬ man and his solitary passenger. Carved of a single slab of malachite. Length, 4% inches. 9d —Two Animal Statuettes A Fu-lion on its haunches, with tail over back and parted jaws, in opaque gray-white jade brilliantly polished; and a Fu-lion with cub in malachite of rich tones and soft brilliancy. Lengths, 4% inches anti 4y 2 inches. 95—Rock Crystal Ornament A Fu-lion grasping the brocaded ball, a fillet from which passes through the lion’s jaws and streams over its back, while a small cub looks up from below. Clear transparent rock crystal, brilliantly polished. Length, 4% inches. 96—Rock Crystal Jar with Cover Spherical with small mouth and insetting cover, the cover with pointed knob finial. Around shoulder of jar an archaic lizard dragon in low relief. Transparent crystal with soft polish. First Afternoon 97— Rock Crystal Teapot with Cover Ovoid, with short spout slightly recurving, and loop handle with short drop. A plum tree in blossom em¬ braces practically the whole exterior, carved in bold relief. Flattened dome cover with bird finial. Brilliant polish. Height, 4% inches. 98— Fei-ts’ui Jade Bowl with ('over Oviform with bold foot, and Haring lip lightly molded. Thin, semi-transparent fei-ts’ui jade, with large areas of gray-white and bold markings of deep dark emerald- green. Bright polish. Diameter, 4 1 /, inches. 99—Jade Bowl with Cover Inverted bell-shape with bold foot, flaring to an upright lip; dome cover with flange handle. Translucent jade of yellowish gray-white, with brownish cloudings; soft polish. Diameter, 4% inches. 100—Pair Jade Bowls with Covers Flaring inverted bell form with low foot, and dome covers with conventional “foot-handle.” Gray-white jade with greenish trend, and delicate translucence, ap¬ proaching and sometimes classified with the fei-ts’ui variety. Bowls and covers carved with Buddhistic em¬ blems in low relief and incised borders, and brightly polished. Diameter, 4>4 inches. 101—Amber Statuette A standing, smiling figure in clinging robes, carved in translucent dark brown amber, brilliantly polished. Carved openwork teakwood stand in pine, rock and fun¬ gus motives, with two birds. Height, 4% inches. First Afternoon 102—Pair Fruit Dishes with Accessories Circular plates or saucers, of ovoid contour, with de¬ pressed bottom and broad foot, of translucent turquoise- blue glass of the Ch’ien-lung period, set in five-legged table-stands of carved teakwood and filled with fruits and other objects. The contents include bunches of grapes in aquamarine and amethyst, with green jade leaves, melons in greenish-gray and mottled agate and in amber, peaches of amethyst and an egg-plant of white jade, and magnolia blossoms in yellow and brown amber. Diameter of dishes, 5% inches. 103 —Pair Green Jade Bowls with Covers Inverted bell shape with bold foot, the expanded lip molded on the inner side for the exact fitting of the dome cover. Richly mottled dark green jade, with deli¬ cate translucence modulated as by drifting moss and grasses. Brilliant mirror polish. Diameter, 4% inches. First Afternoon 104—Pair White Jade Bowls ( Ch’ien-lung ) Broad inverted bell-shape, the lip lightly flaring; bold foot. Carved of pure white jade of snowy translucence, and finished with a mirror polish. Diameter, 5% inches. 105—Amber Statuary Group Kuan-yin enthroned, with her necklace and the ornamen¬ tation of her throne finely incised, accompanied by a standing attendant. The goddess’s hands are crossed in front of her, palms inward, and the attendant’s hands are clasped and extended in devotion. Back of the god¬ dess a rock rises as a halo, a swallow perches on a ledge of it, and at the rear are bamboo trees in relief. Amber base carved in relief with waves, fish and shellfish, a water snake and a frog. All of brown amber with golden translucence. Height , 5% inches. First Afternoon 106— Fei-ts’ui Jade Bowl Oviform and shallow, expanding from a broad and low flat foot, contracting gracefully and expanding again to a thin lip. Thin, semi-transparent fei-ts’ui jade, brightly polished. Diameter, 4% inches. 107— White Jade Bowl with Cover Bowl oviform with flaring lip, and low and broad flange foot. Exterior finely carved with a lotus band in high conventionalization, and a conventional petal border above the foot; on the inner side of the lip a scroll border. Bell-shaped cover with flange handle. The cover is pierced with a deep lotus band and with a border of scrolls, and within the ring of the handle is pierced further with a scrolling quatrefoil enclosing an incised seal mark of Ch’ien-lung. This mark is repeated under¬ neath the bowl, but to ascribe the pieces to that reign would be an apocryphal attribution. Brilliant polish. Diameter, 5 inches. 108— Rock Crystal Amphora Conventional shape, with deeply hollowed or socket foot, short wide neck and everted lip. Soft, bright polish. Height, 5 inches. 109— Fei-ts’ui Jade Statuette Standing female figure, holding a fly whisk, with a phoenix beside her on a ledge of openwork rockery; carved in fei-ts’ui jade of soft and delicate emerald- green hue, with areas of vivid white, the whole brilliantly polished. Height, 5y 8 inches. 110— Amber Statuette Standing figure of Kuan-yin, with hands folded one upon the other at the waist line, palms upward. Opaque brown amber, rich and clouded, and brightly polished; on translucent amber base with internal crystalline structure of sparkling golden effect. Height, 514 inches. First Afternoon 111—Soapstone Statuette ( Ming ) A graceful and precisely carved figure of the goddess Kuan-yin, seated with left leg doubled under and right knee raised, the right foot projecting unshod from a fold of her flowing robes. On the raised knee rests her right hand, holding a rosary, her left hand lies across it, holding a scroll, and she glances downward with head turned to her leftward. Headdress and necklace ex¬ hibit seed pearls and her robes are intricately engraved with lotus embroidery. Height, 5y s inches. First Afternoon 112— Amber Ornament Seated figure of the god of longevity, Shou-lao, holding his staff and his emblem the peach, while another of his emblems the spotted stag stands beside him, under spreading pine trees. Carved and undercut in brilliant translucent brown and golden yellow amber. Length, 5% inches. 113— Set oe Four Jade Wine Cups Ovoidal; translucent white jade brightly polished. Around the centre a band of fine carving in low relief, in conventional archaic motives after the ancient bronze forms. Ill—S et of Six Jade Wine Cups Inverted bell-shape with low foot. Finely fashioned in translucent green jade with variable black fleckings and patches, and brightly polished. 115 — White Jade Pi-t’ung ( Ch’ien-lung) Hexagonal, the corners then chamfered; on six low ju-i feet. Finely carved in relief with a blossoming wild prunus tree and a flourishing plant of the camellia, on a brightly polished ground. Pure white jade of an excellent quality and the translucence of alabaster. Height, 5 inches. 116— Rock Crystal Vase with Cover Slender oviform, with low spreading foot; on the neck four fungus-branch loop handles with loose rings; dome cover with blossom finial. Brilliant transparent rock crystal with smooth polish. Height, 5% inches. 117— Jade Ornament A long boat with an after canopy of braided matting, and propelled by a boatman with a large sweep, has on board also a smiling boy and young woman; the whole carved in pure white jade and brightly polished. Ivory stand carved in turbulent wave motive and tinted. Length, 5i/ a inches. First Afternoon 118- —Lapis-lazuli Table Screen An upright oblong tablet of lapis-lazuli, the obverse carved in relief with a boatman and his passenger under pine and willow trees in the rain, and the reverse incised with an inscription in forty characters. In carved teak- wood rustic stand. Height, 3% inches; with stand, 5% inches. 119 — Carved Ivory Folding Picture-frame and Chinese Painting on Glass Oblong folding frame, obverse and reverse formed of delicate swastika grills, supporting sprays, emblems and ornaments in low relief and tinted in warm colors. In the interior, one fold contains a mirror, the other a glass¬ painting of three mandarin youths in blue, green and red, watching the goldfish in a decorated bowl. Height, 5% inches. 120 —Rock Crystal Ornamental Dish In quatrefoil form, elongated, on four low ju-i feet; two loop and loose-ring handles at the ends, carved on top with daisies, and two animal side handles in high relief and undercutting. Shallow body, with a fish and spray carved in relief on the bottom. Clear transparent crystal with bright polish. Tcakwood table-stand. Length, 5% inches. 121 — Rock Crystal Ball A sphere of clear, pure, flawless crystal, with a brilliant, perfect polish. Carved table-stand. 122 — Set of Eight Rare Jade Wine Cups Flaring inverted bell-shape with low foot. Delicately carved in white jade of semi-eggshell thinness, semi- transparent. The texture, especially when the cups are held to the light, suggests a winter atmosphere sur¬ charged with finely driven snow. Softly brilliant polish. First Afternoon 123— White Jade Incense Burner with Cover ( Ch’ien- lung ) Cauldron shape with low expanding foot and lightly ex¬ panding rim, and two blossom-spray loop handles. Ex¬ terior carved in delicate relief with conventional lotus and chrysanthemum motives, executed with suggestions of the Thibetan manner. Dome cover pierced in foliar design, incised and finished with a knob handle in blos¬ som form. Thin, translucent white jade with soft polish. Height, 4 inches; width across handles, 5 inches. 124— Fei-ts’ui Jade Ornamental Group Slender female figure, standing on rockery with a phoenix at her feet, her draperies and adornments carved in re¬ lief and streamers swinging free of her apparel, in bril¬ liant fei-ts'ui jade richly mottled. Posed in a teakwood grotto with an alert dog carved of fei-ts'ui jade at her side. Height, 5% inches. First Afternoon 125—Malachite Vase with Cover Ovoid jar shape with short foot and lip, and two lion- head loop and loose-ring handles. Carved in high relief on either face of the jar are birds in blossoming trees of the wild prunus, and on one face bamboo trees appear in addition. Dome cover with a knob finial, three ju-i branches forming loops from the knob to the shoulder of the cover, and each sustaining a loose ring. Solid, heavy malachite, of deep, rich color, and brilliantly polished. Height, 5% inches. 126—Coral Ornament A twisting trunk of a tree coral carved as the bending figure of a lady on whose back a little lady in trousers is climbing. The principal figure carries above her head a spray of flowers, on which a bird perches high aloft. Rich pink coral with soft polish. Height, 0 inches. 127—Aquamarine Statuary Group Tall and slender figure of Kuan-yin, with very high head¬ dress, holding in her right hand uplifted a scroll and in her left a vase which rests against her body, and ac¬ companied by a smiling attendant who stands before her. Brightly polished aquamarine, with patches of bril¬ liant iridescence within the crystalline interior. Carved teakwood and brocade bases. Height, fi'/i inches. 128—Fei-ts’ui Jade Sculpture Group of a heron and a stag, standing on rockery be¬ neath a pine tree, the tree and the figures carved in the round and the rockery pierced. Translucent jade of pale emerald-green, lightly mottled, glistening under a brilliant polish. Height. 6% inches. First Afternoon 129 —White Jade Incense Burner with Cover ( Ch’ien - lung) Ovoidal jar shape with broad flat foot and flattened shoulder, the entire surface carved in relief with three imperial dragons among clouds, the animals’ heads pro¬ jecting over the shoulder just to the rim of the jar’s mouth. Double-dome cover carved in conventional bronze motives, the superior dome pierced in dragon design. White jade of a fine, rich and soft color qual¬ ity, and clear and delicate translueence. Height, 4y s inches; diameter, 5 inches. First Afternoon 130— Coral Ornament Standing figure of a slender and smiling lady, a peony crowning her high headdress and another held in her right hand, a phoenix perched at her feet and a dragon hiting a chain held in her left hand. Carved in a single piece of tree coral, pink with a glossy surface. Height, (i'/, inches. 131— Feits’ui Jade Ornament A peach tree laden with its life-prolonging fruit is de¬ picted growing from a heavy and rambling, gnarled root, on the opposite end of which stands a basket filled with the sacred fungus, while at the centre of the low-lying root or trunk stands the figure of an immortal, all carved in the round in richly and beautifully mottled fei-ts’ui jade, brilliantly polished. Length, 6 inches. 132— Green Jade Tripod Incense Burner with Cover Spherical body on three conventional animalistic feet, with dragon-head loop and loose-ring handles. Dense opaque dark green jade brightly polished. Encircled by a lightly sunken band carved in low relief with archaic dragons highly conventionalized. Cover surmounted by a lion grasping a peony branch. Height, (» inches. 133— — Amber Statuette (Ming) Ivuan-yin seated on a lotus throne, a hand resting on each thigh and her flowing draperies folding over her forearms. Necklace carved in relief on her bared breast, and the floral embroideries of her garments and cowl finely incised. Back of the crown of her head the cowl bears a Shou medallion. Finely carved in a single block of rich dark brown amber, opaque for the most part but with golden-brown translucence in the thinner por¬ tions, and having a brilliant polish. Height, 6% inches. First Afternoon 134—White Jade Vase with Cover ( Cli'ien-hmg ) Globular on a columnar stan¬ dard, the standard molded and carrying as ornaments three dragon-heads supporting loose rings; globe pierced with three foliated medallions of lotus pattern, and the shoulder sur¬ mounted by three sheep in high relief. Hollow knob cover or stopper, pierced with three quatrefoils and a trefoil. Height, 6 1 /, inches. 135—Lapis-lazuli Ornament Carved as a Chinese junk with single sail raised, two men be¬ ing still engaged with the hal¬ yards and guides, while a boy is playful on deck and a cat and a dog are seen at their ease. The deck house is carved at either side with a grill, one of the grill panels being swung on a pivot. Height, 5y, inches; length, 6 inches. 136— Pair White Jade Bowls with Covers f: i 134 Inverted bell form with expanding lip and low flaring foot. Exterior carved in relief with a band of lotus blossoms, leaves and seed-pods, a ju-i border under the lip and a conventional petal border above the foot. Just within the lip a plum blossom border in delicate relief. Dome cover, pierced with a corresponding lotus band, carved with a similar petal border, and incised with a border of key-fret. Both bowl and cover show incised seal marks of Ch’ien-lung (apocryphal). Pure white jade of snow-cloud translucence. Diameter, C'/ 8 inches. First Afternoon 137— Pair Fei-ts’ui Jade Dishes Ovoidal saucer-shape with low and broad foot and deli¬ cate lip. Transparent fei-ts'ui jade brilliantly polished, the greater area a soft, vaporous grayish-white,, varying in the vaporous density, generously flecked and threaded with green. Diameter, (>% inches. 138— Rock Crystal Wine Pot with Cover Quatrefoil shape, on four knob feet, with projecting spout slightly recurving, and recurving loop handle; dome cover with pointed knob finial. Clear crystal, brightly polished. Length, 6 ] / s inches. 139— Rock Crystal Statuette Seated figure of Kuan-yin in flowing robes and cowl, right hand on raised knee and right bare foot projecting, left hand invisible. Clear, highly polished crystal of re¬ markable brilliancy. On conventional lotus base carved of dense opaque green jade. Height, 4% inches: with base, (i'/, inches. 140— Lapis-lazuli Statuette Standing female figure, with smiling features, carrying over her shoulder a stout branch of the tree peony in luxuriant bloom, a basket pendent from it at her back. Beside her a swallow perches on a rock. Lapis-lazuli of rich color, with soft polish. Height, G I / i inches; length, 6 inches. 146 — Jade Vase with Cover ( Ch’ien-lung ) The vase oviform, substantially a gallipot, with a cylin¬ drical cover topped by a lantern, or tall knob finial bracket with scrolls. Crawling about its sides are five mang or land dragons, in high relief and undercut, and at one side of the base another animal-grotesque springs forth, with wings embracing a small vase formed in two parts. Fine yellow jade of delicate tone, with softly brilliant polish. Height, 6% inches. 147 — Jade Ornament Grayish-yellow jade with greenish translucence and soft polish, carved as a pair of billing ducks in a lotus pond. Teakwood stand carved in openwork in wave motive. Length, 7 inches. 148 —Rock Crystal Wine Ewer In egg-plant form, slightly flattened, on a low oval foot above which is carved a border of conventional petal form. A land dragon undercut on the back forms a handle, and the curve of the egg-plant neck, truncated, supplies spout and mouth at once, which is capped by a dome cover that attaches to the body by a chain of nine crystal links, a tenth link having been replaced by a metal ring. Height, 7% inches. First Afternoon 149—Pair Fei-ts’ui Jade Bird Statuettes Two parrots, each standing on a small mass of rockery, the birds’ wings finely carved in relief, and the tail feath¬ ers sharply carved as they curl down to the rock. At the base of the rock the sacred fungus grows, its branches carved free and rising above the rock, and each bird is poised on one foot, the other foot—in one case the right and in the other the left foot—being raised and extended, grasping the fungus-top. Fine translucent fei-ts’ui jade, the emerald markings delicately varied, and all surfaces brilliantly polished. Height , 7*4 inches . First Afternoon 150-—Jade Ornament A cliff-like irregular slab or block of fine white jade with a delicate greenish translucence, the obverse carved as a grotto with Daruma seated there under a pine tree, a bundle of books beside him. The cliff overhead carries a long incised inscription dwelling upon bis long medi¬ tative vigil upon the rock. Height , 7% inches . 151 — Malachite Ornament Light green malachite left largely in its natural forma¬ tion, in form of a broad tray of irregular outline with a natural handle, portions of the surface being polished, and carved in low relief with a peony, a periwinkle and a crab. Elaborately carved teakwood stand in two sections. Length , 9 inches . First Afternoon 15*2—Jade Sculpture Statuette of Buddha, standing, holding on his right arm a stem of the sacred fungus and in his left hand a figure of an infant Buddha ensconced within a lotus flower; carved of white jade with snow-flake fleckings, brightly polished. Posed on a thalamus of lotus petals in gray jade, above a base carved with a conventional border. Height, 7% inches. ( Illustrated) 153—Jade Figure Group Sinuous female figure in clinging and flowing robes, ac¬ companied by a boy attendant who holds a fungus branch and a peach of longevity, standing on openwork rockery on an upper ledge of which is a lion carved in the round. Pure white translucent jade brilliantly polished. Height, 8*4 inches. ( Illustrated ) 151—Jade Statuette Buddhistic female figure, standing with right arm droop¬ ing at side, and left elbow lightly flexed, the second finger of the left hand brought up to meet the thumb; drapery and ornaments carved in relief. Gray-white jade of waxen surface, and soft polish. Teakwood stand and tall conventional halo, carved in openwork. Height of figure, 6 y 2 inches: stand, 9y 4 inches. ( Illustrated) 153 151 132 >rl First Afternoon 1.5.5—Fei-tsTi Jade Group 155 Ivuan-yin standing on rock¬ ery? lidding an infant in her arms, with a boy attendant standing in an attitude of adoration at her feet. The sacred fungus and an orna¬ mental banana tree are worked in relief and under¬ cutting at her either hand. Translucent fei-ts’ui jade of delicate emerald tones, brilliantly polished. Has stand. Height, 8% inches. —Green Jade Bowl Broad inverted bell shape with lightly flaring lip; low, spreading foot. Sonorous jade, with the pure tone of a bell; translucent. Its color is that of rich dark green moss, mottling a soft vaporous gray. Smooth, unctuous polish. Diameter, 8y 2 inches. 1-57—Malachite Vase with Cover Rich dark green malachite brightly polished. Vase of ovoid jar shape with dome cover, the vase resting on rockery and embraced within the branches of the wild prunus tree in blossom, with three birds perched in dif¬ ferent postures. Birds and trees stand largely free of the vase, in bold undercutting, and the cover is sur¬ mounted by a bird holding a branch of buds, similarly carved. Height, 8% inches. First Afternoon 158—White Jade Incense Burner with Cover Kuan-yin and attendant, separate, on a single teak- wood stand. The goddess is standing, barefoot, in full and flowing robes, with jfi-i coronet and high headdress, over which folds the cowl. Her left hand, palm upward, lies across her right wrist and holds a scroll, and her garments are delicately engraved with foliated scroll borders on wave grounds. Her at¬ tendant stands with hands clasped in front of him. Heights, 8% inches and 3% inches. In the form of a Fu-lion firmly planted on all fours, the head raised and thrown back, with mouth open, the entire head detachable and forming the cover. Trap¬ pings in relief and under¬ cut. Brightly polished. Height, 8y 2 inches. 