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height, If inch. No mark. Brown edge. At back, two
small blue each with three red-peach (?) blossoms. On
sprays,
the face the decoration is marked off with blue rings ; the
border at the edge being traced in red and filled in with gilt.
Of the chrysanthemums, two are traced in red and filled in
with gilt ; the other three being in red with gilt centres.
The two other large flowers are in red and gilt, and of the
shape so often met with in these later pieces, and looks more
like a fuchsia than anything else. They have one blue petal,
which gives them an odd look, with two sprays of flowering
bamboo at the base in blue. The lotus leaf, below the
(?) chry-
santhemums, is also in blue ; but most of the foliage is in red,
blue into the which makes
entering very sparingly composition,
it all the more striking.
We must now glance at one of this class in the shape of a
European dessert plate, although the Japanese influence is
not so strongly shown in it as is often the case. It is made of
porcelain similar in every way to the dish.
No. 879. Plate. Diameter, 9 inches ; height, 1 inch. No
mark. Brown The decoration, as usual in these
edge. plates,
is marked off by blue circles, and consists of conventionalized
flowers in red, blue, and The side is covered with a red
gilt.
trellis work band, the reserves being marked off with blue
lines. In the centre, the trunk of the tree and four of the
leaves are in blue, with a big red and gilt papony stuck in the
middle, while to the reader's left are two blue, and three so-
called tobacco leaves (see No. 386). The blue is dark in
colour, veined with gilt, and makes a striking contrast with
the rest.

Celadon.
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No. 845. Regarding this sketch Mr. Winthrop writes : I
recall, at the house of a friend, a splendid lilac jar, very similar
to one in the Walters collection, a lilac crackle of
probably
the sixteenth century. You will remember the reproductions
of some such crackle in the early part of the nineteenth
century, a pair that I see frequently here (Boston), of an
white with mark of Chia
ivory large crackles, and the square
in blue under the beneath the foot. This would
Ch'ing glaze
place them between 1796 and 1820. I own a pair exactly