Page 440 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

436 KEEN-LUNG.

standing on a green sloping ground, with two paeonies above,
one in rose, the other in a purple pink ; the rocks in front
are in blue, with in dull and a
foliage purple green spray.
The cock to the front is in the usual cochin china plumage,
the other in a
purple grey.
No. 750. Ruby-backed eggshell plate. Diameter, 8^
inches ; height, 1| inch. No mark. This is a very richly
decorated To at the there is a
plate. begin rim, green
baud with black trellis-work followed by a gilt scroll band.
Then conies the and in black and
octagon square diaper
red on a pink ground broken by four white-shaped reserves,
one in the form of a
being finger citron, another in the form
of a leaf, and these are finished off by flowers at the ends in
rose and other colours. In the reserve the reader
citron-shaped
will notice the horned wedding goblet which, like most of the
other symbols, is in gilt. Below there is a waved trellis-work
" "
band in blue, followed by Y work in black on gilt. In the
centre, on a blue rock, are two pheasants among a profusion of
and other flowers, with a and
paeonies prunus spray butterfly
above. Knowing this and a seven-bordered plate, same pattern
as No. 372, had all along been in the same family, the writer
asked the lady to whom they belong to kindly try and find
out something about their age, and, after a little time, the
"
following note was received : I have looked the history of
the plates up, and I find my great grandmother, Mrs. Prideaux,
wife of Huinphery Prideaux, of Prideaux Place, Padstow, came
to Bath on the death of her husband in 1793, and the
brought
with her. How she had them at Prideaux Place
plates long
I can't This is all I can do for 108 old
say. you: years
not me, the Yours MARY PRIDEAUX
plates. very truly,
BYTHESEA."
This date the well into the
brings plates Keen-lung period,
and we shall probably not be far wrong in putting them down
as belonging to the time between 1750-1760.
No. 751. Kuby-back eggshell plate. Diameter, 8 inches ;
1 inch. No mark. This be called a five-
height, might
border To
plate. begin with, there is a
1. Blue band at the followed
edge, by
2. Pink band.
diaper
3. Narrow band between two black then wide
gilt rings,