Page 260 - Chinese porcelains collected by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio, by John Getz

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A CATALOGUE OF

Tall Square Vase, with light-green ground, of the so-called hawthorn
class, its rectangular form tapering lownward horn the shoulders, with

a slightly flaring cylindrical neck.

The paste is hard ;^reeably sustaining a soft light-green
usly blending with the emblenwitic
glazing that is of rare
flowering plants, render masterly freedom and much delicacy, in
the typical glazes of tK
te.'
ELach of the four \>
peony, for spring, «»ason by its distinctive flower e.g., the

marked branches, — TOEH. How, with the knotted and strongly
amid other herb.i-^^' ging from near large pointed rocks,
^ p purple, and yellow glazes,
The lotus, for suit:
^the second panel, with large leaves.
its seed and long ster
ducks in the fore, ' and among (eras and grass; two

The chrysanthc .-osition.

large rocks that projr^ : among

greens, yellow, purple, .

color. nted on the

The blossoms of the v\n' '

fourth side, rooted close to iches knotted

mand knurled to suggest an old i.ec, and glazed neutral-toned aubergine with dark

hatchings; the foliage is picked out in varying shades of green, while the blossoms are

in white reserve, with yellow in the coronas, carefully drawn in various sizes from the

full-grown blossom to the smallest buds; two magpies hover above, one of which is

yellow and the other purple, while both have green wings ; a small disk represents the

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obiectt,

!t;Mi the huif'ci'jf

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