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instance, that have been believed to be Bristol, and appear as
'
hard as most ' hard pastes so styled.
"
My old friend, Mr. Binns, used to say that there were
mixings of old Worcester that if a little over-fired would be
mistaken by any one for ' hard paste.' This must be the case
with oriental mixtures whenever outside of the true
they get
hard paste.
"
A great number of the figures of Kouan-in and of the dog
or lion, whichever he may be, seem to me to have the
characteristics of soft paste. Of the two little teapots at
Hyde (No. 783) the one shaped as the peche de longevite is
doubtless soft As for the of Uane de
paste. ivory specimens
chine (such as one sees in the rhinoceros cups (No. 846), etc.),
it does not seem to me a different from
porcelain distinctly
pieces that are white. The little coffee-pot suggested on my
last is of a the
page, porcelain resembling very closely ivory
pieces, but it is almost white.
"
In this of I once at
neighbourhood (Isle Wight) bought,
an auction sale, a little It has the
coffee-pot (784). prunus
bough and flowers raised upon each side, and is absolutely
perfect.
" ' Du '
Sartel
assigns these objects to the Kien-lnng
period.
"
No. 783. Somewhat I once another little
similarly bought
Ulanc de chine no doubt intended to
pot, represent peche-de-
longevite, with raised leaves and stems. Both are perfect, the
last being very pretty both in model and in paste, and not
long after I had bought it, I came across a Bow teapot
modelled from one similar, also white.
pure
"
These two bits of llano de chine are, I am aware, of
ordinary
and but the bowl with and vermilion, I
patterns type, gilding
do not remember like."
seeing anything
Coloured Glazes.
No. 785. Pear-shaped biscuit celadon vase, brown edge at
top, unglazed base. Height, 12^ inches. No mark. Inside and
outside it is covered with a dark yellow glaze, and decorated
with the prunus, peeony, lotus, and chrysanthemum, the
flowers in a white or the in
being purple, foliage green,
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