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72. Egg-shell cup and saucer decorated with a design in the form of a bird's tail
in pale violet margined with gold and tipped with white, on a ground of yellow
pencilled in black. Kien-Lung period.

73. Pair of tea-bowls decorated with figures of rams, flowering plants and rocks,

exquisitely drawn and enamelled in rose-verte colourings. They have also a poem

pencilled in black with seal marks in red on the base is a six character seal mark.
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Kien-Lung period. Diameter 5^ inches.

A74. cup and saucer of egg-shell porcelain decorated with finger-fruit and leaves

on which are insects and flowers in yellow, green and pale blue respectively on a ruby

ground. Yung-Ching period.

IS' Egg-shell cup and saucer with armorial bearings. Descending from the border
are deep lambrequins with sprays of flowers in famille-rose on rouge-de-fer and gold.

Yung-Ching period.

76. Set of ten egg-shell ceremonial cups, each decorated with sprays of various

flowers in fine rose-verte colours on a white ground. On each is a poem enamelled

in blue characters. Six character mark in double ring. Yung-Ching period.

77. Set of three ruby-backed egg-shell saucers, each decorated with the figure of
a carp resting in the water, the former rose-pink, the latter green. Six character

mark in double circle. Yung-Ching period. Diameter 4J inches.

78. Set of three saucer-plates decorated with figures of birds perched on the
branch of a flowering peony tree, the blossoms in pink, foliage in various greens.
Surrounding the lip is a diaper design pencilled in Indian ink, and intersected with
three reserves containing a dragon enamelled in blue ; under this is another border
with a scroll design of flowers and foliage in gold, pencilled in black. Kien-Lung
period. Diameter 8 inches.

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