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bulbs. The charm of this piece is the brilliancy of the
colouring.
No 710. Hose verte plate with gilded brown edge. Dia-
meter 21 inches ; height, 2f inches. No mark. The style
of decoration is the same as in No. 705, the border
covering
half the rim while the central
only painting is brought up
thereto. The diaper employed is the octagon and square
which is carried all round, the
pattern colouring being green
relieved by red, blue, and yellow enamels. The reserves are
marked off by yellow and blue bands, the flowers therein being
in rose with while a flower is thrown on the
green foliage, pink
diaper between the reserves. The marking off is done in red,
the trellis-work ruled off in this colour and filled in
being
green between the red lines. It is not often that on pieces of
this size such careful is to be met with as in the
painting
frame-work and creeper that covers it. The subject is five
ladies assisting a sixth to mount a pink palfrey. The costumes
are in beautiful enamels, pink, green, blue, yellow, and other
colours in various shades. Except on the trunk of the dwarf
there is no that of the tree in
pine ambergine, peach being
and while the flowers are in The back of
green sepia, pink.
the plate is left without any decoration.
"
This scene represents Kwoh Kwoh Fu-jen, the sister of the
Princess Yang, riding to see the Emperor Ming Hwang."
"
156 A.D. 685-762, the title under
Mayers, p. : Ming Hwang,
which Hiian Tsung, of the T'ang dynasty, is commonly referred
to. His reign, which extended over the long period of forty-
four is one of the most celebrated in Chinese
years, history,
owing to the splendour of its commencement, and the disasters
which marked its close. In many respects, the career of this
famous sovereign bears a likeness to that of Louis XV. of
France. A grandson of the Emperor Kao Tsung, the young
Prince Lung Ki was not the direct heir to the throne, but,
himself the brief of Jui
having distinguished during reign
Tsung in A.D. 710, by successfully combating the attempt
made by kindred of the Empress Wei to overthrow the dynasty,
he was recognized as heir- apparent. Succeeding to the throne
in 713, he for some time of
gave promise great assiduity and
moderation in his government. In his second year he issued
a decree the
sumptuary prohibiting extravagant costliness of