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glaze (see p. '230), very fine examples of this class in fact,
they belong more to the cafe-au-lait description, which may
be said to be better than the ordinary run of brown glaze,
being softer in tone and more highly vitreous. Height,
9 inches. No mark. At the base and on the shoulder there
is a band of green enamel, on which (not under) in black
(bossed up) there is a carefully pointed trellis-work diaper,
the four reserves marked off bands. The two
being by yellow
and the four small round reserves are marked
large leaf-shaped
off in red, and decorated with the most carefully drawn and
coloured flowers. As seen in No. 806, there is a
beautifully
rose-coloured above which rises the
large paeony, aubergine
trunk of a magnolia tree with the blossoms traced in black
and filled in with white enamel, one by way of contrast being
in blue. At foot, traced in red, there are two smaller flowers,
one filled in with yellow, the other with blue enamel. In
No. 807 there is a with a rose and flower
paeony spray, yellow
at both traced in red. The two anemones lower down are
top,
in rose with centres ; the smaller in blue
yellow pseonies
traced in red. The flowers in the smaller reserves are all
carefully painted, the green foliage being in the two shades
as usual.
A of this brown ware is said to have been
large quantity
imported into Portugal from Macao.
These and the other vases, etc., are placed among the
dessert plates, for they are identical in decoration, and belong
to this time.
No. 808. Plate. Diameter, 10i inches; height, 1* inch.
No mark. Gilt This would seem to be the result of
edge.
an some a Chinese
attempt by European to design pattern.
blue-green enamel, much the same
The rim is covered with a
as we find on the the
eggshell plates ; diaper-work consisting
of cross-lines in black ; the diamond-shaped spaces between
being ornamented with an L-shaped design, certainly a poor
substitute for any of the Chinese patterns. This border is
broken by twelve white reserves, marked off by black margins,
and decorated with flowers, fruit, and butterflies, all in
European
drawing. In addition to these there are twelve shells near
the and twelve leaf or feather
edge, sprays towards the centre,
traced in red upon the white. In the centre the figures are