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their s"hape K 1 to the " Haw-

thorn ; ter of taste,

however. In r t- is nothing

primarily to ch; :nds, jars,
pots and '.rfaCClS
I EARLY MING SPOTTED CELADON.
In i
' .Baton Iwasekl collection. Saa pape 50.,

broken by white medallions, \v c painted

inal designs, floral subjec hical animals or per-

sonages, in blue. In such cases trfe surface decoration

is generally of the petal-cluster type, and the painting

within the panels is weak and mechanical. of
Marks of date 'are r id on " Hawthorns "

the Kang-hsi era ; are so rare as

,

to be virtually \ cctors' purposes.

Sometimes a lea conventional

^ %$&&lotus, or a re i -worm
BOWL OK YU4.\r-Tsu

....

oak) is painted j

The absence of a v^

the fact that in 1667 the

manner of distinguishing porcelains, and at tlv

time ordered that verses, or historical q

cording the actions of great men, should not be used

in decorating ware, since inscriptions that deserved

reverence were thus condemned to share the fate of

the perishable substance on which they were painted.
!^ThSfe^ W<re6fd^W rOTcalg
cffift^HHfiWHffn
Baron Iwasakt collection. (See pag 75 )
was removedi the same
at a subsequent period 01

reign. Yet reasons exist for suspecting r vas

the case. Onsp< > of seventeent manu-

facture the Kang-hsi year-mark Ta-'l <mg-hsi

nien chi certainly occurs much more rarely than

might be expected, having regard to the grtv ity

of the keramic industry at that epoch. But, on the

other hand, it occurs too often to permit the supposi-

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