Page 579 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

- MANDARIN. 483

this If so, it shows what fine work were still
period. just they
capable of turning out. This vase was seemingly intended to
hold a spray of peach on the one side and of prunus on the
other ; no doubt for display on the Chinese All Saints' day in
reference to the above poem by T'ing-chien.

Mandarin.
No. 866 a to Mr. and
represents jar belonging Winthrop,
"
the is his I have a of
following description of it : pair large
rectangular vases, with covers, of a clumsy modelling, thick,
and with the waved surface common to some sorts of the
mandarins. On the of the cover is a Chinese woman,
top
her face, or of the
modelled as a handle, painting something
sort. On the shoulders of the vases modelled Chinamen. In
the in front (with a raised is a Chinese scene
large panel edge)
of ladies and with arrows at a mark, before a
riding shooting
richly ornamented palace crowded with people. All is care-
treated and finished in this and in that on
fully finely panel
the reverse. The borders have a continuous of grape
pattern
leaves in and the in black. This is
gilding, grapes perfectly
European, and an ornament very common at the end of the
and of the nineteenth. On the
eighteenth century beginning
sides are narrow finished in of
upright panels, carefully sepia,
what is intended for an or other house.
English European country
Unlike the little in usual upon mandarins,
vignettes, sepia
these are done in and several small
finely stippling, panels,
all with raised are with scenes
edges, gilt, similarly painted
taken from of and castles. The
European engravings scenery
little vignettes commonly seen on mandarins are done with
light washes in sepia, hastily drawn. The ground colour of
these vases is a and there is a
deep reddish, orange-yellow,
band of vermilion around neck and base, with flowers.
gilt
"In the photograph the jar shows its two panels fairly well,
that on the side representing a European landscape and
country house ; but the small dark sepia panels above, and
come out even under a
especially those on the cover, hardly
magnifying-glass. Outside the large front panel is the yellow
ground, a very deep-red orange, with a complete border of
vine leaves and in invisible in the
grapes, gilding completely
photograph. The base and the neck have a band of vermilion,