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easy to recognize the flower of the anona, or custard apple.
The leaves would lead one to them their form and
suppose by
size to be those of a chestnut tree, while their colour recalls
the tricolour plane-tree, so beloved by the Orientals, and
from to red
which decks itself with tufts, varying light green
the
passing through intermediary tints. Behind these leaves,
and the of the and delicate
upon edge pieces, appear light
small enamelled flowers of iron-red, yellow, rose, or blue."
No. 389. A dish of fine Diameter, 10 J inches
porcelain. ;
2 inches. No mark. Gilt stand
height, J- edge, slightly glazed.
The decoration covers the whole surface, and is in enamelled
colours. The of the blue and red leaves is in the
veining gilt,
yellow in red or green, the green in brown or darker green.
The flowers are red, with at back where the
yellow showing
turn the stem At back are three
petals up, being light green.
small in blue enamel, with in flowers.
sprays yellow
No. 390. A European-shaped dish, 9| inches by 7| inches.
Height, 1 inch. Scalloped edge ; flat un glazed back, showing
the dish to be made of coarse biscuit-coloured material. The
back of the rim is glazed and ornamented with four blue
sprays showing red flowers, both colours under the glaze.
This is one of the dessert service editions of the above pattern,
which were to the end of the
shipped Europe eighteenth
The blue to
century. is very dense, but the colours appear
be in enamel, and the leaves are veined as above. In these
for the or smaller is
copies European market, a space larger
left uncovered on which are scattered flowers, and
by foliage,
in some cases a fimg-lwang is introduced among them.
Indian China Dessert Plates.
During the eighteenth century ordinary dessert services
must have come over almost by the ship-load. The following
plates may be taken as specimens thereof, but the designs are
far too numerous to make of them
any general representation
possible within the scope of this work.

Cock Plates.
No. 391. Plate with shaped rim. Diameter, 9 inches;
height, 1J inch. No mark. Decoration, cock standing on a