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Chinese Confucius Scroll Painting
Chinese Confucius Scroll Painting 29'' x 18.5''
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Chinese Confucius Poster w/
Chinese Confucius Poster w/ Calligraphy Sheet 25'' x 19.5'' - As Is
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EASTON PRESS 100 GREATEST BOOKS
EASTON PRESS 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, 32 VOL. Various Sizes 32 vol., Leather bound with gilt trim, including: Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "The Red and the Black" (2 copies); Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"; Sir Richard F. Burton, translator, "The Arabian Nights"; James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans" (2 copies); Stephen Crane, "The Red Badge of Courage"; Daniel Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe" (2 copies); Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"; Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" (2 copies); Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo"; George Elliot, "The Mill on the Floss"; Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"; Lionel Giles, translator, "The Analects of Confucius" (2 copies); Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, "The Federalist"; Thomas Hardy, "The Return of the Native"; Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Books"; Michel de Montaigne, "Essays"; William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"; John Steinbeck, "Of Mice and Men"; Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island"; Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"; Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"; Ivan Turgenev, "Fathers & Sons"; Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn"; Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea";
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PAIR OF OCTAGONAL RUBY-RED GLASS
PAIR OF OCTAGONAL RUBY-RED GLASS VASES
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY ? ?????????each of octagonal form, supported on a tall foot, the sides rounding to a bulbous pear-shaped body and rising to a slender neck, the central bulb cut with gently curving facets, the glass of an even rich red colour of crushed-raspberry tone(2)19cm high eachProvenance: Private collection, Cambridge; acquired from Confucius Fine Art, no. HY3002 (label on the base)
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CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK TEXTILE OR
CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK TEXTILE OR THRONE COVER Large Chinese embroidered silk textile panel or throne cushion cover, possibly late Qing Dynasty, with an elaborate scene of Imperial and Immortal figures in a landscape amongst numerous pagodas and temples, the central figure (possibly Emperor or Confucius) sits above a lotus flower, on a yellow ground with polychrome threads. 78? H x 35.5? W. Wear, loose stitches.
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(10) LIKE NEW EASTON PRESS
(10) LIKE NEW EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS(lot of 10) Books published by The Easton Press, leather bound, gilt page ends, gilt lettering at spines with many having raised spine bands, fabric end sheets many with interior illustrations, all appear as unread or close to unread, all in excellent condition, titles include:
"Rights of Man," "Reading Trout Streams," "The Analects of Confucius," "The Atlantic Salmon," "Poor Richard's Almanacs," "The Flower of Evil," "Livy, History of Early Rome," "The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau," "Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates," "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," largest: approx 11.5"h, 8.75"w, 1.25"d; 26.25lbs total
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GROUP OF LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS
GROUP OF LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS BOOKS (56) 56 Leather bound Easton Press books, to include: A Passage to India, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, War & Remembrance (2 vols), The Essays (Bacon), Livy- History of Early Rome, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vanity Fair, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Ivanhoe, Winds of War (2 vols), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Analects of Confucius, Decameron, Anna Karenina, First Circle, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Short Stories (Wilde), Heart of Darkness, Gulliver's Travels, Short Stories (Dickens), Women in Love, Confessionsof Jea-Jacques Rousseau, Canterbury Tales, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Journal of the Plague Years, Madame Bovary, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robinson Crusoe, Poems of Robert Browning, Confessions of Saint Augustine, Flowers of Evil, One Day In The Life, Adventures of Sherlock Holems, Arabian Nights, Return of the Native, The Alhambra, Two Plays for Pilgrims, War & Peace, Poems of Yeats, Plato's Dialogues on Love and Friendship, Odyssey of Homer, Portrait of a Lady, Lord Jim, Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Poems of John Donne, Poems of John Keats, Three Plays (Ibsen), Pilgim's Progress, Talisman, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (2 Vols). Condition: All in excellent / unread condition. All (most) with Easton Bookplates applied.
