Surprised, Yuan turned, dropping the porcelain figure he'd been studying.
Back in the main room Banouin drank some water, and gazed once more at the little porcelain figures.
The home is still decorated with an array of period furnishings including a horn chair and delicate porcelain figures.
Little tables held porcelain figures of dancing clowns, children holding puppies, and the like.
He no longer trusted that the books, the mirrors, the porcelain figure were really there.
He recalled a fan writing to him about a porcelain figure that was nearly hidden in a corner of a set.
No pictures, but a small cabinet of porcelain figures.
They stood there, smiling at each other, like two life-sized porcelain figures.
He had a superstitious fear of touching the porcelain figure.
Inside it, the porcelain figures would be smashed and crumbled into each other.