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PAINTED IN COLOURS OVER THE GLAZE. 169

PAINTED IN COLOURS OYER THE GLAZE.

This is the largest and most varied of all the divisions, em-
in addition to the famille
bracing, chrysanthemo-paBonienne,
famille verte, and famille rose of Jacquemart, the mandarin,
and India china subdivisions, to say nothing of ex-
eggshell,
that not come under any of these
ceptional pieces may
headings.
As before stated, in this class the colours are painted on
the and then burnt in at a lower
glazed porcelain, temperature,
but occasionally we find that the decoration is in part under
the ; for instance, we have vases ornamented with blue
glaze
under the glaze, and green enamel over the glaze, as in the
powdered blue section.
The Chinese generally speak of the polychrome class as
" and
five-coloured," referring to the red, green, bine, yellow,
or black with which are as a rule decorated.
purple they
Famille Chrysanthemo-P^onienne.
It is difficult to understand why M. Jacquemart ever formed
this class, as it does not seem to exist in reality, for all the
that be included in it either to the famille
pieces might belong
verte or the famille rose classes.
There are a certain number of pieces in both these classes
decorated with pseonies or chrysanthemums, or both, which, in
distinction to those decorated with historical, mythological, or
other such subjects, may be called pseony pieces, but they
would be better treated as subsections of the verte, or rose
classes. However, as M. Jacquemart has named this paaony
class, the reader would probably wonder if no notice were taken
of it here, so a few that be considered as
specimens might
belonging to the pseony class, if any such class really existed,
have been collected together under this paeony heading, instead
of placing them in their proper sections in the verte and rose
classes.
We will begin with the rose pieces, as in them the so-called
of decoration be said to be most
paeony style may marked,
consisting of pseonies and chrysanthemums springing from rocks
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