159—Two Soapstone Stat¬ uettes 160—Pair Chinese Glass Jardinieres ( Cli'ien-lung ) Elongated quatrefoil shape, with deep body and narrow expanding lip with an upward curl; molded bottom, with four low feet. Translucent glass, a deep cerulean with the light on it, a fair light azure seen against the light. Length, 8% inches. First Afternoon 1(51—Quartz Necklace String of ninety-eight beads of clear water-white quartz, brightly polished, with large faceted beads of sapphire- blue glass, and silk tassel pendants. 162—Mandarin Necklace Complete string of one hundred and eight pink coral beads, carved with Shou medallions and pierced in ten¬ dril scrolls, with large beads, pendants and pendent strings all of fei-ts’ui jade. 163—Mandarin Necklace Complete string of one hundred and eight pink coral beads, carved and pierced with Shou medallions and tendril scrolls, with large beads and pendants of fei- ts'ui jade, and pendent strings of braided beads in tur¬ quoise carved and pierced. 164-—Mandarin Necklace Unusual string, the whole one hundred and eight beads of white jade, carved and pierced in scroll pattern; large beads of turquoise, pendants of aquamarine and tour¬ maline, and pendent strings of pink coral beads in vermi¬ cular scroll. ( Illustrated ) 165—Mandarin Necklace Rare set of fine fei-ts’ui jade beads (one hundred and eight of them), solid and brilliantly polished, with inter¬ vening large beads of pink tourmaline or Chinese ruby, and pendent strings of solid pink coral beads. Pen¬ dants of fei-ts’ui jade and the Chinese ruby, in filigree setting. No. 164—MANDARIN NECKLACE First Afternoon 1(56—Imperial Jade Buckle (Sung) An Emperor’s belt buckle, perfect and complete, in yel¬ low jade with a delicate greenish-yellow translucence. It consists of two discs, with scrolled loops which are united by a freely-playing ring, all carved from a single piece of the stone. On the discs are wild geese in the attitude of flight, and cloud scrolls, in relief, the loops are incised with scrolls, and the ring is encircled by light incisions. Soft, unctuous surface of dull lustre. A rare object. Length , 8% inches . 167—Antique Korean Hairpin Silver and silver gilt, with a lightly engraved lotus petal border, and at the head a cloisonne enamel decoration of floral forms in lapis and turquoise blue and auber¬ gine, enclosing a carving of plum blossom and rockery in opaque yellow amber. Length , 9 inches . First Afternoon 168—Mandarin Fan Palm-leaf form. Embroidered with dragons, flowers and symbols in colored silks and gold on a silk brocade ground. White jade handle pierced with ideographic characters signifying joy, and surmounted on one side by a boy holding up a peach, and on the other by a conventional butterfly. (Handle rejoined under a gold band.) Length, 15% inches. 169—Collection of Seals Twelve seals, deep oblong blocks, each surmounted by a Fu-lion as handle; one, only, incised with a seal device. Carved of black and white and fei-ts'ui jade, carnelian, amber, soapstone, rock crystal and agate. Carved stand and glass case. 170— Jade Writing Screen An upright oblong tablet of white jade, the obverse carved in bold relief with a spotted stag facing a rock peony, beneath a pine tree whereon a stork is perched, the carvings being in a layer of jade of yellowish-gray note. Reverse incised with a bird in a plum tree, and an inscription in ten characters. Teakwood stand. Height , (5% inches ; in stand , 8% inches . 171— Two Ornamental Jade Carvings Into a carved teakwood table-stand with foliated top, is set a tall tablet of white jade, with low arched top, pierced in the design of a four-clawed dragon amongst conventional foliage, this tablet standing as an effective background for a slender statuette of Kuan-yin carved in fei-ts'ui jade of delicate emerald tone with white mark¬ ings, brightly polished. Height of statuette , 3% inches ; of tablet , 6 inches ; •with stand , 8 inches . First Afternoon 172 — Lapis-lazuli Statuette Seated figure of the Buddha, in attitude of meditation, with hands clasped palms upward above his crossed feet with soles upward, the hands supporting a spherical jar. Variegated blue and gray lapis, with myriad minute fieckings of silvery aspect; soft polish. Height , 8 y 4 inches . 173 — Rock Crystal Statuary" Group Tall standing Buddhistic figure, in robes blown to one side in a breeze, holding a wide scroll and accompanied bv a boy attendant with hands in devotional posture. Above the attendant’s head is a bird, terminating a streamer leading to a hand of the larger figure. Highly polished, and the internal structure exhibiting large areas of brilliant sunset iridescence. Height , 9% inches . First Afternoon 174—Jade Animal Group A sculpture of three Fu-lions, two crouching on the ground and one of them grasping the filleted ball, and the third lion posed on the backs of his companions. A very interesting statuary group, in typical Ming carv¬ ing but probably a production of the Ch'ien-lung period. It has survived a fire, which accounts for the peculiar aspect of the stone, now a gray-white with almost matt surface, with here and there a faint purplish-pink flush and varied green fleckings, which curiously enough have suggested to observers the “peachbloom” effects of porce¬ lains in this hard flame-beaten stone. Length , inches . 175—Rare Jade Ornament A natural jade pebble from the river bottom, whose shape suggested to the Celestial sculptor that it be carved as one of the fabulous peaches of the genii, potent in conferring longevity. Carved in relief and undercut¬ ting about it are its stem and numerous leaves, and among them two of the emblematic bats of happiness, and the interior of the peach or pebble has been hollowed as a bowl or basket, with wide mouth crossed by a bridge or handle of intertwining leaves. Gray-white jade with a greenish-gray translucence, and areas of warm reddish- brown from the stains of ferrous corrosion, the whole finished with a softly brilliant polish. Elaborately carved teakwood stand, in peach motive in openwork. Length , 9 inches . First Afternoon 17(5 —Jade Ornamental Box with Cover The figure of a duck standing amid lotus plants, with head raised holding a stem, while other stems, with buds, leaves and seed-pod, carved in relief and free, entwine the body, which is split horizontally to form box and cover. Pure white translucent jade with mirror polish. Length, 8% inches. 177 — Fei-ts'ui Jade Hanging Vase with Cover Flattened pear-shape, with high dome cover also flat¬ tened. Two scrolled loop-handles, connected each by a chain of four figure-8 links to a bail handle having two dragon-head termini; the cover is swung from the same bail by a freely-playing chain of seven figure-8 links. Brilliant, glowing fei-ts'ui jade; vase and cover finely carved in low relief with animalistic and other conven¬ tional motives after ancient bronze designs. Carved and tinted ivory stand. Height or length of vase with chain and bail, 6 y 4 inches; height of stand, 9 inches. 178 — White Jade Plaque ( Ch’ien-lung ) Shallow ovoidal cavetto flaring at the rim, with a low, broad foot. Pure white translucent jade brightly pol¬ ished. Interior finely carved in delicate relief with four ideographic cartouches about a composite medallion of interlacing ju-i sceptre-heads and a stellate figure cent¬ ring on a blossom. Exterior carved with a border in accord. Soft, bright polish. Diameter, 9% inches. 179 — White Jade Plaque ( Ch’ien-lung ) Flaring oviform with a delicate lip and low foot. Fine white jade of grayish trend, with a pure and even gray¬ ish-white translucence which intensifies to a delicate greenish note where the stone thickens in the foot. Un¬ ornamented; softly brilliant polish throughout. Diameter, 9% inches. First Afternoon 180—Pair Jade Table Screen's White jade discs, or “full moons,” ornamented in re¬ lief with lotus flowers in a pond, rocks, birds, and peach and pomegranate trees in bearing, in green jade, tour¬ maline, carnelian, coral, and colored stones, applique. Carved teakwood stands. Diameter , 1 0y, inches ; height \with stand . 20y, inches . First Afternoon 181—White Jade Salver A low and graceful, perfectly formed dish or plaque, its spreading ovoidal body on a circular foot broad and low. Pure white jade of snowy translucence, the trans¬ mitted light bringing a delicate greenish note through the foot, carrying a soft and brilliant polish throughout. Diameter, 9y g inches. 182 — Carved Ivory Statuette (Ming) Tall, standing female figure in flowing robes, with a streamer carved free rising from her shoulders and loop¬ ing under the back of her head, holding on one hand a small vase. Front surface gray and weathered; on the back a rich, soft and brilliant mahogany patina. Height, 10% inches. 183—Jade Table Screen A thin slab of gray and white translucent jade, roughly of bell-shaped outline, carved and pierced in the motive of a dragon among clouds, pursuing the flaming jewel, with a bat overhead and high aloft a figure, which may be the thunder god. Carved teakwood stand. Height, 7y 3 inches; with stand, 12% inches. 181—Chinese Artificial Garden A plant of long curling leaves carved of tortoise-shell, planted in a gravel of chipped coral stems, within a cylindrical jardiniere lacquered in imitation of tortoise¬ shell. Under the branching leaves a sage in opaque amber and a horse in fei-ts’ui jade. On lacquer table- stand painted with butterflies, bats and flowers. Height (complete), 12% inches. First Afternoon 185—-Jade Sculpture Image of the Buddha seated cross-legged on a conventional lotus throne, fingers interlaced palm upward, in attitude of meditation, backed by a tall halo carved and pierced with Buddhistic emblems of happy augury, the whole sculptured from a single block of greenish gray-white jade brightly pol¬ ished. Height , 11% inches . 186—Rock Crystal Vase with Cover With broad faces and nar¬ row flattened ends or sides, all of ovoidal contour, expanding foot and contracting neck, and dome cover. Two dragon¬ head loop and loose-ring han¬ dles. Incised lei-wen borders on lip and foot, and on rim of cover, cover surmounted bv a recumbent lion. Clear crys¬ tal, brightly polished. Height , 12% inches . 187—Soapstone Statuette Standing figure of Shou-lao, holding on both hands in front of his breast a very large peach of longevity. He looks with a genially benignant expression across his right shoulder, in a downward direction. His voluminous garments swing lightly in a breeze, and are incised with ideographs, cloud forms, a stork medallion and plum blossom borders, and he stands on a rock base carved in relief and boldly undercut with growths of the sacred fungus. Gray soapstone with splotches of dull red. Height , 14% inches . First Afternoon 188—Old Chinese Glass Jardiniere on Marble Pedestal Inverted bell-shape with flat foot and narrow flat rim. Colorless transparent glass, light in weight, with the clear soft tone of a gong. White marble pedestal, prob¬ ably of Ming origin, carved as a lotus blossom sur¬ mounting an octagonal column supported on an elabo¬ rate base; both column and base incised with inscriptions. Diameter , 11 % inches ; heic/ht with pedestal , 16% inches . First Afternoon 189— Green Jade Palace Dish Deep ovoidal cavetto, the sides foliated in eight divi¬ sions, expanding lip and four low j,u-i feet; four loop handles of fungus branch or ju-i sceptre form, with loose rings. At the bottom of the cavetto two fish dragons about a conventional peony medallion, finely and boldly carved in high relief. Richly mottled translucent dark green jade with luminous polish. Length , l(i inches . 190— Rock Crystal Wine Ewer Body low and broad, in inverted-pear shape, with a heavy loop handle, and spout in the form of a phoenix- head and breast; flattened shoulder, and small mouth with insetting cover, which is attached by a chain of seven freely playing rings to the handle. Finely exe¬ cuted relief carvings in peach, pomegranate and Bud- dha’s-hand citron motives, encircle the entire exterior. Brilliant polish, and interior patches of gorgeous sunset iridescence. Length , 9 inches . 191— Cinnabar Lacquer Stand ( Ch'ien-lung ) A circular table with four ju-i legs resting on a cir¬ cular base which has four low feet. Surface incised with a swastika lattice, the skirt carved with a lotus scroll in relief; various borders. Diameter , ll 1 /, inches . First Afternoon 192 — Cinnabar Lacquer Cake Box with Cover ( Ch’ien- lung) Foliated contour, in five broad lobes. Upper surface carved with many boys at play, with musical instruments and toys, and dragon, lion and phoenix effigies, in cavo- rilievo on an incised green lattice ground. On the sides, similar carving in the cinnabar lacquer, on similar ground, within foliated panels set upon a ground of delicate olive tone carved with a floral lattice. Interior in gold. Diameter , 1 D /» inches . 193 — Red Lacquer Decorated Cake Box with Cover {Ming) Double-gourd shape. Painted in polychrome lacquers of soft tone with dragons and phoenixes, peonies and butterflies. Length , 23 inches . SECOND AFTERNOON’S SALE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1918 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 197 to 380, inclusive DECORATED PORCELAIN 197— Decorated Jar (Ming) Oviform with embryonic neck and wide mouth. Deco¬ rated with fruit clusters in pale yellow and deep emer¬ ald enamels, and rich red, on a ground of soft white,below two borders executed in red. Has carved teakwood cover with tourmaline finial in fungus form. Height , 5% inches . 198— Decorated Shallow Bowl (Yung Cheng) Ovoidal with low foot. Thin, delicate porcelain with a low bell tone, the exterior invested with a rich coral glaze of peau-d'orange surface which at the extremity of the foot takes a rose-Du Barry note. The inner sides of the cavetto carry lotus, ju-i and trellis borders, in¬ tricately executed in coral and gold and delicate enamels, with a foliar scroll border reserved in a rose-Du Barry ground, about a bottom medallion picturing a male figure and small attendant beside an ass, in enamels on a white ground. Diameter , G'/, inches . Second Afternoon 199- K.MKiiALD-GiiEEx Dragon Dish ( K’ang-hsi ) Circular, with ovoidal contour and delicate lip lightly expanding, and low foot. Fine, resonant hard paste white porcelain with a brilliant white glaze, decorated with imperial dragons in emerald-green enamel, with me¬ tallic lustre, one in the interior and two outside the rim, those of the rim coursing over waves finely incised in the paste beneath the glaze. Mark, the six characters of the reign within a double ring, in brilliant underglaze sapphire-blue. Diameter, 7 inches. 200— Set of Three Decorated Small Plaques ( K'ang-lisi ) Fine sonorous porcelain under a brilliant glaze of pure soft white, adorned on the exterior of the cavetto and in a medallion within with five-clawed dragons amid tur¬ bulent waves, the dragons penciled in glowing sapphire- blue over a rich rouge-de-cuivre sea. Six-character mark of the reign within a blue double ring on each. Diameter, 7y 8 inches. 201 — Decorated Jar (Sung) Zu-chao ware. Ovoid body with a deep foot, and a short straight lij) about a mouth smaller than the foot. Heavy, dense porcelain. Exterior coated with a brilliant creamy or light buff glaze, and painted on one face with an ex¬ pansive floral design in dark green and russet, with rings in the same two colors encircling shoulder and under¬ body. Lip glazed in a soft rich black which extends down the interior. Underneath foot, seal mark stamped in relief in the paste, Ch'ien-tuo men tsao —Ch’ien-tuo of the Sung dynasty, his period A.D. 1165-1173 —a rare example, as date marks of the Sung do not often appear. Heujht, 7% inches. Second Afternoon 202—Set of Four Peony Plates ( Yung Clicng ) Shallow ovoidal contour with low foot. Delicate porce¬ lain of clear bell tone, with a brilliant glaze of soft creamy white; the interior decorated in delicate rose- pink, green and blue enamels and warm browns with a bird perched on a rambling tree trunk overlooking a large peony blossom on a branch which displays buds at its tip. Six-character mark of the reign in brilliant underglaze sapphire-blue. Diameter , 7% inches . 203—Decorated Plaque ( K’ang-hsi) Fine and delicate hard paste white porcelain clothed in a luminous white glaze, the superior surface decorated with imperial dragons amid flames and clouds in copper- red, the dragons’ scales being penciled in gold, about an enameled medallion picturing an emerald sea with tossing waves in white. On the outer side of the plaque, fungus branches in the copper-red. Mark of Cheng Hua (apocryphal). Diameter , 7% inches . 20-1—^Rose-back Plate ( Yang Cheng ) Thin, delicate porcelain of clear bell tone. Shallow ovoidal cavetto with flaring marly, on low foot. Ex¬ terior clothed in a rich rose-Du Barry glaze of delicate peau-d'orange surface. At the bottom of the interior a large pendent-leaf medallion glazed in white displays a lady accompanied by two boys amid household orna¬ ments, in enamel colors and gold, within a diapered ground encircled bv a narrow lattice border. Broader borders follow in rose enamels, with variations. Diameter , 8 y 4 inches . Second Afternoon 205—Rose-back Plate (Cilia Ch’ing ) The back, except the foot, glazed in a deep rose-Du Harry of softly glistening peau-d'orange surface. In¬ terior painted with young women and small boys about a table, the sides of the cavetto and the rim with trellis borders interrupted by reserve panels, in rose, blue, black and green enamels, and gilding. Semi-eggshell porcelain of clear note. Diameter, 8 '/ s inches. 206—Decorated Jar (Ming) Ovoid, with short straight neck and wide mouth. Soft, luminous enamel glaze of pale canary-yellow, truite, with two imperial dragons reserved in rouge-de-cuivre, among clouds enameled in bluish-green and mauve. Carved wood cover, pierced. Height, 814 inches. 207 — Decorated Plaque ( Yung Cheng) Thin porcelain in a brilliant white glaze, decorated in famille-rose enamels with an unconventional young woman reclining, another near her on a garden bal¬ cony, and a border of sprays. Diameter, 8 % inches. 208—Decorated Jar with Original Cover (Ming) Ovoidal with flattened shoulder, short neck and molded lip, and bold broad foot. Mandarin cover with small button finial. Band occupying the whole body given to a rich peony scroll through which three Fu-lions make their way, the expansive blossoms in warm rouge-de- cuivre, the leaves in deep emerald-green enamel, on a white ground, and the lions in the green and in pale yellow enamel, with details in the copper red. Three borders. Height, 8 % inches. Second Afternoon 209—Animal Statuette (Ming) Figure of a Fu-lion on its haunches, with head raised and mouth open, right fore foot on a brocaded ball which is pierced. Glazed in a brilliant, dark and deep ceru¬ lean, with details in turquoise-blue, faint touches of yellow, and si igbt reservations in the biscuit veiled by a grayish wash glaze. Height , 8y 2 inches . 210—Decorated Ginger Jar with Original Cover (Ming) Fine, heavy, sonorous hard paste white porcelain, under a brilliant white glaze of misty-mirror surface, the sur¬ face divided into two broad and two narrow panels bv continuous bands and borders of rich and warm rouge- de-cuivre carrying a lotus scroll in white reserve and touched with gold. The panels are painted in the copper and gold and in green enamel with a fisherman and sages, lotus plants and the pine and plum tree and birds, and the cover is decorated in accord. Height , 9% inches . 211—Pair Decorated Jardinieres (Yung Clieng) Quadrangular, with fiat in-turned lip, and tapering slightly to low ju-i feet. Heavy sonorous white porce¬ lain, all sides decorated with figures and flowers in deli¬ cate enamels of the famille-rose. On tall stands. Diameter , 7% inches : height with stand , 13% inches . Second Afternoon 212-—Peacock-green Decorated Gallipot (Sung) Luminous glaze, with a rnoistened-mirror surface, in that variety of the turquoise glazes which is denominated peacock-green and sometimes peacock-blue, with a pro¬ fuse decoration in rich black. The central body is occupied by three foliated medallions, two painted with human figures and one with a stork, below is a band of rich floral scroll, and on the shoulder another floral scroll band of dissimilar motive. The glaze is minutely truite. Height, 10% inches. Second Afternoon 213 —Large Decorated Jar (thing Te ) Broad inverted pear-shape with broad Hat foot. (The short neck restored in metal, engraved.) Rich, deep lapis-blue glaze of soft luminosity, interrupted by a lotus pond in flower in outline relief, the outlines filled in with emerald, aubergine, turquoise and yellow enamels, and bv storks and heron standing and flying, modeled in low relief and glazed in creamy white and yellow. Ju-i bor¬ ders with Buddhistic emblems on shoulder, and a deep conventional border at base. Underneath foot a rich emerald-green glaze showing a brilliant metallic iri¬ descence, with an aubergine area at the centre, and under the glaze the six-character mark of the reign. Height, 12 % inches. Exhibited on loon ol the Copley Society Exhibition, Boston, 1911 . Second Afternoon 214— Tall-necked Bottle-shaped Vase (Kfang-hsi) Large spherical body, with slender tubular neck, on low foot. Luminous celadon glaze of pale grayish sea-green of uniform tone, interrupted by a huge four-clawed dragon grasping for the flaming jewel among clouds, lightly carved in the paste and glazed in rich peachbloom tones, the dragon’s eyes being touched in in dark blue. Height, 16 % inches. -D ECORATED JARDINIERE ( Ch'ien-lung) Cylindrical, slightly expand¬ ing, with spreading lip. Ex¬ terior enameled in a delicate pale canary-yellow, inter¬ rupted by pine trees and rock peonies in greens and pinks, with tree trunks in brown, and plantains with stalks reserved in white. Lip bordered with bats and ideographs. Under the foot, imperial hall mark in dark vermilion: T'i-ho tien chill (made at the T’i-ho hall). On tall, table stand. Diameter, 8 % inches; height -with stand, 13 % inches. 