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6o Chinese Pottery and Porcelain

beginning of the reign, or they continued to arrive for part at least
of the period.

The lists of porcelain supplied to the Court of Wan Li may be

consulted with advantage, and the extracts from those of the previous

reigns may be supplemented by the following, which, though not
necessarily new forms and designs, do not appear in the Chia Ching
and Lung Ch'ing records :

Forms.

Trays for wine cups {pei p'an).^
Beaker-shaped 2 vases {hu p'ing ^Stf).
Flat-backed wall vases in the form of a double gourd split

vertically.

Chess boards {ch'i p'an).
Hanging oil lamps ^ (ch'ing Vai ^M).

EPricket candlesticks {chu fai). See Cat. B. F. A., 1910, 6 : a

pricket candlestick with cloud and dragon designs in blue and the

Wan Li mark.

Jars for candle snuff {chien chu kuan).
Screens (pHng).
Brush handles (pi kuan).
Brush rests {pi chia).
Brush pots {pi ch'ung). Apparently the cylindrical jars usually

known as pi fung.
Fan cases {shan hsia).
Water droppers for the ink pallet {yen shui ti).

Betel-nut boxes {pin lang lu).
Handkerchief boxes {chin lu).

Hat boxes {kuan lu).
Cool seats {Hang tun), for garden use in summer.

Motives for Painted Decoration.

Floral, etc. :

Lily flowers {hsiXan hua).

Hibiscus {kuei) flowers on a brocade ground.

Round medallions of season flowers.
Flower designs broken by medallions of landscape.
Marsh plants.

1 Bushell's rendering, " cups and saucers," is misleading if not verbally incorrect.
^ These are Bushell's renderings.