The study of Chinese porcelains was auspiciously opened by a visit of a party of the Department members to the fine collection owned by Mr. Tong Shao-yi, on Saturday morning last. Comprising as Mr. Tong's collection does. examples of every variety of the Chinese potteries and porcelains, the women present were able to lay a broad foundation for future study.
The women who participated in the Literary Department pageant at the general club meeting the previous Tuesday were given the rare pleasure of inspecting Mr. Lorden's collection of Chinese cameos and hard stones, at his home in Jessfield Road, on Saturday afternoon. This collection, which is said to be foremost in its particular line, comprises personal ornaments and amulets of exquisite workmanship in many Chinese hard stones. The cameos cut in agate, jade, carney lion, and chalcedony, are of microscopic fineness, some of the stones being of three colours. Jewellery from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome is in the collection, and a number of Tibetan ornaments. Many other antiquities were shown, much interest being manifested by the visitors in the Chinese weapons, and a number of notable etchings and engravings by old masters of these arts.
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