Page 108 - J. P Morgan Collection of Chinese Art and Porcelain

CASE D] THE MORGAN COLLECTION

Han, with his familiar three-legged toad, is conspicuous.

AMark: double ring pencilled in blue.

K'ang-hsi (1662- 1722). Height 2c^}i inches.

4. INVERTED PEAR-SHAPED VASE with beak-

er neck, spreading lip and base. On opposite sides of

the body two Imperial yellow-breasted phcenixes,
with purple and green wings and red crests, stand on
green rocks, from behind which spring red, buff, and
rose-colored peonies with green and purple leaves,
and red and pink peach trees in whose branches, which

cover the neck, are yellow finches with purple wings.
Painted in brilliant enamel colors on fine translucent

white porcelain, and probably originally destined for

a ground-work in black enamel.

Mark: Ta Ming Ch'eng-hiia nien chih (Made in the

—reign of Cheng-hua of the great Ming dynasty).

[ 1 465- 1 487 apocryphal.]

K'ang-hsi (1662- 1722). Height 28 inches.

(plate xviii)

5, 6. TWO LARGE ARMORIAL PLATES. Fine

white porcelain with brilliant decoration in five color
enamels of late seventeenth or early eighteenth cen-

tury. Made in China to fill an order from Holland,
and carrying the armorial bearings of Brabant.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). Diameter i6>^ and 14 inches.

7. LARGE BEAKER, with decoration of peonies

and pheasants amid rocks and flowers. Tessellated
pattern about the shoulder, and on the neck a design
of asters and other flowers.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Height 30 inches.

CASE E

1,2. TWO CHIM/^RAS OR LIONS. Decoration

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