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CHINESE PORCELAINS
No. 50
Tall Wine-pot, of hexagonal form, decorated "sur biscuit" in the early
"famille verte" style, including a heavy greenish-black enamel body-
color of brilliant quality.
Each of the six sides contains a raised upright panel with pierced and finely modeled
lotus flowers, glcized in transparent ivory and green tints.
The shoulders sustain a lotus brocaded band of light-green ground, with red and light-
purple flowering, and the neck is also inclosed by a light-green brocaded band, with a
separate fungiform symbol on each side.
The base is finished by a series of red and white palm leaves, and includes a narrow
border in red tracery at the foot.
The handle partakes the curved form of a leaping fish, and is glazed in amber-color,
with red fins; the curved spout springs from the mouth of a turtle in rudimentary form,
and is also glazed in amber-yellow.
The cover is pierced with a lotus design, modeled and picked out in glaze to match
the pot.
The foot is biscuit and without mark.
Ascribed to early K'ang-hsi, the form represents em early Ming lyp)e.
Height, 6 4 inches.
'
Diameter, 4 inches.
6T
