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-2- DRAWING ROOM (Continued) 1278 BOWL. The outside deep rose with petal-shaped forms in blue surmounted by a white rim; inside a vase, flowers on a white ground, and a floral border with white reserves. This bowl is similar to 1002. 15,000.00

STAIR-LANDING IN FRONT OF ORGAN 1000-1001 TWO OVOID JARS with bell covers. Familiar scenes and cocks in rose prunus trees, enclosed in reserves of varied form intermingled with pale yellow and rose chrysanthemum sprays and isolated blossoms on deep rose ground. CH'IEN LUNG. Ht. 25" 88,000.00

CORRIDOR HALL B-5, 6, 7, 8 FOUR HAWTHORN VASES OR GINGER JARS of which the one with a wooden cap is known as the BLENHEIM VASE, having come from the Marlborough Collection. The ground of each is of the deepest and most brilliant Cobalt, broken up into an arbitrary pattern known as "cracked ice", upon which is picked out in the pure white of the glazed surface a graceful decoration of so-called hawthorn blossoms, being actually the flower of the mei or winter-flowering plum-tree. KANG HSI Ht. 10" 80,000.00