Illustrated catalogue of a remarkable collection of antique Chinese porcelains, pottery, jades, screens, paintings on glass, rugs, carpets and many other objects of art and antiquity, formed by Mr. A. (14780078594)

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Title: Illustrated catalogue of a remarkable collection of antique Chinese porcelains, pottery, jades, screens, paintings on glass, rugs, carpets and many other objects of art and antiquity, formed by Mr. A. W. Bahr, the well-known connoisseur and authority on the ancient arts of China (electronic resource) : to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, on the afternoons herein stated
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Bahr, A. W Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 Bernet, Otto American Art Galleries
Subjects: Bahr, A. W
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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l section, pilgrim-bottle shape. Carved with-out ornament from a perfect piece of fei-tsni jade of bril-liant shaded-grcen and highly polished. 51— White and Green Jade Sni ff Bottle (Chien Lung)Flat, straight-sided bottle-shape. Fei-tani jade with sparseportions of bright moss-green, polished surface withoutornament. 52— TnmroisE Miniature Sni ff Bottle (Chien Lung)Cylindrical club-shape. Carved out of matrix of turquoiseshowing the jewel mosaic in attractive pattern resemblingmaiden-hair fern. First Afternoon 53—Dark Green Jade Sniff Bottle (Chien Lung) Double-gourd shape. Brilliantly polished dark green fei-tsui jade With brown shading at sides. Brown-amber Sniff Bottle (Chien Luikj)Spherical shape. Carved all over, in high relief, with pil-grims and attendants, in rare soft-brown amber of unusu-ally even tint. 55—Pair ok Toirmaline Piam-shafe Sniff Bottles (ChienLung) Carved, shape of plums, in highly polished mottled bright-pink tourmaline (Chinese ruby) without ornament.
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56— Pair Coral Doi hle-coi ri) Snfff Bottles (Chien Lung)Exquisitely and naturally carved out of pure bright-redcoral in shape of a double-gourd with twining vine, flowersand smaller double-gourds. 57— Imperial Enamel Snuff Bottle (Chien Lung)Miniature pilgrim-bottle shape. Decoration is in Frenchstyle, with medallions each side containing figure of youngEuropean girl, flowers and landscape; around medallions,covered with ornament. In the most delicate painting andvivid coloring of the enamels of this period, and a perfectspecimen of this attractive work. Under base. Imperialcharacters of the reign and this bottle is of a class that wasmade for Imperial use or for presents to high officialsby tin- Emperor, and is distinctly superior to ordinary en-ameled snuff bottles. First Afternoon 58— Dee? Brown- Frou-shape Snuff Bottle (Chien Lung)Carved shape of a toad in brilliant deep-brown translucentamber showing opalescent flecks of lighter rich red-brown. 59— Golden Amber Snuff Bot