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in and, while we have Mr.
practised Europe, Hippisley's
remarks on the subject before us, it will be well to glance
back at No. 651, which is a beautiful example of the arabesque
of decoration.
style
Wliite with Peach-bloom and Blue.
Nos. 654, 655. With regard to these very fine specimens,
Mr. Geo. K. Davies, to whom they belong, writes as follows :
"Exhibited Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1896, as Nos. 475
and 476. A of oviform bottles, 7 inches of a
pair high, very
celadon wash. The beautiful delicate of these
pale shape
bottles much resembles that of the amphoras, which almost
exist in the Peach-bloom and Clair de Lune
entirely porce-
lains, and, as they rank as the two highest grades of
colouring amongst the self colours, great attention was paid
to elegance of design as well as colouring, and the same
applies here. The decoration on these bottles consists of
the known as the Pa Kwa in
eight trigrams greyish
blue. Sir Frank describes them in this :
Augustus way
' consist of combinations
They of broken and entire lines,
each differently placed. The entire lines represent the male,
or celestial, element in nature, and the broken the
strong
female, weak and terrestrial.' Below the Pa Kwa are four
of the and the Yin,
representations mystical device, the Yang
the male and female elements of nature, in two shades of blue.
Around the foot of these vases are waves in a darkish red, with
occasional flecks of which look like as in some
green verdigris,
of the Peach-blooms. They are marked in blue on the base
with the six characters of the
Yung-ching period (1723-1736).
I have never seen unless deceives me,
duplicates, my memory
in any of the collections I have visited."
Black and Coral ivith other Colours.
No. 656. "An Imperial ware, black ground, globular
bottle, 12 inches high, belonging to the Bennett collection.
The decoration consists of a five-clawed in of
dragon pursuit
the crystal ball, with clouds round the neck and body, and
round the base rocks and waves, all of which are embossed
or raised on the surface of the vase. The colouring of the
dragon is in coral red, the vertebrae being marked by a line