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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE XXIV

597, 598. TWO PEAR-SHAPED WINE-POTS. A

green cracked-ice ground with bands of purple and red
lotus petals and red prunus blossoms supports two

white peach-shaped reserves with flowers in bright

colors.

K'ang-hsi (i 662-1 722). Height 8 inches.

599, 600. TWO PEAR-SHAPED TEA-POTS. Bril-

liant floral decoration partly in relief, on a ground of

black curl-pattern.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Height 5 inches.

601. DOME-SHAPED TEA-POT with upright

handle. Moulded in eight vertical panels enclosing
flowers in brilliant colors; the handle imitates wound

cane.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). Height 6>< inches.

TWO602, 603. LIONS, one bearing a vase and the

character Yii, the other a metal receptacle for incense,

on the lid of which sits an elephant. Pale green tricked

with yellow and rose.

K'ang-hsi (i 662-1 722). 4^Height inches.

(plate xlii)

604. RECEPTACLE FOR INCENSE on a carved

wood stand. Modelled in the shape of two pink gourds

springing from pale-green leaves with tendrils; on one

leaf a rose-colored butterfly rests.

Mark: Ch'ien-lung seal, three-eighths inch square,

in purple blue. 4KHeight inches.
Ch'ien-lung (i 736-1 795).

605. WINE-CUP, quadri-foliate. Floral ornament

on frog-spawn.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722).

2^Height I >^ inches. Diameter inches.

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