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CHINESE PORCELAINS
No. 30
A Multifoil Vase ( " blanc de Chine " ), of rare technique, having a
melon-grooved globular body with overhanging lobes that are scal-
loped in fungiform, or lancet-shaped.
The fine white paste blended with the glaze shows a satiny texture as well as a
beautiful design, which is uniformly sustained in low relief, and delicately molded in
the paste ; the arabesque motive, involving the tiger-lily and foliage, is continued on
the round surfaces between the grooves and running into the neck, and the lip of each
fungiform lobe sustains an archaic emblematic bat in low relief.
A raised band of palmation finishes the base.
The underneath panel of foot includes an imposed seal-mark of the era Yung-chfeng
(1723-1735).
Height, 8^'s inches.
Dicuneter, 6 inches.
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