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CHINESE PORCELAINS
No. 42
Tall Jar ("rouge d'or"), oviform, and of brilliant-white porcelain.
The jar is painted in rich colors of the "famille rose" variety, with the ground enameled
in a rare and beautiful shade of carmine souffle, of velvety texture; studded with chrys-
anthemum blossoms in various half-tone and opaque enamels, also interrupted by large
white reserved panels and medallions of varied shape (including double circles, fan, and
scroll outlines), which are dispersed over the body and separately decorated with floral
—subjects r'.e., peach blossoms, peonies, the "hand of Buddha",^ and other sprays of flowers
or branches with blossoms.
The shoulder and the base-line are embellished with brocaded borders in green and
blue, in contrasting half-tones, interrupted by small white vignettes that inclose sprigs of
flowers.
The foot is white and without mark.
Era of Yung-cheng (I 723-1 735).
Height, I 3 inches without cover.
Dicuneter, 10 inches.
'The "hand of Buddha" ("Fo-show") is a "hand of Fo" or "Buddha"). The fruit is made
peculiar kind of citrus fruit cultivated to terminate to run into rind, the odor of which is powerful and
in long, narrow points like fingers (hence called
pleasant.
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