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there is a band somewhat similar to that outside, with a circular
medallion at foot, filled with green speckled work decorated
with coloured flowers.
Nos. 602, 603 illustrate faniille verte plates with red and
gilt corrugated flange edges. Both are very much alike in
but No. 603 is much more and
many ways, carefully painted,
in every respect a better plate than No. 602.
No. 602. An octagon plate. Diameter, 12$ inches; height,
inch. No mark. The centre decoration, enclosed in two
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red circles, consists merely of a willow-tree, with aubergine
trunk and and a in bloom, with red
green foliage, peach-tree
and blossoms ; also two birds, one of which seems to be
gilt
off two of the flowers. The rim is covered with
carrying peach
a with red the
green speckled work border, powdered pseonies,
four reserves decorated with butterflies and
being alternately
grasshoppers. At back, four pseony-sprays in red.
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Simply a picture of trees, flowers, and magpies."
No. 603. Plate. Diameter, 14| inches; height, 2 inches.
Mark, two blue rings. Here again, as seems usual in these plates,
the rim is decorated with green-speckled work, which in this
case is ornamented by alternate gilt and red lotus flowers, the
four reserves being occupied by symbols, or lion with ball.
The only blue on both of these plates is at the sides of the
reserves, and is enamel over the glaze. This border is finished
off the comb not often met with in China
by pattern, very
pieces; and here the teeth, instead of being all of the same
height, as in No. 539, are arranged one long and one short
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In the Kushite found on the
alternately. Japanese pattern,
Okawaji ware, the teeth are generally longer than in the
Chinese pieces. The centre decoration, enclosed in two black
consists of two ladies, who are the same as in
rings, probably
minus their attendants ; and we have here, in
No. 546, only
the a dwarf fir and instead of a
jardiniere, peach spray paeony,
as in the blue and white The ladies' dresses are
plate. very
carefully painted, and we see here the care in detail that is
wanting in earlier pieces. At the back there are four flower
" ' '
sprays in red and green. The two sisters, Precious Pearl
'
Kuang garden picking
and Green Gem,' walking in the Tai
flowers."
-' Comb-teeth. T. J. L.