The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-01
ORIENTAL ART WORTH SEEING.
Chinese and japanese objects OF ~ d.
yorce's stock TO he sold az Auction

Art objects Of the Orient, In great num-
Der and variety. with sundry European
and American pictures in oil and water
color. are to be seen for few days Mt tho
American Art Galleries. They are to be
sold there tomorrow afternoon and evening
and on the afternoons Of the succeeding
Ave week days. The collection rs the prop
erty Of A. d. Vorce, whose art shop in Fifth
avenue, opposite the Waldorf-Astora, was
widely known for many years, until the
building was recently torn down, as one
Of tho art stores in New York where
sound taste backed up good business Juda-
ment. Precarious health has impelled MIR.
Vorce to give up business. Dsorlml-
mating buyers will not regret seeing ms
stock offered in the auction room.
1t has become a commonplace to voice
praise of Oriental collections which come
into the New York auction market, for
ready buyers W it'll liberal purses have at
tracted here fine examples OF many branches
OF art. But il Is not eIaggeration to say
that the present exhibition Offers many
opportunities for discerning purchasers
to secure things beautiful and rare IN the
hazard of the auction. With an eye single
for the beautiful in form and color, the ex-
&C lent In design and workmanship or in tex
ture, a spectator might survey the galleries
and wonder If this were dealers stock
II were only necessary to blink compare
lively few among the porcelains. lac quers
and enninals, and forget the pictures. The
pictures, however much they may have
Interested Mr.. Vorce, lay small claim to
serious consideration, and of the objefs
dart il is largely the great numoer-they
fill all the galleres-that serves as a re-
hinder that this is dealers collection.
The catalogue lists many pieces OF the
important periods of Chinese ceramic
art under the Emperors K'ang-hsi lmg-
Cheng and Oh 'ien-lung, besides specimens
Of several earlier periods, and 1t includes
an unusually large number OF interesting
examples OF the potter's art under the
nineteenth century Celestial Emperors. Be-
sides the porceains, distinguishing fea-
t,ire Of the collection Is it's specimens or old
Chinese cloisonne enamel There are also
carved jades, gems, snuff bottles, sword
guards, lacquer boxes carved and lnlaid
panels and pieces of furniture, kakemonos,
color prints, textiles and bronzes. There
are something like 100 catalogue lots, all
told
A large On en-lung pilgrim bottle, or
full moon vase, decorated with Buddmstio
embleme, presents brilliant blue OBJ
tanned by the application Of the color in
so-called powder blue Another large
pilgrim bottle. OF Yung- Cheng, has the
Yam and Yin and the Pa Kun symbols in re-
lief beneath a celadon oraokle. A square
vase Of Chien-lung from the Brinckley
collection has most decorative peacock
green glaze with archaic underglaze
decorations in low relief, Among the
single color specimens are liver colored
bottle of Chen-lung and Lang-yao bottle
OF K'ang-hsi, There is a great jar OF
Oh 'ien -liDp pnanufa after "A uatteTn
of Cheng-hua and bearing the .Cheng-hua
seal mark with chocolate colored glaze
and floral and symbolic decorations IN
relief in sepa and blue.
A big square vase of Tao-Kwang has q
plentifuly varied decoration in colors and
high relief. The collection has consider
able number of jars and vases whose decora-
tions are done in the so called mission
AIRY colors.' exemplifying early Celestial
efforts under foreign influences Among
these is a heIagonal jar of kang-hsi, the
ornamentation OF which pictures Chinese
domestic scenes, with birds and flowers
and strangers. A Kang-hsi ginger jar
is done in landscapes in three colors. There
IL a Ch'ien-lung vase OF the double gOurd
type with decorations of five olawed
dragons swans and cloud forms in relief,
the whole in three color. A square vase OF
Ch'ien-lung, with dog Flu cover, Is adorned
with pictures in the missionary colors
and has handles of coral dragons deoked
WIN goa,
There are several SgarnitlTres ono Of
vases Of the tea-dust glaze and another
consisting 81 incense burners, candle
sticks and beakers in cloisonne, OF CHA
Ching workmanship. One pair OF incense
burners four feet tall represents part Of
the loot OF the Summer PALACE in 1870, these
specimens having fallen to the lot OF
French officer 80 Chester Holcombe says
In the catalogue. and having been bought
in Paris by Mr.. Voroe.
Yung- Cheng porcelain vase twenty
inches tall, which is likely to attract atten-
ton, is decorated in blue with scenes of
sages paying homage TO Confuoius. There
are bowls OF semi-eggshel porcelain with
coral glaze, and bamboo clusters inoised
in white, Of Yung-Cheng and eggshell
lanterns adorned with floral designs OF the
same period. And there is a pair OF bottles
OF X 'ang hsi, fashioned in representation Of
bamboo sticks and leaves, bound together
and decorated in sepia and blue.
There is a very interesting antique Chinese
cabinet, carved and inleid, and some wooden
panels curiously inlaid with metals and
stones in symbolic messages OF good will