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750- GLOBULAR VASE, with short neck and flattened rim, warmish-grey early porcelain,

with a creamy opaque glaze of soft texture and dullish surface, bearing a broadly

—sketched design in still black. Tz'ii Chou ware. Height lo inches. Sung Ming.

Lent hy G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

751. DOUBLE GOURD VASE, warmish-grey early porcelain, with a creamy opaque glaze

of soft texture and dullish surface, bearing a skilfully- drawn spray of flowers on the

lower vase, and rapidly sketched leaves above. The flowers have been painted

—with firm crisp touches in black underglaze. Tz'ii Chou ware. Height 13 inches.

Sung Ming.

Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

752. FLATTENED BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE, with short narrow neck, of early grey

porcelain, with creamy opaque glaze, bearing an intricate and delicately drawn
design showing traces of Persian influence, though the details are purely Chinese,

—all painted in underglaze black which is brown in the thin touches. Tz'ii Chou ware.

8 inches high. Sung Ming.

Lent by R. H. Benson, Esq.

753. FIGURE OF SHOU-LAO HOLDING JU-I SCEPTRE; pale buff-grey stone-

ware, or early porcelain, with a smooth ivory coloured, broadly crackled glaze of
the Tu-Ting type. 11 inches high. Early Ming, (plate xiv.)

This piece, which is most distinguished in the style of modelling and the quality
of the ware, was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1911, and is illustrated

in the catalogue.

754. SMALL BALUSTER-SHAPED JAR, with narrow neck and everted rim, mounted

with a narrow bronze fillet, early white porcelain, with soft creamy white glaze over
delicately incised floral arabesques in three bands round the vase with an incised
key-pattern border at the base. Ting Yao. 4-| inches high. Sung.

Lent by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

755. SLENDER VASE OF FINE WHITE PORCELAIN, the shape reminiscent of an

opening hly bud, with a soft creamy-white glaze. Fukien. 4 inches high. Ming.

This elegant little piece, of later date, is shown here to mark the technical changes
that took place in Chinese porcelain between the 12th and the I7th-i8th centuries.

Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

756. ELEGANT BALUSTER-SHAPED VASE, with short neck and flattened rim of

early greyish porcelain, with a skilfully drawn design of floral arabesques and hatched

—ground arranged in four bands round the body and shoulder of the vase, and painted

in underglaze black. Tz'ii Chou. Sung Ming, (plate xiv.)

Compare the style and strong ornament on this vase with that on No. 649 in tur-
quoise glaze shown in Case Y.

Lent by R. H. Benson, Esq.

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