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249.) 126 Deep Dish, flanged brim, with wavy edge, with fishes drawn in every variety of attitude among water plants, etc. (D. 10| in.) Lent hy Mr. G. H. Boughton, A.R.A. (G.B.F.A.C, 1895.) 161 Pair of Deep Dishes. Flanged and wavy edges. Decorated with fishes drawn with great spirit on rims and at bottom of dish, with a crab forming the centre. (D. 15 in.) Lent by Mr. Wickhain Flower. (Ditto.) Two Plates. Chinese porcelain, painted in blue ; in the centre a fish in a stormy sea, with clouds ab...ove ; on the border the seal PLATE XVII. Tall Vase of the K'ang-hsi period (1662-1722), painted with the rich brilHant enamel colours of the famille verte. The decoration consists of panels of varied shape and size, posed upon a green stippled ground brocaded with flowers and butterflies. The panels are filled with landscapes, lions with embroidered balls and other monsters, fish and water plants, and with the typical flowers of the four seasons — the pseony of spring, the lotus of summer, the chrysanthemum of autumn, and the prunus, emblem of winter.
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