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bowl with greenish yellow crackled glaze," apparently of the type
found occasionally in Borneo, where such wares are still treasured by

the Dyaks. The vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum which
is figured by Monkhouse (op. cit.. Fig. 22) as a specimen of old
mi se, appears for reasons already given ^ to be a Yung Cheng repro-
duction of this type. The " mustard yellow " which Bushell in-

cluded under the description mi se is an opaque crackled enamel
which can hardly have originated before the Yung Cheng period,

and it is possible that it resulted from an attempt to reproduce

the old Sung mi se crackle.

The following list of the decorations used at the Imperial factory

was compiled by Hsieh Min, the governor of the province of Kiangsi

from 1729 to 1734.^ It was translated by Bushell in his Oriental
Ceramic Art ; but reference has been made to it so often in these

pages, and its importance is so obvious, that no apology is necessary

for giving it in full. The following version is taken from the Chiang

hsi fung chih, bk. 93, fols. 11 to 13, and in most cases Bushell's

rendering has been followed :

1. Glazes of the Ta Kuan period (i.e. Sung Kuan yao) on an " iron "
body, including moon white (yueh pai), pale blue or green (fen ch'ing)
and deep green {ta /«).*

2. Ko glaze on an " iron " body, including millet colour {mi se) and fen

ch'ing.*

3. Ju glaze without crackle on a "copper" body: the glaze colours copied
from a cat's food basin of the Sung dynasty, and a dish for washing
brushes moulded with a human face.

4. Ju glaze with fish -roe crackle on a " copper " body.*
5. White Ting glaze. Only the fen Ting was copied, and not the t'u Ting.
6. Chun glazes. Nine varieties are given, of which five were copied from

old palace pieces and four from newly acquired specimens ; see p. 000.
7. Reproductions of the chi hung red of the Hsiian T6 period : including

fresh red {hsien hung) and ruby red {pao shih hung).
8. Reproductions of the deep violet blue {chi ch'ing) of the Hsuan T6

period. This glaze is deep and reddish {neng hung), and has orange
peel markings and palm eyes.
9. Reproductions of the glazes of the Imperial factory : including eel
yellow {shan yu huang), snake-skin green {she p'i Iti), and spotted
yellow {huang pan tien).
10. Lung-ch'uan glazes : including pale and dark shades.

1 See vol. i., p. 68.

* See BusheU, O. C. A., p. 368
* The items marked with an asterisk are stated to have been copied from old speci-
mens in the palace collections.