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Porcelains -2- DRAWING ROOM (cont.) BOWL. The outside deep rose with petal-shaped forms in blue surmounted by a yellow diaper and gold rim. Inside is a vase, flowers on a white ground and a floral border with white reserves. CH'IEN LUNG Dia. 15 1/4" 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 the one above. STAIR-LANDING IN FRONT OF ORGAN 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" CORRIDOR HALL 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 Colln. 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, bein actually the flower of the mei or winter-blooming plum-tree. K'ANG HSI Ht. 10"