Page 509 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

DECORATED CHIEFLY IN RED. 459

hue. A duck and two butterflies complete the picture, the
whole of summer.
being symbolical
No. 799. This plate, although fine of its kind, is not of
such as the one. inches
good quality preceding Diameter, 16^ ;
height, 2^ inches. No mark. Brown edge. There is some-
thing French about the arrangement of the pink and blue
diaper band, which, with paeonies and lotus flowers, decorate
the rim. The brown curl-work band at the edge does not
go right round, but is cut into four sections by the above-
named bands, which, with the lotus flowers, form four
designs
with the
connecting alternating pink and blue trellis-work,
on the side which the reader will notice is broken
by eight
of those three pointed designs we find so often in these and
Nos. 336 and 747, for instance.
eggshell plates, They may
be intended to the head or the of the
represent joo-e top
pomegranate, as found on late blue and white plates (see Nos.
In the centre there is a of
876, 877). group pink paeonies,
with green, blue, and brown foliage, with gilt veining such
as is generally to be found in pieces belonging to the mandarin
section.
No. 800. Eose plate. Brown edge. Diameter, 15^ inches;
height, If inch. No mark. The rim and sides are decorated
with the usual joo-e head-shaped ornaments in brown-red
curl- work, on which are thrown rose-coloured and
paeonies
other flowers. In the centre is a large rose paeony, with
various coloured begonias rising about a brown leaf, below
which is a flower. This is a fine of
large yellow plate its
kind, the colouring being very good.

Decorated in Bed.
chiefly
No. 801. A bulbous vase, with spreading base and trumpet
mouth. One of a pair. Height, 17^ inches. No mark.
This is the second instance we have met with of this
shape
which seems to have come into fashion about
(see No. 772),
this time. Decorated in red and gilt, with a little green
introduced here and there. The motive is the old story of the
fish winning dragonhood. On the other side the fish is seen
from the waves that surround the base, while above,
rising
converted into a four-claw dragon, it extends round the body
of the vase. On the lower of the neck there is a band
part