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.....ENAMELS. British Museum
119. Yung Cheng Porcelain, painted at Canton with famille rose

—Fig. 1. 208
—Fig 2.
—Fig. 3." Seven border " Plate. Transition
—Fig. 4.Eggshell Cup and Saucer with painter's marks.
Eggsiiell Plate witli vine border.
Armorial Plate with arms of Leake Okeover.

enamels, about 1723.

120. Covered Jar or Potiche, painted in famille rose or " foreign 222
COLOURS " (yang ts'ai) with baskets of flowers (Colour) 224

Deep borders of ruby red enamel broken by small panels and floral
designs. On the cover is a lion coloured with enamels on the
biscuit. From a set of five vases and beakers in the Collection of
Lady Wantage. Late Yung ChSng period (1723-1735).

121. Two Beakers and a Jar from sets of five, famille rose

....enamels. Late Yung Cheng porcelain

—Fig. 1. Beaker with " harlequin " ground. S. E. Kennedy Collection.
—Fig. 2. Jar with dark blue glaze gilt and leaf-shaped reserves. Burdett-

—Coutts Collection.

Fig. 3. Beaker with fan and picture-scroll panels, etc., in a deep ruby
pink ground. Wantage Collection.

122. White Porcelain with designs in low relief . . . 232
236
—Fig. 1. Vase, peony scroll, ju-i border, etc. Ch'ien Lung period. 240
240
—O. Raphael Collection.

Fig. 2. Bottle with " garlic mouth," Imperial dragons in clouds.
Creamy crackled glaze imitating Ting ware. Early eighteenth

—century. Salting Collection.

Fig. 3. ^Vase with design of three rams, symbolising Spring. Ch'ien

Lung period. W. Burton Collection. (Colour)

....123. Eighteenth Century Glazes
—Fig. 1. Square Vase with tubular handles, and apricot-shaped medal-
lions on front and back. Flambi red glaze. Ch'ien Lung period

—(1736-1795). Britisli Museum.

Fig. 2. Bottle-shaped Vase with deep blue (ta cii'ing) glaze : unglazed

—base. Early eighteenth century. British Museum.

Fig. 3. Vase with fine iron red enamel (mo hung) on the exterior. Ch'ien

&Lung period (1736-1795). VSalting Collection, A. Museum.

.......124. Miscellaneous Porcelains
—Fig. 1. Magnolia Vase with flambe glaze of crackled lavender with red
—and blue streaks. Ch'ien Lung period. Alexander Collection.

Fig. 2. Bottle with elephant handles, yellow, purple, green, and white

—glazes on the biscuit. Ch'ien Lung period. British Museum.

Fig. 3. Dish with fruit design in lustrous transparent glazes on the

biscuit, covering a faintly etched dragon pattern. K'ang Hsi mark.

British Museum.

....125. Ch'ien Lung Wares. Hippisley Collection
—Fig. 1. Brush Pot of enamelled Ku-yueh-hsuan glass, Ch'ien Lung

—mark.

Fig. 2. Bottle, porcelain painted in Ku-yueh style, after a picture by
the Ch'ing artist Wang Shih-mei.

—Fig. 3. Imperial Presentation Cup marked hsU hua fang chih tsing.
—Fig. 4. Medallion Vase, brocade ground with bats in clouds, etc, Ch'ien

Lung mark.