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If a more were
throughout. particular description required,
A would be octagonal rim with indented edges ; B, indented
and concave edge ; C, indented and convex edge.
No. 111.
Deep octagonal plate.
No. 112. Plate with raised boss with rim.
; D, plate pierced
No. 113. E, plate with scalloped edge ; F, plate with fluted
rim and scalloped edge ; G-, plate with fluted sides and rim and
scalloped edge ; H, plate with spiral fluted sides and rim and
scalloped edge.
No. 114. Plate with waved
edge.
No. 115. Dish, or saucer dish.
No. 116. Dish with crimped sides and edge.
No. 117. Plate with stand. This sort of stand
flange
appears chiefly on bowls.
No. 118. Plate with grooved stand.
No. 119. Plate with five spur marks.
No. 120. European dinner-dish with brick mark (see also
Nos. 306, 307).

Cups and Bowls.
No. 121. Chinese teacup. The Chinese do not use
handles or saucers ; their teacups are of small size, placed
" '
on a tray along with the teapot. This is a bell-shaped
The Chinese make small in sets so as to fit one
cup. cups
into another, each being a little smaller than the other.
" "
These are called nests of
cups.
No. 122. Chinese dinner-bowl, for soup or other food.
No. 123. Chinese dinner-bowl with cover. These bowls
have stands which are not saucers but mere the bottom
rings,
of the bowl into the centre or of the
fitting empty part ring.
No. 124. Cup and saucer. Where a cup has a handle, it
has been made for the European market, and cannot be over
a hundred years old, as handles were not used in Europe
till the end of the eighteenth century. People used always to
"
speak of a dish of tea," and the bowl or cup was lifted to the
mouth by putting the first finger inside and the thumb and
second finger outside the rim. It does not follow from this
that all without handles must to the
cups belong eighteenth
To seem first to have
century. begin with, the coffee cups
been fitted with handles, and sets are still to be met with