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blossoms in gilt and white, the paeony, lotus, and other flowers
being in pink relieved by yellow, blue, and green. The
central decoration, enclosed in a red curl and spike band, con-
sists of pink paeonies, fuchsias, and other flowers relieved by
yellow, blue, and green. There is no rock at foot, but a blue
leaf in place thereof.
No. 833. Plate. Diameter, 12 inches ; height, 1 inch.
No mark. Four fungi traced in red at back, brown edge.
Here the decoration is not quite so close, but the plate is
equally decorative. To begin with, there is a red band with
white prunus blossom, the ice cracks being in gilt and arranged
in a On the rim are four and white
regular pattern. pink
the smaller flowers between in
paeonies, being pink, blue, and
purple along with yellow and green. The sides are covered
with red fish-roe work decorated with white prunus blossoms,
below which in and white two and two
appear pink paeonies
chrysanthemums with coloured flowers between. The large
in the middle is in three sections, with let in at
paeony yellow
the and surrounded with brown, with
top gilt, blue, and green
foliage and coloured flowers.
2 inches. No
No. 834. Plate. Diameter, 1 Scinches; height,
mark. Brown edge, three fungi traced in red at back. This
differs from the two ones in that blue enters
plate previous
into the remains the
largely composition, although pink pre-
dominant colour. The border at the edge is a light blue, that
at the of the sides the two the six
top pink, being joined by
ornaments which are in a darker shade of blue with
pink
centres, a green line running round, interlacing the six com-
which are decorated with flowers and
partments pink green
From a rock three flowers
foliage. purple spring large paeony
in pink and a magnolia spray with purple stalk, pink and
white blooms with touches of blue here and there. The
light
two pheasants are in purple, pink, and blue with gilt, the
in and The here is a
foliage green purple. purple transparent
enamel, and may be a kind of aubergine.
No. 835. Hose Diameter, 13| inches
paeony plate. ; height,
2 inches. No mark. Brown three outlined in
edge, paeonies
red at back. Here blue also enters into the but
composition,
to a lesser extent. The surface of this is cut into five
plate
compartments by a wide pink diaper bordered with light blue