CHAPTER X

As an Amateur--Old China--Dr Diamond of Twickenham-- Unfavourable Results of His Tutorship--My Adventure at Lowestoft--Alderman Rose--I turn over a New Leaf--Morgan-- His Sale to Me of Various Objects--The Seventeenth Century Dishes--The Sèvres Tray of 1773--The Pair of Japanese Dishes--Blue and White--Hawthorn--The Odd Vase--My Finds at Hammersmith--Mr Sanders of Chiswick and his Chelsea China-- Gale--The Ruby-backed Eggshell--A Recollection of Ralph Bernal--Buen Retiro and Capo di Monte--Reynolds of Hart Street--The Wedgewood Teapot--The _Rose du Barri_ Vases--My Bowls--An Eccentric Character and His Treasures-- Reminiscences of Midhurst and Up Park--The Zurich Jug and My Zurich Visitor--The Diamond Sale, 188