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of the former ; Tsaou Kwo-kiu on a log ; Chang-Ko-laou rides
on a ; Lan Tsae-ho stands on her basket and waves her
frog
hoe aloft ; Leu Tung-pin stands on his sword, while Ho Seen-
koo is supported on a willow branch, and Le Tee-kwae sits on
his These coated are not so in as
gourd. pieces light weight
those that are made entirely of soft paste.
Paste decorated with Enamels over the Glaze.
Soft
No. 778. A plate of soft paste, almost thin enough for
eggshell. Diameter, 8j inches ; height, 1^ inch. No mark.
Here the decoration consists of the not unusual combination
of and The trunk of the tree is covered with
prunus paeony.
a purple glaze ; some of the flowers are merely outlined in red
and filled in with white enamel, while others are covered with
pink enamel. The paeony is in the usual rose shades, with its
in and ; the above is in
foliage green yellow green pheasant
purple blue enamel and red. On the rim there are four
combined with or
paeonies prunus magnolia.
No. 779 is an instance of soft to the
paste belonging
mandarin class. A bowl with edge turned back, perhaps
intended as a
originally shaving-dish ; 9| inches in diameter
and 3f inches in height. No mark. It is partly decorated
in blue under the in that of which has led
glaze style painting
many to consider it the result of transfer printing. The base
is unglazed, the outside being decorated with two large and
two small in blue.
flower-sprays Inside, the blue and white
decoration covers the sides; but it is relieved with red and
gilt, the four reserves being filled with sketches, in red and
of rocks and with a bird in each. At foot, in the
sepia, twigs
usual mandarin enamels, is a river scene, the
bright sky being
painted in blue enamel ; and it seems only in the mandarin
and India-China classes that we find the two blues used to-
gether. Good of its kind, this is in many ways an interesting
piece.
"
This the on the Western Lake
represents pleasure-boats
at Hangchow."
Soft Paste, Blue and Wliite.
In No. 780 we have a instance of the white
good very
opaque soft paste, viz. a blue and white vase with globular