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19TH C. PAIR OF CHINESE SPLIT IVORY
19TH C. PAIR OF CHINESE SPLIT IVORY TUSKS WITH INTERNAL REFINED RELIEF CARVING Four Narrative Panels each, possibly Scenes from the life of Confucius, having many figures set into mountainous landscape, the partitions provided by pagoda architecture, the reverse of each with bas relief of fishermen. Each set loose into a canted hand carved wood display stand. 11 1/2" long.
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79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND
79 EASTON PRESS LEATHER BOUND BOOKS80 leather bound books - 79 Easton Press and 1 Harvard Classics. 77 Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written: Louisa May Alcott Little Women, Victor Hugo Les Miserables, Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Leo Tolstoy War & Peace, Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo, Jack London The Sea-Wolf, Henry James The Portrait of a Lady, Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac, Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Dickens David Copperfield, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust, George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and Candida, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Confucius The Analects of Confucius, Herman Melville Billy Budd and Benito Cereno, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, Bram Stoker Dracula, Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy, Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Henry David Thoreau Walden, Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Guy de Maupassant The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot Silas Marner, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, George Orwell Animal Farm, Aesop Aesop's Fables, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer, Robert Browning The Poems of Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Homer The Iliad, St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine, Henry Fielding Tom Jones, John Milton Paradise Lost, Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, James Fenimore Copper The Last of the Mohicans, Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, Richard F. Burton The Arabian Knights, Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Sir Walter Scott The Talisman, Machiavelli The Prince, Sophocles Oedipus the King, Joseph Conrad Lord Jim, Livy History of Early Rome, John Boccaccio The Decameron, Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Emily Dickinson Poems of Emily Dickinson, Virgil Aeneid, Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories, Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, Walter Scott Ivanhoe, Homer The Odyssey, Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Nathaniel Hawthorn The Scarlet Letter, Grimm's Fairytales, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers; 1 Easton Press Greatest Books Ever Written: Herman Melville Moby Dick; 1 Easton Press Millenium Edition Harvard Classics Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and English Traits; 1 Harvard Classics The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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LARGE ROYAL DOULTON FLAMBE
LARGE ROYAL DOULTON FLAMBE CHARACTER JUG, CONFUCIUSD7003. Limited edition of 1750. Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: R. Tabbenor
Issued: 1995
Dimensions: 8.5"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Overall good
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ROYAL DOULTON FLAMBE FIGURINE,
ROYAL DOULTON FLAMBE FIGURINE, CONFUCIUS HN3314Porcelain figure of the Chinese social philosopher.
Doulton backstamp.
Artist: P. Gee
Issued: 1990-1995
Dimensions: 9"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Overall good
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LARGE ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER
LARGE ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER JUG, CONFUCIUS D7003Flambe coloration. Ltd. Ed. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: 1995
Dimensions: 7"H
Edition Number: 344 Edition Size: 1750
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Overall good
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CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE -
CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER ...Confucius Flambe D7003 (flambe coloration). Designed by Robert I. Tabbenor. Series: flambe, issued 1995 in a limited edition of 1,750. Size 7"H (Large)Issued in a limited edition of 1,750, this is the second jug to be decorated in flambAƒA©.
Edition Number: 59 Edition Size: 1750
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
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ROYAL DOULTON BURSLEM LUSTER WARE
ROYAL DOULTON BURSLEM LUSTER WARE LIDDED JAR, OLD NODGlazed luster of cobalt, robins egg blue, cream. Confucius finial.
#RoyalDoulton #DoultonBurslem #RecoCapey #Luster #BritishCeramics #BritishPottery #ArtDeco
Artist: Reco Capey
Issued: c. 1920
Dimensions: 6.5"H x 4.5"D, lidded
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
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CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE -
CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER ...Confucius Flambe (flambe coloration). Series: flambe
Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: Designed by Robert I. Tabbenor.
Dimensions: 7'H
Edition Number: 778 Edition Size: 1750
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
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CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE - LARGE -
CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE - LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTE...Hand made, hand decorated; deep, rich red flambe glaze. Limited edition 335 of 1750.
