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particular individual taste, or been taken when in a hurry, to
complete a consignment for which European shapes could not
be got without delay. This section is composed principally of
porcelain traded in by the Dutch and our own East India
companies. To a great extent it was shipped not direct, but via
Batavia by the Dutch, or via Calcutta and Bombay by the
English, so arrived in Europe from India, hence its name, in
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the same way as that sent earlier, via the Persian Gulf, had
previously been known as Gombron ware.
The mandarin section really belongs to this class, but the
figures with which it is decorated led to its being made into a
the ornamented with flowers
separate division, leaving pieces
and other designs, including many of European origin, such as
those with armorial to be under the
bearings, slumped together
name of Indian
porcelain.
M. Jacquernart, at p. 100, says, " In the Indian porcelain
with flowers, we have to distinguish between the national and
"
the mercantile work and at " The kinds are
; p. 98, principal
the chrysanthemum, rose, pink, jagged poppy, and double
diminutive flowers, cinerarias, and more
anemone, light rarely
the celosia, or cockscomb. To work up his flowers, the artist
uses hatches of carmine black rust
upon pink, upon grey, upon
yellow, and he heightens his leaves with unnatural black
strokes."
Indian China with Archaic Borders.
No. 375. Porcelain Diameter, 10J inches
plate. ; height,
If inch. No mark, but two blue rings. The decoration is
marked off Indian-ink circles. The rim is covered with
by
diaper-work in two patterns, broken by six reserves marked
off by yellow bands. It will be noticed that the fillets on the
three and three alike. Two of
symbols vary alternately, being
the symbols seem to be fan-shaped, the other four are taken
from the The sides are left white. In
eight ordinary symbols.
the centre, at foot of a staircase, two in the old
gentlemen,
style of dress, are greeting each other, while an attendant
carries some the visitor. Two of
probably present brought by
the figures are in green enamel, the other in neutral tint,
while the rocks at the back are in and blue enamels.
green
This may be called the famille verte of the India china class.
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