25. Tea cups decorated in blue with _mu hsi_ flowers (a small variety of the _olea fragrans_). 26. Medium-sized bowls with precious lotus in enamel colours. 27. Tea cups with white bamboo on a painted red ground. 28. Six-inch dishes painted in blue with the “three friends” (_san yu_) and figure subjects. [The three friends in floral language are the pine, bamboo and prunus. It is also a name given to the group of Confucius, Buddha, and Lao-tzŭ, who are often represented examining a picture scroll or standing in conversation.] 29. Tea dishes (_ch’a p’an_) with a pair of dragons in blue. [Bushell describes these as “little trays with upright borders, of oblong, four-lobed, and fluted outline.” They must in fact have closely resembled the old teapot stands of European services.] 30. Six-inch dishes with green dragons on a ground of engraved water-pattern painted in colour. 31. One-foot dishes painted in blue with archaic phœnixes (_k’uei fêng_). [These designs are ornaments of bird form, terminating in scrolls such as appear on ancient bronzes.] 32. Nine-inch dishes with blue ground and dragons in clouds painted in yellow. 33. Medium-sized bowls with pure white glaze and ruby red (_pao shao_) phœnix medallions. 34. Tea cups with dragons and clouds painted in yellow in a blue ground. 35. Six-inch dishes with _chi hung_ (copper red) glaze. 36. Medium-sized bowls with _chi ch’ing_ (deep violet blue) glaze. 37. Nine-inch dishes with _chi hung_ glaze. 38. Soup bowls, barrel shaped, with lustrous brown glaze. 39. Medium-sized bowls with red phœnix medallions in a celadon (_tung ch’ing_) glaze. 40. Nine-inch dishes with silkworm scrolls and _ju-i_[482] ornament in enamel colours. 41. Tea cups enamelled in colours with mandarin ducks and lotus flowers. 42. Tea bowls (_ch’a wan_) with _chi ch’ing_ glaze. 43. Tea bowls decorated in colours with the _pa pao_ (eight attributes of the Taoist Immortals; see p. 287). 44. Large bowls with the Eight Immortals in blue on red enamelled waves. 45. Medium-sized bowls, blue and white inside, and with coloured lotus flowers outside. 46. Bowls with the Eight Buddhist symbols of happy augury (_pa chi hsiang_). 47. Porcelain bowls with green designs and peach yellow ground. 48. Five-inch dishes with purple and green dragons in a yellow monochrome ground. 49. Three-inch platters with similar ornament. 50. Soup bowls of the fourth size (_ssŭ hao_) with green monochrome glaze. 51. Five-inch dishes with phœnixes in clouds. 52. Medium-sized bowls with dragons and phœnixes among flowers in coloured enamels. 53. Four-inch platters (_tieh_) with purple and green dragons in yellow monochrome ground. 54. Nine-inch dishes painted in colours with the eight Buddhist symbols among flowers.