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5. rose band with conventionalized scroll-
Deep-coloured
work in a lighter shade of pink. The four reserves
are in blue enamel ornamented with light blue scrolls.
6. Green trellis-work band with on either side.
gilt ring
7. Gilt covered with coloured flowers, and
ground green
foliage marking off the leaf-shaped medallion in the
centre.
In the middle the decoration consists of the usual
lady
and children, table with books and other symbols, while on
the ground stand various vases.
No. 748. inches
Eggshell plate. Diameter, 8| ; height,
1^ inch. This is what may be called a four-border plate, and
the decoration not so as in No. 747, it
being tightly packed
can be seen that the off is done in To
marking sepia. begin
at the
edge there is
1. A band covered with trellis- work in blue
light green
and red.
2. Wide border with conventionalized flowers and
foliage
in
gilt.
3. Pink band the sides with and
covering octagon square
broken four ornaments in same colours.
diaper-work, by
4. Blue Y " work, marking off the leaf-shaped enclosure,
"
on which are thrown and vine leaves in
grapes gilt.
The central decoration consists of a
lady with two children,
one of which a At back there is a
is
handing peach. rockery
in cream-coloured enamel.
The of the on the as on most
tracing diaper patterns pink,
of the other enamels in all these seem to be
plates, generally
in blue and red.
In the of china before referred to we find
catalogue Ming
"
No. 55, Tazza-shaped cup, Ch'eng era, 1465-1487 porcelain,
painted in enamel colours on a pure white ground ; a vine
with leaves and tendrils of and of
bright green, grapes deep
amethyst colour, drawn with the utmost delicacy." So that the
not much
vine was an old motive, although seemingly employed
during the Kang-he period ; but we often meet with it from
this time onwards.
No. 749. A ruby -backed eggshell dish. Diameter, 6|
inches; height, 1^ inch. No mark. In this instance, there
is no diaper work, the decoration consisting of two cocks