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ROSE P^ONY.

is for the most if not the handiwork of John
part entirely
Chinaman.
In to No. 419, it be well to mention that the
regard may
of that at Lowestoft seems a
redecorating jug merely vague
too much
family tradition, and, without attaching importance
to the above declarations, everything points to their being
" "
correct. We know, moreover, that the transfer
virtually
system was introduced because the English artists could not
compete with the Chinese in the matter of cost.
In No. 830 a plate. Diameter, 16 inches ; height, If
inch. No mark we have an example of this so-called
Lowestoft style of decoration. In this instance, flowers and
insects are employed ; but we often come across pieces where
are introduced, and all seem to be
figures reproductions by
the Chinese of the that had been sent to
European copies
China. Manufacturers on this side tried to their
bring porce-
lain up to the Chinese standard of quality, and, as they
succeeded, to make it more like the real thing they decorated
it with Chinese motives, which, in their turn, the Chinese seem
again to have copied, including the European touch along with
the other failures and made in the endeavour to
shortcomings
reproduce the Chinese decorations. The Lowestoft and other
imitations to have been and therefore the
appear very poor,
Chinese look which has no doubt caused
copies very European,
the confusion, and enabled Lowestoft to its name to a
give
section of Chinese That this
large porcelain. particular style
of decoration must have been admired is beyond doubt from
the large quantity of china belonging to about this time on
which it is to be found.
No. 831 diameter, 16| inches; height, 2 inches. No
mark another of these decorated with
represents plates
flowers.
Rose
Pseony.
No. 832. Plate. Diameter, 12 inches ; height, 1| inch.
No mark. Brown four red at back in a
edge, pseonies light
wash. The rim is covered with fish-roe in brown
diaper
with two fan and two reserves decorated
leaf-shaped alternately
with and with and
paeony chrysanthemum in pink. yellow
other colours. The diaper is thickly strewn with prunus
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