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CHINESE PORCELAINS
No. 60
Small Cabinet Bottle, of globular form, with a slender cylindrical neck,
in fine white hard-textured porcelain, and painted in colored enamels.
The design carries conventionalized convolvulus flowers with fine scrolled vines and
leaves ; all are carefully rendered and uniformly disposed in varying tints of green, yel-
low, red, and blue over the glaze.
The shoulder carries a brocaded border, with similar detail and flowers, on a stippled
aubergine ground, and the long neck is encircled by a brocaded fret bordering at the
upper rim.
The foot bears a mark which is an imitation by the Chinese of old delft faience.
Ascribed to the eighteenth century.
Height, 9' 2 inches.
Diameter, 4' 4 inches.
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