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151. Small bottle-shaped vase with slightly expanding lip, decorated with figures
of kylins in peach-bloom enamel on a fine white porcelain. Kang-He period.
Height 5 inches.

152. Bottle-shaped vase covered with a brilliant turquoise-blue glaze under which

is an engraved design of dragon and clouds. The rim defective and finished in

enamelled copper. Kang-He period. Height 9^ inches.

153. Quatrefoil-shaped box and cover, the latter decorated with a large panel in
which is a sacred deer standing beside the immortal pine tree ; in the foreground a

branch of fungus. On the former are four small reserves containing sprays of

flowers in rose-verte colours on a white crackled ground. The body of both box
and cover enamelled in a mazarin blue on brown porcelain.

1 54. Long-necked bottle-shaped vase with oviform body of fine white porcelain
decorated with figures of fabulous animals in peach-bloom. Kang-He period.
Height 7 inches.

155. Short-necked bottle-shaped vase covered entirely with a pistache-green
enamel glaze over a very fine crackle. Yung-Ching period. Height 7 inches.

156. Short-necked gallipot-shaped vase covered with a red glaze varying in depths

of tone. Four character mark in double circle. Yung-Ching period. Height 6^

inches.

157. Oviform vase with slightly expanding lip and receding towards the foot, of
blanc-de-chine porcelain decorated with formal flowers and foliage in the centre, and

at the foot with an archaic band. Round the lip is a band of Joey heads, and below

this another band of acantha leaves issuing from a margin of Grecian key design,
below which is another row of Joey heads. Kien-Lung period. Height 6^ inches.