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OF CHINESE PORCELAINS [CASE XLIV

red costume on a hillside, his hand extended; the other

a figure seated, with a fence in the distance.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Height 14^ inches.

1075, 1076. TWO OVIFORiM VASES. Decorated

with chrysanthemums tinted in enamel colors with
cobalt-blue, lemon-yellow, and rose, with dark and

yellow-green leaves in reserve on a ground of rose-pink
with elaborate scroll-pattern incised in the paste. The
neck has an elaborate border of alternate red and white

and blue supporting red and white chrysanthemum
blooms, with blue-green scroll leaves on the pink in-
cised ground. At the base is a broad cartouche border
of pale blue with suspended sounding-stones of brilliant
blue, blue-green- ju-i heads, and red tassels on a lemon-

yellow ground. Height 15 inches.
Ch'ien-lung (i 736-1 795).

1077. CYLINDRICAL VASE with trumpet mouth.

Having sixteen vertical convex divisions of cobalt-blue,

rose and pale blue covered with alternating scroll-work
rice pattern, flowered lozenge-work, and plum blossoms
on cracked ice, interrupted by two large, gold-bordered

leaf-shaped reserves in white, one showing a lady in
green, yellow, and rose costume with a blue sash, stand-
ing by a bench on which sits another lady, in blue and
yellow; both are regarding a third in pale green and yel-

low, who sits in the foreground on a blue and yellow

garden-seat, holding a yellow pomegranate (emblem of
luck) in her left hand. In the other reserve is a girl in

blue and crimson, offering a peony in a bright yellow
vase to two ladies in crimson and green, leaning on pale
green rocks touched with blue, behind which, and in
the foreground, are peonies and a fence, as in the first

reserve.

Ch'ien-lung (1736-1795). Height 16 inches.

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