Identifier: liu-31289009872427 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the important collection of antique Chinese porcelains, Sung and Ming potteries, ancient stone sculptures, carved jades and other hard stones, snuff bottles, Mandarin necklaces, bronzes, enamels, palace furniture and wall panels and a number of rare and fine ancient Chinese paintings of the Sung and Ming periods (electronic resource) : all of which are to be sold at unrestricted public sale by direction of the Chinese expert, Lee Van Ching of Shanghai on the afternoons herein stated
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Lee, Van Ching Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 Bernet, Otto American Art Galleries
Subjects: Art objects
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: William Randolph Hearst Archive, Long Island University
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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783—The Birds Kingdom (Ming) By Yu Tsung Painted in colors on silk. A gorgeous phcrnix dominates thepicture, standing on a rock over a pond in which ducks andherons appear, while innumerahle and various hirds perch upontrees overhead or are on the wing, and the sun is setting in acloud hank. Height, 78 inchet; width, 62 inrhet. Fourth and hast Afternoon
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784 -IoKTIlAIT OF A NoiH, K.MAN (Vf/Wf/) Iii ink and colors on silk. Full length seated figure of I manwith large features and sparse beard, looking directly at thespectator. He is in a black coat embroidered with cloud scrolls,over it a plucuix breast plate, and behind him an attendant ingreen approaches with a scroll. .Marginal inscription at upperright. Hi it/lit. .j > iiirhix; uiillh, .)H inch?*. Fourth and iMst Afternoon 78.r>—Birds and Flowers (Sung) liv Piex Kix ChaoIn colors on silk. Phoenixes, storks, swallows and other birdsare seen standing) swimming, perched or flying above a pondunder the overhanging branches of a tree, while orchids bloomin the foreground. Inscription and seals on margin at upperright. Height, -tO inches: length, fil) inches. 786— Landscape (Yuan) Bj Lit* Kwax TaoIn ink and tint on silk. A lofty mountain rises in the back-ground, and before it a pavilion is seen over treetops in themiddle distance, with other trees in the foreground. A snowscen

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