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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE XXVI

701, 702. TWO GLOBULAR TEA-POTS with lion

handles and spouts. Borders and ground of floral and
geometrical design, with four circular floral medallions
with pierced centres; the handles and spouts modelled
as lions; on the lids a bird; the whole in vivid rose, yel-
low, blue, and green.

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

703. GLOBULAR BOWL with lion handles and

cover. Decoration similar to No. 700.

Ch'ien-lung (i 736-1 795). 3KHeight inches.

704 to 707. TEA-SET: tea-pot, ewer, plate, cup

and saucer. Each piece shows a trumpeter and a horn
blower in green and yellow on a ground of black en-
amel decorated in gold. Indo-Persian subjects from
European model.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795).

Height of tea-pot 4^^ inches.

708, 709. TWO PEAR-SHAPED TEA-POTS. The

female divinity who forms the chief decoration of this

little pair of wine ewers and carries on her shoulder a

basket of flowers suspended in the handle of a hoe,

is Hua-hsien, the so-called Taoist goddess of flowers.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Height 6>i inches.

71010713. FOUR FLUTED WINE-CUPS. Mi-

nute floral decoration on yellow and frog-spawn ground;

ochre-yellow interiors.

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

714,715. TWO MINIATURE CUPS and saucers.

Red and green lotus and foliated borders enclosing

sprays of flowers in delicate enamels.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722).

Cups: Height I >< inches.

3XSaucers: Diameter inches.

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