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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 12
Pair of Small Bottles, blue and white, with compressed body and long
cylindrical neck, of hard-paste porcelain.
Decorated in a lotus-flower arabesque motive, boldly rendered in dark blue, under
the glaze, with stems ananged in conventional form of ornament, characteristic of early
periods.
Long conventional lotus leaves sunound the neck from the shoulder, and a small
series of leaves encircle the upper part near the rim, that is finished by a chevron fret
border.
The base is surrounded by a series of dots ananged in groups on the white body.
Era of K'ang-hsi (1662-1722).
Height, 6V2 inches.
Diameter, 3 V4 inches.
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