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175-T'u TING YAO DOUBLE-GOURD VASE (Sung)
Porcelain of delicate, resonant body, fashioned in the form
of the double gourd, coated with a fluent, brilliant glaze of
ivory-white tone which displays with fine effect an extensive
decoration etched in the paste beneath it. This consists,
on both upper and lower bodies, of elaborations and con-
ventionalizations of the chrysanthemum, with scrolls, be-
tween borders of the key-fret and scepter-heads. The etch-
ing, or engraving, is done with a firm hand and great
preCISIOn. Has carved teakwood stand.
Height, 13 inches.

176-TALL CAFE-AU-LAIT VASE (Ming)
Cylindrical, with high, steeply sloping shoulder, and short,
contracted neck with spreading lip. Ming pottery, covered
with a cafe-au-lait glaze of unctuous surface and dull luster,
finely crackled throughout and carried to the interior of
the lip and underneath the foot. Has five-legged carved
teakwood stand.
Height, 16% inches.

177-LARGE CELADON FISH-BOWL (Ming)
Ovoid with a short molded lip. Dense stoneware, with a
bold relief decoration in the paste, embodied in a deep band
of conventionalized peony scroll with large flowers, between
scepter-head borders, while a petal border encircles the foot.
Both outer and inner surfaces coated with a brilliant cela-
don glaze, grayish in tone over the higher reliefs, and of
pure sea-green tint elsewhere, the green deepening and in-
tensifying in the more pronounced excavations or where
flowing against the reliefs. Bold brown crackle throughout,
and a further larger, wandering crackle. Has stand.
Diameter, 16 inches; depth, 10Y2 inches.