such as _Lovers with Cupid and Garlands_ (illustrated, p. 123), and small figures of women and children in fanciful costume. There is at Frederiksborg Castle a group--_Chinese Woman and Chinaman_, who is offering her a basket of fruit. This Oriental subject is very rare. Marked with three lines underglaze in blue, but the yellow overglaze pigment on base has turned the blue into three _green_ lines. Figure subjects in correct contemporary costume--practically a ceramic gallery faithfully reflecting the social character of the period-- such as the _Flute Player_, the _Lady and Gentleman dancing_, the _Beggar_, and an especially fine series of peasant types in old costume, engaged at their various vocations--e.g. two groups of _Norwegian Miners_, with black costume and green caps, with C7 in gold (at Frederiksborg Castle). The _Woman with Hens_, in Norwegian costume, a _Market Woman with Fowls_, a _Lobster-seller_, _Woman selling Fruit_, _Woman milking Cow_. Figures in naval and military uniform, and many others. =Old Copenhagen Figures--their National Character.=--In regard to the series of figures in contemporary costume, there is an air about them which stamps them at once as being the work of the old Copenhagen factory. They are practically portrait studies, with that added touch of poetic charm which fits them for their place among the gods of the china cabinet. They challenge comparison with the work of other European factories. Kändler, the modeller at Meissen, in what is styled the _Krinolinengruppen_ period in mid eighteenth-century days, produced figures of lovers and ladies in rich costumes. They belong to that impossible world of the china-shelf, of shepherds and shepherdesses and bending cavaliers and gay ladies, conjured up in the fertile brain of the potter. They invaded France and they conquered England in the glorious days of Derby and Chelsea. But with a few notable exceptions they did not penetrate to Copenhagen. [Illustration: FIGURES. Old woman supplicating alms. Man playing flute. Marks.--A.H. incised on base, and A.H. painted in blue at side of base. Height 6-3/8 inches. (_At the Dansk Folke Museum, Copenhagen._)] The groups of _Lovers with Cupids_ and chains of roses are two examples of this romantic movement which came into the world of ceramics, a reflex of the decorative art of fashionable Court painters, who invented a topsy-turvy world of make-believe.