216— Pair Decorated Jardinieres ( Yung Cheng ) Deep quadrilateral form with inward turning lip, and indented corners, tapering lightly to low ju-i feet. Deco¬ rated in famille-rose enamels, each with four horses in different postures, perhaps with reference to the tra¬ ditionally famous eight horses of Mu Wang. On high stands. 214 Height, 8 % inches; with stand, 15 % inches. Second Afternoon 217—Celadon and Sang-de-bceuf Beaker-shaped Vase ( K’ang-hsi) An important piece. Fine hard paste white porcelain of clear ringing note. The entire exterior surface orna¬ mented with a rich scroll in lotus motive, incised and modeled in the paste beneath a brilliant and pure celadon glaze, and beautifully and effectively relieved by a flow of rich peachbloom and ashes-of-roses notes, covering intervening and lightly cut out grounds. Height, 17 % inches. Second Afternoon 218—Japanese Porcelain Plaque Imari ware. Shallow, flaring ovoidal form, on a low, broad foot. Decorated in a medallion and borders with cherry blossoms, stags and a bird, in underglaze blue and a dark overglaze red, and gold pencilings. (Slightly cracked.) Diameter, 10 % inches. BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 219—B lue and White Rose Jar ( Ch’ien-lung) Ovoid, decorated with a wide band of chrysanthemum scroll and three conventional borders in dark blue on a brilliant white ground. Carved wood cover. Height, 4 % inches. 220— Blue and White Rose Jar ( Ch’ien-lung ) Ovoid, glazed in a soft and lustrous milk-white, and pen¬ ciled in cobalt-blue wash and darker lines, with orna¬ ments of the cultivated household. Carved teakwood cover. Height, 4% inches. 221— Blue and White Rose Jar (K’ang-hsi) Ovoid with small mouth. Decoration, groups of prunus blossoms in cream-white reserve within a ground of glow¬ ing sapphire-blue in the cracking-ice pattern. Crenel- late border on shoulder. Wood cover. Height, 5 inches. 222—B lue and White Ginger Jar ( Ch’ien-lung ) Brilliant creamy white glaze, with decoration of the fruits of the abundances in variable blue, and three con¬ ventional borders. Carved wood cover. Height, 5 % inches. Second Afternoon 223— Blue and White Ginger Jar ( K'ang-hsi ) Below a crenellated border on the shoulder, the whole sur¬ face given to a field of cracking ice in brilliant sapphire- blue, sprinkled with large groups of plum blossoms in white reserve. Carved wood openwork cover. Height, 7 inches. 224—Blue and White Bowl ( K'ang-hsi) Fine hard paste white porcelain with a clear bell tone, modeled in ovoidal form with delicate lip slightly ex¬ panding and low foot, and decorated on both exterior and interior in rich blue under a brilliant white glaze. The decoration throughout is in lotus motives, showing blossoms and seed-pods and a petal border highly con¬ ventionalized. Mark: Ta Ch’ing K'ang-hsi nien chili. Diameter , 7 % inches. 225— Blue and White Ginger Jar ( K'ang-hsi ) Decorated in two tones of blue with three fire-breathing kylins on rocks in a turbulent sea, on a ground of soft white. Height , S inches . 226 —Blue and White Ginger Jar ( K'ang-hsi ) Decoration, the so-called “hawthorn pattern”; two great trees of the winter-blooming wild prunus, in luxuriant blossom, depend from a hatch border and embrace the entire jar in their flowery arms, the trees and blossoms in creamy-white reserve within a cracking-ice ground of brilliant, pulsating sapphire blue. Under the foot the glaze is pricked with four ideographic characters wish¬ ing “Peace throughout the world.” Wooden cover carved in openwork in the same prunus motive. Height . 8 :! <, inches . Second A ft cm oo n 'I'll — Blue and White Jar (Ming) Ovoid with embryonic neck and lightly everted lip. Stoneweight porcelain, with a luminous glaze of soft white over a highly conventionalized lotus scroll deco¬ ration in cobalt blue, varied in tone. Petal border at base and foliar scroll border on neck. Height, 14y 2 inches. 228— Blue and White Bowl (Ming) Deep inverted bell shape on bold foot, the expanding rim festooned. The sides are modeledvin conventionalized lotus petal forms. At the bottom of the interior a me¬ dallion pictures a plum tree in blossom amongst rockery and reeds, painted in dark and light blue, and on the inner side of the lip a trellis border is interrupted by panels of floral sprays. The motive of the interior me¬ dallion is repeated in multiple form and the same colors over the entire exterior of the bowl. Under the foot, a leaf within a blue double ring. Height, 6% inches; diameter, 13 '/, inches. 229— Pair Blue and White Temple Jars with Covers (K'ang-hsi) Oviform, with flat foot and short wide neck, and original mandarin covers. Fine hard paste sonorous white porce¬ lain, with a luxuriant lotus scroll decoration in rich, deep sapphire blue under a brilliant glaze of pure white. Cover in the same motive; button finial in solid blue. (Cover rims and jar lips somewhat chipped.) Height, 21 inches. 230— B lue and White Fountain (Cilia Clung) Large wide-spreading ovoidal bowl, on a low, broad foot. The bottom of the interior is covered by a medallion painted with imperial dragons amid a conventional lotus scroll, in two tones of cobalt blue, the lotus motive con¬ tinues in the border, and on the exterior the dragon motive is renewed, interrupted under the lip by a panel inscribed: Ta Ming Cilia Citing nien chili. Diameter, 31 inches. Second Afternoon SUNG PORCELAIN AND HAN POTTERY 233—Ting Yao Conical Bowl (Sung) Soft creamy glaze finely crackled. Entire interior oc¬ cupied by a lightly modeled and closely worked scroll in conventional lotus motive. Metal rim. Diameter, 6% inches. 234 — Ting Yao Small Plate (Sung) Shallow ovoidal form on low foot. Creamy grayish glaze, coating on the interior a low relief decoration of lotus and plum blossom design about a fish medallion. Metal rim. Diameter, G% inches. 235 — Pair Ting Yao Dishes (Sung) Shallow ovoidal form spreading from a very low foot. Hard porcelain of clear bell tone. Superior surface modeled in low relief with a conventional floral hand around a similar floral medallion, under a lei-wen border below the lip. Creamy-gray glaze of unctuous lustre. (Chip out of rim of one.) Diameter, 7 inches. 236—Ting Yao Deep Bowl (Sung) Lightly molded lip; low foot. Without decoration. Luminous creamy glaze of grayish note, with a slight greenish tendency where the flow thickens. Diameter, 7>/ g inches. 237 — Ting Yao Dish (Sung) Circular ovoidal form with low foot; metal rim. In¬ terior divided by light ridges into six panels or petals, around a medallion incised with two fishes swimming among waves. Grayish creamy glaze. Diameter, 7% inches. Second Aftc 'moon 238— Pair Ting Yao Circular Dishes (Sting) Shallow ovoidal form on low foot, the bodies shaped lightly as broad cups of lotus flowers, with foliated rims metal-capped, and the bottom of the interior of each incised with a lotus blossom in highly conventional form. Grayish-creamy glaze. Diameter, 7% inches. 239— Ting Yao Circular Dish (Sung) Shallow ovoidal form with broad bottom, on low foot. Interior decorated in light relief with a large medal¬ lion in which two phoenixes appear amidst a floral scroll, on the bottom, the sides being traversed by a further floral scroll, between narrow borders of kev-fret. Metal rim. (Small chip out of foot.) Diameter, 8 inches. 240—Ting Yao Bowl (Sung) Deep, the expanding sides of slight curvature, on a low foot; metal-capped rim. Light ridges define six petals in the interior, radiating from a small floral medallion modeled at the bottom. Lustrous creamy-gray glaze. Diameter, 8 y 4 inches. 241—Ting Yao Bowl (Sung) Expanding in conical form from a low foot. Exterior plain, with an ivory glaze of soft lustre, delicately crackled; in the interior the glaze takes a more pro¬ nouncedly creamy tone, over a luxuriant lotus ornamen¬ tation in light relief. Rim left exposed in the biscuit. Diameter, 8% inches. Second Afternoon 242—Ting Yao Bowl (Sung) Deep and broad ovoidal form with low foot. Interior shows a primitively modeled and indistinct floral deco¬ ration all around, and an incised border below the rim, beneath a rich and brilliant cream glaze boldly crackled in cafe-au-lait lines and in self-color. Rim metal-capped. Diameter, 9% inches. 243 — Double-gourd Shape Vase (Sung) All-over incised decoration of rich lotus scroll, and key- fret borders, under a cream glaze of lustrous surface. (Restorations over small areas.) Height, 9 y„ inches. 244— Iridescent Pottery Vase (Han) Body of inverted pear-shape springing from a bold foot, with rounding shoulder, and broad incurvate neck, the slightly expanding lip being marked by a light molding. Around the shoulder, between double moldings, a band picturing in bold relief a dragon and other animals, in active motion, and including at either side animal-head and ring handles in relief. Rich dark green glaze, all but entirely covered by a brilliant silvery iridescence and grayish earthy incrustations. Height. 12y z inches. 245—Iridescent Vase (Han) Ovoidal body on a very deep, broad and spreading foot, with steeply sloping shoulder, broad incurvate neck and expanding lip slightly thickened. Mid-body and shoulder encircled by molded rings. Rich green glaze all but wholly obscured by a bright iridescence, blue and silver, and lightly coated with a grayish earthy incrustation. On the lip three spurs which supported the next piece on top during the baking in the kiln. Height, 15 inches. Second Afternoon 246—Six-sided Vase (Sung) Pear-shape, modified in that the two sides are flat and the obverse and reverse divided by median lines into two lobes; spreading hexagonal foot. On the neck two deep rectilinear handles. Obverse and reverse decorated with four-clawed dragons among clouds, modeled in low relief; fret borders at lip and foot. Brilliant cream glaze of grayish trend, boldly crackled in self-color and cafe-au-lait. (Foot slightly chipped.) Height, 13% inches. Second Afternoon SINGLE-COLOR SPECIMENS 247—Porcelain Ornament ( K’ang-hsi ) In the form of a tomato glazed in a soft and rich coral red of soft lustre, with stem-butt in lettuce-green and short stem supplied in lacquer. Carved teakwood open¬ work stand. Diameter , 3 % inches . 248 — Crackled Jar (Ming) Cauldron-shaped with molded lip, on a broad flanged foot; two animalistic loop handles with drops; after the form of ancient bronze sacrificial vessels. Cream glaze with a dull, soft, unctuous lustre, and a bold and variable crackle in light cafe-au-lait lines. Wood cover with soap¬ stone finial in fungus form. Height, 4% inches. 249 — Ovoidal Bowl (Ming) With two archaic dragon-head loop handles with drops; low foot. Baked foot upward and the rim capped with metal. Brilliant mirror glaze of greenish creamy white, with a bold and varied cafe-au-lait crackle, the glaze taking a pale greenish-celadon tint where it thickens about the foot and the edges of a sunken medallion in the interior. Diameter, 7% inches. 250—Old Chinese Glass Jardiniere Ovoid with low foot, and narrow spreading rim slightly up-curving. Heavy glass of fine quality, transparent hut not clear. Has an incised Ch’ien-lung seal mark. Carved teakwood table-stand. Diameter, 7% inches. Second Afternoon 251—Clair-de-lune Rose Jar with Original Cover ( Yung Cheng) Inverted pear form with broad foot and small mouth with straight lip; the cover cap-shaped. Pure and even clair-de-lune glaze of uniform tone, an atmospheric gray with faintest greenish tinge, with a surface of veiled- mirror brilliancy. Six-character mark of the reign in deep underglaze blue within a blue double ring. Height, 5% inches. 252—Cream-glazed Statuette {Ming) The ample-bodied, merry-faced Hotei, seated, with glance directed in front of him and toward his left, right hand resting on his raised right knee, and left leg folded flat. Brilliant creamy glaze finely crackled, with cafe-au-lait areas, and in parts a soft oleaginous lustre. Height, 6 1 /, inches. Second Afternoon 253— Fuchiex Statuette The “Thousand Armed Kuan-yin,” seated cross-legged on a lotus throne, with hands clasped before her breast and second fingers steepled, all the other hands holding symbols. Brilliant monochrome glaze of pure white. Height, 714 inches. 254 — Crackled Tripod Jar {Ming) Cylindrical, on three low hip feet; boldly molded lip, with a light ring molding encircling the jar just below it. Very brilliant soft cream glaze of unctuous luminosity, with areas of deep cafe-au-loit, and the whole closely crackled. Teakwood cover carved in openwork, with fei- ts'ni jade handle. Diameter, 7■/>, inches. Second Afternoon 255— F u chi ex Dragon Bottle ( Ming ) Cylindrical body very slightly incurvate, with high and narrow shoulder, and tapering neck expanding again to a flange lip. Sole decoration, a dragon in bold relief encircling the neck. Monochrome glaze of a grayish creamy white with lustrous surface. Height, 8 y 4 inches. Second Afternoon 256 — Fuchien Beaker-shaped Vase {Ming) Mid-band in relief lightly incised with the lei-wen, and the body of the beaker above and below encircled bv low moldings; below the lowest molding a leaf border in relief, and the upper, trumpet section of the beaker plain. Monochrome glaze of rich cream tone, softly brilliant. Running vertically of the mid-band, four an¬ gular ridges, pierced in T-fret design. Height, 8 y 8 inches. 257 — Canary-yellow Jar ( K'ang-lisi ) Inverted pear-shape with flat foot and short upright lip, around a wide mouth. Brilliant monochrome glaze of a pure and fine canary-yellow, with mirror properties, a subtle metallic lustre, and a delicate crackle. Carved wood cover and stand. Height, 7% inches. Second Afternoon 258— —Turquoise-blue Tray ( Ch ' ien - lung ) Fashioned as the half of a peach, flattened out and shal¬ low, with the stem and leaves in relief forming a handle. Underneath, five bats in relief, wishes of happiness. Bril¬ liant glaze of rich and fine turquoise-blue, truite , cover¬ ing all surfaces. Teakwood stand elaborately carved in O *• fungus motive. Diameter, 8 inches. 259 — C’amellia-leaf Green Amphora ( K ' cing - lisi ) Monochrome glaze with a brilliant mirror surface, in rich camellia-leaf green, uniform in tone and carrying a minute crackle in delicate lines. The glaze continues in the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. Height, 9 inches. 260 — Peachbloom Bottle-shaped Vase ( Cli ' ien - lung ) Pear form with slightly tapering neck and low spreading foot. A softly luminous glaze of pure and even peach- bloom pink, covering neck and upper body, changes in hue on the underbody to the soft notes of ashes-of-roses, and comes to a perfect finish at the foot. (Small chip out of lip, chiefly on inner side.) Height, 9 inches. 261 — Statuette of Kuan-yin { Ming ) The goddess is seated enveloped in her draperies, with hands concealed and head slightly inclined, wearing the cowl, and a ju-i symbol appearing in relief on her bared breast. Luminous glaze of gravish-cream tone, with cafe - au-lait areas, a minute crackle, and a bolder ram¬ bling crackle in darker lines. Height, 9y 4 inches. 262 — Pair Fu Ornaments { Ming ) Fu-lions seated on their haunches on oblong pedestals, one with left fore paw on a cub rolling on its back, the other with right fore paw on the brocaded ball. Glazed in a pale and fine emerald-green. (Tails broken; Chinese restorations on pedestal plinths and at base of animals’ bodies.) Height, 9 inches. Second Afternoon 263—Fuchien Statuary Group The goddess of mercy on a throne of rockery, seated, with two attendants standing at her feet, and at her either side a vase and a bird, poised respectively on pede¬ stals of rockery. Brilliant glaze of creamy white. Height, 9% inches. 264—Sang-de-bceuf Gallipot ( Ch'ien-lung) Brilliant mirror glaze, which covers also the interior of the neck, in rich tones of the flowing blood, dripping with copious “tears” of coagulation. Faint crackle and lightly indicated orange-peel surface. Height, 9% inches. Second Afternoon 265—Fixe Yellow Jar ( K’ang-hsi ) Inverted pear-shape with low foot, and short neck with lightly molded lip. Heavy, resonant porcelain of fine quality, the exterior clothed in a perfect glaze of bril¬ liant canary-yellow, even in tone, with a delicate metallic lustre and mirror properties. Interior in white. Six- character mark in rich underglaze blue under the foot. Height, 9% inches. Second Afternoon 266 — Brown Gallipot ( Ch’ien-lung ) Brilliant monochrome mirror glaze of delicate liver color, flowing to a perfect foot; lip white. Height, 10% inches. 267 — Bottle-shaped Vase ( Yung Cheng ) Pear form, on a broad and bold foot, with full neck and trumpet lip. Luminous monochrome glaze in the bluish-green of the young bamboo shoots, with mirror properties; fishroe crackle. Lip and throat in a me¬ tallic black. Height, 10% inches. 268 — Cream Crackled Jar (Ming) Inverted pear-shape with broad flat foot, and short straight lip around a wide mouth. Invested with a luminous glaze of unctuous surface, in cream tone with cafe-au-lait shadings and pinkish-russet flushes, finely crackled throughout. Height, 10% inches. 269 — Quadrilateral Vase ( Ch’ien-lung ) High quadrangular body on a broad circular retired foot, with a short circular upright lip about a mouth smaller than the foot; flat shoulder and bottom. Below the shoulder, two elephant-head and ring handles in bold relief. Invested with a luminous glaze of rich lapis- lazuli blue, having a delicately marked peau-d’orange surface. Seal mark of the reign. Carved and pierced teakwood stand. Height, 11% inches. 270 — Sang-de-bieuf Bottle ( Ch’ien-lung) Globular-ovoidal with full neck. Rich glaze with misty surface and minute peau-d’orange markings, and show¬ ing a vertical crackle, a glaze apparently intended to be a sang-de-boeuf but through alteration in the firing turn¬ ing to rich reddish-mahogany notes, with peachbloom tones appearing near the foot. Height, 12 inches. From Dr. Bush ell’s Collection, Peking. Second Afternoon 271— Mirror-black Bottle ( K’ang-hsi ) Spherical, with tall and slender tubular neck, slightly tapering from the root. Brilliant glaze of pure mirror- black. Height, 16 % inches. 272— Sang-de-bieuf Bottle ( Ch'ien-lung ) Pear-shape with short tapering neck and broad and low heavy foot. Clothed in an intensely brilliant mirror glaze of rich blood-red of translucent quality, permitting a clear revelation of the bold underglaze crackle, which comes out into free view in cafc-au-lait lines within the gray glaze that encompasses the lip. Height, 12% inches. Exhibited on loan at the Copley Society Exhibition, Boston, 1911. Second Afternoon 273 — Powder-blue Bottle ( K'ang-hsi ) Spherical, with tall and slender tapering neck. Fine glaze in rich powder-blue, of mirror brilliancy. Height, 17% inches. Exhibited on loon at the Co'/dey Society Exhibition. Boston. 1911. 274 — Celadon Plaque (Ming) Stoneweight porcelain of clear bell tone; at the bottom of the deep and broad cavetto a large floral design, freely drawn by incision. Brilliant glaze of deep grayish sea- green. (Short crack in one side, in no way affecting the clarity of the porcelain’s tone.) Diameter , 1(1% inches. Second Afternoon 275— Celadon Fish Bowl (Ming) Somewhat shallow ovoidal cavetto, with a short flaring marly festooned at the lip; bold foot. Luminous celadon glaze of bright sea-green, with a bluish cast, boldly crackled. At the bottom, three fishes in swimming atti¬ tudes, reserved in the biscuit, in relief. Diameter, 12 14 inches. 276— Cream Crackled Jar (Ming) Elongated ovoidal form, with a short and broad straight foot, and a short lip less in diameter than the foot. Lustrous creamy glaze blending into cafe-au-lait tones through its fine close crackle, and showing varied cir- cumambulatory lines of broader crackle. Height, 12% inches. 277— Slate-blue Vase ( Ch’ien-lung) Large flattened pear-shape with spreading oval foot, molded lip, and two moldings about the neck, with tu¬ bular handles running between them at either side. In¬ vested both exteriorly and interiorly and underneath the foot with a monochrome glaze of slate-blue, brilliant and fine. The form is that of an ancient bronze. Height, 14% inches. 