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 Cups with, outside, clouds and dragons, jasmine flowers, birds, ladies and playing children, the eight Buddhist symbols on fungus branches; inside, grapes, sprays of flowers of the four seasons, Sanscrit dharani and longevity garlands.

Cups with, outside, dragons flying through flowers, historical scenes, nine blue monsters in red sea-waves; inside, sceptres and fragrant plants, plum flowers on wave ground, pheasants flying through flowers, red sea-waves with white crests.

Boxes with sceptres, clouds and dragons, dragons and phœnixes flying through flowers, the inscription fêng t’iao yü shun, t’ien hsia t’ai p’ing, "Propitious wind and favourable rain, peace throughout the empire," a head with hair dressed in four puffs inscribed yung pao ch’ang ch’un, "Ever preserving lasting spring!" the eight diagrams and symbols of yin and yang, figures of immortals with propitious inscriptions.

Boxes with strange monsters in attendance on the celestial dragon, sceptres, scroll brocades, floral ground patterns, hibiscus flowers on brocaded ground, musical instruments, flowers and fruit, birds, insects and flowers.

Boxes with propitious sentences on the sides; on the cover, dragons, the flowers of the seasons and historical scenes.

Wine Cups with, outside, flying lions in sea-waves, interlacing sprays of flowers of the four seasons, jasmine flowers, monsters and tigers, pomegranates and fungus; inside, hibiscus flowers and moutan peonies, sea-waves and fairy flowers.

Wine Bowls with interlacing sprays of golden lotus flowers supporting antique longevity characters.

Censers with the symbol of light and darkness and the eight diagrams, fungus branches, landscapes, clouds, and dragons.

Censers with, outside, lotus and fragrant flowers, with sceptres, dragons and clouds in relief, arabesques of fragrant flowers, dragons and fairy flowers executed in openwork, fungus branches and ancient coins.

Vases with dragons and phœnixes flying through flowers, flowering plants and animals, longevity fungus, brocades and pheasants, peonies, cranes in clouds, the eight diagrams and the hemp-leaved Indian lotus.