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CASE Bb

THIS CASE CONTAINS A CHOICE COLLECTION OF THE DELICATE
CLAIR DE LUNE AND "PEACH BLOW" PIECES, AS WELL
AS FOUR EXAMPLES OF THE RARE AND FAMOUS
"HARE'S FUR" BOWLS, OF SUNG—MING
DYNASTIES (loth to 14th CENTURY)

707. LARGE OVIFORM VASE OF COARSE PORCELAIN, beautifully decorated

with floral scrolls, carved in relief, and the background strongly hatched. Two
boys may be seen among the scrolls on the shoulder of the vase. Covered with a

thick and very transparent glaze of soft greenish tone. 16 inches high. Sung.

(plate XV.)

This is one of the most beautiful and wonderful pieces of porcelain in the

Exhibition.

708. BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE, with expanded bulbous neck of fine white porcelain.

The lower part of the vase contains three rows of strongly modelled, imbricated leaves,
while the bulbous neck is in the form of a seed vessel, the seeds, which are unglazed,
being movable in the glazed rim. The vase is covered with a thick, bright blue opal-
escent glaze, with one solitary lunette shaped blood-red splash. This is a striking
example of the pitch to which the later Chinese potters carried their archaistic

reproductions of ancient glazes. 10 inches high. Yi Hsing ware. 17th or i8th

century.

709. VASE, with globular body, cylindrical neck and expanding mouth, with rudimentary

applied handles on the neck. Coarse greyish porcelain, with an exceedingly thick

opalescent glaze, which runs down in tears over the foot of the vase. Where the glaze

is sufficiently thick, it is clouded, in opalescent patches, with the beautiful clair de lune ;

—where it is thinner it becomes transparent and of a pale amber colour. 9 inches high.

Sung Yuan.

This vase was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1911.

710. TALL BALUSTER-SHAPED VASE OF DENSE STONEWARE, with thick

opalescent glaze, dair de lune, and three distinct splashes of blood-red. 12 inches high.
(PLATE XIV.)

Another archciistic piece of the 18th century.

711. OVIFORM VASE, with narrow neck, fine dense grey stoneware, beautiful opalescent

clair de lune glaze, much-crackled. 9J inches high. Southern Chinese. Ming period.

Lent by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

712 JAR, with two small loop handles, in early greyish porcelain, with a thick unctuous
clair de lune glaze with blood-red splashes. 6 inches high. Yuan D5masty.
Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

713. FLATTENED BOWL OF DENSE STONEWARE OR COARSE PORCELAIN,

with peach-coloured opalescent glaze. The famous Chiin Yao of early times. 3^ inches
high by 6 inches wide. Sung.

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