Doulton backstamp. Includes Certificate of Authenticity. Minor scratch.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: 1995
Dimensions: 7.75"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
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CONFUCIUS HN3314 - ROYAL DOULTON
CONFUCIUS HN3314 - ROYAL DOULTON FLAMBE FIGUREChinese philosopher in robe with hand fan. Rich red flambe glaze with black accents.
Doulton backstamp. #Doulton #figurine
Issued: 20th c.
Dimensions: 9"H
Edition Number: DDD1120d388 Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
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CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE -
CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER ...Red Flambe coloration.
This is the second jug to be decorated in flambe. Limited edition number 766 of 1,750. Series: Flambe. Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: 1995
Dimensions: 7"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Good.
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CONFUCIUS HN3314 (FLAMBE) - ROYAL
CONFUCIUS HN3314 (FLAMBE) - ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINEGlossy porcelain flambe of the Chinese thinker and social philosopher, Confucius.
Royal Doulton backstamp and artist signature.
Artist: Peter Gee
Issued: 1990-1995
Dimensions: 9"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Good
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CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE -
CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTER ...Flambe coloration.
Issued in a limited edition of 1,750, this is the second jug to be decorated in flambe. Series: Flambe. Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: 1995
Dimensions: 7"H
Edition Number: 959 of 1750 Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Good
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CONFUCIUS HN3314 FLAMBE - ROYAL
CONFUCIUS HN3314 FLAMBE - ROYAL DOULTON FIGURINEIn red flambe glaze. Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: Peter Gee
Issued: 1990-1995
Dimensions: 9"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Good
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CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE - LARGE -
CONFUCIUS D7003 FLAMBE - LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARACTE...Flambe coloration. Issued in a limited edition of 1,750, this is the second jug to be decorated in flambe.Series: Flambe. Royal Doulton backstamp. Includes certificate of authenticity.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: 1995
Dimensions: 7"H
Edition Number: 764 Edition Size: 1750
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Age related wear.
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ROYAL DOULTON BLUE FLAMBE LG
ROYAL DOULTON BLUE FLAMBE LG CHARACTER JUG CONFUCIUS D7...Hand made and decorated, blue glaze variation done in a high fired blue flambe. Pagoda, 'The Analects', and yin and yang handle. Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: c. 1995
Dimensions: 8"L x 6.25"W x 7.25"H
Edition Number: 1750 Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Age related wear.
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CONFUCIUS, YELLOW FLAMBE - LARGE
CONFUCIUS, YELLOW FLAMBE - LARGE - ROYAL DOULTON CHARAC...D7003; very rare yellow flambe figural jug. Pagoda, 'The Analects', and ying and yang handle.
Royal Doulton backstamp.
Artist: Robert Tabbenor
Issued: 20th c.
Dimensions: 8.25" L x 6.25" W x 6.5" H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Condition:
Age related wear.
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CHINESE EXPORT SILVER BOX19th C.
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER BOX19th C. Chinese xport silver covered box with compartmented insert. Cover has seated Confucius in centeer with flying dragons around him, outer border is flowers and leaves. Body of box is panels of birds, flowers, dragons and bamboo. Insert has scene of people on horseback amid foliage, applied gold leaves. 7"Dia., 45 troy oz.., signed on bottom
Condition:
Excellent condition
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7 ASIAN SNUFF BOTTLESLot of seven
7 ASIAN SNUFF BOTTLESLot of seven Asian snuff bottles, including five intaglio carved ivory bottles with varying scenes front and back: Confucius or scholar figure; rat, dragon, foo lions, landscape boulder scenes, etc. 6th bottle has relief carved mother and child scene on front, with signed landscape scene en verso. 7th snuff bottle appears to be highly polished horn with front ivory facing decorated with scene of eagle in tree; signed. Heights range from 2" to 2 5/8". Circa 1900 or earlier. Note: This lot contains animal or plant material that may be restricted under federal, state, and/or local law. Bidders should check all applicable government wildlife restrictions prior to placing a bid. The buyer will be solely responsible for obtaining any necessary license or permits applicable to the sale or transport of the object. Please note that the bidders in New Jersey may not bid on any lots containing elephant ivory, mammoth ivory, or rhinoceros horn. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
Condition:
Lid to 6th bottle does not fit well and may be a replacement. Other items in very good condition.
