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CHINESE PORCELAINS
No. 38
mSmall Amphora or Vase, elegant form, of the finest white ("Ts'ing-yao")
porcelam.
TTus vase is invested with a brilliant and deep peach-colored glaze (" couleur-de-
peche"), solidly and evenly covering the body and the interior of neck, its delicate mottling
mutating the ripened shadings on the skin of a p)each ; the form and texture combined make
one of the most prized objects eimong the rare and beautiful peach-bloom class.
Tlie underneath foot has a fine edge and bears in blue, under glaze, the six char-
acters, Ta-ming, K'ang-hsi, Nien-chi (1662-1722).
Height, 6 inches.
Dicmaeter, 2 ' g inches.
From the Startseff Collection, Tientsin.
5']
