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CHINA

CHINA

Vases with dragons and clouds above clumps of reeds, the fir, bamboo, and plum, ornamental designs in the form of the double gourd.

Vases with flowers, fruit and birds, fragrant plants and insects, historical scenes.

Slop Boxes with a pair of dragons among flowers and flocks of magpies.

Slop Boxes with clouds and dragons, arabesques of fra- grant plants, historical scenes, flowers, fruit and branching fungus. e

Vinegar Bottles with dragons in clouds and twining sprays of fairy flowers.

Chessboards with clouds and dragons.

Hanging Oil-Lamp with sea-waves, dragons and clouds, the flowers of the four seasons, golden chrysanthemums and hibiscus flowers.

Pricket Candlesticks with longevity inscriptions and em- blems, the eight precious symbols, fairy flowers, sceptres and dragons in clouds.

Pricket Candlesticks with jewel mountains surrounded by sea-waves with dragons in clouds, medallions with boys plucking olea fragrans flowers, water-plants, lotus leaves and flowers.

Fars with nozzles for oil-wicks decorated with dragons and phcenixes flying through flowers of the four seasons.

Screens with brocaded ground, flowers, fruit and birds ; the border, two dragons grasping pearls.

Pencil Barrels with brocaded ground, fairy flowers wind- ing through clouds, branching fungus, the river pictures and writing of ancient story.

Pencil Handles with the eight precious symbols and dragon medallions.

Perfume Boxes with kylin and round ornament, winding sprays of fairy flowers, spiral scrolls, flowers and fruit, and eight Buddhist emblems, branching fungus, sea-waves and plum blossom.

Fan Boxes with dragons among clouds and spiral scroll ornament.

Pencil Rests with sea-waves executed in relief and three dragons in openwork.

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