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A192. vase with oviform body and short neck expanding slightly at the lip.

The ground is a rich stippled green, on which are altar utensils, flowers and cheou

Oncharacters in medallions. either side is a large panel, one showing a garden

and the other a domestic scene; below this is a large Joey or sceptre, whilst the

former has the sacred manuscript bound with a green ribbon. The foot is an archaic

band in yellow, rouge-de-fer and green. The border surrounding each panel has a

trellis design pencilled in black on dark green, and ornamented with dragons in

rouge-de-fer spotted with black. On the shoulder is a band of Grecian key

design pencilled in black on blue, below which is another band of Joey heads in

green, yellow, black, and rouge-de-fer. The neck has four small reserves containing

flowers in famille-verte colours on white, the background is a rich green pencilled

with black in a diaper design, terminating with bands of Joey heads springing from a

Ablue margin and similarly treated to those on the shoulder. choice example.

Kang-He period. Height 17^ inches. (^See Illustration^ Plate X, facing page 2 S)'

193. Pair of deep bowls with flanged lips, decorated with rocks, flowering trees
and a large bird perched on one of the branches. Inside the rims are sprays of
various flowering branches. All finely drawn and richly enamelled in famille-verte

colours on a white ground. Six character mark in double ring. Kang-He period.
Diameter 8 inches.

A194. ginger-jar and cover, the body divided into four panels by narrow bands

having a seeded green ground with yellow margins. In two of the panels are

flowering branches of the peony and chrysanthemum trees with foliage, springing

from rocks at the base; in the remaining two are altar vases and sacred emblems.

Round the shoulder is a broad band of rich stippled green with hawthorn blossoms

Onin blue, rouge-de-fer, and yellow. the cover are altar utensils and sacred

vases terminating in a band similar to that on the shoulder. All finely drawn and

richly enamelled in famille-verte colours on a white ground. Kang-He period.

Height 7^ inches.

195. Pair of bowls with oviform bodies and deep flanged lips. The body of one

is decorated with a pale green background on which is formal foliage in black,
chrysanthemum blossoms in blue and rouge-de-fer, also figures of boys, with white
bodies and garments in stippled yellow and green respectively. This decoration is

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