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CHINA. A fashionable character carried out in several ways. For Dresden China (see D). White China (see W). Modern China. Blue and white circular head-dress simulating a china plate; a low square white bodice trimmed with blue; sleeves nearly to wrist; a blue scarf about the hips, and tunic of silver lattice-work and white satin with gold tassels and fringe; short blue satin skirt; a wand surmounted by a dove carried in the hand. Blue China. Underskirt and Swiss bodice of dark blue satin of the Worcester tone, trimmed with gold braid, Watteau tunic, under bodice of dark blue and white cretonne. White China. Any opaque, white material, Watteau bodice, looped-up skirt of white broché or sateen, trimmed with box plaitings and bows of white ribbon, roses, and thick lace, bodice cut square, elbow sleeves, ruffles; under-skirt of quilted sateen; high-heeled shoes, white mittens, a frill of white lace round the throat, white muslin apron, trimmed with lace; hair powdered, white roses, large white fan. Etruscan China. Egyptian red, black and gold. The hat, in form like a coronet, is black, with a red and gold embroidered design; the square-cut low bodice is black, with red stomacher trimmed with gold; white, short sleeves; red, short skirt; black tunic, bordered with red and trimmed with gold; Etruscan tazza and vases in the hand. Faience de Longwy might be carried out in a cretonne with green mousse ground, black lines and white flowers. A coronet of the same white flowers forms the head-dress; the bodice has a rounded yoke-piece bordered with gold, a white muslin full bodice showing between it and the corselet; bodice and tunic cut in one, and bordered with gold fringe; plain short skirt; a hand-screen of the same colouring carried in the hand. Vallauris Ware. A square low bodice and tunic in one, of dark green, outlined in gold, over white satin skirt; a plastron of white flowers down the front, white sleeves, and a coronet head-dress like a green plate edged with gold. Wedgwood has a sort of cottage hat of blue and white with the Greek key bordering; a white under-bodice low and heart-shaped; a blue cuirass bodice over, with the same key pattern on white; tunic of blue and white bordered with a band of blue, and blue tassels; blue short skirt, a blue and white caladium leaf carried in the