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No mark. Decoration, deep pink flowers. Border, three pink
and three brown ornaments, with pink flowers and green leaves.
Enamelled Porcelain.
In the famille verte class, the figures are painted in enamel
on the white ground of the porcelain, but in this section it will
be noticed that the whole surface is covered with coloured
enamel, from which fact it gets its name.
No. 397. incense burner. Height to top of handle,
Tripod
11 inches, to of rim, 9 inches ; diameter, 7 inches. Mark,
top
Kea-king, 1796-1821, written in red longitudinally on the
into which the cover should fit. Decoration, the
flange, eight
Buddhist symbols on a dark purple ground, covered with lotus
scroll-work. The joo-e heads on the shoulder of the piece are
in blue on a yellow ground, the key pattern on the flange and
handles being in blue and yellow. The symbols and lotus-work
are pink, white, and yellow, with green leaves. At the feet are
bands with the The arms are decorated with a bat
key pattern.
at the top and bottom. The fracture, which the reader will
notice in the arm to the left, shows the piece to be made of
white which can be seen also at the bottom of the
porcelain,
feet. Inside, the piece is covered with light green enamel.
This incense burner was picked up in an old china shop
minus its cover. The second battalion of the Wiltshire Kegi-
ment, then the 99th Foot, was present at the sacking of the
Summer Palace, and became of several of these
possessed tripod
coloured and decorated, which are
incense burners, variously
still preserved by the officers' mess, but all are without covers.
These had been removed, the better to allow the
probably per-
fume to the so were overlooked and
escape through palace,
left behind. It will not do, however, to conclude that all in-
cense burners without covers have emanated from the Summer
Palace.
Nos. 398, 399. Porcelain bowl, almost Diameter,
eggshell.
5 J inches ; height, 2J inches. Mark, Taou-kwang, seal in red,
1821-1851. Covered outside with pink enamel, ornamented
with lotus arabesque in light-coloured enamels — yellow, white,
green, and blue ; in gilt, four swastikas and four characters, pro-
bably meaning longevity. Light green band at top with joo-e
heads in blue, with white margins, red dots, and underlappings.
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