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CASE F] the morgan COLLECTION

right foot on her scarf; on the left another child in

light-cobalt jacket and light-rose trousers peeps across
her knee at the other and holds a rose lotus flower

and green leaf in his right hand. Behind is a large jar
tinted in blue and green, with white scrolls and dragons
on the body, and beyond it another of brownish red

cracked-ice pattern; behind all a pale yellow brown-

spotted bamboo table with cobalt-tinted top on which

to the right lie two boxes of books with rose and green
tops and sides, and a brilliant ultramarine vase with

pink and green scrolls, and a white gold-mounted fly-
flap; and to the left a gold incense-burner, a purplish
vase with two gold-eyed green peacock feathers and
a branch of crimson coral and fungus. Outside the

gold-grounded centre is a border of black-flowered

lozenge on pale green; next, a gold-edged border of
deep rose with water-dragons in pale greenish-blue

interrupted by four oblong reserves with rounded
and indented ends defined in gold and green, each

with a lotus flower with scroll leaves in white on a co-

balt ground Next is a narrow gold-edged border of

delicate black scroll on cafe-aii-lait. On the edge a
gold-edged pattern of black Y on greenish-blue; next,

black-flowered octagon and square pattern on rose,

interrupted by four white oblong reserves, the rounded

ends bordered with rose, each with a spray of rose

camellia, chrysanthemum, peony, or rose camellia,
with rose and yellow lotus; midway between these
white reserves are four rounded jade-like reserves

showing scroll water-dragons incised in the paste.
Outside all a border of lotus flowers with scroll leaves

in gold on white. Diameter S}i inches.
Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795).

(plate xxi)

22. RUBY-BACKED PLATE. Egg-shell porce- i

lain. The centre is grounded with black Y-pattern

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