Concerning Cats 



express all the snug content and inscrutable calm of 

 our modern pets. 



The Chinese reproduce cats in their ceramics in 

 white, turquoise blue, and old violet. One that once 

 belonged to Madame de Mazarin sold for eight hun- 

 dred livres. In Japan, cats are reproduced in common 

 ware, daubed with paint, but the Chinese make them 

 of finer ware, enamelling the commoner kinds of por- 

 celain and using the cat in conventional forms as 

 flower-vases and lamps. 



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