Page 344 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

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vases of this
cylindrical reign (compare shape with No. 774),
it is 27 inches in height. No mark. The diaper work, top
and bottom, is beautifully painted in rose, green, and yellow.
The joo-e heads on the shoulder are surmounted by a flower
band, above which the ornamentation takes the form of what
are perhaps highly conventionalized sweet flags, the whole
bearing witness to the more complicated designs that were
now called for at the hands of the ceramic artist. The main
decoration consists of chrysanthemums, pseonies, and other
flowers in the most manner in rose and other
painted charming
delicate enamels of the finest quality. The stems are in very
dark brown, almost black. The ground on which the quail
stands is a very pale bluey-green. There is not a false note in
the whole composition, and this vase is a wonderful specimen
of what was in China at this
possible period.
This beautiful vase to Mr. A.
belongs Trapnell.
No. 691. Dish of white but
very opaque-looking porce-
lain, probably a piece that has been dipped in a fine liquid
paste before firing. Diameter, 8j inches ; height, 1| inch,
No mark. The here is beautiful. The trunk
colouring very
of the tree is in the blossoms, outlined in red,
prunus aubergine,
stand on with enamel centres
green twigs, light aubergine
touched with green. The anemones are in shades of a purple
the one washed with a blue at
pink, larger being lightly green
places between the centre and the ends of the petals. The
flower to the reader's is probably intended for a yellow
right
rose. It is outlined in red, the yellow enamel being of exquisite
richness. The iris at the other side are also in red, with yellow
of a darker shade. The is in two shades of a blue
foliage green.
No. 692 is one of those dishes that belong
quasi egg-shell
to about this inches. 1 inch.
period. Diameter, 7j Height,
The decoration consists of a the flowers of which
paeony spray,
have been outlined in red and shaded with a beautiful pink
enamel means of the most delicate lines drawn from the
by
edges where the colour is in body. The foliage is traced in
black and then covered with enamel through
transparent green
which the black shows as the of the leaves ; the green
veining
is of two shades, so that some leaves have a yellowish hue. The
is in white enamel, most veined with
butterfly delicately pink,
while a black here and there to throw the
tiny spot helps