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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE V

overlaid with gold in rich floral scrolls and panels

filled with po ku vases and emblems, so as to frame a

central picture with a foliated outline shaped like an

eight-petalled lotus blossom, which is framed with a

floral scroll in white reserve on a coral red ground.

The picture, which is enamelled in brilliant colors, with

occasional touches of gold, exhibits a Chinese Em-

peror and Empress seated in a pavilion on the bank

of a lake with dragon screens in the background. In

the foreground court ladies are gathering lotus flowers

in boats on the lake, and one is kneeling before the

imperial dais presenting one of the flowers.

Mark: A pair of fish suspended by fillets within a large

double ring.

Kang-hsi (1662- 1722). Diameter 20K inches.

loi, 102. TWO GLOBULAR BOTTLES with tap-

ering necks and expanding lips. Decoration of diverse
ornament and leaf-forms.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). 9XHeight inches.

103. CUP. Powder-blue, with reserves containing

spray of flowers.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). Height 3 inches.

104, 105. TWO COVERED PERFUME-BOXES.

Arabesques of flowers and leafage. The handles are
modelled in open-work relief in the shape of a branch of
pine and two squirrels, and tinted green with touches

of black.

Mark: A ling-chih (sacred fungus).

Perhaps of older date than K'ang-hsi (1662-1722).
Diameter ^yi inches.

106, 107. TWO MINIATURE COVERED POTS.

Closely woven decoration of floral ornament.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). 2%Height inches.

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