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the former with a '
key pattern just perceptible in the side,
and at the neck are flowers of conventional character, as may
be seen on the side toward the light. The panels on the
cover are also framed in very finely-drawn floral borders,
quite invisible here. This vase has a very red mandarin look
about it, and one would not have been surprised to see it
grounded with an iron-red diaper pattern. But I have never
seen a red mandarin with its chief panel so carefully executed.
"I bought the pair in London thirty-three or thirty-four
years ago for 20, and consider they date from about 1810.
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The rather coarse and waved surface of this is
jar quite
visible."
No. 867. Regarding this, Mr. Winthrop wrote as follows :
" '
There is a of 13-inch Indian vases,' of Chinese make, with
pair
' bleu ' The is borrowed from the
gros bases and handles. shape
European. The husk festoons are raised, as well as the borders
of the oval on which fine
upright panels (in stippling
resembling the sepia panels of the yellow vases, No. 866) are
painted funereal urns, overhung by the foliage of weeping
willows. These are also connected (in type) with the yellow
there leaves and fruit in
vases No. 866, by
being grape gilt
upon the blue borders.
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In this there are four sets of them of
neighbourhood
identical all doubtless of one time, but no record of
shape,
their seems reason to
importation procurable. There is good
believe came to New somewhere about 1810, and
they England
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as such a batch came is to be inferred that
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together it they
were
newly made at that time. The families who acquired
them are affluent and as little then was known about
people,
porcelain, and these are upon a European (Sevres) model, they
were sold as or French china the
possibly English by importer.
On the other hand, Boston and Salem were then ports
intimately connected with the China trade, and these vases
then the latest in Chinese and of an
thing porcelain, entirely
new or on con-
departure may have been sent as presents
signment.
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My pair are the least important of these that I am
acquainted with, they being ] 3 inches high. There are two
larger (presumably about 15 inches) and two very much larger,
but all similar. The upright oval vignettes upon mine differ,