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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable collection of ancient Chinese bronzes, beautiful old porcelains, amber and stone carvings, sumptuous eighteenth century brocades, interesting old paintings on glas and fine old carpets, rugs and furniture, from ancient palaces and temples of China comprising the private collection of a Chinese nobleman of Tien-Tsin
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Yamanaka & Company Carroll, Dana H
Subjects: Art objects, Chinese Art, Chinese
Publisher: New York, American art association
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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84—Tall White Jade Vase with Cover Flattened flask shape on a low foot. Of a soft, even, gray-whitetone throuffhoiit, translucent and with a texture revealing innerniottlings without change of color. Brilliantly polished, the broadfaces left unornamented and the narrow sides carved with ascend-ing four-clawed dragons in high relief, their necks and headsundercut and modeled in the round above the shoulder of the vase,forming side-handles sustaining each two loose rings. The highlypolislied cover, of the same perfection of texture and polish, issurmounted by another four-clawed dragon, undercut in fullrelief, supporting the pearl of omnipotence on his back, whichis finely engraved with scales, and carrying also two small looserings. The lip of the vase and the contiguous body of the coverornamented with delicately traced, perfectly proportioned Greekfret. Hdght, \2^/i niches: whlth, 5 inches.
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85—White Jade Buddha—Enthroned A massive figure, seated, tlie liands folded on the crossed legs,boldly and freely sculptured in flowing robes, the breast orna-mented with jewels in low relief, the long ear-lobes of wisdomundercut. The jade is of pure, dense gray tone throughout—opaque, with transluccnce in the eai--lobes and other thin places—and smoothly polished. Mounted on a lacquer thalamus, gilded,the tall gilt back carrying a filigree border of Buddhistic eml)lemsornamented in turquoise enamel. Ilcif/hf, 9/i (■(••*. Uidlli. (i ;4 inches.Heii/lif. irilli Ihione, lo\(i inches.

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