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towards the edge, and with black towards the centre. The
heads are in black relieved
joo-e by blue, and above them in
gilt circles is an unusual diaper pattern in black upon blue.
The flowers in the centre, as at the sides, are in the usual pink
enamel with and a brown leaf with gilt veining
green foliage,
here and there. These red-brown leaves with gilt are very
usual about this
period.
Mandarin.
With regard to this section, Mr. Winthrop writes as
follows :
" '
I used to feel inclined to connect the * Canton china
with ' mandarins,' and, even with the fine porcelains that
Beckford is said to have preferred, this last including the type
of the ruby-backed plates. These latter are generally of egg-
shell, but all of that type were not of eggshell ; and, indeed,
a vase made by any other process than turning on the wheel
cannot be ground down to eggshell, but there seems no doubt
these all came from the north, and were made at King-te-chin.
"
No. 836. In the Isle of Wight I have a pair of lozenge-
of the known as ' red mandarins,' that seem
shaped jars type
to join the ordinary mandarins to those finely diapered pieces
that Beckford affected. Its cover, neck, and base are of the
'
iron-red diaper composed of those little shapes known as Y '
work (Nos. 195, 356), fitted together in the usual way, with
small of in bistre. The borders of the
panels paysages body
are finished with the octagon and square diaper (see No. 189),
and the inner border within the sunk panel is of the first
diaper (No. 195) executed in pale green. The panel is filled
by a scene of figures ordinarily done in rather coarse washes
of colour, all of the decoration being enamel. The jars seem
allied to the of which
closely yellow-grounded jars (No. 866),
you have photographs.
Nos. 837, 838. "I have probably referred to a triplet of
slender 14-inch hexagons that I have also, with small panels
executed in washes
containing paysages in bistre, hastily (not
and scenes of
stippled), carefully painted polychrome figures
in the larger panels framed with borders of gilt scroll-work
outlined with black. These larger panels and diapered grounds
of cover and base in red and black, are altogether in the style