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section by itself as plain paeony." It is, in fact, an instance of
a difficult to class, if not an of the transi-
piece early example
tion period at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Pteonij Verte.
No. 292. A dish.
porcelain Diameter, 11 inches; height,
1^ inch. Seal mark, in double blue circle, probably the same
as No. 160 on Plate 13 in Sir A. W. Franks's book, "Fan, the
maker's name, on coloured porcelain." The sides and edge
are slightly waved ; there is but a thin coating of glaze on
the edge of the stand. The design is marked off by double
red lines into twelve compartments, showing twelve sceptre
heads at the rim. These compartments are filled with flowers,
while in the centre flowers from a blue enamel rock.
spring
Four red and flower at back.
green sprays
No. 293. A inches ; height,
porcelain plate. Diameter, lOf
If inch. Mark, a four-legged vase in two blue rings. The
design is marked off by two red lines into six compartments
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on the rim, filled with flowers. In the centre three paeonies
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neutral tint, red, and from an enamelled blue
yellow spring
rock on a and one smaller
standing green ground ; one larger
butterfly.
Green enamel in the decoration
being largely employed
of these two plates, they may be described as "paeony verte,"
the more so that the red is not from as in the rose class.
gold,
Rich Pseonian.
65 " In some cases and black
Jacquemart, p. : copper, green,
unite to the fundamental tints, and constitute the class which
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may be called 'rich paeonian.'
No. 294. A six-sided Chinese wine or decanter.
spirit
8 This
Height, J- inches. No mark. piece is more or less fluted,
and the lotus at foot are moulded in the
petals porcelain.
The decoration is marked off by two red lines ; at the base
there is a band with black
green scroll-work, from which
spring the lotus petals in red and white. The body is divided
into six the corners thereof filled with
compartments, being
green and black ; the flowers in this case, it will be noticed,
do not from rocks, but are mere The
spring paeony sprays.
shoulder and lower of the neck are decorated with two
part
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