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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 2
Pair of Jars, blue hawthorn pattern, cylindrical form, with low bell-
shaped covers, fine hard-paste porcelain, invested with a brilliant-blue
painting under a faultless glazing.
The decoration presents a modulated and translucent blue ground, with network
and crossings in a darker shade to resemble the fissures in breaking ice, interrupted by
foliated and fan-shaped medallions, and clusters of prunus or peach blossoms, in white
reserve, distributed here and there over the blue field.
The several panels sustain flowers and herbage growing amid or near large silicic
pointed rocks, all carefully rendered in relucent blue of varying shades.
The covers, with knobs, are similarly decorated, and also include fan and leaf me-
dallions with flowers.
A white margin is shown at rim and base.
The undemeath foot bears a double blue ring-mark under the glaze.
Period of K'ang-hsi (1662-1722).
Height, 7 '/2 inches.
Diameter, 5 ^li inches.
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