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reserves with flowers. The chrysanthemum in the middle is
of shaded
gold-reds ; the other flowers are of various colours
from what seems to have been a rock.
springing originally gilt
No. 290. Porcelain dish. Diameter, 15 inches; height,
2 § inches. No mark. Three spur-marks. The decoration is
marked off by three red lines near the edge, which is brown ;
the between the two lines is filled in with black
space upper
trellis -work upon a green enamel ground, the four reserves
showing each part of a flower in dull red. The motive is
Chinese. A stands on a rock of blue
thoroughly fung-hivang
enamel, which rears up behind it like the trunk of a tree,
above which again towers the stem of a magnolia, showing its
blossoms in various red and white enamels relieved by a tinge
of green. Two of the pseonies are in gold-reel ; the third, as
also the body of the bird and the joo-e head enclosure, are all
in a dull dirty-looking red put on very thinly. The wings of
the bird are brightened up by green, blue, and yellow enamels,
as also the head, neck, and tail. In spite of the spur-marks,
this piece seems, beyond all doubt, to be of Chinese origin.
Plain
Pseomj.
No. 291. Porcelain plate, waved gilt edge. Diameter, 15
inches ; height, 2 inches. Mark, lozenge-shaped symbol with
fillets in double blue circles. Three red and green sprays at
back of rim. The decoration is marked off by black lines,
in the centre, which are red with gilt between, enclos-
except
a red with centre. The four rocks
ing chrysanthemum gilt
are and neutral tint alternately, and from them spring
yellow
sprays of chrysanthemums with red, yellow, neutral tint, and
blue enamel flowers. The latter are nearest the rocks, and
as usual are very blotchy, so taking from the charm of the
The rim is covered with in three
design. diaper-work pat-
terns, the six reserves being filled alternately with symbols
and flowers ; the rocks from which the latter spring are yellow,
relieved with neutral tint and blue enamel. There is no rose
on this plate, and it is probably a late Kang-he piece. The
on the border enable it to claim a
diaper patterns might place
in the famille verte class, but the centre decoration and that
in the reserves in and are different to
design colouring very
so that to it has here been in a
that class, keep it separate put