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.......65. Ming san is'ai Porcelain
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—Fig. 1. ^Vase with winged dragons, san ts'ai glazes on the biscuit, dark

blue ground. Dedicatory inscription on the neck, Including the
words " Ming Dynasty." Cloisonn6 handles. S. E. Kennedy Col-

—lection.

Fig. 2. Figure of Kuan-yin, turquoise, green and aubergine glazes,

—dark blue rockwork. Fifteenth century. Grandidier Collection.

Fig. 3. Vase with lotus scrolls, transparent glazes in three colours. Late

Ming. Grandidier Collection. ..... 32

66. Porcelain with Cheng Te Mark

—Fig. 1. Slop bowl with full-face dragons holding shou characters, in

—underglaze blue in a yellow enamel ground. British Museum.

Fig. 2. Vase with engraved cloud designs in transparent coloured

glazes on the biscuit, green ground. Charteris Collection.

67. Blue and White Porcelain. Sixteenth Century .. 32

—Fig. 1. Bowl with Hsiian Te mark. Dresden Collection.
—Fig. 2. Covered bowl with fish design. Dresden Collection.
—Fig. 3. Bottle, peasant on ox. Eumorfopoulos Collection.
—Fig. 4. Bottle with lotus scrolls in mottled blue. Alexander Collection.

68. Blue and White Porcelain. Sixteenth Century .. 40
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—Fig. 1. Perfume vase, lions and balls of brocade, V. and A. Museum. 40
—Fig. 2. Double gourd vase, square in the lower part. Eight Immortals 40

pacing court to the God of Longevity, panels of children (wa wa). 46

—Eumorfopoulos Collection.

Fig. 3. Bottle with medallions of ch'i-lin and incised fret pattern be-
tween. Late Ming. Halsey Collection.

......69. Sixteenth Century Porcelain
—Fig. 1. Bowl of blue and white porcelain with silver gilt mount of
—Elizabethan period. British Museum.

Fig. 2. Covered jar, painted in dark underglaze blue with red, green

and yellow enamels ; fishes and water plants. Chia Ching mark.

S. E. Kennedy Collection. .....

70. Porcelain with Chia Ching mark

—Fig. 1. Box with incised Imperial dragons and lotus scrolls ; turquoise
—and dark violet glazes on the biscuit. V. and A. Museum.

Fig. 2. Vase with Imperial dragons in clouds, painted in yellow in an

iron red ground. Cologne Museum.

......71. Sixteenth Century Porcelain
—Figs. 1 and 2. Two ewers in the Dresden Collection, with transparent

green, aubergine and turquoise glazes on the biscuit, traces of gilding.

—In form of a phoenix, and of a crayfish.

Fig. 3. Bowl with flight of storks in a lotus scroll, enamels on the bis-

cuit, green, aubergine and white in a yellow ground. Chia Ching

mark. Alexander Collection.

.....over sea waves
72. Vase with Imperial five-clawed dragons in cloud scrolls

(Colour)

Band of lotus scrolls on the shoulder. Painted in dark Mohammedan blue.

Mark on the neck, of the Chia Ching period (1522-1566) in six

characters. V. & A. Museum.