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neck. On each side of the neck is a
fancy leaf-shaped panel
one a lake scene with boat and fisherman, and the
containing
other a mountainous both these are in
landscape; depicted
and and
brilliant enamels of black, purple, yellow, aubergine,
various shades of Below the last-mentioned band
green.
comes another between double lines of
aubergine, consisting
of fine work in black on a
speckle pale green ground, chry-
santhemums in various colours, with of stalks
slight tracing
in black, and green leaves. Below this, on the shoulder, is a
broader band of black fishroe showing through on olive-coloured
enamel, over which runs the same green scroll ground with
coloured flowers, and in this band there are four white reserves
surrounded narrow lines of and black. The reserves
by yellow
contain fish in red and seaweed.
gold amongst There is yet
even another border, or, I two narrow ones the
may say, very
first of black enamel with and small coloured
green tracery
flowers, and the second of small joo-e heads in purple, green,
and with narrow Then comes
aubergine, fringed yellow line.
the body of the vase covered with the black enamel, green
and coloured flowers, as on the neck. On each face
tracery,
of the vase is a white reserve, with border of and
large yellow
black one the of a true in auber-
containing drawing prunus
and black, with flowers in red and on a
gine gold pale green
a few bamboo leaves, and bird with and
ground, yellow, purple,
on stem the
aubergine plumage sitting ; other containing
paeonies, rocks, and other flowers, with crested bird on trunk
in yellow, red, purple, and aubergine. At each side there are
two reserves in white, the ones surrounded
upper by yellow
and black lines. They contain insects and flowers ; the lower
leaf-shaped panels having cocks and insects. Below the body
is a sort of border in and black,
fancy yellow, red, aubergine,
on a
pale green ground.
"The enamels used in the decoration of this vase are
brilliant in the extreme, the drawing both in the panels and
the groundwork is most artistically carried out, and the
porcelain itself is of the finest quality. It may be egotistical
to seen a
say so, but I have no recollection of ever having
piece to equal it in refinement and brilliancy in any of the
collections of America or England. It has no mark, but is
to to the latter of the
pronounced by experts belong part