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KEEN-LUNG.
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in combination with in enamel colour, leading
glaze painting
to the conclusion that these pieces were decorated at the
works.
porcelain
"
The enamel painting is certainly Chinese, but early
writers about oriental believed that much of this
porcelain
enamel was added to the blue and white ware in
painting
Holland.
I have met with little oriental
"Personally, porcelain
decorated in The have been
Europe. pieces chiefly ginger
decorated with the usual
jars coarsely rudimentary landscape
in blue under-glaze, to which a bright decoration of flowers
has been added with no respect to the landscape beneath.
The addition is probably Dutch.
"
Apparent want of experience in adapting the enamels to
the porcelain body may be said to be the common characteristic
of the late mandarins, where certain enamels have come out
perfectly lifeless."
Mr. Winthrop is in the habit of illustrating his letters by
means of pen-and-ink sketches, and these where referred to
in the text have been on the next
reproduced page, so. that
the reader may the better be able to follow what Mr. Winthrop
says.
Nos. 839, 840. Handles of vegetable dishes, see p. 450.
No. 841. Old see 375.
Japan, Kakiyeinon style, p.
No. 842. Red bottles, see 358.
p.
No. 843. Banded hedge, see p. 376.
No. 844. Mandarin vase.
No. 845. Square vase, see p. 491.
No. 846. Ehinoceros horn cup, see p. 455.
No. 847. Dessert basket, see 475.
p..
No. 848. Soft paste famille verte vase, see p. 340.
No. 849. Yung-ching bowl, see p. 391.
No. 850. Dessert basket stand, see 475.
p.
The three saucers in the next photograph may not be of
the same but are with a
exactly age, they placed together
view to three of in the mandarin
illustrating grades quality
figures with which they are decorated.
No. 851. Ruby-backed dish. Diameter, 5 inches ; height,
1 inch. No mark. Here we have the central decoration
of an 8-inch eggshell dish or plate without the surrounding