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CASE XLIIl] THE MORGAN COLLECTION

tral reserve is a blue reserve enclosing a red lotus flower
with white scroll leaves, and below is a lotus flower in

a blue semi-circle. Two circular reserves, similarly

decorated, are on each side. Black borders on pale
rose surround the base, neck, and rim of lid, which is
covered with fish-roe and flowers, as on the body, with
a circular blue reserve enclosing a red lotus flower,
from the centre of which the white top, modelled as a
lotus bud, springs.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795).

Vases: Height 12^ inches.

Beakers: Height io3^ inches.

1052 to 1057. GARNITURE OF THREE IN-
VERTED PEAR-SHAPED VASES, AND THREE

CYLINDRICAL VASES with spreading mouths and

slightly spreading bases. Pale rose with two foliated

white reserves enclosing groups of red peonies and yel-

low chrysanthemums. On the shoulders and necks

arabesque ornament in green, with red lotus flowers
above and white ones below; on bases the same, with

white lotus flowers above and prunus flowers below, al-

ternately red and yellow. On the sides are yellow chry-

santhemum flowers.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795).

Vases: Height iiX inches.

Beakers: Height 9^^ inches.

(plate lxxvii)

1058. PLATE. White porcelain. A ground of

black octagon-and-square supports a fruit-shaped white

reserve surrounded by peony, chrysanthemum, prunus,

and other flowers painted in delicate enamel colors, and

enclosing two silver pheasants with blue crests, exquis-

itely drawn and etched in the paste. On the edge floral

scrolls in colors and gold.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Diameter 8X inches.

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