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polychrome, the colours most generally employed being yellow,
green, blue, purple, and maroon.
The shapes are almost as varied as in the other classes.
We find yellow bottles decorated with blue and green dragons
or other monsters. If it happen to be the figure of a green
the chances are it will have maroon and be
parrot, wings,
perched on a yellow rock. Where the designs are not raised,
they are generally engraved in the paste, and the vessels, as a
rule, are of thinner make than in the real celadon. As a short
"
title, this ware is known as biscuit celadon."
Nos. 215, 216, 217. These three in the South
jars Kensing-
ton Museum are considered to to the
by experts belong Ming-
and be taken as of
period, may specimens early work, some-
what similar pieces being still reproduced in China as Ming-
pieces. They are of rough ware, the figures and other decora-
tions being in relief. The colours are chiefly various shades
of blue, purple, yellow, and white. They are described as
:—
follows in the Museum Catalogue
No. 215. Jar. with decoration in
"Early Ming porcelain,
raised outline, filled with turquoise, yellow, white, and brown on
a On the is a with mounted
purple ground. body landscape
officials in antique fashioned costume, accompanied by boys on
foot. Above are the eight Buddhist emblems and joo-ee heads,
below is a conventional border in Carved wood
compartments.
stand and cover." Height, llh inches; diameter, 13 J inches.
"
No. 216. Jar. Early Ming porcelain, Avith decoration in
raised outline, filled in with blue, yellow, and white on a tur-
quoise ground. On the body is a landscape with two men on
horseback a
riding towards a house, accompanied by foot-boy
with a box ; also a mounted official with two boys on foot, one
carrying a guitar, the other a fan. Above are the eight
Buddhist emblems with lotus flowers and scrolls, below is a
conventional border in compartments. Carved wood stand
and cover." 12 ; diameter, 14 inches.
Height, J inches
"
No. 217. Jar. Early Ming porcelain, massive, with the
outer decorated in and some
casing purple turquoise, parts
"
being unglazed (where the coarse porcelain shows up biscuit-
"
coloured). On the body is a landscape with mounted figures
of — some with
antique design military hats, and carrying
a banner, a and a cross-bar others in
respectively spear, ;