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27- Tall vase with oviform body and trumpet-shaped neck. On the lower

section are two large figures of ladies with baskets of fruit and flowers by their side
;

at the back is a large tree at the side of which are rocks. On the neck are flowering

branches of the begonia and peony trees. All in rich rose-verte colours on fine white

porcelain. Yung-Ching period. Height 17 inches. {^See Illustration, Plate II., facing

page 1 1).

28. Pair of oviform vases, the background of duck's-egg blue. On either side is

a large panel with scenes of the seashore, having in the foreground figures in European
costume, all in delicate rose-verte colourings. These panels are bordered with a deep
band of gold edged with brown. Surrounding the lip is a deep band with formal

flowers in gold on white, terminating in a band of entwined Joey heads. On fine

egg-shell porcelain. Yung-Ching period. Height 8f inches. Formerly in the Louis

Huth Collection.

29. Small flat gourd-shaped bottle decorated with figures of the god of plenty on
one side and the god of happiness on the other, the latter carrying in his left hand
the sacred gourd, from which numerous bats are issuing, on either side are sacred
emblems. All in delicate rose-verte colourings on fine white porcelain. Yung-Ching
period. Height 5^ inches. {See Illustration, Plate III., facing page 14).

30. Bottle-shaped vase with bulbous neck, decorated with a willow tree on which
are two large birds, the whole most exquisitely drawn and enamelled in rose-verte
colours on fine white porcelain. Early Kien-Lung period. Height 7J inches.
Formerly in the Alfred Trapnell Collection.

31. Globular long-necked bottle-shaped vase with bulging body, decorated with
flowering branches of the peony tree, at the back is a butterfly. All in rich rose-
verte colourings with a fine white background on egg-shell porcelain. Yung-Ching
period. Height 5^ inches.

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