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CHINESE PORCELAINS
No. 7
Small Jar, blue and white, slender ovoid form, fine hard-textured porce-
lain, with low flat cover.
The motive of the decoration, which is in brilliant blue under a perfect glaze, consists
in conventionalized " feather " or fern scrolls, involving small floral buds with a double
lancet-shape interior : a symbolic design of ancient form found only on small objects of
good quality.
The small cover sustains a similar design.
The foot bears a leaf-mark.
Era of Kang-hsi (1662-1722).
Height, 6 inches.
Diameter, 3 inches.
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