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79- Pair of ruby-fronted cups and saucers decorated with the design of a partly
unrolled makemona showing a landscape in delicate rose-verte colours. Below
this is the branch of a hawthorn tree, parts of which are seen above and at the side.
Kien-Lung period.
80. Pair of bowls, the background of brilliant yellow relieved with leaf-shaped
panels containing sprays of flowers on white, other sprays of the same plant extending
over the yellow. All in famille-rose colours. Six character mark in double circle.
Yung-Ching period.
8 1 . Pair of bowls with flanged lips, decorated with large sprays of the peony tree
enamelled in famille-rose colours on white. Mark, double ring. Kien-Lung period.
A82. circular tea-caddy and cover with under-tray, decorated with figures of
ladies " also various tables and vessels, all finely drawn and brilliantly
playing Go,"
enamelled in famille-rose colours. On the shoulder is a deep band of brocade design
pencilled in gold and black. The foot is reticulated to represent waves. Tung-Ching
period. Height 4^ inches.
83. Tall bottle-shaped vase covered with a mazarin blue glaze, relieved with the
figure of a fabulous animal in peach bloom outlined in blue; above is a representation
of the sun similarly treated. Yung-Ching period. Height 13^^ inches.
A84. vase of classical form, the body oviform with long neck divided into five
sections; on either side are handles in the form of dragons extending from the lip to
the body of the vase. The whole covered with a pistache-green glaze over a fine
crackle. Kien-Lung period. Height i if inches.
85. Bottle-shaped vase with long neck and slightly spreading lip, covered with a
mustard-yellow glaze under which is an extremely fine crackle. This, in the opinion
of Mr. Davies, is the most remarkable piece of what is known as "pin crackle" in
existence. Kien-Lung period. Height 12 J inches.
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