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GROUP OF CHINESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE
GROUP OF CHINESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE RUBBINGSGroup of rubbings from Chinese Buddhist temples. Includes a four-part rubbing of a large calligraphic stone tablet from Qian's Tomb in Hangzhou a rubbing of a Qing Dynasty carving of Confucius and his 72 Disciples a rubbing of Confucius from the Confucius Temple in Qufu Shangdong and sixteen images of Buddhist luohan among others.
Largest rubbing measures 9 ft 10 in x 5 ft 4 1/2 in.
Condition:
Generally good condition some minor tears to edges and corners.
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30 BRAND NEW LEATHERBOUND EASTON
30 BRAND NEW LEATHERBOUND EASTON PRESS BOOKS: Eclectic variety of collector's edition literary classics. All fully bound in genuine leather w/ 22kt gold inlay, archival paper, gilded page ends, satin ribbon bookmarks. All in original shrink wrap, unopened. Titles include; The Flowers of Evil, Oedipus The King, The Talisman, Euripides, She Stoops to Conquer, Moby Dick, The Poems of Robert Browning, The Poems of John Donne, The Portrait of A Lady, The Oresteia, The Alhambra, The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Paradise Lost, The Analects of Confucius, Rights of Man, The Essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Of Mice and Men, Oscar Wilde, Aristophanes, The Sea Wolf, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charles Darwin, Vanity Fair, Madame Bovary, LIVY History of Early Rome, The Pilgrims Progress, Three Plays, & Aeneid.
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EXTREMELY FINE AND REMARKABLE
EXTREMELY FINE AND REMARKABLE KIRMAN LEADERS OF THE WORLD (MASHAHIR) RUG, PERSIA, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURYExtremely Fine and Remarkable Kirman Leaders of the World (Mashahir) Rug, Persia, last quarter 19th century, together with a 1924 exhibition announcement and an English key to the 54 pictorial figures, from Moses to Napoleon; 7 ft. 1 in. x 4 ft. 7 in. Provenance: Serdar Raschid, Governor of Tabriz, 1919; Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky; Sotheby's New York, December 17, 1999, lot 182; a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania collector. The 1924 exhibition announcement notes: "It seems inconceivable that one human being could have had the skill, the artistic talent, and the infinite patience to create such a rug. There are over 850 hand-tied knots to each square inch- more than 4,000,000 in the entire rug, taking one man more than five years working 10 hours a day, to complete." The English exhibition key reads: "Big inscription on front of the temple in upper part of rug - ‘THE PORTRAITS OF THE GREATEST AND MOST REMARKABLE MEN OF ALL THE WORLD' Names in Border Medallions - 1 Moses 2 Solomon 3 Romulus 4 Confucius 5 Themistocles 6 Leonidas 7 Cyrus 8 Pericles 9 Socrates 10 Alexander the Great 11 Hannibal 12 Caesar 13 Trajan 14 Kholdvig 15 Constantine the Great 16 St. Paul 17 Kosroes the Great 18 Mohammed 19 Omar (The Khalif) 20 Abdurrahman 21 Charlemagne 22 Haroun-Ar Rachid 23 William the Conqueror 24 Saladin 25 Richard (King of England) 26 Ghengis Khan 27 Lewis IX 28 Newton 29 Edward III 30 Duke De Guise 31 Tamerlane 32 Charles the Brave 33 Christopher Columbus 34 Henry IV (France) 35 Ferdinand V 36 (Vasko de) Gama 37 Leon X 38 Bajezid (Sultan) 39 Gustav Vasa 40 Francis I 41 Julius II 42 Charles V 43 Sikste V 44 Henry IV (England) 45 46 Louis XIV 49 Peter the Great 50 Charles XII 51 Frederic II 52 Cook, Navigator 53 Washington 54 Napoleon THE ABOVE IS A CORRECT TRANSLATION OF THE NAMES APPEARING IN BORDER OF PERSIAN PORTRAIT RUG. [signed] N. Martinovitch, Formerly Professor of Moslem Languages at University of Pertrograd. April 17th, 1924 Condition: Please note: All property is sold "AS IS" and any statement, whether oral or written, is given as a courtesy and shall not be deemed as a guarantee, warranty, or representation of the authenticity of authorship, physical condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, provenance, exhibitions, literature or historical relevance of the property or otherwise. The absence of a condition report does not imply the item is in perfect condition.