278— Fuchien Statuette (Ming) The goddess Kuan-yin standing on a rock base, one bare foot projecting from her flowing robes, necklace in re¬ lief crossing her breast; she wears high headdress, tiara and cowl, and holds a scroll in her extended right hand, on the wrist of which her left hand is delicately poised. Brilliant monochrome glaze of creamy tone. Height, 14% inches. Second Afternoon 279 —Statuette of a Potentate ( Ming) Seated male figure of dignified, austere aspect, in formal headdress and flowing robes, with armor exposed across the breast; enthroned, with the modeled head of a tiger skin falling between the spread feet, and the tail of the pelt overhanging the back of the seat. Robe incised with a three-clawed dragon among clouds above waves. Bril¬ liant monochrome creamy glaze of grayish tone. (One streamer of headdress restored.) Height> 17% {nches Second Afternoon 280 —Fuchiex Statuette {Ming) Standing figure of Kuan-yin, in full robes and with cowl, tiara and necklace, poised upon a bank of conventional clouds, one bare foot projecting from her robes. Very brilliant cream glaze of grayish tone. The hands, droop¬ ing and extended before her, have been replaced, in finely modeled porcelain left unglazed. Heif/ht, 1914 inches. Second Afternoon 281— Pottery Statuette (Ming) Standing male figure with bulging eyes and bulbous nose and long Buddhistic ears, with knotted headdress and girdled robes, both hands raised in front of the left shoulder, where they supported some object that has disappeared. Glazed in a rich malachite-green, warm flesh tones and possibly another color, the greater now covered with the soft and mellow frostings of decay. On stand. Height, 18 inches. 282— Tall Oviform Jar (Ming) With broad fiat foot, and embryonic lip about a rela¬ tively small mouth. Brilliant mirror glaze of delicate cream tone, finely crackled throughout, and showing on the shoulder a sporadic broader crackle of brownish note. Height, 18% inches. 283— Tall Flambe Bottle (Ch’ien-lung) Pear-shape with short full neck and deep heavy foot. Rich splash glaze with brilliant mirror surface, display¬ ing fine full-toned purples, soft gray-blue and delicate grayish-greens, and notes of tan, over a soft gray, and the whole closely crackled. Underneath the foot, the seal mark of the reign, incised beneath a heavy gray glaze with russet and mahogany markings. Height, 18% inches. 284 — Celadon Plaque (Ming) Clear, sonorous porcelain of the stoneweight variety, with the soft tone of a gong when struck, clothed in a fine grayish sea-green glaze of great brilliancy. Broad and shallow, on a low retired foot, the flaring sides mod¬ eled as twelve angular conventional petals. These are adorned on both exterior and interior with floral forms incised and modeled in the paste; on the interior the petals carry incised fret borders near the lip, and on the exterior the underbody has a pointed-petal border mod- Second Afternoon clod in relief. The bottom of the cavetto is modeled by in¬ cision in a brocade pattern, and here the glaze is inter¬ rupted by three fishes reserved in biscuit relief and coated with a matt brown glaze. Diameter, 18 inches. 285—Celadon Plaque {Ming) Resonant stoneweight porcelain; broad, shallow cavetto; low foot. Sides of the cavetto occupied by a sweeping scroll of foliar design, and the bottom by a lotus group, boldly drawn by free incision, beneath a brilliant celadon glaze of rich hue and translucent depths. Diameter, 18% inches. 286— Tall Celadon Vase ( Ming ) Ovoid body with a heavily molded and spreading foot, and trumpet neck. The neck is occupied by a deep band of the leaves of the ornamental banana, incised, below a series of rings that encircle it all the way to the lip. A correspondingly deep reed border appears above the foot, and the body of the vase is circled by floral bands incised and in relief. Brilliant glaze of pure grayish sea-green. Height, 26 inches. 287— Celadon Plaque {Ming) Heavy resonant porcelain, coated in a smooth and even- toned glaze of pure sea-green of grayish cast; within a broadly defined medallion at bottom of the cavetto, an incised floral device freely executed. Diameter, 15% inches. 288— Celadon Fish Bowl {Ming) Deep inverted bell-shape with heavily molded foot and short and thick flange lip. Surrounding the body a rich lotus decoration modeled in relief, and about the foot a conventional border. Brilliant celadon glaze, covering both exterior and interior. (Broken, near the bottom, and repaired with heavy clamps.) Height, 10% inches; diameter, 20% inches. Second Afternoon 289— Tali, Sang-de-bceuf Vase ( K'ang-lisi) An extraordinary example, and one of the tallest pieces in this glaze ever seen here. Oviform, or inverted pear- shape with high bulbous shoulder and wide elongated lower body flaring at the foot, and incurvate neck trun¬ cated and silver-capped. Clad in a remarkable glaze of mirror brilliancy in the richest of sang-de-baeuf hues, a true successor of the ancient sacrificial red, with glow¬ ing ruby tones, and areas of the successive peachblooms and near the foot low reaches of peach-gray. The glaze shows a bold crackle throughout. At one side of the shoulder, through an accident of the kiln, there is an exposure of the biscuit. Carved teakwood stand. Heif/ht, 29% inches. 290 — Green Jardiniere (Ming) Ovoid, with fiat foot and fiat lip. Heavy, thick pottery. Exterior coated with a glaze of rich, deep melon-green, finely crackled, and showing a brilliant metallic lustre, over an ornamentation boldly incised in a highly conven¬ tional lotus design. On table-stand. Diameter, 15 inches; heif/ht with stand, 20 inches. 291 — Decorated Wine Jar (Ming) Ovoid, with steep shoulder and heavy upright lip. Soft, lustrous, creamy glaze, closely crackled, painted in a rich dark brown with quatrefoils of conventional chrysan¬ themum sprays within a diapered ground, wave and cursive-scroll borders, and larger floral decorations. Has stand. Heif/ht, 18% inches; with stand, 30% inches. 292 — Lapis-blue Fish Bowl (Ming) Shallow cylindrical form, with heavy flange lip and foot. Exterior decorated on one side with a lotus pond in flower in high relief, and on the other side with a double¬ gourd bottle and a ju-i sceptre, both tied with fillets, in¬ cised and glazed in a rich and deep lapis-lazuli blue; interior glazed in a deep striated yellow. On carved teak- wood table-stajid, inlaid with a porcelain medallion decorated with birds on a blossoming plum tree. Diameter, 18% inches: heif/ht with stand. 25% inches. Second Afternoon 293—Fixe Gray Fish Bowl { Ming ) In form of a large inverted ovoidal bell with narrow but heavy flaring rim, the foot very deep and full. Heavy, resonant porcelain, coated with a brilliant creamy glaze of grayish tone, with darker areas, the glaze on the interior showing a bold crackle. Exterior adorned with four medallions worked in cavo-rilievo, showing the lotus, peony, pine and chrysanthemum, and with moldings and incised borders. On carved teakwood five-legged table- stand. Height, 19 inches; diameter, 26 inches; height with stand, 53% inches. Second Afternoon 294 — Lapis-blue Fish Bowl ( Ming ) A deep ovoid bowl with a low and broad foot, the exterior glazed in a rich and glowing lapis-lazuli blue, closely crackled, and the interior coated with a grayish glaze of dull unctuous lustre. On a Ch’ien-lung stand of carved wood, lacquered in dull vermilion and gilded, in the form of a Fu-lion bearing on its back a lotus pedestal. Diameter of bowl, 14 14 inches; height with stand, .36 inches. Second Afternoon 295—Beaker-shaped Vase ( Cliien-lung ) Brilliant monochrome glaze of rich and deep lapis-blue, finishing evenly in a thick welter at the foot, and retain¬ ing vestiges of a profuse floral and bird decoration pen¬ ciled in gold. Height, 16 inches. 296—Tall Mazarix-blue Jar (Ming) A rare and fine specimen. Heavy, resonant porcelain, molded in ovo-cylindrical form, with fiat foot, lightly indicated shoulder, and short broad neck lightly ex¬ panding at the lip. Coated with a mirror glaze of richest deep mazarin-blue, which covers also the interior of the lip, and flows under the foot, where it shows five large spur marks. (Broad chip under the foot, at the edge.) Height. 16% inches 297—Pair Fish Bowls ( Ch’ien-lung ) Low wooden tub shape, glazed in a soft warm yellow lined with dark orange markings in representation of the graining of wood, and banded with three hoops in gilt. On peristyle stands. Diameter, 15% inches; height with stand, 12 inches. 298—Pair Fu-lioxs ox Pedestals (Ming) Seated on their haunches; one with mouth open and the filleted ball lying between its fore paws, the other with jaws closed and a cub climbing toward its fore shoulder. Finely sculptured, and glazed in glowing Ming three- color, with exposures of the biscuit due to abrasion. Height, 15% inches and 14a/ 2 inches. (Illustrated) No. 298—PAIR FU-LIONS ON PEDESTALS (Min;/) Second Afternoon 299— Green Fish Bowl with Relief Decoration {Ming) Deep ovoid form, with wide mouth, and large round lip resting abruptly on shoul¬ der. Dark, mottled emer¬ ald-green glaze, minutely truite. On the exterior, the peony, plum, lotus and chrysanthemum modeled in bold relief. On tall carved teakwood stand. Diameter, 18*4 inches; height with stand, 44 inches. 300— Three-color Fish Bowl {Ming) Deep ovoidal form with bold round lip. Emerald-green glaze without and within, with fish-roe crackle; on the exterior, rocks, pine trees and various flowers modeled in high relief, and details set off by glazes in deep aubergine and yellow. On tall carved teakwood stand. Diameter, 17 inches; height with stand, 43 inches. 301-— Large Decorated Wine Jar {Cilia Clung) Ovoid, with short foot and large lip. Soft cream glaze, finely painted in rich brown and black with graceful floral designs within foliated panels, in conventional grounds, and inscribed in a band encircling the shoulder: “The ‘one thousand pot’ wine jar made by Han Chai, an artisian of Yung-feng-san village, Hu-kuan Hsien (district), Lu-an Fu (prefecture), Shansi province, on an auspicious day in June in the 26th year of the Chia Ching era” (A.D. 1517). Large stand. Height, 3‘2y 2 inches; with stand, 57y 3 inches. Second Afternoon 302—Huge Decorated Wine Jar ( Wan Li) Ovoidal, with embryonic neck and heavy lip; large mouth. Brilliant cream glaze delicately crackled, finely decorated in rich seal-brown with conventional floral patterns freely painted, and simple borders, and penciled with three in¬ scriptions, one of which reads: “The great wine jar pro¬ duced by an artisan in the first month of summer (April) of the year of Ting-hai (cyclical and zodiacal signs) of the Wan Li era, Great Ming Dynasty” (A.D. 1587). Large stand. Height, 33 % inches; with stand, 58% inches. Second .Afternoon 303—Large Fish Bowl (Ming) Deep ovoid form with large mouth and heavy, rounded lip. Both interior and exterior covered with a brilliant cream and creamy-gray glaze, boldly crackled. Just under the lip, at opposite sides, small ornamental handles of animal-head pattern modeled in slightly relief. Carved teakwood stand. Height, 20% inches; with stand, 3.5 inches. Seco n (1 A f ter noo n 30-i— Large Gray Jar (Ming) Ovoidal with high shoulder, short wide neck and boldly molded lip, and broad retired foot. Around the body, large peon 3 ' sprays modeled in bold relief. Luminous monochrome glaze of creamy gray, boldly crackled, and dripping in heavy “tears” about the foot. On carved wood tabouret painted in red lacquer, and showing a decoration of landscape, a lotus band and various bor¬ ders, incised and touched in with a pale yellow. Height, 18*4 inches; with tabouret, •'18'/, inches. Second Afternoon 305 — Pair Large Dogs Fu in Three-color ( Ming ) These guardians of the threshold sit upright on their haunches with fore legs straight, their mouths open and tails erect, and the traditional cub and brocaded ball in evidence. They are posed on plinths. Glazed in brilliant emerald-green, fineh r crackled, and enhanced by a per¬ vasive silvery iridescence, with details in a rich yellow and aubergine- brown. On stands. Height, 31 inches; with stand, 35 inches. ( Illustrated ) 306 — Cloisonne Enamel Wine Pot {Ming) Inverted pear-shape with flattened shoulder and short wide neck, recurving spout and large recurving loop handles. Has disc cover with gilt knob finial, the cover being modern, though it bears the characters “Wan Li nien chih.” Polychrome decoration in rich tones, on a turquoise ground, in lotus, chrysanthemum, ju-i and plantain-leaf designs. Height, 6 inches. No. 305—PAIR LARGE DOGS FU IN THREE-COLOR (Ming) Second Afternoon ANCIENT BRONZES 309—Small Bronze Mirror ( Han ) Circular, with plane surface. Concave back, ornamented with squirrcls-among-the-grapes in bold relief. Silvery black, iron-rust red and malachite-green patina, and grayish earthy incrustations. 310—Bronze Mirror ( Han ) Circular and flat, with foliated rim. Ornamented on the flat back with two phoenixes and two peony sprays in bas-relief. Rich and lustrous grayish-black patina, with much greenish incrustation and disintegration. Diameter, (i y 8 inches. Second Afternoon 311 —Bronze Mirror (Han) Circular, with convex surface. On the back, four lions, two of them raging at each other, in high relief on a de¬ pressed ground which shows ridge and ideographic bor¬ ders; on the rim a scroll border. Dark leaden-gray patina, with grayish pitting*, and areas of a heavily incrusted aerugo of dull grayish-green. Diameter, (>% inches. Second Afternoon 312 —Bronze Sacrificial Vessel (Sung) An unusual piece, both in form and decoration, partic¬ ularly as to form. The conspicuous features are two highly conventionalized rams’ heads, facing in opposite directions, above necks and breasts which unite in one body without animal form, the body supported on four short legs. On the back of the body an oval cylinder rises between the two heads, leading to the hollow interior and capped with an ivory dome cover of mellow tone. The entire body is inlaid with blocks of malachite cut in uniform pattern and laid in tiers; and the head, horns, cylinder and the joints above the legs are inlaid with silver and gold, largely in conventional spiral scrolls. The ogre eyes of the ancient bronzes also appear, in high conventionalization. Soft, unctuous gray-black patina, with thicker patches of olive and red. Used for holding rams’ blood in sacrificial offerings, the blood being drunk after celebration of a victory. Carved and pierced teak- wood stand. Height, 5y 3 inches. Second Afternoon 313 —Bronze Sacrificial Wine Vessel (Sung) In form of a long-eared and short-legged quadruped, with tail forming a recurving loop handle, a small aper¬ ture at the mouth, and on top of the back an opening closed with a bird-head cover. Extensively inlaid with scrolls and formal devices in silver and in gold. Soft blackish-brown patina, w T ith thick incrustations of dark, rich malachite and mahogany tones. Length, 10 inches. 311 —Bronze Statuette (Ming) A Chinese representation of a Dutch figure, kneeling on one knee, on a quadrilateral base with chamfered and fluted corners. On one extended hand he holds a tube for an incense stick, and the other hand is raised beside it in sheltering attitude. Base incised with lotus scrolls and a fret border. Dark brown patina. Height, 12% inches. Second Afternoon 315—Bronze Libation Cup (Sung) Ancient type, in inverted helmet shape with long spout, at either side of which rise short posts with conical tinials, and resting on three spreading spear-head feet. D ragon-head loop handle. Decorated with the thunder- scroll incised, the ogre eyes, and three dentated ridges. Russet, yellowish and greenish patina, and grayish earth incrustations. Height, 8'4 inches. 316—Large Bronze Mirror (Han) Circular and flat with molded rim lightly foliated. Adorned with flower and fruit clusters, birds on the wing and butterflies, in bas-relief. Brilliant dark gray patina, in spots almost black, and thick greenish incrustations spotted with gray and white. Diameter, 7% inches. 317—Bronze Ladle (Han) Possibly a ladle, possibly a cooking-dish; a shallow ovoidal bowl with flaring rim, and a long handle pro¬ jecting in the plane of the rim, its upper surface flat, half-round below. Unornamented. Where the surface of the metal comes to view, a soft brown patina of rich tone; elsewhere thick incrustations of malachite-green and yellowish-olive, and light grayish earthy attach¬ ments. Diameter, 6% inches; length ■with handle, 15% inches. 318—Bronze Sacrificial Vessel ( Han ) Cauldron-shape, on three conventional legs of animalistic suggestion, with wide mouth and two upstanding angu¬ lar-loop handles. Encircled by bands of incised fret at either side of a rope girdle in low relief. Thin greenish- brown and dense malachite-green patina. Teakwood cover with agate handle carved in fungus form, and teakwood stand. Height, 9% inches. Second Afternoon ii!9 —Bronze Ceremonial Wine Vessel (Han) Pear-shape with spreading foot, the full neck bent back¬ ward and ending abruptly in a wide and irregular mouth. Below the mouth, a rope loop apparently for support of a cord, and a rectangular loop below that to serve as handle. Conventional ornamentation incised and in re¬ lief, consisting of a scroll band above depending and overlapping petals. Thin reddish-brown and thick ma¬ lachite-green patina, of unctuous surface. Heit/hi, 11 inches. Second Afternoon 320 —Bronze Jar (Sung) An ancient sacrificial vessel, ovoidal with flat foot and broad flattened shoulder, short incurvate neck and spreading lip; large mouth. Shoulder inlaid with spirals and varied devices in silver, and the foot similarly inlaid. The body between shows a diamond lattice of angular scroll on a sunken ground, with a studding of bosses in¬ laid with turquoise and malachite. Rich patina of reddish mahogany-brown, malachite-green and dark olive. Carved teakwood stand. Height, 8y g inches; diameter, 10% inches. Second Afternoon 321 —Bronze Vase (Hon) Pilgrim-bottle shape, flattened, with low spreading foot, short neck with molded and expanding lip, and on the shoulder two animalistic loop handles. All sides deco¬ rated with formal scroll devices executed in low relief within panels defined bv strap-work. Patina of rich mahogany-browns, malachite-greens, grayish-browns, and under the foot a spot of blue. Carved teakwood stand. Height, 13 inches. Second Afternoon 322— Gilt Bronze Buddhistic Statuette (Ming) Figure of a Lolian seated on a base of rockery, hands resting on knees and one hand holding a fan or symbol in lotus and ju-i motives. Head and nude parts of body gilded, and robes engraved with rich embroideries gilded. At rear, ideographs incised and in relief. Rich warm brown and blackish patina. Height, 12% inches. Second Afternoon 323— Bronze Sacrificial Tripod Jar with its Own Orig¬ inal Cover (Sung) Broad pear-shape with expanding lip, upright on its outer edge, and a squat bell-shaped underbody supported on three feet in the form of animalistic grotesques; two dragon-head loop handles with drops. Relief decora¬ tions of conventional archaic dragons and the t'no-t’ieh ogre features on incised lei-wen grounds, enhanced by spiral and bolder scroll inlays of silver, and broader in¬ lays of gold. Rich and varied patina of browns and greens, and earthy incrustments. Cover in accord, with spreading circular handle in openwork. Teakwood stand. Height , 10 inches; handle-spread, 11 '/> inches. 324 — Large Bronze Tripod Bowl (Hun) Ovoidal with short spreading lip convex on top and brought to a sharp edge, broad, slightly depressed bot¬ tom, three animalistic feet, and four dragon-head han¬ dles in low relief with small loops, under the lip. Dense aerugo of rich green and blackish-brown, with yellowish areas and various light earthy incrustations. Diameter, 15% inches. 325— Bronze Statuette (Ming) Figure of a sage, standing on a base of rockery, left arm at his side concealed beneath his flowing robes, and right arm extended from the elbow, with hand and fingers in graceful posture, as in a speaking gesture, and he is looking downward, smiling and with lips widely parted. Areas of soft, smooth and dark greenish-bronze patina, outcropping from a dense patina of rich black from the fumes of incense. Height, 17% inches. 326 — Bronze Statuette (Ming) Standing figure of a sage, with folded arms, on a rock amid waves. H is robe falls away from one shoulder, and depending at his side are a basket of the sacred fungus and a gourd-shaped wine bottle. Rich black patina from incense fumes. Height, 19% inches. Second Afternoon 327 — Pair Gilt Bronze Cloisonne Enamel Candlesticks with Candles ( Ch’ien-lung ) Spreading hexagonal foot supporting a bulbous and ridged base from which rises a hexagonal column with knop, surmounted by a bulbous top upholding a shallow circular basin. On the pricket above, a candle of red wax, which is also of the Ch’ien-lung period, is modeled in relief with a dragon among clouds above waves. Lotus decoration in polychrome enamels on a light turquoise- blue ground. On upper surface of basin a chrysan¬ themum scroll, and on under surface of foot plum blos¬ soms on cracking ice, in the same colors. Height, 20% inches. 328— —Siamese Bronze Statuette of Buddha ( Ming Period) The Buddha is seated upright on a base resembling a rock mass or a great tree stump, with his feet resting on a lotus cushion posed on the ground below him. His hands rest on his knees, one palm upward and the other palm downward. His robe, which leaves one arm and shoulder bare, is an expanse of floral relief ornamenta¬ tion in conventional forms. Lacquered in a rich, warm brown, and gilded. (Foreground in front restored in lead, and coated with vermilion lacquer.) Height, 20y s inches; length of base, 16 inches. 