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ii6 Chinese Pottery and Porcelain
incised or stamped in seal form,^ on the bottoms of cups and other
vessels, and on the backs of figures. Reign marks are rare, but
apocryphal dates of the Hsiian Te period occasionally occur, as on
a figure of Li T'ieh-kuai in the British Museum. Others consist of
potters' marks too often illegible because the thick glaze has filled
up the hollows of the stamps, fanciful seal marks, frets, whorls,
Aand occasionally the swastika symbol. few examples are given
in vol. i., p. 222.
^ In the Pierpont Morgan collection (vol. i., p. 78), a specimen with a blue mark is
described as Fukien porcelain ; but I should accept the description with the greatest
reserve, white Ching-te Ch5n ware being verj^ often wrongly described in this way.
