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Title: Rare and beautiful Oriental art treasures of supreme quality
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Yamanaka & Company
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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103—Imperial Decorated Vase (Chia Cliing) Full, ovoid body on a deep foot, with a broad, slopingshoulder, and wide neck with expanding lip. On the necktwo scrolling handles in archaic-dragon form. On the bodytree peonies, chrysanthemums and other flowers, in blos-som, are pictured in multicolor enamels on a brilliant whiteground, while on the neck the bright and various enamelsdepict more flowers and floral forms, together with archaiclizard-dragons, bats, the sacred fungus and other symbolson a ground of light olive. On the foot is a gilded borderon a coral ground, and the interior of the neck is glazed inlight pistache. Underneath the foot the pistache glaze iscontinued, interrupted by the imperial seal of Chia Chingin coral on white reserve. (Slightly cracked.) Has carvedstand. Height, 27 inches.
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104—Large Decorated Fish Jar (Ming) Globular with high shoulder, and short neck with thickenedlip. Stone-weight porcelain with clear, sonorous note, deco-rated in the rich Ming colors. Around the foot is an alter-nating petal border in deep cobalt-blue, and on the shouldera fan-leaf border in blue, yellow and red. The body, inrepresentation of water, displays above the base borderaquatic plants and grasses, and among them circling higherup, numerous fishes, swimming and curling in various di-rections ; while near the shoulder, petals, blossoms andflower-sprats float on the surface, in colors, coral, darkred, blue, yellow and green. Underneath the foot, Ta-Ming-Chia-Cliing-nien-chih in deep and brilliant underglaze blue(Made in the reign of Chia Ching). Has finely carvedteakwood five-legged table-stand. Diameter, 16 inches; height, 13% inches.

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