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DESSERT PLATES. 463

European in design, as also the arbour, which is all in green,
except the six roses to the reader's right. Two of the
children are clothed in In front there is a
entirely gilt.
pond with three ducks, one of which is holding its head under
water. At back there is a kind of embattled scroll in a
brown-red. These are rather after
plates sought by collectors,
and two are to be found in the collection at South
Salting
and a blue and white one in the Grandidier
Kensington,
collection. They are interesting, and not without some good
There is a small in the Franks collection
points. jug
decorated with this but in other colours.
pattern,
Nos. 809, 810. A of the usual vases
pair conical-shaped
with covers so common about this time. Height, 11^ inches.
No mark. Decorated with and cocks, most wonderful
paeonies
specimens of colouring, with the shades beautifully blending.
At the base and on the edge of the cover there is the brown
glaze, which seems originally to have been covered with gilt.
On the shoulder there is a pink enamel joo-e head-shaped
border with black edge. The cocks are of the usual Cochin
China type, but have green wings and pink breasts and legs,
and seem to be disputing possession of the rock, which is in
that blue-green so often met with in diapers and blue enamel.
The pseonies are in a lovely deep shade of rose, while the trunk
of the is in a with rose and
peach-tree purple aubergine yellow
blooms, the latter being traced in red.
No. 811. Dessert plate. Diameter, 8f inches ; height,
lj inch. No mark. Brown edge. Here we have the same
and if the of the flowers and
subject, drawing colouring is
not so good as in the vases, the two birds are at least more
true to nature. The on the rim is the same we find
diaper
on the traced in red and blue on a
eggshell plates ground
of blue- enamel. The rock is shaded in blue and white
green
enamel.
No. 812 seems to have been designed as a wine-pot.
Height, 6% inches ; diameter, 3 inches. No mark. Except
the gilt-edged perforated panel fixed on each side with red
and flowers the
pink among green foliage, only decoration
is the two lions in red and green, which serve as handle and
spout. The lid is left white, except a red band with gilt
work.
diaper-
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