329 — Old Japanese Bronze Fountain Large spreading ovoidal basin in the form of an ex¬ pansive lotus leaf, conventionalized, in twelve foliations or broad flutings, which droop lightly at the rim, resting upon a low hexagonal base. On the under side of the basin the leaf veins are modeled in relief; below it is a band of depressed panels carrying a wave ornamentation in light relief, followed by a conventional lotus border boldly sculptured. The base, with a low spreading foot, carries six deeply sunken quatrefoil panels, each enclos¬ ing a Fu-lion rampant in high relief. Height, 24% inches; diameter, 46% inches. Second Afternoon 330 —Stone Statuette (Ming) A Buddhistic figure, of pla¬ cidly smiling countenance, standing on an oval rock, bare feet projecting from the long robes which cross low before the breast and are held by a long-tasseled girdle. The left forearm is projected straight to the front, the whole right arm hidden at the side. Dense patina of brownish-black and grayish earthy incrustations. Height, 17% inches. 331 —Marble Jardiniere (Ming) In quatrefoil form, on a low base with foliated skirt and resting on four heavy feet. The four lobes carved in relief with birds, rocks and flowers, in lightly sunken foliated pan¬ els. White marble with a soft and lightly mottled grayish weathered surface. Diameter, 20% inches. 332 —Marble Garden Ornament (Ming) A group of four Buddhistic figures standing back to back, each with hands in a position different from the others, posed upon a circular thalamus which is sup¬ ported by an eight-sided base, the base being extensively carved with a scroll, figures and animal features. Soft creamy-white weathered surface. Height, 33 inches. Second Afternoon 333 —Marble Jardiniere ox Marble Base {Ming) The jardiniere ovoidal, sculptured as a conventional lotus flower of heroic mold, with the overlapping petals carved in relief about the exterior. On a white marble circular pedestal carved in relief with flying cranes, and the dragon-horse four times repeated galloping over waves. Soft creamy patina and grayish earth deposits. Diameter of jardiniere, 19 inches; height zoith base, 24y a inches. Second Afternoon 334—Stone Sculpture ( Ming ) A square pedestal, of gray stone, carved in relief with dragons emerging from the sea and rising among clouds, and with a brocaded blanket; originally a base for a dog Fu. Height, 1t y 4 inches. 335—Marble Pedestal with Sun Dial (Ming) The pedestal in baluster form, carved in relief with em¬ blematic bats among conventional clouds, and resting on an ornate circular base carved with conventional lotus designs. White marble with a soft light-gravish weath¬ ered surface. Bronze sun dial, modern. Height, 34y 2 inches. TEXTILES AND CARPETS 336—Silk Tapestry Chair-back ( Ch’ien-lung ) Conventional form; thickly cushioned. Highly conven¬ tional scroll and blossom design in variations of the lotus motive, boldly drawn, with bats and swastikas found among the scrolls, worked in soft green, a brownish old- gold and creamv-whites, with touches of light blue, on an azure ground. Height, 24 inches. 337—Silk Tapestry Chair-back (Ch’ien-lung) Polyfoil-arch top. Thickly cushioned. A beautiful de¬ sign, of melon vines in flower and fruit, and butterflies hovering among them, with a floral medallion at the centre where larger butterflies are found, the whole wrought in delicate blues, greens, soft whites and golden- yellows, within a ground of golden-browns. Inner field marked by a band following the outline, in gold threads. Height, 26 inches. Second Afternoon 338 — Cushioned Embroidered Silk Chair-back ( Ch'ien - lung) Polyfoil-arch top. Ecru ground, embroidered in light and dark blue, white and various soft and harmonious colors with conventional flower sprays and fruit clus¬ ters, bats and symbols. An inner field following the outline is set off in gold. Height, 28 inches. 339 — Pair Antique Silk Brocade Wall Hangings Pale green ground with light emerald sheen, crossed by successive lines of ornamentation formed of dragon medallions worked in gold and flame, white, blue and brown, alternating with cloud symbols worked in the colors alone. Length, 15 feet; -width, 31 inches. 340 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( Nineteenth Century ) Golden yellow with dazzling sheen. Square field with conventional floral ornamentation and conventional but¬ terfly corners, bounded by a narrow floral border, which is succeeded by a broad border in the dragon-scroll mo¬ tive, all the ornamentation appearing in the uncut velvet within a cut ground. 49 inches square. 341 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( Nineteenth Century ) Rich yellow velvet with golden sheen. A square field is surrounded by a broad border, the decoration of both being in dragon and lotus motives, all appearing in the uncut velvet within a cut ground. 50 inches square. 342 — Pair Silk Velvet Hangings ( K’ang-lisi ) Rich yellow velvet with golden sheen, embracing brocaded designs in a rose-brown, pale blue and ecru, with a re¬ strained use of gold threads, the designs including dragons, dogs Fu and a lotus medallion, in a field bor¬ dered by a bold floral scroll. ( Illustrated ) Length, 07 inches. Second Afternoon 343 — Pair Sii.k Velvet Wall Hangings ( Nineteenth Cen¬ tury) Rich and beautiful panels of glowing golden-yellow vel¬ vet, cut and uncut, variously adorned with figures of sages and nobility, and landscape, with the horses of the Chou Emperor Mu Wang appearing at the bottom, four on each panel. The figures in cut velvet on the uncut ground. Floral scroll border uncut, within a cut ground. Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 24y> inches. 344 — Silk Velvet Wall Hanging ( Nineteenth Century) Golden-yellow velvet of rich note, cut and uncut, its adornment the spotted stag and the stork, the pine and bamboo and the peach, emblems of longevity all, the bat for happiness, and the rock peony and the weeping wil¬ low, all appearing in the cut velvet in an uncut ground. Height, 25 inches; length, 6 feet 2 inches. 345 — Silk Velvet Hanging ( Cliien-lung) Rich ruby velvet with glowing sheen, enclosing dragons, Fus and a lotus medallion, which are wrought in the cloth-of-gold ground. Border formed of the golden ground, with archaic dragons appearing in the velvet relief. Length , 68 inches. 346 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( Nineteenth Century) Rich golden-yellow velvet with gorgeous sheen, display¬ ing dragon and cloud medallions with grounds of sap¬ phire, emerald, amethyst, and rose-pink. Length, 5 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 347 — Silk Velvet and Gold Table Cover ( Nineteenth Century) Rich dark purplish-blue velvet, with delicate sheen, and glistening with cloud medallions wrought in gold thread. Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet. Second Afternoon 348 — Silk Brocade Hanging ( Ch’ien-lung) Ground of golden-bronze, displaying imperial dragons among conventional clouds, worked in sapphire and tur¬ quoise-blue, green, apricot and soft neutral tones, and gold, the dragons being in gold. Length, 81 inches; width, 56 inches. 349 — Piece Dress Goods in Silk Velvet and Cloth-of-gold (Nineteenth Century ) Rich velvet of deep scarlet hue, cut by medallions of large and small conventional lotus blossoms, among twin¬ ing foliar scrolls, all in the ground of brilliant gold. (Preserved unused in a trunk, therefore its pristine freshness.) Length, 8 feet 6 inches; width, 25 inches. 350 — Silk Brocade Temple Hanging ( C'h'ien-lung ) Deep dark blue ground, in which imperial dragons glow in brilliant silver, among clouds worked in silver, white, gray, light blue and browns. Length, 8 feet 9 inches. 351 — Set of Four Temple Pillar Covers ( Ch'ien-lung) Rugs of deep, loose pile, the ground a peach-red, orna¬ mented with imperial dragons in dark and light blue, white, yellow and peach-pink, each rug so woven that the dragon’s body is continuous when the sides of the rugs meet, and the dragon is always coiling upward around the post. Length (each), 11 feet 2 inches; width. 2 feet 8 inches. 352 — Palace Wall Hanging in Silk Velvet ( Nineteenth Century) Ro se-pink velvet with a light and delicate sheen, dis¬ playing within the soft surface of a cut ground a bril¬ liant and extensive ornamentation effected in the velvet uncut, the designs being scenes in the Taoist paradise with numerous figures of immortals. Height, 35 inches; length, 8 feet 7 inches. Second Afternoon 353— Set of Six Silk Velvet Wall Hangings (Nineteenth Century ) Rich and glowing golden-yellow velvet with a delicate sheen. Adorned in panels, square or oblong, and in borders, with various designs, the patterns appearing in uncut velvet within a cut ground. Included in the ornamentation, which varies on the different hangings, are archaic dragons, blossoming plum trees and flying birds, peach trees in fruit, landscape and waterscape, the tree peony in flower and the pomegranate in bearing. Length , 8 feet 10 y 2 inches ; width , 25 inches . 354— Velvet Border-strip or Panel ( K’ang-hsi ) A remarkable example of Iv’ang-hsi silk velvet, the gol¬ den yellow ground with brilliant sheen cut by designs in rose and rose-pink and deep crimson, bleu-de-ciel and emerald, the designs including a lotus medallion and scrolling foliations, and bands of angular fret. Length , 10 feet 2 inches . 355— Long Carpet ( Ch'ien-lung ) A runner or long strip. Soft loose pile, close-lying. Soft peach-pink ground throughout, ornamented with successive conventional floral medallions in old-gold, each centred by a swastika in sapphire-blue, and occupying a field defined by conventional scroll corners, in turquoise- blue and white; at either end of the runner the formal scroll becomes clearly the archaic dragon-scroll. Border of swastika-fret in sapphire-blue on a tawny ground, in¬ terrupted by conventional blossoms. Length , 35 feet ; width , 27 inches . Second Afternoon FURNITURE 356 —Inlaid Casket (Ming) Oblong. Black lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl in lotus-scroll and other formal designs. Length , 12% inches . 357 —Inlaid Box with Cover (Ming) Rectangular. Rich black lacquer inlaid with lotus scrolls and other floral and formal designs in mother-of-pearl and metal. Length , 12% inches . 358 — Pair Lacquer Boxes Shallow oblong trays on low feet, which become boxes by the placing over them of the deep covers. Brown lacquer, penciled in gold with waterside landscape, pa¬ vilions and figures, on top and all sides. Length , 17% inches . 359 —Black Lacquer Small Trunk Rectilinear, with strap hinges, bail handles, and metal clasp with incised ornamentation. Profuse ornamenta¬ tion of conventional designs on all sides in red, brown and gold lacquer. Length , 19 inches . 360 —Lacquer Box with Cover (Ch'ien-lung) Oblong with rounded and indented corners and low foot. Top painted with long-tailed birds, butterflies and flow¬ ers in soft colors on a black ground. Sides ornamented with panels of bamboo basketry, within red lacquer grounds. On stand. Height , 7 % inches (with stand , 42 inches ); length , 34% inches ; width , 16% inches . Second Afternoon 361 —Pair Carved Wood ( Cliien-lung) 361 362 Candle Stands with Candles The stands carved as standing Fu-lions on quadrilateral bases, one lion holding a fungus branch in its mouth, each supporting on its back a column in openwork carving representing a dragon within a floral scroll, the column topped by a lotus blossom with pricket to sustain the candle. Painted in red lacquer and gilded. The candles, which are also of the Ch’ien-lung period, are of red wax, modeled in relief with a dragon amid clouds above waves. Height , 48 inches . -Red Lacquer Screen (Ming) Penciled with a ceremonial scene in the Taoist paradise, figures honoring the peach tree of longevity, a palace emerging from clouds, rocks and the sea, in colors of soft, low tones, and gilding, on a vermilion ground. In carved and pierced teakwood stand. Height , 31 inches . 363 —Pair Black Lacquer Trunks Rectilinear, with flat top. Profuse decoration in gold on cover and all sides, displaying luxuriant peonies, the blossoming plum tree, a phoenix and aggressive dragons, all on a black ground; interior in vermilion lacquer. Bail handles. (Lock and hinges missing.) Height , 22 % inches ; length , 34 inches . Second Afternoon •164*—Paik Carved Teak wood Armchairs ( Ch'ien-lung) Quadrilateral seats with molded edges, square legs and stretchers, and pierced dragon-scroll knee-braces. Arms and back boldly carved and pierced, the arms in dragon- scroll motive and back with Fu-lions playing with the brocaded ball; in the back a solid splat rolling high above the top rail, inlaid with birds and figures in relief in willow, and the scrolling top carved with a bat. Have brocade cushions. Second Afternoon 365 —Teakwood Screen with Picture in Natural Feath¬ ers ( Ch'ien-lung ) A phoenix, stork and mandarin ducks, at the edge of a pond under a blossoming tree, in moonlight, appear in kingfishers’ and other feathers, and other materials, out¬ standing from a black ground. Frame and stand carved with scrolls and symbols in relief. Screen is arranged for removal from stand, for hanging as a wall picture. Height (of picture ), 27 inches ; width , 23 inches ; height complete , 3(> inches . 366 —Pair Carved Wood Wall Ornaments In the form of tall-necked quadrilateral vases, one con¬ taining lotus flowers and one peonies, both vases carved in relief, one with a dragon-scroll and the other with a lotus scroll, lacquered and gilded. Height , 4 feet 6 inches . 367 —Carved Teakwood Chair Broad quadrilateral seat with rounded corners, the inner seat of woven rattan; rounded legs and stretchers, and a skirted footrest. Round stiles and a flattened-areh top-rail, supported by six round spindles, suggesting the English mahogany “Chinese Chippendales.” (Top rail cracked at centre.) 368 —Set of Four Side Chairs Square seats, legs and underbraces, the latter skirted in foliate outline; below the seats, skirts carved and pierced in scrolls in the motive of bats among clouds. Lightly tapering stiles unite with the top rail in typical Ch’ien-lung indentions, and a splat carved in open scrolls is bracketed to similar scrolls attached to the stiles. All surfaces penciled in gold with lotus motives and bats. Seats supplied with brocade cushions. Second Afternoon 369— Pair Black Lacquer Armchairs Broad quadrilateral seat; open back and arms, indented at the curves; solid splat, rolling high above the top rail. Square legs and stretchers; below seat, skirt-braces in openwork dragon scroll. Profusely decorated with con¬ ventional lotus motives in gold and brown lacquer; on the splats, mountainous landscapes. 370— Red Lacquer Cabinet {Ming) Rectilinear; two doors with brass hinges, and brass drop- handles and handle plates; at ends two brass bail handles (one bail missing). Penciled in color and gold with birds on the wing, trees in flower, Fu-lions, and landscapes with architecture and figures, on a rich dark red ground. The figures are seen in pavilions, and abroad afoot and mounted, and in boats afloat. On wooden stand. Height, 31 inches (with stand, 55% inches); length, 37 inches; depth, 24% inches. 371—Two Korean Cabinets ( Ri ) Both rectilinear, on low stands; both black lacquer, with brass mounts on all angles, brass bail handles, two hinged doors and interior sliding doors. Both inlaid with bril¬ liantly iridescent mother-of-pearl, the ornamentation in¬ cluding trees, flowers and song birds, fish swimming in ponds, storks, deer, tortoises and ducks. On the top of one is a Shou medallion, with bats; and on the face of the other the “double joy” symbol, a wish of con¬ nubial bliss, appears with other ideographs. Have ori¬ ginal locks and keys. Height (of one), 19 inches (with stand, 28% inches); length, 31% inches; the other, height, 20% inches (with stand, 30 inches); length, 32% inches. Second Afternoon 372— -Black Lacquer Table High, long and narrow, with scrolled and pierced skirt, and slender legs with conventional fungus-form braces over low stretchers. Decorated in gold over reddish- brown lacquer with flowers and birds, a waterside land¬ scape, lattices and varied scrolls. Length , 53 inches . 373 — Carved Lacquer Long Table Short skirt, expanding into scrolled braces at the broad straight legs, which are united in pairs bv stretchers and scrolls. All surfaces richly ornamented with lotus scrolls, flowerets and archaic dragons, finely engraved and painted in dark green and red lacquer on a brown¬ ish-vermilion lacquer ground. Length , 72 inches . Second Afternoon 374 — Black Lacquer Cabinet {Ming) Oblong, on four low feet, with skirt-braces carved with dragon-scroll borders in relief; the top projects at the ends, over knee-braces of openwork dragon-scroll. Two compartments with double doors and brass hinges, and two drawers. Front painted in red, green, blue and white lacquer, with birds, flowers, garden scenes and figures, and Shou medallions. Height , 331/, inches ; length , 53 inches . 375 — Lacquer Pier Glass Narrow oblong mirror within a wing frame, on a stand with chamfered corners and four low feet, carved in red lacquer and gilded. Wings and cresting are richly carved and pierced with panels containing ornaments and birds and numerous figures. On the stand below, at either side, are guardian figures, and between the stiles of the frame is a cabinet with sliding doors carved and pierced. The stand itself is carved in relief in floral motive, and has an openwork balcony railing. Height , 73 inches . 376—Black Lacquer Decorated Throne Chair Large square seat with arms at two levels, and a higher back in three sections, the central section mounting above the sides and rolling backward in a scroll. Short ex¬ panding skirt, and scroll legs resting on a rail base sup¬ ported on four ju-i feet. Rich floral decoration every¬ where, in gold and reddish and brown lacquer, with inter¬ spersed lattices and Shou medallions, and the centre of the back, or broad splat, inlaid with a luxuriant peony branch. Second Afternoon 377— Set OF Po UR Inlaid Hanging Wall Panels (Cli’ien- lung) Upright oblong form; enclosed and deep set within carved teakwood frames; black lacquer panels inlaid with varied objects in a variety of stones. The ornamenta- tation includes vases and other objects of household adornment, with flowers and fruit, in white, green and fei-ts'ui jade, agate, coral, malachite, amber and lapis- lazuli. Height , 52 1 / 4 inches ; width , 24y, inches . . ( Illustrated ) Xo. .‘{77—SET OF FOUR INLAID HANGING WALL PANELS Second Afternoon 378 —Set of Eight Screen Panels (Ming) Painted in colors on silk, and bordered with silk and gold brocade; mounted in red lacquer frames which at the base are carved and pierced in lotus pattern and gilded. The decorations include ladies at games, danc¬ ing and at their toilette, boys at play, women musicians, a girl dancing before the Emperor, pavilions, palaces and gardens—quite possibly a continuous Chinese story —in rich and mellow colors of time-softened tone. On the back, wishes for luck and life. Height , 58 inches ; panel • width , 23 ]/ 4 inches . (Illustrated) 379 —Pair Japanese Six-fold Screens By Yeitoku Kano. Painted in many colors, of soft tone, on a gold ground, and picturing a Chinese repre¬ sentation of “The Battle of the Flowers,” taking place before the Emperor and Empress in spacious palace gardens. Eighteen ladies figure in the actual battle on each side, and attendants gather about the Emperor and Empress. Back of the screen in silver leaf, each fold adorned with ten famous Japanese poems illustrated in water color. Height , 5 feet IIy 2 inches ; panel width , 25 inches . No. 378—SET OF EIGHT SCREEN PANELS Second Afternoon 380 —Carved Teakwood Palace Screen with Silk Tapes¬ try Panels (The Tapestry of K'ang-hsi, the Carved Framing of Ch’ien-lung ) A remarkably fine screen, and undoubtedly a produc¬ tion for palace use. The very beautiful silken tapestry panels are wrought in delicate tones within a creamy- white ground, and each separately presents a floral growth in gracefully naturalistic design. The represen¬ tations include the bush rose and the tree rose, the poppy and the hydrangea, the peach, plum and lily and others of the flora. The frames are finely and elaborately carved in bas-relief in chrysanthemum and scroll mo¬ tives, and rest in individual stands which are freely carved, and ornamented with panels of gilded scrolls. The backs are painted in gold lacquer with extensive landscapes. The screen is of twelve panels, eight of them in a straight line side by side, with wings of two panels each set at an oblique at the ends. Height , 67y z inches ; panel width , 13% inches . ( Illustrated) am-CARVED TEAK WOOD PAI.ACE SCREEN WITH SII.K TAPESTIIY PANELS t THIRD AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK Catalogue Nos. 384 to 526, inclusive 384 — Pink Tourmaline Snuff Bottle Flattened pear shape, carved in the “Chinese ruby” bril¬ liantly polished, and with relief ornamentation of a fruit vine in bearing and a squirrel at play in it. 385—Amber Snuff Bottle Bulbous flask shape with delicate foot. Opaque amber of yellow and rich brownish-red mottlings, with a mirror polish. 386—Lapis-lazuli Snuff Bottle Tall ovoidal jar shape, flattened, with short spreading lip and low foot, and two lion-mask and ring handles carved in low relief. Soft polish. 