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238 CHINESE PORCELAIN.
in a particular way — it might be with European, Indian, or
other to the for which it was
designs, according country
required. In most cases, no doubt, a drawing was supplied,
which the Chinese to the best of their
reproduced ability ; at
times it may be with less success than at others. Often, how-
ever, as in the case of No. 412, the figures seem to have been
drawn from life when the surroundings are of the usual Chinese
character. The decorated with for the
pieces foreign designs
most to the Indian china class.
part belong
Blue and White.
No. 412. A blue and white cylindrical vase. Height, 11
inches. No mark. Decorated with three European figures in
costumes of the seventeenth century, presumably a Dutch
gentleman and two attendants, one having a water-jug, and
the other a basket of flowers. On the table are a of
packet
books, a basket with two scrolls, and on a saucer seemingly a
such as is used for in the
lighted joss-ball, lighting cigars
East, the trellis-work band and the symbols on the neck being
the same as are usually met with in pieces decorated with
Chinese motives.
This vase does not look so old as the dress of the three
men, and is probably a reproduction. It will be noticed that
the man walking away with the basket of flowers has his head
turned right round, as if it were put on back to front.
Painted in Colours.
No. 413. Porcelain plate. Diameter, 16 J inches ; height,
inch. No mark. The rim is decorated with four medal-
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lions, two filled with landscape, two with foliage and a bird,
all in Indian ink and with very little On the
gilt, colouring.
sides is a chain-shaped band in gilt. The arms are in various
bright colours.
Porcelain decorated with armorial seems to have
bearings
been very much in vogue about the middle of the eighteenth
century.
No. 414. Porcelain Diameter, 15 J inches
plate. ; height,
If inch. No mark. Blue and gilt bands with pointed
ornaments as in No. is the decoration on the
(same 3cS6j only
rim and sides. A river the centre, witli
landscape occupies