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34? pi. A317; and Important Chinese Ceramics from the J. M. Hu 7. Valenstein 1989, 242-255; see also Beurdeley and Raindre
Family Collection, sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1985, no. 29, 1987, 86-102, especially 91; and Kerr 1986, 65.
repro. (described as "lavender"). 8. See note 5 above. Kerr 1986,44, explains that seal script was not
5. The vase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, often used for marks before the Yongzheng period and became
14.40.31, is part of the Benjamin Altman bequest. Ts'ao 1981, 85, widely popular only later during the Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns.
no. 40, repro. This is confirmed by Peilan Ye, who also makes the point that dur-
6. Ts'ao 1981, 85, no. 40, repro. The same term is applied, how- ing the Yongzheng period reignmarks written in standard script
ever, to a very typical pale blue Kangxi brush washer, no. 36, still predominated. Ye 1983, no. 2, 66.
illustrated in the same colorplate. The term is also sometimes
used to describe an even darker, true blue also encountered in
Kangxi ware; see, for example, Sekai tdji zenshu 1975-1985, 15: REFERENCES
36-39, pis. 30-31. 1904-1911 Morgan: 2: 82, no. 1340.

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