XIV. JAPANESE. Imari porcelain. Large dish (diam. 20 in.). Painted under the glaze with cobalt blue in various shades, relieved with gold. In centre, landscape with Baptism of Christ. Below, in panel on margin--Mat. 3 16. Seventeenth century. Victoria and Albert Museum. .....(_To face p. 133._) XV. (1) CHINESE. Open-work cylinder (H. 5¼ in.) formed of nine interlacing dragons; the top pierced with nine holes. Plain white ware, with greyish white glaze. Probably Ting ware of Ming period. Victoria and Albert Museum. (2) CHINESE. Ming porcelain. Water-vessel for base of hookah (H. 4¾ in.). Cobalt blue under glaze. Chinese sixteenth century; made for the Persian market. Victoria and Albert Museum. .....(_To face p. 142._) XVI. CHINESE. Two vases for flowers (H. 11¼ and 10½ in.). Floral design in white slip upon a _fond laque_ or ‘dead leaf’ ground. Seventeenth century. Bought in Persia. Victoria and Albert Museum......(_To face p. 146._) XVII. CHINESE. Three vases, examples of _flambé_ or ‘transmutation’ glazes. First half eighteenth century. Salting collection. (1) Vase with monster handles (H. 9 in.); glaze irregularly crackled. (2) Cylindrical vase, made in a mould (H. 10 in.). (3) Small pear-shaped vase (H. 7½ in.), mottled red and blue......(_To face p. 150._) XVIII. (1) CHINESE ‘blue and white.’ Small vase (H. 7½ in.). The paste pierced before glazing to form an open-work pattern filled up by glaze. Eighteenth century. British Museum. (2) CHINESE ‘blue and white.’ Mortar-shaped vase (H. 10 in.). Scattered figures of Taoist sages in pale blue. Chinese, probably sixteenth century. British Museum. .....(_To face p. 154._) XIX. CHINESE, Ming porcelain. Vase (H. 9½ in.), shaped into vertical, convex panels. The top has been ground down. Very thick paste, showing marks of juncture of moulds. Decoration of kilins and pine-trees in exceptionally brilliant cobalt blue under glaze. Probably fifteenth century. Victoria and Albert Museum. .....(_To face p. 157._) XX. CHINESE. Globular vase with long neck (H. 17¾ in.). Design built up of lines of iron-red and gold. _Circa_ 1720. Bought in Persia. Victoria and Albert Museum......(_To face p. 162._) XXI. CHINESE armorial porcelain. Octagonal plate (diam. 16 in.). Talbot arms in centre surrounded by design of books, scrolls, etc.--all in blue under glaze. Early eighteenth century. British Museum......(_To face p. 164._) XXII. CHINESE porcelain from Siam. Three covered bowls, probably enamelled in Canton for the Siamese market. Early nineteenth century. Victoria and Albert Museum. (1) Floral design in iron-red, green and yellow over glaze. (H. 6½ in.) (2) Buddhist divinities in panels amid flame-like ground. Opaque enamels--iron-red, pink, yellow and black. (H. 9 in.) (3) Floral design in cobalt blue under glaze. (H. 6¼ in.) Brass rim and foot. Said to be a cinerary urn. (_Tho-khôt._).....(_To face p. 174._)