In common with the other Ch’ien Lung types, the blue and white vases are often of archaic bronze form, and decorated with bronze patterns such as borders of stiff leaves, dragon feet and ogre heads. Another favourite ornament is a close pattern of floral scrolls studded with lotus or peony flowers, often finely drawn but inclined to be small and fussy. These scrolls are commonly executed in the blotchy blue described on p. 13, and the darker shades are often thickly heaped up in palpable relief with a marked tendency to run into drops. On the other hand, one sometimes finds the individual brush strokes, as it were, bitten into the porcelain body, and almost suggesting scratched lines. Both peculiarities, the thick fluescent blue and the deep brush strokes, are observable on a small vase of unusually glassy porcelain in the Franks Collection. Two other pieces in the same collection may be quoted. One is a tazza or high-footed bowl with a band of Sanskrit characters and deep borders of close lotus scrolls, very delicately drawn in a soft pure blue, to which a heavily bubbled glaze has given a hazy appearance. This piece (Plate 93, Fig. 1) has the six characters of the Ch’ien Lung seal-mark in a single line inside the foot. The other is a jar which bears the cyclical date corresponding to 1784. Like the last, it has a decoration of Buddhistic import, viz. the four characters [chch 4] _t’ien chu ên po_ (propitious waves from India), each enclosed by formal cloud devices. It is painted in a soft but rather opaque blue, and the glaze is again of bubbly texture. [Illustration: Plate 124.--Miscellaneous Porcelain. Fig. 1.--Magnolia Vase with _flambé_ glaze of crackled lavender with red and blue streaks. Ch’ien Lung period. Height 7 inches. _Alexander Collection._ Fig. 2.--Bottle with elephant handles, yellow, purple, green and white glazes on the biscuit. Ch’ien Lung period. Height 8¼ inches. _British Museum._ Fig. 3.--Dish with fruit design in lustrous transparent glazes on the biscuit, covering a faintly etched dragon pattern. K’ang Hsi mark. Diameter 9⅞ inches. _British Museum._] [Illustration: Plate 125.--Ch’ien Lung Wares. _Hippisley Collection._ Fig. 1.--Brush Pot of enamelled Ku-yüeh-hsüan glass. Ch’ien Lung mark. Height 2⅜ inches. Fig. 2.--Bottle, porcelain painted in Ku-yüeh style, after a picture by the Ch’ing artist Wang Shih-mei. Height 7 inches. Fig. 3.--Imperial Presentation Cup marked _hsü hua t’ang chih tsêng_. Height 2 inches. Fig. 4.--Medallion Vase, brocade ground with bats in clouds, etc. Ch’ien Lung mark. Height 7¼ inches.] [Illustration: Plate 126.--Vase with “Hundred Flower” design in _famille rose_ enamels. Ch’ien Lung period (1736–1795). Height 19¼ inches. _Grandidier Collection_ (_The Louvre_).] [Illustration: Plate 127.--Vase painted in mixed enamels. The Hundred Deer. _Grandidier Collection_ (_Louvre_). Late Ch’ien Lung period. Height 18 inches.]