Page 365 - Chinese Porcelain Vol II, Galland

ROSE VERTE. 405

Soft Paste.
This class is dealt with fully later on, at p. 444, but as the
it were
pieces composing produced during the whole of this
we will here take an thereof.
reign, early example
No. 700. Blue and white, soft glaze crackle, oviform, almost
lantern-shaped, vase. Height, 13 inches. No mark. On each
side of the neck are sprays of narcissus and fungus, and on
the body, slightly raised lion-head (?) handles with fixed rings,
covered with The animal seen in the illustration
glaze. appears
on the other side smaller in size, and seated under a willow-
tree. If this is not actually a Yung-ching piece, it is not far
off that ; in the handles and other it has a
period respects
look of the then in Bold in
great workmanship vogue. design
and deep in colouring, the blue being of the real sapphire type,
the colour is not applied in broad washes, but by lines and
as in an
stippling, engraving.
"
This is a lion, drawn at the artist's fancy."
Rose Verte.
We will now take up this charming section, for it un-
was at its best the first half of this
doubtedly during reign.
Nos. 701, 702 represent two rose verte ginger-jars.
Height, 6f inches. No mark. The one is decorated with
such as we find on the bottles ornamented
peaches, Yung-ching
with this fruit (see No. 658) ; the other with chrysanthemums
similar to those we meet on some of the very fine early
These like of the hawthorns,
Keen-lung porcelains. jars, many
appear to have been made of a coarse paste that has been
coated with a fine porcelain, although seemingly not of the
" "
soft paste composition.
Nos. 703, 704 illustrate a very interesting pilgrim bottle.
Height, 10j inches. No mark. As shown in No. 703, the
decoration is in late famille verte, the drawing being much
better than anything we find until quite the end of the
Kang-he period, while, like some other of these carefully
it has the artist's mark but this seems to
painted pieces, ;
differ from those on Nos. 593 and 624, and, unfortunately,
few appear to be decipherable. On the other side, as seen in
No. 704, we have a lady being floated along on a raft ; but