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often met with, and may, like many others, have their origin
in the head also No.
joo-e (see 255).
This is known as the "tobacco leaf" pattern.
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Indian China Canton Malleted Ware.
No. 387. A Canton malleted of coarse
plate porcelain, flat
curved rim.
vmglazed back, scalloped edge, Diameter, 13f
inches ; height, 2 J inches. The surface of this piece is not
smooth, but marked by some instrument with which it has
been struck to give consistency to the paste before firing, hence
the name. In the photograph it looks like a late blue and
white but the colour is On the side
plate, prevailing pink.
is a band with trellis- work, broken four green
pink pink by
reserves ornamented with a gilt bat or conventionalized butter-
The rim is decorated with ornaments relieved with
fly. pink
and other colours. In the centre are
green, blue, gilt, sprays
of pink roses.
Indian China covered with Broivn Glaze.
No. 388. South Kensington description : " Jar with cover.
Porcelain, round and swelling upward. Brown, glazed, painted
with fruit, and with groups of flowers on white leaf-shaped
panels. Chinese, eighteenth century. Height, 14 j inches;
diameter, 9 inches. Bought in Persia." This piece shows
that the Persians were not very particular in adhering to the
of decoration the Koran.
style permitted by
As we have already seen, these brown and coffee glazes
were invented early in the eighteenth century, and large
of this ware to have been into
quantities appears imported
but little of it seems to artistic merit.
Europe, possess any
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Indian China Anona Pattern.
"
100 A
Jacquemart, p. : particular decoration, which we
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call variegated leaved,' is very brilliant. The principal
is a of leaves — some in blue under the
subject group pointed
others of a or of a and enamelled.
glaze, pale green, pink yellow
At the base of the tuft expands a large ornamental flower,
witli notched pink petals lined with yellow. The heart,
forming a centre, is yellow or greenish streaked with pink.
Notwithstanding the indentations which overload it, it is