Page 347 - Chinese Porcelain Vol I, Galland

PAINTED IN COLOURS OVER THE GLAZE. 199

Here we have famille rose, eggshell, and enamelled china,
three sections represented in one piece.
This section may be indicated by calling it "enamelled
rose," the white porcelain being entirely hid by the painting.
No. 341. A conical fish-bowl. Height, 16f inches ; diam-
eter, 18 inches. No mark. Made of biscuit-coloured ware, as
shown at the base. At top, a narrow bevelled flange covered
with diaper-work, below which there is a scroll border in light
and blue, which are the chief colours used
green, yellow, pink,
The of the bowl is divided into sixteen
throughout. body
and
stave-shaped compartments, dark blue, yellow, pink, green
repeated four times. On these are thrown pseonies, chrysan-
themums, and other flowers in pink, white, red, and mauve,
with magnolias at back. At the top of each fourth, or blue,
stave there is a butterfly ; at foot, on a green ground, a band of
and
lotus-work in white, pink, yellow, Inside, the
pea-green.
white is covered with red and
glaze large gold-fish green
This is a late and be described as
water-plants. piece, may
"
enamelled with rose." The absence of white
pseony porcelain
" '
ground seems to necessitate putting it into the enamelled
class, in decoration it is " pseony chrysanthemum," while in
"
colouring it is rose."
Mandarin China.
Of this it may be said, " Je suis comme je parais " —
it makes no pretence of belonging to the Ming period.
the name to
Strictly speaking, is applicable only porcelain
decorated with figures clothed in what is called "mandarin
'
dress ; but is now often used as a general term, including
as such the various descriptions which were produced about
the same time and decorated in much the same way as that on
which the occur.
figures actually
The Chinese nobles and gentlemen whom we have hitherto
seen in robes held at the waist a with
long flowing by girdle,
their hair turned up upon the head under a soft covering, or
it may be, court head-dress, in this class appear with shaven
head and pig-tail, their Tartar conquerors having decreed
that, as a symbol of subjection, all China must adopt this
Tartar custom, and don the so-called " mandarin dress '
described hereafter.