. Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . 5^1o . ^ -^ 2 o <^) :r S ^- . I III CJ X o f Cheng Hua (1465-1487) 25 The following designs are enumerated and explained by KaoCliiang-tsun in the valuable commentary which has already beenmentioned :— 11. Wine cups with the design known as the high-flamingcandle lighting up red beauty, explained as a beautiful damselholding a candle to light up hai-tang (cherry apple) blossoms. 12. Brocade heap pattern^; explained as sprays of flowersand fruit massed (tui) on all sides. ^ 13.
. Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . 5^1o . ^ -^ 2 o <^) :r S ^- . I III CJ X o f Cheng Hua (1465-1487) 25 The following designs are enumerated and explained by KaoCliiang-tsun in the valuable commentary which has already beenmentioned :— 11. Wine cups with the design known as the high-flamingcandle lighting up red beauty, explained as a beautiful damselholding a candle to light up hai-tang (cherry apple) blossoms. 12. Brocade heap pattern^; explained as sprays of flowersand fruit massed (tui) on all sides. ^ 13. Cups with swings, with dragon boats, with famous scholarsand with children. The swings, we are told, represent men and women^ playingwith swings {chiu chien) : the dragon boats represent the dragonboat races^; the famous scholar {kao shih) cups have on one sideChou Mao-shu, lover of the lotus, and on the other Tao Yiian-ming sitting before a chrysanthemum plant ; the children {wa wa)consist of five small children playing together.^ 14. Cups with grape-vines on a trellis, fragrant plants, fishand weeds, gour
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