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267. Pair of ceremonial cups with slightly flanged lips, decorated with rocks and
sprays of the hawthorn tree, the blossoms in blue and yellow with green foliage and

aubergine stems on a brilliant black ground. Mark, sacred emblem in double ring.
Kang-He period.

268. Harvest festival cup in the form of a buffalo's head splashed with green,
yellow, and aubergine, the horns dark brown. Early Kang-He period.

269. Pair of libation cups, one having a brilliant seeded green ground decorated
with fabulous monster heads, hawthorn blossoms in yellow and aubergine ; under
the lip and supporting the handle on either side are small dragons in green and

yellow. The companion cup has a ground of dark aubergine lined in black, with

monster heads and blossoms in green and yellow, and the small dragons in similar

colours. Early Kang-He period.

270. Pair of wine-ewers in the form of carp rising from the waves, which are

enamelled green ; the bodies of the fish are white splashed with aubergine. The spout
and handle in rich green. Kang-He period.

A271. curious water-vessel enamelled in brilliant aubergine. Standing in the

centre is the figure of a deity in a turquoise blue robe, his head and beard in biscuit.

Kang-He period.

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A272. cup and saucer with ground of rich green enamel lined with black to

represent waves; floating on the surface are hawthorn blossoms in white, and sacred

emblems in aubergine and yellow. The cup is similarly treated, but has the additional

decoration of reefs in aubergine and white, and in the interior is a medallion in blue

on white. Kang-He period.

A273. reclining figure of Chae-Woong, the celebrated poet of the fifteenth century,

leaning against his wine-jar. His robe is apple-green ornamented with cheou characters
and waves in darker green lined with black, also some in yellow; his girdle aubergine

with black mountings. The head-dress and boots in black enamel. The wine

jar, which forms an artist's water vessel, has a brilliant green ground pencilled with

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