387—Ivory Snuff Bottle Compressed spherical form with small flat foot, short cylindrical neck, and cap-shaped stopper, the whole with a smooth soft polish. Third and Last Afternoon 388 — Coral Snuff Bottle Slender compressed-cylinder form with low foot. Rich pink coral brightly polished, carved in relief with boys flying a kite, flowers and a swallow. A vein of white is deftly utilized as the centre of a blossom. Stopper carved and undercut with an insect on a blossom stem. Ivory stand. Height , 3 inches . 389 — Turquoise Snuff Bottle In the shape of a fruit, and carved in relief on all sides with an encircling vine with lesser fruit and large leaves. At one point is a small dog. Pure turquoise of light tones, softly polished. Aventurine stopper. 390 — Turquoise Snuff Bottle Flattened flask shape with foot. Turquoise of fair and delicate tone, lightly veined in different areas with dark reticulations. Carved in low relief with a phoenix and stork, and bamboo and fungus, while pine trees carved in relief and undercut extend up the sides and over the shoulders, forming handles, and at each shoulder is perched a bird. Soft, bright polish. 391 — Green Turquoise Snuff Bottle Ovoidal jar form, flattened, with delicate foot. Animal- head handles in relief at the shoulder, overlapping an en¬ circling band of archaic dragon-scroll in relief; three small leaf-point borders in relief. All the rest of the body delicately incised with an angular grill. Metal stopper pierced in floral motive. 392 —Coral Snuff Bottle Flattened flask shape, embraced within elaborate carving. On one face a lively man carved in relief holds a Fu- lion by a chain through its nose, and on the opposite face a lion grasps a peony stem which curls out in bold Third and Last Afternoon undercutting and supports a basket of peaches which swings freely along the stem by its handle. A flower of the peony is unfolding on one shoulder, and on the other is the figure of a boy in high relief. On the stopper a lion with a flower spray, with a basket swinging free on the stem. Carved ivory stand. Height , inches . 393— Twin Snuff Bottles Cylindrical, each with flattened shoulder and low foot. Surrounded by smiling figures carrying peaches, peonies and the sacred fungus, and one man having a Fu-lion in a heavy chain leash, all in high relief and undercutting. Carved of a single block of rich pink coral brightly pol¬ ished. Carved ivory stand. Height , 3 inches . 394-— White Jade Snuff Bottle Spherical form compressed, with cylindrical neck and short spreading foot. On the shoulder, bat and small ring handles in relief. Obverse and reverse carved with coin medallions in delicate relief, portraying Charles III of Spain with the date 1779, and the royal arms. 395— Fei-ts’ui Jade Snuff Bottle Flattened ovoidal form with recessed foot. Fine trans¬ lucent jade with the softness of clouds in its white, and rich areas of the beautiful emerald-green. Brilliant polish. Carved in relief with flourishing peony blossoms and a pair of swallows on the wing. Has carved teak- wood table-stand. 396— Amethyst Water Cup with Cover Semi-globular; carved in high relief with a Fu-lion and a bat, and with bats and cloud scrolls in low relief. Cover surmounted by a Fu-lion standing. Third and Last Afternoon 397— Agate Paperweight Figure of a dog lying down, with head up, carved in a conglomerate agate of varying yellow and dark green tones, and brightly polished. 398— White Jade Ornament The figure of a phoenix squatting upon the ground, with head turned well around, and holding in its beak the stem of a cluster of peaches which lie upon its back, the peach group and the bird’s curled-up tail carved in bold relief and undercutting. Wing plumage in relief and incised. Soft polish. Length , 3% inches . 399—Amber Statuette Seated figure of Ivuan-yin, in Buddhistic robes and with a streamer in relief about her shoulders, holding a short scroll in her left hand, and her right hand resting on a larger scroll at her side. Brown amber with a light golden translueence. A part of her robes have at some time been painted and gilded, and retain in varied measure portions of this ancient “improvement.” Height , 3 inches . 400—Pink Coral Okimono In form of the standing figures of two ladies, in miniature, one bending over the left shoulder of the other, whose body is still further inclined forward. Green-tinted ivory peony stand. 401—Pink Coral Okimono Standing figure of a lady of genial expression, who leans gracefully forward and to her right, carrying an orna¬ mental basket of peaches and holding a single peach aloft; blossoms bedeck her high headdress. Tinted ivory openwork stand. Height , 3 inches . Third and Last Afternoon 402—Pink Coral Statuette Figure of a philosophic, good-natured old woman, carry¬ ing a basket of peonies, and a blossoming branch which entwines her shoulders. Peony blossom stand in tinted ivory. Height , 3% inches . 403—Pink Coral Figure Group A plump and happy little lady, holding a lotus spray above her head, standing on some rockery, and a bird and a playful boy with a basket at her feet. Tinted ivory stand carved with the polydorus lucidus in openwork. Height , 3% inches . 404—Pink Coral Okimono Standing figure of a slender, sinuous female in lightly flowing garments, a spray adorning her hair, who holds at shoulder height in either hand a blossom and an orna¬ mental basket. Tinted ivory openwork stand. Height , 4y 8 inches . 405—White Jade Bird Statuette Figure of a stork standing on a rock, with a floral spray held in its bill and extending in undercutting and relief across its body. Wings in relief and incised. Bright polish. Height , I inches . 400—Aquamarine Vase with Cover In form of the ancient cauldron-shaped tripod incense burners. Carved in relief with peony sprays, and at opposite sides with two peony-loop and ring handles in high relief. Dome cover surmounted by a phoenix with peony spray in undercutting. Height , 4V4 inches . Third and Last Afternoon 407—Writer’s Agate Water Cup In form of a “sea turtle” in high conventionalization, crawling on short legs, with head lifted, a loose ring pen¬ dant beneath its chin, and tail curled up and supporting another loose ring. Back-plate in relief and incised, with opening at the centre and a cover surmounted by a heron holding a spray on which a loose ring plays. Has teak- wood stand. Length, 4% inches. 408—Aquamarine Vase with Cover In form of a large ovoidal wine jar, resting on rocks at the border of waves. Carved in relief is an old man fishing in the waves, and a boy watching from the rocks above. Two other figures appear also in relief, one a boy on an ox; and extending up the sides and over the shoulder of the jar are pine trees in high relief and undercutting. Cover with Fu-lion finial. Height, 4% inches. 409—Fei-ts’ui Jade Ornament A single-masted Chinese working boat, with its sail up and halyards trained to a bamboo pole abaft of ’midships, near the arched deck house. At the masthead a lantern swings freely in a loose ring, and on the bow is a man kneeling over a fishing basket. Teakwood stand in wave motive. Length, 4% inches. 410—Fei-ts’ui Jade Sculpture Figure group carved in fei-ts'ui jade of delicate tones and translucence, and brightly polished, representing a figure seated on a rock and holding a basket of the sacred fungus, and another figure standing on the rock, just behind, bearing a lotus on her shoulder. Carved teakwood stand inlaid with silver wire. Height, 4% inches. Tith’d and Last Afternoon 411 —Coral Figure Group Statuette of a lissom lady of smiling countenance, astride the back of a swan. She carries a fly whisk, and is entwined by the stems of the rock peony in luxuriant bloom. Carved in rich dark pink coral, with brilliant polish. Carved ivory openwork stand in floral motives, green tinted, mounted on an elaborate teakwood pedestal. Height, (i'/i inches: with stands complete, 9 inches. Third and Last Afternoon 412— White Jade Figure Group Standing Buddhistic figure, in elaborate robes, holding in the left hand a ju-i sceptre over the shoulder, and right hand resting on the head of a boy who carries a vase. Both posed on a base of openwork rockery. The prin¬ cipal figure wears a shoulder cape carved in ju-i outline in relief. Translucent jade of waxen white, with soft polish. Carved teakwood stand. Height, 5% inches. 413— Coral Statuette Standing figure of a slender lady of sinuous lines, with streamers swinging wide of her flowing robes, and beside her on a rock ledge a Fu-lion on his haunches, with head raised high. She holds over her shoulder a peony branch, and is smiling. Rich deep pink coral, brightly polished. Ivory stand carved in openwork with pomegranates. Height, 6% inches. 414— Coral Carving Supernatural female figure in conventional garments, standing astride a fish whose body is bent in a deep U-curve, the fish spouting streams of water about a wheel held between its open jaws. The lady, with a quizzical smile, carries in her arms across her chest a large dragon, whose extremities rise far above her head, the dragon possessing in the grip of its jaws the jewel of omnipotence. Ivory stand carved in leaping wave form and green-tinted. Height, 8% inches. 415—Coral Statuette A smiling and slender young lady of sinuous curves, with hair dressed high, standing, is holding a basket of flowers to the handle of which is attached a chain of five loose links, leading to a peony branch held aloft. The whole in pink coral smoothly polished. Tinted ivory stand, on carved wood table. Height, 5 inches; ( complete, 8 inches.) Third and Last Afternoon 416 —Fei-ts’ui Jade Hanging Vase Flattened pear shape with broad neck and spreading foot, and dome cover with knob finial. At the sides of the neck two scrolled loop handles, on which swings a deep locked- in bail handle, and on the front of the neck is an orna¬ mental animal-head handle in high relief, with loop and loose ring. Finely carved in delicate relief with a scroll band in archaic motive, including the ogre features highly conventionalized, and with borders in relief and incised. Teakwood stand. Height, 7% inches. 417—Shell Carving A large natural sea shell of pearly whiteness is finely carved, advantage being adroitly taken of its natural con¬ formation, in the form of a lotus leaf broadly cupped, within which a goldfish and a frog are carved in relief, while a crab clambers over one edge. Smaller leaves and a seedpod also appear at the edges, and underneath stems and buds are carved in bold relief and veins in delicate relief. Length, 10% inches. 417a —Purple Glass Jardiniere (Ch’ien-lung) Circular and deep, with contour slightly ovoid, broad fiat foot and narrow flaring rim. Brilliant transparent glass in a uniform tone of rich purple. Has carved teakwood stand. Diameter, 13% inches. 417u —Blue Glass Jardiniere ( Ch’ien-lung ) Compressed globular form with large mouth and plain lip. Brilliant, transparent glass of sapphire-blue, en¬ circled by a deep band of faceted ornamentation, the facets hexagonal and concaved. Carved teakwood stand. Diameter, 14 inches. Third and Last Afternoon 417c — Pair Palace Hanging Lanterns ( Ch'ien-lung) Elaborate constructions in gold lacquer and colors, silks, beads and metal. Hexagonal, with intricate archi¬ tectural work in scrolls, grills, Shou and phoenix medal¬ lions; at the base a gilt bronze band with archaic dragon ornamentation. Framed in the sides, pictures of palace gardens worked in silk and applied on a silk background painted with mountain scenery. Bottom fringed with strings of glass beads in turquoise-blue and white, and from the top hang long pendants of beads and lacquer, depending from guardian dragons. Length, exclusive of fringe and ceiling chain, 54 inches. 417n—P air Palace Hanging Lanterns ( Cli'ien-lung) Companions to the preceding. CHINESE PORCELAINS AND POTTERY 418—Eggshell Chrysanthemum Coupe (Yung Clieng ) Ovoid, with a perfect foot of just perceptible definition and gracefully rounded shoulder finishing in a natural thin lip. On the shoulder, at the verge of the lip and projecting a little over the mouth, are three chrysan¬ themum sprays, each consisting of a single flower with many individualized petals, on a slender stem modeled in relief and in the round, and from which spring up¬ ward-curling leaves. Delicate, firm, translucent egg¬ shell porcelain, with a softly lustrous glaze of pure cream tone, showing a light and scattered crackle in pale cafe-au-lait hue. Carved teakwood stand in dragon- table form. Diameter, 4% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 419—Fuchien Incense Burner {Ming) Cauldron-shape, after the ancient bronze pattern, with low foot lightly molded at the edge, rim lightly flaring, and two loop-and-drop handles in dragon-form. One of the finest pieces of this ware, with a perfect glaze of the highest quality, and rare charm in its color tone of soft and even creamy note. At bottom of interior, three spur marks. Carved and pierced ebony stand. Diameter, 4% inches. 420 — Zu-chou Vase {Sung) An ovoid jar with flat foot, short neck and everted lip, with plain, undecorated surface clothed in a cream glaze of dull lustre and threaded by an all but invisible hair¬ line crackle. Lip and interior glazed in dark brown. (Slight restoration at lip.) Height, 13% inches. 421—T’u Ting Bottle {Sung) Spherical with large foot, and full, somewhat tapering neck. Lustrous cream glaze, crackled throughout, the crackle sometimes delicate and in self-color, again bold and in cafe-au-lait tone. Beneath the glaze is a con¬ ventional lotus decoration, lightly incised in the paste, and covering the body between a lotus border at the foot and a spiral scroll border which is followed by a keyfret border on the shoulder. On the neck an archaic dragon pursuing the jewel is modeled in relief, below a lip border of incised keyfret. Carved and pierced teak- wood stand. Height, 15]/g inches. Third and Last Afternoon •122 — Fuchien Statuette (Ming) A highly important figure, of the finest workmanship in modeling, and preserved in a rare state of perfection, not even a finger tip being damaged. A standing figure of Kuan-yin on a conventional base of rockery, with one bare foot exposed, and graceful hands lightly extended in front of her, the left touching the wrist of the right. Her folded robes sway easily and her cowl hangs as a flexible drapery over her shoulders. She wears the tiara, and looks down with an aloof yet S3mipathetic benignity, an expi’ession of calm encouragement. Fine glaze of soft brilliancy, in the richest of creamy white. Carved teakwood stand. Height, 20 inches. (Illustrated) 422a — Lapis-blue Jardiniere with Stand (Ming) Circular, with shallow ovoidal contour, and shoulder rounded in and flattened; plain lip. Brilliant glaze of rich, deep and glowing lapis-lazuli blue. On a low cir¬ cular table-stand with blossom ornamentation, clothed in a rich and brilliant aubergine glaze with delicate crackle and metallic lustre, lightly flowed over with a grayish- white and bluish frosting in the transmutation furnace. Diameter, 10% inches. 422b — Turquoise-blue Jardiniere (Ming) Circular, with ovoidal contour and flat bottom, and molded lip. Encircled by two rings of bosses studding two incised rings. Richly mottled turquoise-blue glaze with dull lustre. Diameter, 13% inches. No 422—FUCH1EN STATUETTE Third and l.ast Afternoon 4253— Celadon Plant Jar (Ming) Ovo-cylindrical, rounding in slightly at the bottom, with lip turned inward; three short cabriole legs, the knees modeled with blossoms. Two broadly incised rings en¬ circle the body at the base, and a light molding is de¬ fined below the lip, while about the centre is a scroll decoration lightly executed in the paste. Brilliant cela¬ don glaze with a metallic lustre, and a bold crackle in cafe-au-lait lines. (Kiln crack in bottom.) Carved teak- wood stand. Diameter, 12% inches. 424— Celadon Tripod Fish Bowl (Ming) Broad and shallow ovoidal form, the body slightly con¬ tracted for a short space below the rounding and everted lip; the short legs in tapering stump form but modeled with animalistic features in palpable relief at the knees. Stoneweight porcelain, with a softly luminous celadon glaze of fine sea-green, boldly crackled and exhibiting a metallic lustre in sunset hues, over a peony decoration broadly modeled in the paste. Finely carved teakwood stand. Diameter, 15% inches. 425— Large Celadon Plaque (Ming) Circular, with ovoidal cavetto and narrow marly with rising lip; the inner sides of the cavetto lightly fluted, and the medallion of the bottom showing a faint orna¬ mentation in the paste. Sonorous, heavy porcelain, with a brilliant glaze of rich sea-green tone. Six-legged dragon-table teakwood stand. Diameter, 18% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 426— Large Celadon Plaque (Ming) Circular, with bold foot, shallow and broad ovoidal ca- vetto, and narrow flaring marly with festooned lip. Stoneweight porcelain, the sides of the cavetto petal- fluted, the bottom plain, and the whole clothed in a rich celadon glaze of grayish sea-green varying from the plain, limpid and pure to the deeper tones of agitation. Carved teakwood stand. Diameter, 18% inches. 427 — Ming Celadon Plaque on Ch’ien-lung Teakwood Stand Plaque with shallow ovoidal cavetto and narrow flaring marly, and bold foot. The surface of the bottom is incised with a floral decoration, and the marly carries an incised scroll border. Brilliant celadon glaze in pale grayish sea-green of uniform tone. The stand shows a recumbent elephant on an oblong base richly carved, with a vase on his back which sup¬ ports a plain column leading to the plaque-support. The elephant wears trappings modeled in relief and a lacquered saddle-cloth, and the vase is lacquered and penciled in gold with a lotus ornamentation. Diameter of plaque, l(i inches; height with stand, 46% inches. 428—Ming Celadon Plaque on Ch’ien-lung Teakwood Stand Circular plaque with ovoidal cavetto fluted in slender petal form, and narrow plain marly with upturned lip; at the centre of the bottom a vague ornamentation in¬ cised and modeled in the paste. Brilliant glaze of fine sea-green tone. The stand is a companion to that in the preceding lot. Diameter of plaque, 15% inches: height with stand, 46% inches. Third and Last Afternoon CHINESE BRONZE 429—Gilt Bronze Incense Burner {Ming) In form of a duck, standing, its head raised and turned to its left, with bill open. Feathers incised, with wing- tips in relief and rising free. The whole upper body gilded and in places showing a brownish patina, the under¬ body and feet black. Height, 5% inches. 430—Bronze Statuette {Ming) Standing figure of Daruma, arms folded within priestly robes, and holding a projecting scroll. His robes are bordered with incised embroideries in lotus motive. His head is turned sharply to his left, and features and ex¬ pression are strong and vigorous. Soft dark brown, black, and greenish-bronze patina. Height, 7% inches. 431—Gilt Bronze Statuette {T’ang) Standing female Buddhistic figure, tall and slender; cast solid, and gilded throughout. Both arms are extended from the elbow, the right hand being raised palm-outward directly before her breast, and the left hand held at a higher level, palm upward. The face is of benign ex¬ pression and almost smiling. She wears a high headdress and tiara, and the elaborate jewels draping her bared breast and back, and clinging in pendants about her skirt are in relief. In places a blackish patina from in¬ cense fumes. On old Japanese carved lacquer stand. Height, 14 inches; with stand, 17y 2 inches. {Illustrated) No. 431—GILT BKONZE STATUETTE Third and Last Afternoon 432 —Bronze Incense Berner (Ming) In form of a heron, seated on an inverted lotus leaf. One wing is extended, and under it the bird reaches up with one foot to scratch its neck. Its head is directed straight upward, with beak open, and certain feathers at the top of its back are raised for the emergence of the incense fumes. The plumage is in relief and incised. The lotus leaf is naturalisticallv veined, and perforated in representation of the work of insects. Rich brown patina. Height, 10% inches. 433— Pewter Stati/ette (Ch’ien-lung) Standing female figure on a hexagonal base. The upper body bends slightly forward, as she inclines her head to her left and looks downward, and in her left hand she holds a fly whisk, while the right hand is raised. That part of her apparel left in the pewter is covered with a patina of soft greenish-gray, the rest is decorated in polychrome in Mitsuda lacquer painting, with gold. The base is adorned in relief and pierced. Height, 17 7 / 8 inches. LACQUER BOXES AND PANELS 434— Lacquer Manuscript Box (Ming) Oblong, with hinged cover; brass bound. Top in black lacquer, inlaid in brass with formal corners and a figure medallion; sides of brown basketry; interior in vermilion lacquer. Length, 15 inches. 