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two full sail. There is a castle on each bank
European ships
of the river. This scene is enclosed in a double band of
feather-shaped ornaments in red and blue.
These ship plates belong- to the same period as those with
armorial bearings.
No. 415. Porcelain saucer. Diameter, 4j inches. No
mark. Decoration consists of the seated of a
figure European
woman, with what may be a baby on her lap. Beside her
stands a Chinese woman with Chinese boy. The colouring is
in rose
chiefly pink.
No. 416. Porcelain dish. Diameter, 5] inches. No mark.
The sides are decorated with a border in red under the
pattern
while in the centre is Juno and a in colours,
glaze, peacock
chiefly red, blue, and yellow.
Jesuit China.
Mention has been made of this section
already (see p. 12),
which is composed of pieces showing any trace of the Christian
— it be the Cross or other emblem, or some scene
religion may
taken from the Bible.
No. 417. Dish of brown Diameter,
rough porcelain, edge.
8 \ inches; height, 1J inch. No mark. The motive here is
the crucifixion in bright colours, the whole
painted apparently
a copy of some majolica plate supplied by the Jesuits.
Clobber Ware or Kedecorated Ware.
Mention has been made of the of blue
already repainting
and white in
Europe.
No. 418. Mandarin- with cover. 11
shaped jar Height, J
inches. Mark, a leaf. This is an eighteenth-century piece of
blue and white, the moulded into two tiers of lotus
paste being
medallions at the base, from which spring six spiral flutings
surmounted by six cartouch-shaped medallions, which are
repeated on the cover with six lotus reserves. Originally, the
decoration consisted of flowers in blue under the glaze, but
these to a large extent have been daubed over with red, the
white groundwork being covered alternately with red and
green or yellow and blue, while the border at the neck is a
check-work of black and white.
The of rid of all the blue and white
difficulty getting