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PLATE XXIV
Bottle with slender pear-shaped body and tall neck
expanding slightly towards the mouth ; hollow foot. Grey
pottery body with dressing of white slip and incised ornament,
and a transparent glaze locally coloured, viz. a broad belt with
foliage scroll, white in a green ground, bordered with yellow.
The glaze on the neck is a beautiful pearly white and of great
depth and solidity ; it stops below the decorated part.
The resemblance of the design to the Gothic scrolls such
as appear on European mediaeval textiles and on the pavement
tiles from Chertsey Abbey and elsewhere, is interesting
though probably fortuitous.
Tang dynasty. H. 85".
In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos.
