Page 326 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

392 YUNG-CHING.
relief consists of a in
joo-e light-coloured celadon, with vase
and in same, the stand and in
flower-spray dragons being
brown The are
ferruginous paste. peaches also in celadon,
and, like the flowers, relieved with pale peach bloom, the
whole colouring being very delicate. The citron on the other
side of the vase is covered with a sort of
orange-brown glaze.
The flowers are probably intended to represent those of pome-
granate, which, with the peach and citron, symbolize the three
abundances years, sons, and promotion.

Rose Verte.
No. 679. Dish, with everted edge, of rough porcelain with
wavy surface. Diameter, 13 finches ; height, 2^ inches. Mark,
in two blue In this is like one of
Yung-ching, rings. quality
the later mandarin but the decoration and
pieces, colouring
seem to that it is marked. Inside and outside
prove correctly
the ornamentation is the same, the one as
being carefully
painted as the other, which seems to be a feature of this reign,
not an invariable one. The decoration
although perhaps
consists of a willow tree, a few small flowers, and the eight
famous steeds of the Emperor Muh Wang (see p. 191). The
drawing is rough, but the colouring is curious, and is marked
by the characteristics of this period. The horses are all of the
usual That below the tree is a mauve rose, the
spotted type.
one in the middle iron red, that below a light blue, while
the one at the bottom is a sort of orange red, such as was in
vogue at this time. To the reader's right the top one is
which seems to have blistered, that below is a kind of
yellow,
To the reader's left the one is almost colour-
aubergine. top
less, a faint blue and sepia; that below a lighter shade of
mauve The manes and tails are all in a
pink. transparent
aubergine glaze, and, with the exception of the horses in iron
red and which are sketched in the same colours, the
aubergine,
others have been outlined in The small flowers are in
sepia.
red and blue with leaves. Outside there are four horses
green
and flowers same as on the face of the dish, but two of the
horses seem to have been coloured from a mixed palette, which
is not usual in Chinese art, and the tints thus obtained are
difficult to describe. This piece may be considered a very