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Pases with dragons and clouds above clumps of reeds, the
fir, bamboo, and plum, ornamental designs in the form of
the double gourd.

Vases with flowers, fruit and birds, fragrant plants and

insects, historical scenes.

Slop Boxes with a pair of dragons among flowers and flocks

of magpies.
Slop Boxes with clouds and dragons, arabesques of fra-

grant plants, historical scenes, flowers, fruit and branching

fungus.

Vinegar Bottles with dragons in clouds and twining sprays
of fairy flowers.

Chessboards with clouds and dragons.
Hanging Oil-Lamp with sea-waves, dragons and clouds,
the flowers of the four seasons, golden chrysanthemums
and hibiscus flowers.

Pricket Candlesticks with longevity inscriptions and em-

blems, the eight precious symbols, fairy flowers, sceptres
and dragons in clouds.

Pricket Candlesticks with jewel mountains surrounded by
sea-waves with dragons in clouds, medallions with boys
plucking olea fragrans flowers, water-plants, lotus leaves and

flowers.

Jars with nozzles for oil-wicks decorated with dragons

and phoenixes flying through flowers of the four seasons.

Screens with brocaded ground, flowers, fruit and birds
;

the border, two dragons grasping pearls.

Pencil Barrels with brocaded ground, fairy flowers wind-

ing through clouds, branching fungus, the river pictures and

writing of ancient story.

Pencil Handles with the eight precious symbols and dragon

medallions.

Perfume Boxes with kylin and round ornament, winding
sprays of fairy flowers, spiral scrolls, flowers and fruit, and
eight Buddhist emblems, branching fungus, sea-waves and

plum blossom.
Fan Boxes with dragons among clouds and spiral scroll

ornament.

Pencil Rests with sea-waves executed in relief and three

dragons in openwork.

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