476 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



261. Vase (small) of white Cheiulung porcelain, of slender jar shape. Covered with a 



broad, double band of modified Grecian patterns in relief on basket-work 

 gronnd engraved in the paste, confined above and below ])y bands of foliate 

 design in relief with incised shading. Round the neck circlet of banana 

 leaves in relief with incised shading, all under transparent glaze having a 

 celadon tinge. Mark as on No. 186. Height, 7 inches. 



262, 263. Plates (a pair) of white Chienlung porcelain, circular with upright edges, 



small. In center is a gourd and two sprays of flowers tied with flowing 

 ribbons held by a bat with outstretched wings amid clouds, very delicately 

 molded in relief and covered throughout with a pale celadon glaze. Mark as 

 on No. 186. Height, 1 inch. 



264. Vase of pure white Chienlung porcelain, curving inwards slightly ahove foot, 



then bulging gradually to two-thirds height when it contracts gradnally to 

 near mouth, which is slightly everted. At foot, a narrow baud of con ventiouai 

 lotusflowers and leaves. Above, confined by band of foliated design engraved 

 in the paste are four conventional lotus flowers with scroll-like leaves and 

 flying bats so arranged that five bats {wtifa or five kinds of happiness) appear 

 round each flower. At base of neck is a narrow band studded with small 

 dots (gems) in relief. Above, round the neck, a broad band of ornamentation 

 similar to that on body, confined at top by band of foliated scroll-work. The 

 ornamentation throughout is molded, boldly but with great delicacj', in re- 

 lief upon the paste, and. is covered with a brilliant deep celadon glaze 

 approaching white in the highest portions of the relief. Mark as on No. 186, 

 but in shape of a seal and in high relief. A unique and very beautiful speci- 

 men. Height, Hi inches. 



265. Vase of pure white Chienlung porcelain, of flattened bulbous shape with long 



slender neck which represents half of total heiglit. Upon the body of the 

 vase is a mang, the tail of which curls upward round the neck (see No. 9), very 

 boldljr molded in relief with head erect and long beard depending from chin. 

 Covered throughout with a brilliant celadon glaze, the mang being spotted 

 with marks of red and brown mixed, shading oft" into the glaze, and on the 

 body of the vase are curious cloud-like splotches of deepest olive green shad- 

 ing ofi" at the edges. Mark as on No. 186. Height 12f inches. 



266. Vase of white Chienlung porcelain of slender bulbous shape with neck ending in 



trumpet-shaped mouth, entirely covered outside with a uniform glaze in 

 color between vermilion and deep carmine. Rim of mouth and inside plain. 

 Mark as on No. 186. Height, llf inches. 



267. Pencil-toasher of white (Chienlung) porcelain, in shape resembling an S scroll 



with tall perpendicular sides. Inside biscuit unglazed. Outside covered with 

 a uniform deep green (called by Chinese "cucumber green") closely crackled 

 {truite). No mark. Height, li inches ; length, 3^ inches. 

 268 and 269. Vases (a pair) of white Chienlung porcelain, a pomegranate fruit in 

 shape — of the kind termed flamhe. The mixed blue and white colors which 

 cover the mouth and inside, flowing down and being specially prominent in 

 the hollows at junction of the sections, the latter being a brilliant purple red, 

 and the conflicting tints gradually merging into one another at the edges of 

 contact, all covered with a brilliant thick vitreous glaze. 



270. Vase of white Chienlung porcelain shaped as a gourd contracted in the middle. 



Covered with deep red having a somewhat mottled appearance on lower glob- 

 ulus portion, under a brilliant, thick vitreous glaze, the edge of the mouth 

 inside and out being white, though the color appears inside farther down. 

 No mark. Height, 8f inches. 



271. Vase of white Chienlung porcelain, of ancient bronze design, in form of two 



diamond-shaped vases of which one-fourth of the length has been cut off 

 and the sections united, at either end an elephant's head with trunk forms a 



