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ing lip; lotus-petals modelled in relief around the body.

Reproduction of ancient Chiin-yao.

Yung-cheng (1722-1735). Height 7 inches.

3. CLAIR DE LUNE OVOID VASE with chimera

handles and rudimentary rings modelled in imitation

of a Han bronze and invested with a pale gray-lavender

glaze. Height 14 inches.

Ch'ien-Iung (1736-1795).

TWO4, 5. BOWLS. The outside reticulated in

hexagonal fret, interrupted by six circular medallions

pierced as flowers, and painted in enamel. Inside are

blue sprays of flowers and a floral border in blue, red

and yellow.

Mark: Ta Ching K'ang-hsi nien chih (Made in the reign

of K'ang-hsi of the great Ching dynasty).

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). Diameter 6 inches.

6 to 9. FOUR CELADON PLATES. Fourteenth

or fifteenth century; the largest 22 inches in diameter.

Of exceedingly heavy kaolinic ware, with broadly

treated floral design modelled in the body, fluted sides,
and foliated rim. This is an exceedingly fine specimen
of mariabani, the vessels so celebrated in Persia, and

which were famed for their alleged property of dis-

closing the presence of poison by changing their color.
The smaller plates are of the same period. Nearly all

specimens of this character reach us by way of Persia

and India.

10. FLOWER BOWL {hua fen) intended for

bulbs of flowering narcissus, with mottled glaze of

flamhe character, of Sung dynasty. Chiin-chou ware
(Chiin-yao). It has underneath the numeral ssii (four)
stamped in the paste under the glaze.

Diameter 9 inches.

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