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FAMILLE VERTE. 355

No. 604. A two-bulb vase. 10 inches.
rectangular Height,
No mark. This vase has been made in two and
pieces joined
down the middle. It is one of the Prideaux pieces (see p. 436),
and, like No. 352, a very good example of what used to be
made about this time for to The decoration
export Europe.
is marked off in red, the also in this
diaper patterns being
colour. The four reserves show the
large peeony, lotus, chrys-
anthemum, and prunus. On the smaller bulb, on one side there
are symbols ; on another, a landscape ; the third, flowers and
grasshopper ; the fourth, flowers and a hare. Apart from the
red, the following enamels are employed : blue, green, auber-
and These are at
gine, yellow. helped by gilt places.
Coral.
This class may be of any date, and each piece must be judged
as to Some show a sort of metallic lustre or
separately age.
of a blue shade, and these are the
reflet, frequently pieces
most valued by collectors. This lustre is to be found chiefly
on the whole-coloured pieces, of which there are no examples
in this series, and is sometimes so that the have
slight pieces
to be wetted before it can be seen. This is why you see people
wet their and rub the coral surface.
finger
No. 605. A coral bottle with four bulbs.
gourd-shaped
Height, 12 inches. No mark ; two blue rings. The arabesque
scroll work of with which this
chrysanthemums, piece is
decorated, has evidently been traced in red, and the colour
applied between the lines marking out the pattern. This seems
always to have been the method followed in the earlier times,
but later on, as in the case of No. 266, at least where the
decoration was of a simple nature, the red seems to have been
first and then removed a
applied probably by pointed piece
of bamboo where it was desired that the white ground should
show and so form a white on the red
through, pattern ground.
This, of course, had to be done before the piece was fired to
fix the This to Mr. Willett.
colouring. piece belongs Hy.
No. 606 another of these coral a beaker.
represents pieces
Height, 9f inches. No mark; two blue rings. Here the
decoration is marked off as in the previous case, the white
convolvulus arabesque showing up on the red ground ; but this
is out of the common in that in the centre the
piece arabesque
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