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WHOLE-COLOURED ROSE. 441

Mandarin.
No. 762. Mug. Height 4^ inches. Top and bottom there
is a scroll with red leaves the side
gilt ; where the handle joins
there are four raised lotus leaves coloured red. The figures
are in the usual mandarin enamels, the furniture in iron red.

Whole-coloured Rose.
Nos. 763, 764. A semi-spherical bowl. Diameter, 13|
inches 6 inches. No mark. Brown The
; height, edge.
decoration inside is but of a character often to be
very poor,
met with in of about this Marked off three
pieces period. by
red lines there is a band of that shade so common
blue-green
about this time, on which in black is traced what looks like
the trellis-work but consists of two lines
pattern, it merely
each other at stated distances, the diamonds thus
crossing
formed being again marked with a single cross line. The
sides are decorated with three of flowers and three
groups
butterflies, the flowers being in iron reds, gilt, with very little
green, blue, and yellow. The foliage is merely traced in a
brown-red, and has a stiff, hard look. The butterflies are in
the same colours as the flowers, with a little added. At
purple
foot there is a rose not at all in with the other
pseony keeping
flower. The merit of this bowl consists in the wonderful
purple enamel with which the outside surface is covered. It
would seem to
impossible improve upon this colour, and it is
to hold a of it to
only necessary ruby-backed plate alongside
find what a colour we here have, and one
magnificent ruby
cannot but regret that it was not left perfectly plain. As it
is, we have an instance of how the Chinese at this time mixed
various shades of red and pink in a most perplexing manner.
As seen in the illustration, the light-coloured ground is washed
with a very light green. The fence is in a light shade of iron
red, the rocks in blue and gilt, the paeonies in pink and white
enamels, while some of the other flowers are in iron red and
On the other side of the bowl there is a flower
gilt. large
spray in three colours.