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 subject, namely, porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze:—

Bowls decorated with dragons pursuing pearls; outside a balance weighing gold and playing children.

Bowls with sprays of flowers completely covering the ground inside and out.

Bowls with bamboo leaves and polyporus fungus, medallions containing dragons among clouds, dragons and phœnixes flying through flowers.

Bowls decorated, outside, with sea-waves and eight dragons emerging therefrom holding up the mystical diagrams; inside, with the three Taoist alchemists compounding the elixir vitæ.

Bowls with dragons, phœnixes, and other birds, outside; dragons among clouds, inside.

Bowls with four fishes, mackerel, carp, marbled perch and another, outside; birds flying in clouds, inside.

Tall Cups with celestial flowers under the inscription shou shan fu hai, "old as the hills, rich as the sea," two Taoist genii, inside.

Wine Cups with a pair of dragons among clouds, outside; dragons mounting upwards, inside.

Wine Cups with antique dragons, and, inside, storks flying in clouds.

Tall Cups with a pair of dragons; a pair of phœnixes, inside.

Tea Cups with playing boys and the flowers of the four seasons, peony, lotus, chrysanthemum, and plum, outside; dragons soaring from waves into clouds, within.

Tea Cups with dragons emerging from water; with lions, inside.

Wine Cups inscribed fu shou kang ning, "happiness, longevity, health and peace."

Tea Cups with a myriad flowers inside and out; also dragons grasping pearls, outside.