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66. Small tea-bowl decorated on the one side with large flowering trees and plants

enamelled in fine rose-verte colours on a yellow ground. On the other is a poem

by the Emperor. Six character mark in double ring. Yung-Ching period. Diameter
5I inches. Formerly in the Imperial Collection.

67. Miniature bowl decorated with four kylins in fine famille-verte colours on a
white ground. Four character mark in double circle. Kang-He period.

68. Quatrefoil shaped tea-caddy and cover decorated with large peacock and

flowering trees in rose-verte colours on white. Round the rim is a band representing

brocade of diaper design pencilled in pale red on yellow, and intersected with small

reserves containing dragons and flowers respectively. The cover similarly treated.

Kien-Lung period. Height 4^^ inches.

69. Hexagonal tea-cup and saucer delicately enamelled with various landscapes,
each section being margined with narrow bands of rouge-de-fer. In the centre is a
medallion containing various diaper designs with a broad band of rouge-de-fer and
white. All most exquisitely drawn and finely enamelled in famille-verte colours.
Egg-shell porcelain. Kang-He period.

70. Miniature shallow bowl decorated with figures of the immortals supported on
petals of the lotus flower. Richly enamelled in rose verte colours on a white
ground. Yung-Ching period.

7 1 . Pair of coffee cups and saucers of egg-shell porcelain decorated with the figure
of a cow attended by a boy standing on the foreshore of a lake at the back of which
are rocks, trees, etc. Bordered with a brocade design of flowers in sepia and rose-
verte colours. Kien-Lung period.

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