Page 477 - Chinese Porcelain Vol I, Galland

MARKS. 263
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No. 477. Yeu. Fish, emblem of conjugal happiness
Mark on a blue and white with
(Grandidier). plate, painted
birds and hawthorn.
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Nos. 478, 479. Various or incense-burners
tings, (Gran-
Marks on two small blue and white each
didier). plates,
painted with a geometrical device in the centre containing
flowers.
No. 480. Mark on a of each with a
pair plates, painted
and bird in on a white
kylin mythical polychrome ground.
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No. 481. A shell. It is a well-known Buddhist symbol,
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but may also be the emblem of a prosperous journey (Franks).
Mark on a dish, painted with a in polychrome
figure-subject
on a white
ground.
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No. 482. Louse, heron. Raised mark on a dish, similar
to another mark of nien-hao
Tching-te (1506-1522)' (Gran-
Mark on a blue and white with deer in
didier). plate, painted
a
landscape.
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No. 483. Lien-meou-tan. Fruit of the pa^onia-moutan
(G-randidier). Mark on a dish, painted in polychrome, with
vases and flowers on a white
ground.
No. 484. Mark on a in on a
plate, painted polychrome
white ground, with birds and flowers within lobed compart-
ments ; deep blue ground.
No. 485. Hare. In blue, on a of buff-coloured
pair cups
and saucers, with polychrome decoration.
Nos. 442, 443, 444, 448, 449, 452, 454 are intended
probably
to No. 454 is inverted.
represent Full, happiness. perhaps
No. 60 "Chinese vol. i. 287.
(see p. 61). Repository," p.
The laws and of the of Budha " You
regulations priesthood :
must not blow the dust off the sacred books with
your breath,
for in the first the breath is : and in the second
place impure
place it shows want of respect." This, no doubt, applies to
Taoists as well as Buddhists, as the two have become
religions
mixed.
very