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of the diapered eggshell cups, .and the body is of really fine
These are not uncommon have the usual red
porcelain. they
dog on the cover, and a ground upon the body composed of
The are
gilt scroll meanders (see also Nos. 352, 353). panels
bordered by gilt scrolls, rather Louis XV. in character, out-
lined with black. They approach very near to the eggshell
type.
" of oriental that turn
Again, amongst the common pieces
up in sales in town and country, are sets, or what remain of
'
sets of beakers, that first came to England in * garnitures of
five pieces, three with covers, and two open beakers (see Nos.
Their are with scenes
252, 253, 352, 353). panels always painted
of like those the It
figures precisely upon lozenge-shaped jars.
is impossible to separate them or not to believe them from
the same source. But these beakers have a ground of blue
under-glaze of varying pattern, and frequently the exact borders
of blue that a number of the
under-glaze appear upon great
blue and white and dishes to and to
plates brought England
New England at the beginning of last century. Certain of
these are still manufactured for the New England market,
and used by the families that have used nothing else for a
century.
"
I repeat that I can find no division between these classes,
and must believe that they all come from one source. There
are also beakers of similar shape to these last, with shagreen
surface, their panels having slightly raised borders (see No.
the flowers of influence.
253), panels containing European
Their model is not only like the others, but the vases have a
handle to the cover, precisely similar, of the dog of Fo.
"
There also comes into the same family the blue and white
decorations, where there is the panel containing a sort of
willow pattern, the ground of the vase being of simple curls
(see Nos. 194, 252), broken at intervals with slightly raised
leaves, flowers, butterflies, and such-like, exactly in the style
'
of the Italian faience called bianco sopra bianco.'
"
This model, with raised flowers and all, is also decorated
as a ' red mandarin,' with no blue
under-glaze.
"
I have at the Grange a pair of the blue and white, and
under at a friend's house a of the same, decorated
my eye pair
as ' red mandarins,' the ground entirely of the diaper No. 189,