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are held in the highest esteein. Most of the potteries are
small. The production is not centered in extensive works,
and this accounts for the diversity of patterns, the difler-
ences of paste, of glazing, and of colors.
A pair of large vases, of modern make, attracted attention.
They are about live feet high and twenty inches in diameter
(l m .623 and 0 m .495). These are decorated around the tops
with groups of peonies, others with dragons modelled in
low relief between birds and flowers, on the flat in blue,
under the glaze. A flower-vase also eommands mention.
Size 0 m -484 in diameter at the top. Blue enamel, orna-
mented with tigures of peacocks and peonies. One of the
large plates represents the four seasons by four groups of
flowers. The outside is ornamented with butterflies and
arabesques. Diameter, 0 m -984.
Miaco Faienoe.
A cheap buff-colored earthenware, resembling the Satsuma,
is made at Miaeo. It was exhibited at Vienna, and is now
abundant in the shops. The forms are various and quaint,
particularly where the taste of the Japanese is left free to as-
sert itself. Foreign samples of tea-cups, saucers, and plates
have beeil supplied to them, and much of the wäre we receive
is made after these patterns. The decoration is pleasing,
consisting generally of flowers, grasses, etc., mingled with
gilding ; bnt it is generally rüde, and not carefully executed,
in comparisou with the best Satsuma. The gilding, instead
of being in compact, distinct points, is in smooth, dift'used
patches. Some of the wäre is formed in imitation of sections
of bamboo, with great fidelity in the details. Insects, drawn
and colored with accuracy, are sometimes substituted for
flowers in the decoration. A very interesting collection of
this wäre has been imported by Mr. Vantine, in New York.
CHINA.
The representation from this country, as from Japan, is
very large, and includes almost every variety of hard porce-
lain, in the purely Chinese styles, and much that has been
