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CASE XXXVl] THE MORGAN COLLECTION

in an irregular line, so as to leave the lower part of the
bowl and the foot unglazed.

Sung (420-1279). 3KHeight inches.

892. BULBOUS VASE. Dense purplish porce-

lain, with an orange-peel surface.

Yung-ch'eng (1723-1735). 4KHeight inches.

893. VASE, foliated neck, melon-shaped body, and

stem-like foot. A Kuang-yao vase modelled in a form

much affected in these potteries and invested with a

grayish celadon glaze. Some of the glaze around the

foliated rim has been chipped off, disclosing the dark-

colored paste underneath.

K'ang-hsi (i 662-1 722). Height 13 inches.

894. VASE, flattened oviform shape, with spreading
foot. Body yellowish-white with reserves in archaic

borders of blue, red, and green and crude floral and
other ornament. The provenance of this peculiar
archaic style of decoration of which this vase is a fine
example, has not yet been satisfactorily determined.
It has, meanwhile, been by some authorities provis-
ionally attributed to Corea, but more light is needed.

Height 13 inches.

895. FIGURE OF KUAN-YIN, the Chinese god-

dess of mercy. Seated in a shrine of purple-blue rocks,
in which are ensconced various objects, including a
miniature enshrined Buddha. In the goddess's head-

dress or tiara is another miniature Buddha seated on

a lotus flower; a turquoise parrot and diminutive figure
in biscuit, with a garment in green, turquoise, and yel-
low, attend at each knee. The technique of this re-
markable image of Kuan-yin (Avalokitesvara) is spec-
ially interesting. There are several affinities to the
celebrated figure of the same divinity, which is enshrin-

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