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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE XXXVI

covered with a broadly treated floral design in various

shades of purple.

Early Ming (i 368-1643). Height 12 inches.

886. LONG-NECKED VASE, octagonal with flar-

ing mouth. Purple aubergine glaze with archaic dragon
coiled round the neck in high relief. Typical piece
of old Kuang-yao, with archaic designs worked in
relief, and filled in with mottling glazes of finely
crackled texture. The iron gray color of the pate is
seen on inspection of the foot underneath.

Height 1 1 inches.

887. OVIFORM FLATTENED VASE. Fine dark

metallic blue crackle. Southern China, sixteenth cen-

tury. Height 73,^ inches.

888. BOWL. Clair-de lune; heavy, rich robin 's-egg

glaze. Height 3>< inches.

Sung (420-1279).

889. SEATED FIGURE. In a deep purple-blue

robe with border and belt of turquoise; on his breast in

an oval is a pale yellow dragon in low relief.

Ming (1368-1643). Height 9 inches.

890. SMALL PILGRIM BOTTLE with bulbous

mouth. Pale clair-de-lune blue on a dull orange paste.

On each side are the eight mystical trigrams of the

Taoists radiating from the yin-yang emblem.

Sung (420-1279). Height 43^ inches.

891. BOWL. A characteristic Sung dynasty bowl

with a grayish purple crackled glaze, clouded with an

irregular patch of warmer tone inside; and outside run-
ning down in a thick unctuous film, which ends below

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