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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 59
Small Cabinet Bottle, of globular form, with long slender neck, of fine
white hard-textured porcelain.
Painted in colored enamels similar to its companion, but with a lighter design and
smaller foliage.
The motive includes conventionalized convolvulus flow^ers, upon delicate wavy vine-
like stems covered with small leaves, and unifomily distributed in red, yellow, green, and
blue over the glcize, in varying tints.
The shoulder carries a brocaded border, with similar detail, on a stippled aubergine
ground, and the cylindrical neck is encircled with a brocaded fret bordering at the
upper rim.
The foot bears a mark like that on its companion (No. 60).
Ascribed to the eighteenth century.
Height, 9^ 8 inches.
Diameter, 4^4 inches.
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