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the enamel sprigs upon the classical vases belonging to the
same lady, tying all of that lot of porcelain together. The body
of these beakers is of a white and smooth porcelain, rather
The borders in blue under are those
porous. butterfly glaze
we continually see, looking as if put on by some kind of transfer.
I have rarely seen such fine porcelain in these sets of beakers."
"
Later Mr. Winthrop wrote : I am sailing two days hence
for Liverpool, and shall probably dispatch to you from thence
a small wooden box a broken dish of one of the
containing
New Bedford dinner-services that I have referred to. You will
see that it can be and serve as an illus-
readily put together,
tration if you wish. The lady could not find a piece of the
more elaborate and gilt service that she could make up her
mind to part with.
"
The porcelain of the two services is similar, and you will
recognize that the specimen sent you is of a thin, crisp, and
resonant body that you are perfectly acquainted with. It is
broken.
very easily
"
The the sent
vignette upon specimen you (No. 869) is
like the the vases
precisely vignettes upon classical-shaped
photographed for you colour, method, and all so that it
would be very probably by the same hand. It is doubtless
borrowed from some engraving from a volume illustrating
English country houses. The side panels of our 'yellow-
'
grounded jars (No. 866), also photographed for you, are of the
same character and
origin.
"
Upon many mandarins, jars, mugs, etc., there are found
small vignettes with very hastily executed scenes in a similar
colour. These, however, are in washes, and not stippled
just suggesting a paysage. Still, they seem connected with
these and to either have
vignettes, appear suggested them, or
to have been them."
suggested by
No. 870 is a small mandarin vase 5
quatrefoil (height,
inches ; no mark), decorated with the usual bright enamels,
" "
and included here on account of its marble stand, somewhat
similar to those on the classic vases of which so many exist in
Boston. This of marble seems to have formed a
imitating
feature in the decoration of of sorts about this
pieces many
time. The marbling here is done in black on a red-brown
ground.