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FIRST AFTERNOON'S SALE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1915

AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES

BEGINNING AT 3 O'CLOCK
Catalogue Nos. 1 to 106

I-MINIATURE lVIIRROR-BLACK BOTTLE (K'ang-hsi)
Pear-shaped, with slender neck, on a bold .foot. Hard paste,
glazed in brilliant mirror-black, with white glaze at the rim
and underneath the foot. Has stand.
Height) 3% inches.

2-MINIATURE CELADON BOTTLE (K'ang-hsi)
Squat ovoid body drawn down to a relatively broad foot;
st.ra ight tubular neck, slender. Pure white porcelain coated
with a most delicate sea-green glaze of rare quality, the
color deepening on the somewhat flattened shoulder and
about the foot. The glaze, instead of being crackled, coun-
terfeits the appearance of violently churned sea-water in a
steamer's wake or in the swirling eddies of rocky caves,
with innumerable air-bubbles infinitesimally minute reflect-
ing the light. Has teakwood stand.

3-lVIINIATURE CAFE-AU-LAIT BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE
(K' ang-hsi)
Low, squat ovoid body, with a short foot, and a slender
neck which expands into a trumpet lip. Covered with a
very light cafe-au-lait glaze, which approximates a brown-
ish straw-color; the lip and .interior of neck white. Has
stand.