Page 542 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

4/0 KEEN-LUNG.

It is of common
designs. quality. Diameter, 9 inches ; height,
1 inch. No mark. Brown edge. The whole surface is covered
with brown curl-work, on which coloured flowers are thrown,
except the scroll-shaped reserve in the centre, and the smaller
reserves and bottom. On the scroll a is de-
top gentleman
picted as getting over a wall by the aid of a willow tree, he
having first thrown his boots, which have alighted at the feet
of a lady. That it is night is shown by the moon and stars,
the latter being strung together in the way they are always
represented by the Chinese.
This is a scene taken from the romance called
Si-siang-ki,
of Pavilion of the West.
History
" the Yuan
During dynasty, the wife of the Prime Minister,
Hsiao, had a daughter named Sing Sing (the nightingale),
who was in to a named
promised marriage gentleman Chang.
Afterward the mother wished to break off the betrothal, and
marry the girl to her nephew, Mr. Tan. Mr. Chang, afraid
that he would lose his bride, climbed a tree outside the garden
of the house where the nightingale was living, and jumped
over the wall to meet her. In all this he was aided by one of
her female attendants, who is the lady seen in the picture."

LOWESTOFT.
The Lowestoft not an one, has
question, although easy
been made too much of, for there is no difficulty in telling
the Lowestoft hard paste from the genuine Chinese, therefore
the matter in dispute narrows itself into one of whether the
latter was decorated in part or in whole in Lowestoft or in
China. Mr. Chaffers, at p. 765, gives statements made in 1865
by old people who, as also their parents before them, had been
connected in years gone by with the manufactory at Lowestoft,
"
to the effect that out of the but what
nothing passed factory
was made in it," and that "no manufactured articles were
brought there to. be painted, but that every article painted in
the had been made there." We have lots
factory previously
of examples in this series of how admirably the Chinese could
imitate or copy the European manner of painting, and there
can be little doubt but that the decoration, which on
appears
in what is known as the Lowestoft
Chinese porcelain,
style,