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diaper bands, the outside one brown curl-work, the inside one
enamel with Indian-ink trellis-work. These are broken
pink by
six reserves marked off by green bands, and filled alternately
with flowers and The centre decoration consists of a
symbols.
brown leaf veined with On this are thrown the symbols of
gilt.
the immortals In all these
eight ; above are two large pa)onies.
rose in the flowers, for either centre or border,
plates painting
the colour seems to have been put 011 with a full brush, and
in at one end of the which the
deposited quantity petals, gives
beautiful shaded effect so common in these In
pieces. pEeonies
the colour is lodged towards the centre of the flower, but in the
lotus the process is reversed, and the colour is allowed to run
and collect in the of the
tips petals.
Indian China with Symbols.
No. 380. Plate of thick
porcelain. Diameter, 16-J inches;
2 inches. No mark. Three The border
height, 1 spur-marks.
in this case is the usual diaper band, the diamond pattern
on white alternately with pink diamond-work on pink ground,
broken by six reserves filled with symbols. The centre is
decorated by a basket of flowers and fruit (peaches and
pomegranates).

Indian China ivith Feather Border.
No. 381. Plate of thick Diameter, 16 inches;
porcelain.
height, 2J inches. Mark, hare in two blue rings. In this
we find the rim decorated in a new The
piece style. diaper-work
is in medallions, ornamented with
placed wave-shaped gilt
feather-work, while on the white ground flowers are thrown.
In the centre, water with one brown and one red the
carp,
latter the one to the front fill the sides.
being ; water-plants up
This be a of two but
may simply picture gold-fish, probably
refers to the one of the of
following, twenty-four examples
filial
piety.
Doolittle, p. 368, The bubbling fountain and the leaping
"
carp : In the Han dynasty, Kiang She served his mother very
His her with even
dutifully. wife, Pang, obeyed greater
assiduity than he. Their mother loved to drink the water of a
river distant from the house six or seven li. Pang was in the