[204] See vol. i., p. [218].

[205] See p. [224].

[206] See p. [90].

[207] H 17, exhibited by Mr. G. Eumorfopoulos.

[208] See p. [4].

[209] See p. [94].

[210] Other saucers of this kind have a decoration of radiating floral sprays, and there are bowls of a familiar type with small sprays engraved and filled in with coloured glazes in a ground of green or aubergine purple. Some of these have a rough biscuit suggesting the late Ming period; others of finer finish apparently belong to the K’ang Hsi period. They often have indistinct seal marks, known as “shop marks,” in blue.

[211] Burlington Magazine, December, 1910, p. 169, and March, 1913, p. 311.

[212] Figured in Monkhouse, op. cit., Fig. 2. The date of the mount is disputed, some authorities placing it at the end of the sixteenth century.

[213] Figured by Perzynski, Burlington Magazine, March, 1913. A vase of this style with tulip design in the palace at Charlottenburg has a cyclical date in the decoration, which represents 1639 or 1699 (probably the former) in our chronology.