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CHINESE PORCELAINS
depicted in various colors ; interspersed, and around these medallions on the rose-colored
ground, are flying storks in "white-slip" decoration.
The low bell-shaped cover, surmounted by a grotesque "dog Fo," is modern, and deco-
rated with leaf-shaped panels mclosing floral subjects corresponding to those on the jar.
This large jar shows the charactenstic cnmson derived from gold, with other half-
toned enamels invented under Yung-cheng (I 723-1 735).
Height, 37 inches with cover.
Diameter, 81 ' 2 inches.
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