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375 and 376. PAIR OF SQUARE WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLES, each side painted

with a pair of ladies standing in a garden, in cobalt blue. ii| inches high. K'ang-Hsi.

These represent the best type of blue and white, made for the Dutch merchants
for the European import trade of the early 17th century.

Lent by Dr. Lloyd Roberts

377. TALL JAR-SHAPED VASE OF WHITE PORCELAIN, bearing a raised pattern

of growing flowering shrubs, with birds skilfully painted in raised sUp, coloured in
underglaze cobalt blue. The flowers are in white, touched in with rich underglaze
red, and the ground is covered with a soft, rich celadon glaze. i5f inches high.

K'ang-Hsi.

Lent by F. W. Jackson, Esq.

378. TRUMPET-NECKED VASE OF WHITE PORCELAIN, painted with group

of figures in a garden, trees, &c., in dark cobalt blue with a greenish tinge. 13 inches

high, K'ang-Hsi.

Lent by T. Haslam, Esq.

379. SMALL CIRCULAR BRUSH-WASHING VASE, of white porcelain painted with

figures, trees, &c., in underglaze blue.

380. ELEGANT WHITE PORCELAIN BOTTLE, with slender double-gourd neck,
i8th
painted with detached sprays of flowers, in underglaze blue. 7^ inches high.

century.

Lent by E. F. M. Susman, Esq.

381. SHALLOW WHITE PORCELAIN DISH, decorated with a single spray of prunus

and two birds. The branches and the birds are painted in cobalt blue, but the white
flowers and prunus are painted in raised white porcelain slip, and touched in with
underglaze red. 8^ inches diameter. K'ang-Hsi.

Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

382. WIDE SCALLOPED PLATE OR LARGE SAUCER, pamted in underglaze blue

of fine quality. 8 inches diameter. K'ang-Hsi.

Lent by G. Eumorfopoulos, Esq.

383. VASE, with short neck, white porcelain, painted decoration of prunus in underglaze
blue and red. 8^ inches high. Yung Cheng.

The shade of red on this vase and on vase No. 354, in Case O, approaches the
colour of the glaze known to "
collectors as peach blow."

Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.

384. OVOID VASE OF WHITE PORCELAIN, with plain wood cover, painted with

floral arabesques and conventional borders in dark cobalt blue, 6 inches high with
cover. i8th century.

Lent by G. B. Blair, Esq.

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