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838. CRUDELY-MADE JUG, with carved neck and applied handles, and heart-shaped

panels on the sides, with applied ornamental details. Rudely made and crudely
decorated with strong amber and creamy-white with touches of blue and green glaze.

Height I2| inches. Frankly this piece is a puzzle. It is believed to have been
recovered from a T'ang grave, and has every appearance of being a piece of Byzantine

or North Italian work.

839. FIGURE OF A WOMAN KNEELING ON HER RIGHT KNEE. In hard

coarse reddish stoneware covered with thick glaze iridescent with age ; tall basket

on head, she bears a child which is attached by a cord round her neck. The quality
of the glaze of this and other pieces of the same period shown in this Case and in
the top part of Case Ee strongly recall the earlier Babylonian and Syrian glazes.
Height lof inches. Han D5masty.

This specimen was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1911, and is

illustrated in the catalogue.

840. CRUDELY-SHAPED EWER OR WATER JUG, with square neck and curious

spout and twisted dragon handles, a modelled spider lies at the base of the spout.

Warm buff-coloured earthenware. Rudely decorated with stripes and patches of

green, yellow and earthy-brown glazes. Height ii| inches. T'ang.

This piece again is strongly reminiscent of early Byzantine wares such as were
afterwards developed into the mezza-majolicas of Northern Italy.

841. ELEGANT BOTTLE-SHAPED VASE, with wide neck, much restored, in dense

Abuff coloured stoneware. coating of white slip has been applied to the vase on

which a skilfully painted leaf spray forming a scroll round the body has been painted

in black. Bright bluish-green glaze over-all. Height 9J inches. Described as

early Ming, but probably much earlier.

Lent by G. Eumorfo'poulos, Esq.

842. SEMI-CIRCULAR RIDGE TILE, bearing a figure of a priest standing on waves

and carrying a scroll clasped in his arms. Coarse buff stoneware. The figure is
strongly and boldly modelled and painted with bright green and yellow glazes touched

Ahere and there, as on the head-dress, beard and shoes, with underglaze black.

most distinctive and striking piece of early work. Height 14 inches. Early Ming.

Lent by R. H. Benson, Esq.

843. SHAPED PILLOW OF HARD BUFF STONEWARE, faced with white slip

through which the ornament is engraved, covered with the creamy-white glaze

characteristic of the period. On the top of the pillow, four figures with drawn swords,
against a background diapered with small circles. On the back a panel with two

ducks swimming on water with lotus flowers, the background again diapered with
small circles. The front panel has a fiorcd scroU with a similar diapered background,
and the side panels are diapered with interlacing circles all scraped through the slip.
The base is unglazed and engraved with a seated figure under a fir tree playing a flute.
Perhaps Po Shan ware. Length iij inches. Sung.

Lent by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

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