435— Lacquer Inlaid Long Box with Cover (Ming) Black lacquer, mounted in brass, and the top inlaid in brass with a pavilion from which ladies look out upon feats of archery which arouse enthusiasm. Interior in vermilion lacquer. Length, 26% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 436— Lacquer Leather Box with Cover ( Ch'ien-lung ) Oblong, the cover enclosing the entire box, which rests on sewn leather feet, one of coin design at the center and four corner feet of butterfly-spread. Lacquered in soft, dark red, with decoration in rich gold. On top of cover a lake and mountain landscape with palaces and pagodas, and figures ashore and in boats, and at the centre a medallion with figures and pavilions. On a peak high at the left three ideographs. Around all sides of the cover a lattice decoration, and in the interior floral sprays. Around the box a swastika lattice. Length, 2!)% inches. 437— Black Lacquer Inlaid Trunk (Ming) Rectangular, with brass mounting; brass bail handles. Cover top painted in soft colors with sprays of flowers and fruit, including carnations and chrysanthemums, and cherry blossoms. Front similarly painted with flowers, birds and butterflies, enhanced by inlays of mother-of- pearl, and at the ends are painted blossoming camellias, with the bamboo painted and inlaid above them. Length, .'51 y, inches. No. 438 THE PHILOSOPHER Height, 19% inches; width, 13% inches Lacquer panel in a warm, rich seal-brown, painted in black and red lacquer and gold. Ming. Full-length portrait of a tall and large-featured, distinguished-looking man, seated on a broad settee, facing the spectator, his head turned slightly toward his right. At his elbow stands a jardiniere filled with plants, and a basket of peonies hangs above his head. From the left an attendant approaches, carrying something. Third and Last Afternoon No. 439 PLAYING GO Height, 16% inches; ■width, 16y, inches A brown lacquer panel inlaid with mother-of-pearl and painted with nashiji lacquer. Ming. On the right, at a low rock table on a bluff overlooking the sea, two sages are seated, play¬ ing Go, and a third stands looking on. In the foreground an attendant advances with scrolls, his attention distracted for the moment by the approach of a fourth sage from the left, who is directing his own attendant to the Go table. Bamboo and pine trees grow at either hand, and in the distance are mountains, on the farther side of the water. 440—Mitsuda Lacquer Panel (Ming) In blue, green, rose, yellow and gold on a dark vermilion ground. In the foreground trumpeters and drummers proclaim an approach. In the middle distance a man moves slowly forward sheltered by a canopy borne by an attendant, followed by two men bearing ducks on sal¬ vers, while back of them a personage with attendants is about to descend the steps of a palace, and two ladies look on. In the distance are mountains and trees. On the reverse a tall lotus plant in bloom. Height, 28% inches: width, 9% inches. ( Illustrated) 441—Mitsuda Lacquer Panel (Ming) A companion to the preceding. Its adornment, the “Hun¬ dred Boys” at play at various games, and imitating their elders in the study of a scroll. On the reverse, swallows perched on the drooping branch of a tree in blossom. Height, 27% inches: width, 9% inches. (Illustrated) 440 441 MITSUDA LACQUER PANELS _ Third and Last Afternoon 442—Mitsuda Lacquer Long Box with Cover ( Ming ) On top of cover, in the foreground a horseman accom¬ panied by his umbrella bearer approaches along a rock bordered way, a garden in which nobles are assembled, before an open pavilion where a person of importance is being served with tea or wine, which projects in the middle distance. All in soft and mellowed colors and gold on a rich and dark vermilion ground. Around the sides, birds and flowers. Length, 26 inches. 443 —Mitsuda Lacquer Long Box with Cover ( Ming ) Extensive decoration in soft polychrome with touches of gold, on a rich vermilion ground. On the top appear numerous figures, afoot and on horseback and in pa¬ vilions, with some elaboration of ceremony, and in the middleground are storks and spotted deer, while in the distance are pine trees and mountains. Around the sides are birds and flowers, and in the interior more blossoms. Length, 28 inches. 444 —Mitsuda Lacquer Panel {Ming) Painted in soft reds, browns, grays and bluish-greens, and gold, on a dark brown ground, with a landscape of summer palaces among the mountains, figures indoors and out, some on a bridge, and a man in a boat on a lake. On the reverse, Taoist immortals and attendants await the descent of Shou-lao on a stork, done in gold. Height, 18y 2 inches; length, 21 inches. Third and Last Afternoon A COLLECTION OF CHINESE PANEL PICTURES AND BOXES PAINTED IN VEGETABLE COLORS IN OILS, ON LACQUER All of the Ming Period. Known to the Japanese as Mitsuda Lacquer Paintings No. 445 DANCING BEFORE THE EMPEROR Height, 13% inches; length, 14 inches (each) A pair of cabinet doors, picturing a garden scene in the late afternoon in rich colors and gold on a black ground. On the right the Emperor is seated before a great screen, watching a young woman dancing on a mat in front of him to the music furnished by other young women standing nearby, while im¬ mediately at his hand attendants are ready with refreshments. On the left the Empr ess and attendants, holding her man-child on her arm, emerges from a pavilion for a distant glimpse of the scene, and other figures are to be seen just within the houses on either side, one watching the antics of a lively cat. No. 446 A NOBLEMAN’S PRIVATE GARDEN PARTY Height, 15 ’/, inches; width, 14% inches Seated augustly on a spacious settee, backed bv a golden screen, a mandarin faces the spectator from the centre of the composition, in a palace garden, the summer pavilions of the palace forming a pleasing architectural group about him, and pendent branches of unseen trees just swaying into the picture overhead. At his either hand the young beauties of his estab¬ lishment approach deferentially and bearing offerings, on the terrace, which is bounded by a rambling balustrade. Painted in black, brown, blue, green, scarlet and gold, on a dark ver¬ milion ground. Third and Last Afternoon No. 447 A MOUNTAIN PALACE IN SUMMER Height, 17% inches; length, 19y 2 inches In rich, soft colors, and gold, on a black ground. The moun¬ tainsides are green, a soft bluish green, in the fulness of the season, and encircle a cool lake in which a pair of storks stand leg deep in the water. Nestling about the lake, in the embraces of the great cliffs, are the various buildings of a Chinese sum¬ mer palace, with people seen within and outside them. On the reverse of the panel a landscape with figures is painted in gold. No. 448 FEEDING THE BIRDLINGS Height, 2iy 2 inches; width, 12y 2 inches A table screen with permanent stand, the obverse painted in neutral notes of brown and green, and a dull vermilion, on a rich black ground, with a pair of swallows coming with food in their bills to their nest of young at the flower-bordered edge of a bamboo thicket. No. 449 AN EMPEROR’S REPAST Height, 20% inches; width, 14y g inches In polychrome and gold on a vermilion ground. Seated near the center of the composition, on a garden balcony opening from the palace, an Emperor is portrayed enjoying in august aloofness the attentions and services of a retinue of his beauti¬ ful young women. One plays the lute befoi’e him, and others bring wine and cakes, approaching at his either hand. In the background, ladies look out from the windows of palace wings, beyond weeping willow trees. Third and Last Afternoon No. 450 THE WILLOW TREE Height, 18% inches; length, 20% inches In colors and gold on a black ground. The foreground borders an arm of the sea, and is lined with summer houses and pa¬ vilions, from small detached shelters to a considerable group of buildings, tea houses and resting houses, clustered on the right. Before the nearest one rises a weeping-willow tree, be¬ neath which people are standing and seated, enjoying the landscape on a summer day. Out in the stream are sampans, and other people appear in shelters or seated on the ground in other parts of the landscape. No. 451 GROUP OF LANDSCAPE AND FIGURE PANELS Height, 22% inches; width, 13% inches (each) Set of four cabinet door panels, painted in rich colors and gold on a pure vermilion lacquer ground. The scenes vary, a different arrangement being used in each panel, and the compositions include gardens and people boating, an equestrian and people enjoying themselves with music, other persons con¬ versing out of doors or looking out from the windows of pa¬ vilions, and in the background hills. No. 452 LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE Height, 28% inches; width, 15% inches (each) A pair of cabinet doors, painted in gold and colors on a dark, blackish-brown ground, with a landscape of mountain and lake and pine trees, walled castles with pennants flying above them, palaces with figures in and about them, and other figures in boats and crossing bridges. Third and Last Afternoon No. 453 LAKEFRONT LANDSCAPE WITH SUMMERHOUSES Height, 15% inches; length, 28 inches In colors, with touches of gold, on a black ground. A broad lake, sweeping across the picture, is bordered by rugged and variously broken mountains in the background, outlying rocks rise above its surface, and in the middle distance a small boat is moving slowly. On the hithershore a summer house oc¬ cupies a table-land near the centre of the foreground, and figures are variously disposed within and about it. On the right two women are standing near a stork, and on the left men are crossing an arched bridge at a lower level. No. 454 THE GATHERING OF THE CONNOISSEURS Height, 21 inches: length, 22% inches On a garden terrace, among the trees, and in the wings and open pavilions of a palatial summer residence adjacent, over¬ looking a lake, connoisseurs and scholars assemble to study their host’s treasures and exhibit for exchange of comment their own possessions. The figures appear in varied notes of vermilion, blue, green and brown, and rocks of the foreground in gold, on a black ground. On the reverse, studious motives continue, with figures grouped among rocks and a stork flying overhead. Third and Last Afternoon No. 455 LAKE OF THE MOUNTAINS Height, 25 y 2 inches; length, 27% inches In soft vermilions, greens and browns, with gold, on a blackish- brown ground. Lofty peaks and lesser cones in irregular ranges surround a large lake, on whose shores are residences large and small, with still others back in the valleys, and on the right in the middle distance a pagoda. Conspicuous in the foreground is a spacious palace, on whose balcony and within whose open rooms numerous figures appear. On the reverse are immortals in converse, with the emblematic stork and spotted stag adding to the picture. No. 456 WINE CUPS AND POEMS Height, 20 inches: length, 22 inches A painting in gold and color on a rich dark brown back¬ ground, commemorating a favorite literary diversion, at gar¬ den party or less formal function, the writing of poems or poetical lines and placing them in lacquer wine cups and setting them adrift in a stream. When two cups meet, at the whim of the currents, they are recovered and the poems or lines read in conjunction. If the fortuitous conjunction be happy, the greater the pleasure of the company. Here a ser¬ pentine brook courses through a rock-bound and blossoming gai’den, and people are seated on either bank, composing their poems or watching for the drifting cups, while other per¬ sons are assembled near summer houses. At the upper left an inscription. On the reverse a landscape with figures and in¬ scription, in gold. Third and Last Afternoon No. 457 AN OFFICIAL VISIT Height, 19% inches; width, 16% inches; height in stand, 26% inches Panel of a table screen (with its stand), painted in poly¬ chrome and gold on a dark brown ground. In the foreground, approaching from the right, a company of warriors with horses follow two personages who are about to cross a foot bridge, preceded by two attendants afoot. A horseman and another figure appear coming down a precipitous mountain path behind the company. At the left, figures appear in and before a palace, waiting to receive the visitors, and in the background is a varied seaside landscape. On the reverse, flowers and birds. No. 458 THE DESCENT OF SHOU-LAO TO VISIT THE EMPRESS Height, 24% inches; length, 26% inches In color and gold on black. On a high balcony projecting from a palace among the mountains, on the left, the Empress and her women attendants are standing, in the foreground, one of the attendants bearing a dish of the peaches of the immortals. On the right, floating down from the sky on the back of a phoenix, the Empress’s emblem, is the god of lon¬ gevity, coming straight for the balcony, from an edge of which a stork, his courier, looks up at him. On the reverse a view of the West Lake country, with architecture and figures. Third and Last Afternoon No. 459 PHILOSOPHERS AT STUDY Height, 39% inches; width, 17% inches Seated and standing at the foot of a cliff and under an over- hanging willow ti'ee, in a gai'den, a group of sages ai'e pro¬ foundly pondering a sci’oll on which the symbol of life ap¬ pears. Through a passage between the cliffs another figure appi’oaches, bearing an incense burner. In soft coloi's, with touches of gold, on a black ground. The reverse pictures an official visit, in an extensive landscape. No. 460 IN THE TAOIST PARADISE Height, 39% inches; width, 17% inches On a high shelf of rock overlooking a vast unknown, with a background of towering cliffs on the right, and tortuous trees, a group of figui'es are gathered, awaiting the arrival of Shou- lao who is seen descending from on high on the back of a stork. One of the group stands beside a stag which looks up toward the coming god; the others hold up as they look in the same direction wine and peaches and an incense burner. In soft tones, with touches of gold, on black ground. On the reverse, a landscape with figures and architecture. Third and Last Afternoon No. 461 GEN. CHANG - Height, 44 inches; width, 1A% inches In neutral colors with dustings of gold on a brilliant black ground. Mountain cliffs and table-lands, with indications of buildings, and various trees, in bold arrangement, extend far into a nebulous background. On a road in the foreground a warrior on a charger, attended by a man-at-arms afoot, ap¬ proaches the direction of the spectator, passing a man seated and a solicitous beggar kneeling on the ground. On the re¬ verse, a monkey seated on a branch of a tree. No. 462 A VISIT FROM THE EMPEROR MU WANG Height, 44% inches; width, 19% inches The rich and brilliant buildings of a palace come variously into the picture from the left, in vermilion and orange and dark green, and in the background dark olive mountains tower. On a garden balcony of the palace, in the foreground, the famous Chou Emperor with two attendants approaches a portal where one door is swung open, and a man kneels before him on the porch. Brilliant black background. On the re¬ verse a clump of young bamboo and a shrub in flower, and two playful cats, one of which has caught a butterfly. Third and Last Afternoon No. 463 BIRDS AND FLOWERS Height, 52 inches; width, 17 % inches (each) A pair of doors, painted in rich polychrome and gold on a deep black ground, one with two birds at the top of a blos¬ soming plum tree and another bird and blooming camellias below, and the other with a different floral group and a pair of blue-winged and blue-tailed birds on the ground. No. 464 STILL LIFE—FLOWERS Height, 52 inches; width, 17 % inches (each) Still life paintings of flowers, with birds and butterflies add¬ ing color and animation, on a pair of black lacquer doors, the paintings picturing chrysanthemums, begonias and other plants, and mandarin ducks on one panel and quail on the other, in delicate pinks, white, blue, green and gold. No. 465 BIRDS AND FLOWERS ON A PAIR OF DOORS Height, 55 % inches; width, 16 % inches (each) Paintings of still life and animate nature, and of the imagi¬ nation, executed in rich colors delicately softened, and re¬ lieved by gold, on a hard wood ground that has been given a mahogany tone by a single thin lacquer wash—instead of being coated with a foundation first, as is customarily done in lacquer painting. The floral representations include luxuriant lotuses and a magnolia tree, peonies and the Chinese plum, and the birds, mandarin ducks and song birds and the fabulous phoenix. Third and Last Afternoon No. 466 LOTUS AND PEONY, THE PHCENIX AND THE MANDARIN DUCK Height, 54 % inches; width, 18 inches {each) Paintings on a pair of doors with a deep brown ground, on which are depicted flourishing peonies and opening lotus flow¬ ers, peach blossoms and yet other blooms, and on one panel a pair of phoenixes and on the other mandarin ducks, all richly painted in deep soft colors, enhanced by delicate pencilings of gold. No. 467 OUTDOOR LIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA Height, 78 % inches; width, 15 % inches (each) A pair of tall door panels, picturing in low, rich tones and with the use of gold, on a black background, landscapes with mountains and streams, garden rockery and various trees, and numerous people engaged in placidly or actively enjoying themselves. No. 468 A FLORAL GATEWAY Height, 68 % inches; width, 82 inches A rectilinear arch, the span skirted with scrolls, which formed one of the four sides of an elaborate Chinese bed—the entrance gate. The entire face of the arch is taken up with relief panels of different shapes, in brilliant black lacquer on a dull vermilion ground, the panels painted in colors and gold with a rich varietj' of flowers and birds. Third and Last Afternoon 469 —Large Lacquer Wall Panel {Ming) Painted in black and gold on a dark vermilion ground with sundry followers of Confucius, a procession of eight of them headed to the left being seen among cloud scrolls, with one bearing an enormous banner, the others carry¬ ing various objects, one apparently a scroll and four seemingly boxes for the preservation of scrolls or kake¬ mono. Height, 33% inches; length, 40% inches. 469a —Large Lacquer Wall Panel {Ming) Companion to the preceding, the figures here numbering seven and heading toward the right, and the banner bearer being replaced bv a figure carrying ceremoniously a long sword. COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE PRINTS 470 — Chinese Color Print {Ming) In the center the god of happiness seated facing full to the front, around him officers of heaven coming asking for the boon of happiness, and the devil and others bringing propitiatory gifts; in brilliant color. Height, 23 inches; width, 11 inches. 471 — Chinese Color Print from Wood Block {Probably K’ang-hsi) In various soft colors. A composition representing a traditional event of the days of the T’ang, picturing a great warrior who was so skilful with the bow that he could shoot and hit with an arrow swords as fast as another warrior could throw them into the air. So ardent was his spirit that his skill and prowess won the aid of the god who watches from on high. From the right the emperor and his entourage look on from his castle. Height, 1414 inches; length. 22% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 47*2 —Japanese Black and White Print (Kamakura) Representing Fudo, god of fire, enthroned and haloed, and served by two attendants standing before him. Height, 22% inches; width , 10% inches. 473 — Chinese Lithograph ( Probably K’ang-hsi) Tall panel presenting a sage in blue and red with his hand on the head of a red and green dragon, among clouds, against a black background. Height, 34 inches; width, 11% inches. 474 — Chinese Black and White Lithograph (Sung) The stone from which the print was made was carved after a composition by Wu Tao-tzu of the T’ang dy¬ nasty, the design presenting Kuan-yin on a terrace, with several attendants, the lotus blooming in a pond at her feet, and above, imperial dragons guarding the sacred jewel. Height, 3.5% inches; width, 10% inches. 475— Pair Korean Paintings on Paper (Ri) In one a long-tailed bird of brilliant plumage and his mate are seated on the trunk of a blossoming plum tree, surrounded by other flowers in bloom, at the border of an iris pond. In the other a pair of birds in a blos¬ soming peony tree look down upon ducks swimming in a pool. Height, 33% inches; width, 15% inches. 476 — Japanese Wood Block Print (Kamakura) In black and white. Portrait of the Crown Prince Sho- toku. The prince is portrayed at full length, seated and facing the left, three-quarters front, a table before him on which he is unfolding a scroll, and a noble at¬ tendant with the traditional sceptre seated on the floor at the corner of the table. The prince’s robes are em¬ broidered in lotus pattern, and the rug at his feet dis¬ plays dragons among clouds. Height, 41% inches; width, 18% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 477 — Japanese Woodcut ( Sixteenth century ) The title defines it as picturing the sixteen attitudes of Buddha in this life, and the composition is elaborately worked out in compartments and sections, with a great many figure representations and a profuse display of the lotus in life and in symbol, together with architecture and ornament. In blue, yellow, red, black and white. Height, +9% inches; width, 22 inches. CHINESE PAINTINGS ON SILK 478 — Chinese Painting on Silk (Sung) On the right a pine tree with nude limbs projects a gnarled branch leftward, arching broadly over the figure of a seated man at the tree’s foot. He has sat him down on the rolling incline of a gently sloping hill, near a bit of gray-green herbage, and blue-green shrub¬ bery rises along the edge of a steeper slope in the rear. The man is in robes of old-rose, dull green, white, brown and buff, and they are pulled open in the front, leaving his chest bare to the bland air. He is bearded and wears a cap, and is depicted gazing upward and far away, with remarkable expression. Attributed to Yen Ivung-nien, of the Sung period. Height, 12 inches; length, 15 inches. 