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327. Wine-cup (small) of same ware. Kouud the foot is a band of same pattern as in 



last with an arabesque pattern above in carmine on a pink ground. Within 

 this and a similar band around brim are delicate foliate patterns of the dull 

 white color of the glass shaded with light brown on a ground of the same 

 color, which confine the body of the cup. Here on a ground of the natural 

 colorof thewareisafine damask in olire-green supporting four panels confined 

 by yellow scroll-work — two square and two oblong. The former contain 

 valley landscape scenes in winter season, and the latter similar scenes in 

 summer season, very delicately painted in deep pink or carmine. Mark as 

 on No. 324. Height, 1| inches ; diameter, 2 inches. 



328, 329. Eice-bowls (a pair) of thin, pui-e white Yungcheug (1723 to 17:35) jiorcelain 



covered with a very brilliant, transparent vitreous glaze to secure the delicate 

 transparency in the coloring remarkable in the Ku Yiich-hsiian ware (Nos. 

 323 to 327), and hence termed, as are Nos. 330 to 336, by the Chinese, fang- 

 Icu-zileh-hsiian, modeled after that ware. Decorated with branching sprays 

 of plum blossom beautifully drawn and shaded in sepia above the glaze, 

 the artist's idea being explained by a stanza to the following effect : 



The student sees the outline sharp 



Of plum-bloom by the moonlight cast 

 On wimlow blind, and breathes the scent 



Of unseen flow'rets wafted past. 



Mark as on No. 324. Height, 2^ inches ; diameter, 4| inches. 



3.30. Tea-pot of pure white Chienlung porcelain of globular shape and covered with 

 brilliant vitreous glaze, upon which are very beautifully painted groups of 

 white and of pink lotus flowers, and leaves crinkled into many, but quite 

 natural, shapes and showing the dark upper and light lower sides, with buds 

 and seed-pods. On cover are groups of the same flowers and leaves arranged 

 in three clumps around the knob, which is a flattened globe bearing the 

 character shou (longevity) in carmine. On tea-pot is the inscription: "Pure 

 as the virtue of the perfect man," that is, as jade, which from a passage in 

 the "Classic of Ceremonial " is considered the symbol of such virtue, "har- 

 monious as the strength of him who fulfills all his duties to his fellow-men." 

 Mark as on No. 324. Height, ^l inches. 



331,332. Cups of same porcelain and bearing precisely the same decoration. No. 

 330 came from the collection of the Prince of I. Several months later these 

 corresponding cups, which doubtless at one time belonged to the same 

 owner, were purchased froai among unclaimed goods in a Peking pawnshop. 

 Curiously enough, however, the seal attached to the inscription on the cups, 

 though this is evidently by the same hand as is that on the tea-pot, differs 

 from the seal on the latter. Height, If inches; diameter, 2|^ inches. 



333,334. Vases (a pair) of pure white Chienlung porcelain, Of flattened globular 

 shape, with slender neck representing half total height, and everted brim, 

 covered with brilliant vitreous glaze, on which the decoration is painted. 

 Around the foot is a band of light blue ornamented with delicate foliate 

 scroll in violet. Above the band runs another band of panel ornamentation 

 in carmine edged with dull green, which, with a band below neck of con- 

 ventional dragons, alternately green and pink, on a magenta ground, in- 

 close the body of the vase. This, on a deep blue ground, ornamented with 

 conventional clouds of yellow, green, blue, and red, and bats of pink shaded 

 with carmine, and of j^ellow shaded with orange, bears four medallions with 

 pure white ground of dazzling brilliancy, containing groups of flowers most 

 delicately painted — peonies and bamboos; lilies, longevity fungus, and red- 

 seeded heavenly bamboo {Nandina domestica), lilies and poppies, and yellow 

 hibiscus and green and red cffileus. At foot of neck is a band of orange, the 

 neck itself being of lemon yellow ornamented with conventional flowers and 

 foliage in many colors, confined below by a b^nd of foliated pattern in blue 



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