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found on china of good quality. The pieces probably dale
from the of the
early part eighteenth century.
No. 241. Is more in
cylindrical shape. Height, 5J inches.
No mark. Like the above, it is unglazed where the flange of
the cover meets the side of the rim. This is a very nice piece
of blue and white ; the colour is good and put on in broad
washes, which show up well on the fine white porcelain ground,
while the decoration, which consists of the usual
symbols, is
not overcrowded. It is about the same as the above.
probably age
No. 242. 5 inches. Mark, a leaf. Two
Ginger-jar. Height,
ladies on each side, divided by a rock on one side and a palm
tree on the other ; border at top, spots between two circles.
These long slim figures were known to the Dutch traders as
" —
the " slender damsels," and from this
"Lange Lijsen that is,
they came to be called "Long Elizas" in England.
No. 243. A bowl. Diameter, 6 inches ; height, 3 inches.
31 ark, in two blue Shuu-tih made at the cultiva-
rings, tang chi,
tion of Vertue Hall. The decoration is one often met with,
viz. a Buddhist figure in the midst of an arabesque of lotus
flowers. This pattern is known by the name of the " naked boy."
No. 244. A No
gourd-shaped bottle. Height, 6h inches.
mark. This is one of the so-called cafe-au-lait pieces, from
the brown glaze with which the bottom part is covered in two
shades up to the blue diaper band near the top of the bottom
bulb ; the rest of the bottle is blue and white.
"
214 The
Marryat, p. : pale buff, or Nankin colour, in-
troduced in the necks of bottles and backs of is
plates, generally
characteristic of a The fineness of the blue
good specimen.
;t lid clearness of the white determine the value of this
ground
of
description porcelain."
No. 245. Plate of fairly good porcelain with raised boss in
centre. Diameter, 15 inches ; height, 2 inches. No mark.
I frown The stand has been cut off for some reason or
edge.
to allow the to
other, perhaps plate hang closer to the wall.
The decoration on the rim is marked off with one blue line at
the and two at the base, the between
edge space being filled
in with what are At
probably mythological representations.
one two old are
part gentlemen playing chess, intended perhaps
"
for the north and south measure." The boss is decorated with
a court scene, and from it the
spring chrysanthemum, primus,