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,ND BELOW: FOUR OF THE SEVEN VASES OF THIS SET OWNED BY MR. FARMER
ABOVE A' EIGHTH IS IN THE LOUVRE

D B f om whom ^^|^f~^~^^^^^^HB

^^^^bF' ''^^mBSS undisputed. They had

t is time Mr. ^Tm^TQ^ ^jght Mfc'.* "^^^B merly belonged to the Marquis

seventeenth-century Chinese * ^jl I English connoisseur while vis

which entb 'met wixl. '^^^B tha^hfknew^ heTe thr^emmc

tho^ghlhSewa To^ordtf '^^^ ^T,"w<T'i^''IJ:"rn^^^"^^cI^^^M

■ i™.....•> B**t^L—* three found their way to this

incidents in this romance ot ™^-*$ZT®M country, their former owner

eight scenes and so he set about |J = '2&f»^*5M preferring to remain anony-

J°fmd remaining WM A mous. With only one more to

although he had no clue as to B^' ^ ^i- ;|I ued his search wherever por-

where he might hope to Imd , ^g^g^M celains were to be seen and

tablishment of Mr. Parish- ■^5=5^1 both flattering and disappoint-

Watson of New York, he found fFX^^U/^t ing, that the eighth was in the

two more vases which P1^™ Louvre from which, of course,

identical in size, style'and col- * >~ p

JANUARY 1925

three twenty-tbree