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5. BEAKER-SHAPED VASE of four-lobed section

covered with a thick crackled glaze of bluish celadon
tone, overspread in places with bright red blotches, and

mottled with an occasional spot of yellow color. A

reproduction of a Kuanyao piece of the Sung dynasty.

Height 8 inches.

6. MOTTLED FAIENCE INCENSE BURNER

(hsiang-lu) mounted on six legs with a pedestal modelled
as part of the piece. The body, of rounded form, is
moulded with three rams' heads in relief, alternating
with three triangular studs. Three rams (san yang k'ai

Atai) a.re symbols of the revivifying power of spring.

primitive specimen of the Chtin-chou kilns {Chiin yao),
dating back to the Yuan, if not to the Sung, dynasty.

Height 6}4 inches.

7. WHITE BOWL with wide spreading sides, deco-

rated with floral scrolls lightly worked in the paste under

the glaze. A specimen of Sung dynasty Ting yao. The

Ting-chou kilns, it is well known, furnished the original
models after which, according to tradition, the early
Ming eggshell bowls of the reign of Yung-lo were

fashioned.

Diameter 8 inches.

8. BOWL, smaller than the last, of Sung dynasty

Ting-yao, mounted with a copper collar around the
rim. The decoration, which is moulded in relief in the
paste under the glaze in the interior of the bowl, con-
sists of formal panels of flowers, and a border of rectan-

gular fret running round the rim.
Diameter 6 inches.

9. ANCIENT MOTTLED CHUN YAO VASE of

the Sung dynasty, with bulbous mouth, having as a

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