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In No. 813, we have an example of the sort of teapot
made about this time in the European market. Height,
4j inches. No mark. Decorated in the rose verte style
with green diaper bands. The body and lid are covered with
rose and lotus and
green scroll-work connecting yellow paeony
flowers, while on one side is a reserve decorated with a lady
on a mule, followed attendant.
riding by

Foreign Designs.
The time has now arrived when we must take this, as a
class, into consideration. If, for the most part, it does not
show any high degree of artistic merit, it is at least of interest
in and if nothing else shows what
many ways, painstaking,
clever the Chinese were, and the best examples of their
copyists
skill in this line probably belong to the last half of this reign.
The fairest way to judge of the amount of their success is to
compare the European efforts at reproducing Chinese motives
with the Chinese of
copies European designs, when, as usual,
most people will consider that the Chinese must be awarded
the first
place.
No. 814. This is an dish.
interesting Diameter, 9f inches ;
height, 1 inch. No mark. For in addition to the figures
being in European dress of the seventeenth century, the style
is and at first it would be to be
Japanese, sight pronounced
Imari. With the of the
exception lady's headdress, which is
green enamel, the only colours employed are red, black, and
gilt. Here, again, we find the colour put on the figures in
lines, as if copied from some engraving. Probably this dish
was made in imitation of for sale to the Dutch at
Japanese,
and the
Nagasaki, although figures are in seventeenth-century
dress this piece is of later date.
Of all the pieces decorated in European style the gem is
in
represented
No. 815. A small
gourd-shaped vase, with handles connect-
ing the two bulbs. Height, 6j inches. Mark, Keen-lung, in
four
plain characters enclosed in a double square, like a seal.
The surface, other than the reserves, is covered with a raised
scroll and coated with that
pattern bluey-green enamel so
common about this The
period. bands, top and bottom, are in