Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Collection Formed by the Late E. C. Converse, Esquire: Japanese, Chinese and European Carvings in Ivory and Wood, Italian and Persian Faience and Hispano-Moresque Plaques, Roman and Egyptian Glass, Chinese Blue and White, Single Color and Decorated Potteries and Porcelains
The second session is entirely made up of Chinese porcelains and potteries: blue and white bottles, pitongs, rice jars and beakers; single color coupes, libation cups, imperial censers, gallipots, bowls, sweet meat jars in sang (ie bamf, turquoise, clair de lune, rice grain, pearl gray crackle, and peachbloom (k'ang - hsi Ch'ien-lung period), includ ing the famous Chrysanthemum vase from the Chinese Imperial Palace Collection and several specimens from the M. C. D. Borden Collection, American Art Association, 1913. The decorated porcelains and potteries are especially fine, with a comprehensive assortment of examples of the Yuan, Ming, Han, Tang and Sung dynasties.
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