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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE XLIII

are worked with openwork scrolls of bamboo and

prunus. Height 13K inches.
Ch'ien-Iung (1736-1795).

1045. OVOID JAR with lion cover. On this large

vase the four principal panels in which sprays of flowers

are grouped to form the decoration are shaped in the out-
line of fruit and leaves. The two fruits, opposite each

other, are the pomegranate and the Buddha's hand
citron, the leaves are those of the Ficus religiosa and

the nelumbium lotus.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Height 24K inches.

1046. CYLINDRICAL VASE with spreading mouth

and base. Deep rose, with white, red, yellow, and blue

chrysanthemum flowers arranged between white re-
serves of varied shapes containing cocks and peonies,
sprays of flowers, and landscapes. Round the lip is a
lozenge swastika border in black on greenish-yellow, in-

terrupted by four white oblong reserves, defined by a
broad line of cobalt-blue and a broader one of lemon-

yellow, enclosing sprays of red prunus and peony.

Ch'ien-ung (1736-1795). Height i3J< inches.

io47toio5i. GARNITURE OF THREE IN-
VERTED PEAR-SHAPED, FLUTED VASES with

caps and spreading bases, and TWO SMALL BEAK-

ERS. Covered with a fish-roe ground, sprinkled with

red prunus blossoms and flowers of the bamboo, with
yellow and blue-green leaves, interrupted, on the front
and back of the pieces, by two upright oval foliated

white reserves outlined in blue, showing a red peony

and a branch of red prunus in a black vase with gold
decoration; beyond are blue and white scrolls with gold
ribbons; to the left a gold ch'i-lin sits on a green leaf,
from under which a red ju-i sceptre projects; on a
stand, to the right, is a dwarf pine. Above each cen-

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