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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE N
"mark" the numeral san (three) incised in the paste
underneath the foot.
Height 7 inches.
10. CRACKLED CELADON ROUND-SHOULD-
ERED VASE (mei-p'ing) of Lung-ch'iian yao, perhaps
dating from the Sung dynasty. The decoration con-
sists of designs worked in the paste under the glaze,
which is of grass-green tone.
Height 8 inches.
1 1. PEAR-SHAPED VASE of Sung dynasty Kuan
yao.
Height 6 inches.
12. QUADRANGULAR VASE of the Yuan dynasty,
mounted on a circular vase, with three scrolled feet.
It is moulded with the eight trigrams {pa kua), in relief,
and with elephants' heads as handles.
Height 8 inches.
13. GLOBULAR WATER VESSELof flattened form,
having the circularly rimmed mouth, as it were, depress-
ed, covered with a soft gray-blue {yueh pai) glaze of
clair de lune tone. It has the six-character imperial
mark of the reign of K'ang-hsi penciled underneath in
cobalt blue.
K'ang-hsi (1662- 1722). Diameter 4 inches.
14. CH'IEN LUNG WATER VESSELof globular
shape, invested with a monochrome glaze of pale green-
ish tint. The "mark" is an imperial seal of the reign
penciled underneath in blue. The foot rim is coated
iron gray, suggestive of the old iron-boned Ju-chou
ware {T'ieh-kii ju yao), of the Sung dynasty, the paste
of which was of this particular color.
Diameter 5 inches.
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