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37-PEACHBLOOl\f COUPE (K'ang-hsi)
Or writer's water dish. Circular in form, with squat ovoid
body and wide mouth. Dense white porcelain, the exterior
coated with a rarely beautiful peachbloom glaze in which
the pink peach hue is revealed only as a thin lip about the
wide mouth, and again similarly encircling the low foot, the
rest of the exterior body being given over to rich and ex-
quisite mottlings of the green hues so greatly sought and
prized in this glaze. Interior and under-side of foot glazed
in white. On the foot, under the glaze, the six characters
of K'ang-hsi, painted in brilliant blue. Has teakwood
stand.
(Illustrated in Color) Diameter, 4% inches.

38-FEI-TS'UI-GREEN BOTTLE (K'ang-hsi)
Globular-ovoidal body with slightly flattened shoulder, and
full neck lightly expanding toward the top. Fine hard
paste of dense texture. The brilliant glaze at the first
coup d'ceil suggests the vase as one of the apple-greens, but
the green is really that of the fei-ts'ui jade, of delicate
quality, soft and uniform save where on the shoulder 8-
deepening of the flow intensifies the hue; and everywhere is
the characteristic crackle of the apple-greens, the greater
part of it in brown but near the shoulder almost colorless.
Interior of the neck and under part of the foot glazed in
grayish-white with a ca[e-au-lait crackle. Has teakwood
stand.
(Illustrated in Color) Height, 6% inches.

39-ApPLE-GREEN BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE (K'ang-hsi)
The body is squat, of ovoidal contour, resting on a deep
foot, and the shoulders, broadly-sloping, are drawn into a
straight tubular neck. The porcelain is heavy and sonor-
ous, and enveloped in a brilliant glaze of apple-green, uni-
form in quality, permeated by the characteristic brown
crackle, and returning a lustrous iridescence. Undernea th
the foot and within the neck is a soft grayish glaze, through
which the brown crackle continues. Ebony stand.
Height, 6% inche«.
(Illustrated in Color)