479 — Chinese Painting on Silk (Yuan) Portrait of a lady standing in a garden. She stands in the immediate foreground, facing the left, three-quar¬ ters front, before a mound of rockery beyond which a plant of the ornamental banana lifts its graceful fronds, two of them, insect-eaten, arching leftwards over the picture. The lady is appareled in easily flowing robes in soft tones of brown and red, blue and green, and her luxuriant black hair is bound in colors. Her face is of broad, ample and placid mold, and she gazes somewhat downward in front of her, one graceful hand slightly extended. Height, 45 1/ 2 inches; width, 15% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 480 — Chenese Painting on Silk (Sung) Attributed by a Chinese connoisseur, a former owner, in an inscription on the back, to the artist Yen Kung-nien who worked in the period of the Sung dynasty. A paint¬ ing of stallions washed by attendants in a river. One horse, a spotted white one, stands in the stream, one man holding him and another man scrubbing his back, while a black horse with white muzzle, mane and tail, having had his bath, is being led away by a single atten¬ dant, all the attendants being nude save for a loincloth. Height, 12 inches; length, 34% inches. (Illustrated ) 481 — Chinese Painting on Silk (Yuan) Artist unknown. A painting of an interior with misty distances, ample spaces and luxurious furnishings, and many figures. In the foreground children to the number of a score or more are playing on the floor, some with goldfish in a bowl, and back of them a lady seated with a tabouret before her looks on, while an attendant plies a great fan. In the background a small child is being carried downstairs, and a boy is climbing over a balus¬ trade. Height, 40 inches; width, 19% inches. 482 — Chinese Painting on Silk (Sung) Attributed to Li Lung-mien of the Sung dynasty. Exe¬ cuted in India ink and dull neutral color; warm, soft, brownish background. On the right the trunk of a tall gnarled tree skirts the edge of the picture, and before it, looming large in the middleground are two seated Lohans, facing the left, three-quarters front, one holding a jar and one a sceptre. In the foreground on the left one of the immortals with his magic pilgrim’s gourd causes a vapor to arise, out of whose clouds in the upper atmosphere a dragon glares down, while a man standing at the right looks up in amazement and a defective at his elbow, hiding his face in his hand, limps off with the aid of a staff. Height, 48 inches; width, 21% inches. Third and Last Afternoon 483—Chinese Painting on Silk (Ming) By Chiu-ying, of the Ming dynasty. The scene is a beau¬ tiful garden, laid out formally on the bank of a swift- flowing river, with bordering hills and a picturesque rock mass seen in the background. In an open pavilion in the right foreground two young ladies are reading and having tea, and near them, beyond a blossoming mag¬ nolia and richty blooming tree peonies, another stands looking off over the water, while in the middle distance, in an open summerhouse built over the stream seven young women musicians are giving a concert, and another of their orchestra approaches over a bridge, followed by a small boy. In soft colors on a neutral ground. Height, 40'/•> inches; width, 2044 inches. 484—Japanese Six-fold Screen By Yusetsu Kaihotsu; date, 1670. On a mottled gold background of fine, soft and mellow tone, eight majestic storks are sweepingly painted in delicate water color, in soft gray and black and white, and red around the eyes, in varied postures, standing on low lands painted in mineral colors (lapis and malachite) and overhung by low-lying distant mists. Height, 5 feet 5% inches; panel width, 22y 2 inches. 485—Japanese Six-fold Screen By Yusetsu Kaihotsu; date, 1670. Companion to the preceding and similarly executed. In this screen three stoi’ks appear, in different attitudes, in a landscape with far-reaching pine trees. In Japanese usage these screens were the decorative backgrounds for New Year and wedding and other festal celebrations, the stork and the pine tree being emblematic of long life and perpetuity. Third and Last Afternoon CHINESE TEXTILES 486— Set of Four Silk Velvet Table Mats ( K’ang-hsi ) Square golden-yellow field of rich note, in conventional peony design, with an emerald border showing a con¬ ventional lotus pattern. Brilliant sheen. Each, 10y 2 inches square. 487— Pair Silk Velvet Small Mats (K’ang-hsi) Rectangular field with conventional design, in brilliant golden-yellow, surrounded by a border of glowing emer¬ ald with formal floral patterns. Length, 18i/ 2 inches; width, H 1 /, inches. 488— Pair Silk Velvet Small Mats (K’ang-hsi) An elaborate scroll in which the lotus motive and the emblematic bat highly conventionalized may be discerned, occupies the field, in rich golden yellow on a cloth-of- gold ground, and the border is in the key-fret design in fine emerald-green on the same cloth-of-gold ground. Length, 22 y 3 inches; width, 21 inches. 489 — Pair Silk Velvet Pillows (K’ang-hsi) Cubic form, all six faces covered with squares of deep pink velvet with a light rose sheen, decorated in lotus pat¬ tern of high conventionalization. 11 inches square. 490— Two Silk Velvet Chair Covers (K'ang-hsi) In each a single great peony medallion in a field with archaic dragon-scroll corners, surrounded bv a key-fret border, the whole shining in pale gold on a glistening ground just toned enough to supply the slightest of relief. Length, 1 foot 8y 2 inches; width, 1 foot 8 inches. 491— Two Silk Velvet Chair Covers (K'ang-hsi) Companions to the preceding. Length, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 1 foot 3y z inches. Third and Last Afternoon 492— Pair Silk Velvet Mats ( K ' ang - lisi ) Pinkish-golden field with rich sheen, cut by a design in which symbolic bats appear within a scroll about a highly conventionalized lotus blossom, in a ground of greenish old-gold. Key-fret border in a soft and glisten¬ ing greenish-blue—a dazzling light sky-blue with the light on, greenish with the light against the nap. Length, 2214 inches; width, 22 inches. 493 — Silk Brocade Table Cover ( Ch ’ ien - lung ) Design, a bold peony scroll with very large blossoms closely placed, in delicate greens and tans, silvery white, orange and brown, within a rich and brilliant sapphire- blue ground. Length, 32 inches; width, 30 inches. 494 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( K ’ ang - hsi ) In brilliant emerald and gold, the broad border a rich peony scroll in bright emerald-green, about a shining golden-yellow field adorned with a peony medallion, peony-flower corners and intervening sprays. Length, 32l/ s inches; width, 31 inches. 495 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( K ’ ang - hsi ) Companion to the preceding. Length, 34y g inches; width, 31 inches. 496 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( K ’ ang - hsi ) Resplendent in rich golden-yellow and brilliant emerald- green velvet, with soft and glowing sheen. Formed of four oblong panels, each with an emerald border of floral scroll encompassing a golden field with bold floral adorn¬ ment. Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 497 — Silk Velvet Table Cover ( K ' ang - lisi ) Companion to the preceding. Third and Last Afternoon 498— Silk Velvet Table Cover ( K’ang-hsi ) A field of peony and other floral sprays, in soft green velvet with a light emerald sheen, on a smooth gray-green ground, with a border of key-fret. Length, 3 feet 1 inch; width, 1 foot 6 inches. 499 — Imperial Silk Brocade Table Cover ( Cli ’ ien - lung ) The main ground is a composite and diversified lattice of conventional floral and geometrical figures, interrupted conspicuously by a large foliated medallion which is flanked by four quadrilateral panels. The medallion dis¬ plays an elaborate temple lantern that bears a Sliou character toward which two phoenixes rush, and the panels embrace ornaments and further Shou marks. Border of archaic dragons. The designs in quiet and delicate colors on a dark sapphire-blue ground. Silk damask lining with finely wrought medallions of land¬ scapes and figures. Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 7 14 inches. 500— Pair Silk Velvet and Gold Long Strips (K’ang-hsi) Rich wine color velvet with ruby sheen, cut by an ex¬ tensive ornamentation appearing in cloth-of-gold, and including waves, dogs Fu with the brocaded ball, a lotus medallion and dragons among cloud scrolls. In the bor¬ der the scheme is reversed, and it is the ornamentation, archaic dragons, which appears in the velvet, on cloth- of-gold ground. Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 8 y 2 inches. 501— Pair Silk Velvet Long Strips ( K’ang-hsi) Glowing light golden field, with three peony medallions and luxuriant scrolls, and at one end a peach of longevity surrounded bv the five bats of happiness and well being. Border, a rich conventional floral scroll in a brilliant greenish silver-blue. Length, 5 feet; width, 1 foot 7 inches. 502— Pair Silk Velvet Long Strips (K’ang-hsi) Companions to the preceding. Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 1 foot 7 inches. Third and Last Afternoon 503 —Pair Silk Velvet Long Strips ( K'ang-hsi ) Fields of rich wine color and glowing sheen, with bat medallions, lotus figures, scrolls, emblems and ornaments, embraced by turquoise borders in conventional lotus scroll motive. Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 1 foot 8 inches. 504; —Set of Four Silk Velvet Long Strips ( K’ang-lisi) All in a soft light yellow with dazzling golden sheen, the designs including gorgeous peonies and fluttering butterflies, the archaic dragon-scroll, sprays and rocks, and a key-fret border, on a shining ground. Length, 5 feet 4 y, inches; width, 1 foot 7 y 2 inches 505 —Set of Four Silk Velvet Long Strips ( K’ang-hsi ) Warm pink velvet, with a glowing ruby sheen, cut by designs woven in the silken ground, which appear in pure white, deep emerald, heliotrope and old-gold. The ornamentation includes Fu-lions, emblems, a lotus figure, an imperial dragon among clouds and a phoenix stand¬ ing on a rock among peonies. Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 7 inches. 506— Imperial Silk Brocade ( Ch’ien-lung ) A shimmering ground in the fair blue of a delicate tur¬ quoise sky is crossed by tiers of formal scroll medallions, each enclosing an elaborate floral figure, with intervening designs of blossoms and leaf scrolls, the pattern appear¬ ing in emerald-green and sapphire-blue, old-gold and a reddish-copper. Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. Third and Last Afternoon 507—Silk Velvet Table Cover (K'ang-hsi) Rock peonies and daisies, magnolia and plum trees, and conventional butterflies, in bright golden velvet on a hard shimmering ground. Key-fret border in accord. Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet. 508—Pair Silk Velvet Table Covers ( K'ang-hsi ) Dazzling gold, soft caressing gold, gold glistening in a blaze of noontide sunshine, on a ground no less shimmer¬ ing and hardly differing in tone—the fascinating golden velvet embodying in regal expression large peonies and conventional butterflies, enclosed by a bordering of grapes on their vine. Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet. 509—Set of Four Silk Velvet Long Strips ( K'ang-hsi) Companions to the preceding table covers, in the same glowing color and the same motives, with the addition of bats about a cluster of peaches. Length, 6 feet; width, 1 foot 6 inches. 510—Pair Silk Brocade Hangings ( K'ang-hsi ) Warm golden-buff ground with light and brilliant sheen, with closely arranged floral ornamentation in delicate emerald. At the ends, borders of fret and scroll, and at one end a deep band in peony and lotus motive. Length, fi feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Third and Last Afternoon 511— Paik Silk Brocade Hangings ( K’ang-hsi ) Warm tan ground with a light and soft sheen, covered with a floral ornamentation in delicate and stronger colors, neutral tones assimilated with the ground, pale golden-yellow, light emerald and azure. Fret and scroll borders at top and bottom, and near the bottom a band of dragons and phoenixes. Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 512— Pair Silk Velvet Brocade Strips (K'ang-hsi) Ecru ground of delicate sheen, decorated with a conven¬ tional lotus scroll embracing large blossoms, in a soft green with bluish sheen. Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 513 — Imperial Silk Brocade ( Ch’ien-lung ) Long strip. Golden-tawny ground with soft sheen, pat¬ terned with squares of archaic dragon-scroll and em¬ blematic medallions, and larger geometrical figures em¬ bracing lattice borders and floral sprays, all worked in delicate tones of light and dark blue and pale emerald. Length, 21 feet; width, 28 inches. 514 — Silk Velvet Hanging (K’ang-hsi) Great field of soft golden-yellow, its tones ever varying in the wilful play of lights, with a brilliant sheen, and cut by a luxurious peony scroll with huge expansive blossoms, and at each corner by the active figure of a phoenix. Border in a light silvery blue of lovely quality, cut bv a formal floral scroll of varying pattern. Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 515 — Silk Velvet and Gold Table Cover ( K’ang-hsi ) Rich deep pink velvet with a soft and brilliant light rose-pink sheen, displaying a profuse and varied floral ornamentation in a bright cloth-of-gold ground. Length, 6 feet fi inches; width, 4 feet.. Third and Last Afternoon 516 — Imperial Silk Brocade Table Cover ( Ch ’ ien - lung ) Great peonies and small crysanthemums in spray and scroll, worked in dark sapphire and turquoise-blue, em¬ erald, pale gold and golden-orange, and a luscious red¬ dish-copper, glow in a variegated blaze of color on a silvery ground that itself shimmers and in which is picked out a fine swastika lattice. Length, (i feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 9 inches. 517—Imperial Silk and Gold Brocade Table Cover ( Ch’ien-lung ) Ruby and old rose, emerald and topaz and gold, helio¬ trope, ecru, and a “copper lustre” in silk, make a dazzling maze of intermingled color, fascinating as it is be¬ wildering. The pattern is one of conventional chrysan¬ themums and foliations interrupting an eccentric lattice, with gold threads glistening throughout as the light is shifted or the fabric moves. Length, (i feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. 518 — Imperial Silk Brocade ( Ch ’ ien - lung ) Long strip. The ground is a very delicate sky-blue varied by the softest of emerald-green, the colors so blended and melting into one another as to produce a changeable effect, and is given to a close lattice in which the swastika emblem appears. On this ground chrysanthemums and conventional lily and bamboo sprays, peach clusters and the sacred fungus are wrought in golden-apricot, pale emerald, and shimmering sapphire-blue. Length, 23 feet; width, 28 inches. Third and Last Afternoon 519— Imperial Palace Hanging in Silk Velvet and Gold (K'a ng-lisi) A fabric of regal splendor and finely executed design. Its field of rich yellow, with a soft and brilliant sheen of greenish old-golden tone, is centered by a large me¬ dallion of conventional lotus pattern in a soft rose note, broadly picked out with gold. Six similar medallions of smaller dimensions are executed in the same manner, amid a conventional foliar scroll in which the larger folia¬ tions are in gold with details in the rose, while stems and other foliations appear in a silvery-gray silk weave. Three borders brilliant as the field complete the piece, one of the archaic, angular dragon-scroll highly con¬ ventionalized, one a floral scroll in lotus motive, and the third a swastika fret. A companion to No. 520. Length, II feet 4 inches; width, 6 feet 2 inches. ( Illustrated) 520— Imperial Palace Hanging in Silk Velvet and Gold ( K’ang-Jisi ) A fabric of splendor, and exquisite design. Its field is a baffling, gem-like blue with a silvery azure sheen, and is centered by a large medallion of conventional lotus pattern in a soft rose-yellow note, outlined and picked out with gold. Six similar medallions of smaller degree and executed in the same manner appear amid a scroll of foliations, in which the larger leaf rolls are in the rose-yellow with outlines and details in gold, while the stems and lesser foliations are in a bluish silvery-gray woven silk, with here and there a greenish tone. Three borders brilliant as the field complete the fabric, one border the archaic angular dragon-scroll highly con¬ ventionalized, the second a floral scroll in lotus motive, and the outer border a swastika fret. A companion to No. 519. Length, 11 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 1 inch. No. 519—IMPERIAL PALACE HANGING IN SILK VELVET AND GOLD Third and Last Afternoon 521—Large Silk Velvet Hanging Soft gray throughout, with a sheen of silver-white. The ornamentation appears in the uncut velvet, relieved by the cut ground, and throughout the field is in blossom and scroll design in lotus motive highly conventionalized. This is surrounded by a border of detached floral scrolls, followed by a border of dragons amid fine scrolls. Length, 12 feet 2 inches; width, 7 feet 10 inches. 522 — Mammoth Jardiniere (Ming) Heavy pottery, modeled in ovoidal form, with broad fiat bottom and thick expanding lip flattened on top; encircled just under the lip by a bold half-round mold¬ ing. Coated with a glaze of mottled turquoise-blue, rich and fine in color quality. Six-legged carved teak- wood stand, in dragon motive. Height, 23 inches; diameter, 38y s inches; height with stand, 45 inches. 523 — Large Blue and White Jardiniere (Cilia Citing) Ovoidal, with a short straightened section at the lip, and broad flat foot. Heavy porcellanous stoneware, with a brilliant bluish-white glaze. Decorated in rich Mussulman blue with two imperial dragons coursing about the body, amid lotus and other flower sprays, between two borders of highly conventionalized lotus- petal pattern, the units enclosing other conventional devices. At the lip a running border of foliar scroll. Mark, on one side: Ta Ming Cilia Citing nien cliili. Six¬ legged teakwood stand carved in dragon motive. Height, 24 inches; diameter, 31 y 2 inches; height with stand, 44 inches. 524 — Large Blue and White Jardiniere (Cilia Citing) Companion to the preceding, one inch less in diameter, and in the decoration the dragons replaced by four Fus sporting with the brocaded ball, whose fillets form a scroll. Same mark. Similar stand. Third and Last Afternoon 525—Blue and White K’ang-hsi Jardiniere on Ch’ien-lung Red Lacquer Stand Jardiniere of fine, heavy, sonorous porcelain, its form ovoid and deep, with rounded lip and a low molding below the lip, and clothed in a brilliant glaze. Tbe entire body is covered with a bold and luxuriant floral scroll, in a highly conventionalized form of the Indian lotus, exe¬ cuted in a rich cobalt-blue on a pure white ground. Under the lip is a hatch border. The stand is circular, with six long and slender cabri¬ ole legs resting on a circular base, and is carved in red lacquer penciled with an extensive lotus decoration in gold. Diameter of jardiniere, 21 >4 inches; height, 19 inches; height with stand, 35 inches. 526—Antique Chinese Red Lacquer Dog Kennel Rectilinear, on four heavy feet, the walls formed of ver¬ tical metal rods; solid floor. The broad doorway is arched, with an animal mask, winged, looking down over the arch, as do similar ones from either end of the ridge¬ pole on top of the flat roof. The door posts are Fu-lions on their haunches, with forepaws raised above their heads supporting conventional lotus platforms on which the corner posts and the arch rest. Around the base are panels carved in high relief with plum trees, vases of flowers, and figures. All of the carvings are gilded, as are the cage bars. On the door posts are large green and white jade rings, to which a pet dog may be tied. The entire back of the cage is a hinged door. Bears the seal of Tao Kuang in coral on white reserve. Height, 3 feet 8 y s inches; length, 3 feet 7 inches: width, 3 feet 2 inches. Property of a private owner. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers. THOMAS E. KIRBY, Auctioneer. FOR INHERITANCE TAX AND OTHER PURPOSES The American Art Association IS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL EQUIPPED TO FURNISH INTELLIGENT APPRAISEMENTS ART AND LITERARY PROPERTY JEWELS AND PERSONAL EFFECTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION IN CASES WHERE PUBLIC SALES ARE EFFECTED A NOMINAL CHARGE ONLY WILL BE MADE THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION MADISON SQUARE SOUTH NEW YORK TELEPHONE, 3346 GRAMERCY Date Due — f-tbrary Bureau Cat. no. i 137 709.51 K58H 138701 American "rt Assoc. Illustrated catalogue —Chinese Art Treasures... DATE ISSUED TO _ ... - - 709.51 K58H 138701