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444 KEEN-LUNG.
this instance is added three coloured and
sprays of rose, preony,
Blue enamel were about this
peach. designs very general
time, being used chiefly to decorate the sides, as in No. 382 ;
but here the whole centre of the plate is occupied by such
ornamentation in blue, which has a striking effect. This is
encircled with the usual fleur-de-lis shaped band.
This to Mr. Simons.
plate belongs
No. 771. Plate. Diameter, 17 inches ; height, 2 inches. No
mark. This differs from the usual run of blue and white,
plate
the former colour not under the but on the
being glaze, applied
surface in the form of enamel. The flowers are also on
painted
the surface in white enamel, shaded or rather lined with black.
The key border at the edge is in blue, as also the scroll-work
and the white where un-
foliage, porcelain showing through
covered.
Blue and Wliite.
Semi-Eggshell
No. 772. A tall, bulbous-shaped vase with trumpet mouth.
Height, 19^ inches. No mark. This is an example of the
sized that were turned out about this
large- eggshell pieces
time. The decoration, which is in blue and white, consists
of a five-claw in the midst of clouds. The blue
entirely dragon
is means of which seems to have been the
applied by stippling,
method in the better to this
adopted pieces belonging reign,
no doubt on account of the colour less liable to run.
being
We have not come across this shape before, and it seems to
belong to about this time. Compare with No. 801.
In No. 773, we have another instance of this
semi-eggshell,
probably a water-cistern. Height, 11 inches. No mark. Here
the decoration is also in blue and white, but the colour is
in means of
applied washes, and not by stippling.
"Soft Paste"
No. 774. Blue and white
cylindrical eggshell vase, or,
rather, white upon blue, the decoration consisting of conven-
tionalized flower, and on a blue 18
foliage ground. Height,
inches. No mark. The porcelain at the base, as also inside
the neck, is wavy (crinkled), the result no doubt of moulding.
This is a very fine specimen of soft paste, exceedingly light in
weight, colouring good, shape, finish, and everything about it