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EASTON PRESS BOOKS (5)
EASTON PRESS BOOKS (5) LEATHERIncludes The Anelects of Confucius, Machiavelli's Prince, Confessions of Saint Augustine and others. All but The Prince are still shrink-wrapped. shipping info This item can be shipped in-house.
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PAIR, ISIDORE HELMAN ORIENTALIST
PAIR, ISIDORE HELMAN ORIENTALIST ENGRAVINGS Isidore-Stanislas Helman (French, 1743-1811). Pair of engravings: "Confucius Distributing to Poor in the Country - 1000 Measures of Rice" and "Confucius Receiving a Magistrate", hand colored etchings. Framed as a pair. Each approx. 13.25" x
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[SINOLOGY] GILES, Lionel
[SINOLOGY]
GILES, Lionel (1875-1958), translator. The Analects of Confucius. Shanghai: The Limited Editions Club by the Commercial Press, 1933.
280 x 175 mm. With translated text and multiple intaglio prints. Folded leaves, sewn silk brocade encased in hardwood covered box.
LIMITED EDITION number 785 of 1500 copies.
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Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet
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CHINESE EXPORT OIL PAINTING OF
CHINESE EXPORT OIL PAINTING OF CONFUCIUS,19TH C . A Chinese export oil painting of Confucius, dating from the 19th century. Portrait of a pensive Chinese philosopher Confucius (551 BC-479 BC). With his log grey beard and red hat, he gazes outward. Provenance: estate of Peter Kellogg,founder and CEO of Mediacom, Chester, NY.
H. 29" (73.6 cm), D. 22" (55.9 cm)
Condition: Good condition with surface wear, small holes in canvass upper right corner, nick in upper left area. Some crackling in paint throughout. Frame has nicks.
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25 VOLUMES OF LEATHERBOUND
25 VOLUMES OF LEATHERBOUND BOOKSEaston Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition", including Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Paradise Lost, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Red Badge of Courage, The Scarlet Letter, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Prince, The Legend of Sleepy hollow and Other Stories, Huckleberry Finn, Great Expectations, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Farewell to Arms, The Devil's Dictionary, The Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, The History of the Indians of The United States, The Talisman, Dracula, The Three Musketeers, Faust, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, The Analects of Confucius; together with Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", London: The Folio Society, 2003; various sizes Condition:
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(4) MID 20TH C. CHINESE GILT AND
(4) MID 20TH C. CHINESE GILT AND LACQUERED DECORATIVE WALL HANGING PANELS Scenes from the Life of Confucius, delicately rendered, two floral panels above each scene, the middle panel having two characters of text each, below which are panels of birds amid flowering branches, the last two on black fields, 56" x 10 3/4" each including brass hangers.
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19TH C. PAIR OF CHINESE SPLIT IVORY
19TH C. PAIR OF CHINESE SPLIT IVORY TUSKS WITH INTERNAL REFINED RELIEF CARVING Four Narrative Panels each, possibly Scenes from the life of Confucius, having many figures set into mountainous landscape, the partitions provided by pagoda architecture, the reverse of each with bas relief of fishermen. Each set loose into a canted hand carved wood display stand. 11 1/2" long.