  
Ise ware A — Pair of vases of fawn glazed pottery, decorated with floral designs in raised enamel colours. Height: 10 inches. B — Square covered box of buff-coloured pate, covered with a dull glaze, and decorated with bands of open diaper work in deep red, and crests and inscriptions in cold blue; the inscriptions signify 'wealth,' 'long life,' and 'happiness'. This example is probably of Yedo manufacture. Height, 4½ inches. C — Dish of pottery, covered with thick grey glaze, and decorated \with landscape and figures, in rich coloured raised enamels. Diameter: 11¼ inches. D — Jar of buff pate, covered with thin glaze, and decorated, in a rather archaic style, with bands of conventional patterns in dull red, blue, and green; and, round the body, with a dispersed landscape. Probably of Yedo manufacture. Height: 9 inches. E — Dish of drab glazed pottery, decorated with a standing figure clothed in rich ceremonial robes, and with a branch of a flowering tree very artistically disposed. A character of quaintness is given, after the true Japanese fashion, to this piece by the rim being slightly and irregularly bent inwards in two places. Diameter: 7½ inches. F — Small teapot of very thin hard pate, of a dark brown colour, unglazed, decorated with figures executed in bright coloured opaque enamels, in relief. Height: 3⅞ inches. G — Small koro of brown pottery, covered with a dull glaze. The body is supported on three figures of children, and has three ring-and-head handles. The cover is surmounted with a Japanese lion. Height: 6½ inches. H — Small teapot of very thin, hard, and extremely tough pate, of a dark brown colour, decorated with sprays of mume, wrought in relief. Height: 3 inches. Lithograph, by Gaulard, published 1875. |
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