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Nineteenth Century Porcelains 269

15. Wine cups with spreading rim painted with dragons in red.

16. Dishes (p'on) a foot in diameter decorated in blue with a pair of dragons
filling the surface.

17. Soup bowls (Vang wan) with incised dragons under a dark yellow
monochrome glaze. [These, according to Bushell, are smaller and
shallower than rice bowls.]

18. Medium-sized bowls, barrel shaped, with dragons engraved under a
yellow monochrome glaze.

19. Yellow monochrome tea cups.
20. Medium-sized bowls with dragons engraved under a yellow monochrome

glaze.

21. Medium-sized bowls with the three fruits in groups (pan tzu^) painted
in blue. [The fruits are peach, pomegranate and finger citron.]

22. Soup bowls with expanding rim and dragons incised under yellow
monochrome glaze.

23. Six-inch bowls with a pair of dragons in blue.
24. One-foot dishes painted in blue with silkworm scrolls {is'an wen) and

longevity characters.

25. Tea cups decorated in blue with mu hsi flowers (a small variety of the

olea fragrans).

26. Medium-sized bowls with precious lotus in enamel colours.
27. Tea cups with white bamboo on a painted red ground.
28. Six-inch dishes painted in blue with the " three friends " {san yu) and

figure subjects. [The three friends in floral language are the pine,

bamboo and prunus. It is also a name given to the group of Con-
fucius, Buddha, and Lao-tzu, w^ho are often represented examin-

ing a picture scroll or standing in conversation.]
29. Tea dishes (ch'a p'an) with a pair of dragons in blue. [Bushell describes

these as " little trays with upright borders, of oblong, four-lobed,

and fluted outline." They must in fact have closely resembled the
old teapot stands of European ser\aces.]
30. Six-inch dishes with green dragons on a ground of engraved water-

pattern painted in colour.
31. One-foot dishes painted in blue with archaic phoenixes {k'uei feng).

[These designs are ornaments of bird form, terminating in scrolls
such as appear on ancient bronzes.]
32. Nine-inch dishes with blue ground and dragons in clouds painted in

yellow.
33. Medium-sized bowls with pure white glaze and ruby red (pao shao)

phoenix medallions.
34. Tea cups with dragons and clouds painted in yellow in a blue ground.
35. Six-inch dishes with chi hung (copper red) glaze.
36. Medium-sized bowls with chi ch'ing (deep violet blue) glaze.
37. Nine-inch dishes with chi hung glaze.
38. Soup bowls, barrel shaped, with lustrous brown glaze.

1 Bushell applies the phrase pan tzu to the bowls and renders it " of ring-like

outline."