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CHINESE PORCELAINS

bands that finish the upper and lower edges, with a purple line on either side. Sprays
of florcJ blossoms finish the shoulders.

A white-edged margin with fine purple lines frames the four panels, and completes

an altogether characteristic decorative design, that is enhanced by the wonderful richness
of the colored enamels, exemplifying one of the rare types produced under the Ejnperor
K'ang-hsi, and ascribed to the prefecture of Lang.

The foot is partly in biscuit and incloses a sunken white-glazed panel with the six
character-marks in blue of Ch'^ng-hua (1 465-1 487) of the Ming dynasty (apocryphcJ).

The combined colors attest its provenance as early K'ang-hsi or Ts'ing-yao.
Height, 19^8 inches.
Diameter at shoulder, 5^8 inches.
Diameter at base, 4^8 inches.
From the collection of Chang-yen Huan, formerly Minister at Washington and

special Imperial envoy to England for the Queen's Jubilee.

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