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714- FLAT DISH, with broad beautifully modelled rim, standing on three feet ; the inside

with clouded clair de lune, and the outside with opalescent peach-coloured glaze.
Chiin Yao. 2| inches high, 8 inches diameter. Sung.

715. SMALL SAUCER, modelled in shape of a leaf, much incurved at the rim. Buff stone-

ware, with a finely crackled glaze of opaque turquoise colour. 3^ inches diameter.

Lent by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

716. ELEGANT BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE, with perforated porcelain stand. The

vase and the stand have been made separately, but have been united in the firing
so as to make one piece. Apart from its elegant proportions, this piece is noteworthy

as a beautiful example of the fine opalescent clair de lune glaze. 8 inches high. Sung.

717. SMALL TRAY OF COARSE PORCELAIN, exceedingly thick opaque turquoise

glaze, much bubbled and crazed, i inch by 3^ inches. Yuan.

This is probably the earliest example of turquoise glaze in the Exhibition, and

is obviously a piece made by a potter who had not mastered the secrets of this peculiar

glaze.

Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

718. BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE, with narrow neck. Greyish-white porcelain with opaque

ill-fired turquoise glaze, with splashes of cobalt blue on the shoulder. Height 7 inches.

Early Ming.

Lent by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

719. SMALL BOWL, of dense grey stoneware or coarse porcelain, with thick opalescent
clair de lune glaze. Height lA inches. Width 3J inches. Sung—Yuan.

Lent by R. H. Benson, Esq.

720. COMPANION TO No. 714.

721. BEAKER, with expanded mouth, applied toothed ribs, carrying out the idea of an

ancient bronze shape. Dense grey stoneware with an almost opaque grey glaze.
Yi Hsing ware. Height 8 inches. 17th century.

722. FOUR-LOBED BOWL OF FINE GREYISH PORCELAIN, with flattened everted

rim of elegant outline, the sides prolonged into carved feet, with fine clair de lune
glaze, with the so-called crab claw markings. Diameter 7I inches, height 2j inches.
Chiin Yao. Sung.

723. OVAL SHALLOW DISH, with broad rim and six small straight feet in greyish

porcelain with thick lumpy clair de lune glaze, very much- crackled and with lines
of crackle filled in with black. Apparently an attempt to reproduce a vessel shaped

in stone. 7 inches diameter. 2 inches high.

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