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111. Two Examples of Single-colour Porcelain in the Salting

Collection (Victoria and Albert Museum) . (Colour) 186

—Fig. 1. Bottle-shaped Vase of porcelain with landscape design lightly

engraved in relief under a turquoise blue glaze. Early eighteenth

—century.

Fig. 2. Water vessel for the writing table of the form known as T'ai-po

tsun after the poet Li T'ai-po. Porcelain with faintly engraved

dragon medallions under a peach bloom glaze ; the neck cut down
and fitted with a metal collar. Mark in blue of the K'ang Hsi

period (1662-1722) in six characters.

112. Three Figures of Birds, Late K'ang Hsi Porcelain, with 192

....coloured enamels on the biscuit
—Fig. 1.
—Fig. 2.Stork. British Museum.
—Fig. 3. S. E. Kennedy Collection.
Hawk. British Museum.

Cock.

113. Porcelain delicately painted in thin famille verte enamels.

About 1720 Mu and attendant. Ch'feng 192
192
—Fig. 1. Dish with figures of Hsi Wang 5. E. Kennedy Collection. 206
—Hua mark. Hippisley Collection. 208

Fig. 2. Bowl with the Eight Immortals. 208
208
111. Hanging Vase with openwork sides, for perfumed

.........FLOWERS

Porcelain painted in late famille verte enamels. About 1720. Black-

wood frame. Cumberbatch Collection. (Colour)

.....115. Vase of Baluster Form

With ornament in white slip and underglaze red and blue in a celadon
green ground : rockery, and birds on a flowering prunus tree. Yung
Cheng period (1723-1735). Alexander Collection.

.......116. Yung Cheng Porcelain
—Fig. 1. Imperial Rice Bowl with design of playing children (iva wa),

engraved outlines filled in with green in a yellow ground, trans-

parent glazes on the biscuit. Yung Cheng mark. British

—Museum.

Fig. 2. Blue and White Vase with fungus (ling chih) designs in Hsiian
Te style. Cologne Museum.

.......117. Yung Cheng Porcelain
—Fig. 1. Vase with prunus design in underglaze red and blue. C. H.

—Read Collection.

Fig. 2. Imperial Vase with phoenix and peony design in pale famille

&verte enamels over underglaze blue outlines. V. A. Museum.

....118. Early Eighteenth Century Enamels.
—Fig. 1. Plate painted at Canton in famille rose enamels (yang ts'ai

"foreign colouring"). Yung Chfing period. S. E- Kennedy Col-

—lection. About 1720.

Fig. 2. Arrow Stand, painted in late famille verte enamels.

V. & A. Museum.