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144 Chinese Pottery and Porcelain
dusted into the incisions.^ The glaze is then applied, and when
the piece is fired and finished the dragon design appears faintly
" tattooed " in pale blue. The effect is light and delicate, but of
small decorative value, and the few examples which I have seen
are redeemed from insignificance by a peculiarly beautiful body
of pure glassy porcelain. They bear an apocryphal Ch'eng Hua
mark, but evidently belong to the first half of the eighteenth century,
to the Yung Cheng, or perhaps the late K'ang Hsi period.
A^ somewhat similar but clumsier decoration was the " scratched blue " of the
Staffordshire salt glaze made about 1750.
