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208 CHINESE PORCELAIN.

Belt, with four plaques of black horn, with a
sparrow (tsio).
silver button. with a sea-horse
Military officers, plaques,
95 " As
Jacquemart, p. : regards fabrication, the mandarin
demands a It is rather thick
porcelain special description.
than thin, and often its wavy surface indicates that it has been
obtained by casting and moulding. Sometimes it is ornamented
with reliefs. The general form of the vases is more slender.
"
The decoration, often and not enamelled, takes a
painted
new are
aspect ; the rose tints, derived from gold, purplish ;
lilac, water-green, bright iron-red, chamois, or rust colour,
abound. An artifice of the brush shows itself in the
rendering
of the and flowers it is a sort of
figures, draperies, ; modelling
obtained by stippling, and by means of parallel or crossed
hatches ; the flesh is clone with the care of a miniature ; the
draperies rise in detached folds one over the other. This
radical modification in the manner of painting, is it due to
"
European influence ?
M. Jacquemart divides the mandarin class into seven sec-
tions, marked out more by the decoration than the description
of the ware —
Pieces in which the are framed, in
(1) painted subjects
Indian ink backgrounds and gold borders.
Includes all those where the between the
(2) pieces spaces
reserves are covered with gilt scroll-work (No. 352), the frames
of the reserves being sometimes of gilt, and at others of blue
under the glaze.
Will be the black borders, with Greek
(3) recognized by
in in with iron-red
pattern gilt, generally conjunction grounds.
With fanciful in iron-red
(4) variegated grounds, design,
and black, with and other colours.
pink filigrees bright
" "
(5) Shagreened (see p. 216).
" Gauffered "
(6) (see p. 216).
"Mandarin camaieu," or mandarin blue and white.
(7)
"
M. Jacquemart says the style took in France under the
name of Pompadour," and was largely imitated in Europe
during the eighteenth century. Madame Pompadour was at
Versailles from 1745 to 17G4, which about the time
is
just
we might expect these mandarin wares to be arriving in
Europe.