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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE XXXV

cately pencilled in red, is disporting in the firmament
with fire-emblems.

K'ang-hsi (1662- 1722). Height 8 inches.

877, 878. TWO CYLINDRICAL VASES, club-

shaped. White porcelain, very richly decorated in
bright polychrome with landscapes and figures, re-

presenting a Chinese court ceremonial, brilliant per-

sonages in pagodas set in highly wrought landscapes
with elaborate accessories.

K'ang-hsi (1662-1722). Height ig}< inches.

879. LARGE BASIN OR FISH-BOWL, with

straight flange rim. Decorated with ducks and water-
plants boldly painted in blue, red, green, and yellow
enamels of the later Mings, on heavy, dense-white

glaze.

Mark: Below the rim, written horizontally, Ta Ming
Wan-li nien chih (Made in the reign of Wan-li of the

great Ming dynasty). Diameter 17^ inches.
Wan-li (1573-1619).

CASE XXXVI

880,881. TWO BEAKERS with straight necks,

spreading lips, slightly spreading bases, and scroll han-
dles modelled in the form of the fungus {ling-chih),
on carved ebony stands. One is purplish-blue, with
a peony springing from behind a rock modelled in low-
line relief, the buff color of the paste showing through
the glaze in the flower and rock and in parts of the han-

dles.

In the other a dark purplish-blue ground supports a
conventional lotus flower with scroll-like leaves model-
led in low relief. The orange-colored paste shows al-
most purely in the flower and partially through the

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