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224 Chinese Pottery and Porcelain

11. Tung-ch'ing glazes : including pale and dark shades.
12. Reproductions of the Sung millet-coloured (mi si) glaze : copied in

form and colour from the fragmentary ^Yares dug up at Hsiang

Hu (q.v.).

13. Sung pale green (fen ch'ing) glaze : copied from wares found at the
same time as the last.

14. Reproduction of " oil green " (yu lii) glaze : " copied from an old trans-
mutation (yao pien) ware like green jade (pi yii), with brilliant colour
broken by variegated passages and of antique elegance."

15. The Chiin glaze of the muffle stove (lu chtin). " The colour is between
that of the Kuangtung wares and the Yi-hsing applied glaze ^ ; and
in the ornamental markings (hua wen) and the transmutation tints

of the flowing glaze it surpasses them."
16. Ou's glazes, with red and blue markings.
17. Blue mottled (ch'ing Hen) glazes : copied from old Kuang yao.

18. Moon white (yiXeh pai) glazes. " The colour somewhat resembles the
Ta Kuan glaze, but the body of the ware is white. The glaze is

—without crackle, and there are two shades pale and dark."

19. Reproductions of the ruby red (pao shao) of Hsiian Te : in decoration

consisting of (1) three fishes, (2) three fruits, (3) three funguses, or

(4) the five Happinesses (symbolised by five bats).
20. Reproductions of the Lung-ch'iian glaze with ruby red decoration of

the types just enumerated. " This is a new style of the reigning

dynasty."

21. Turquoise (fei is'ui) glazes. Copying three sorts, (1) pure turquoise,
(2) blue flecked, and (3) gold flecked (chin tien)J

22. Souffle red (ch'ui hung) glaze.

23. Souffle blue (ch'ui ch'ing) glaze.

24. Reproductions of Yung Lo porcelain : eggshell (t'o t'ai), pure white
with engraved (chui) or embossed (hung) designs.

25. Copies of Wan Li and Cheng Te enamelled (wu ts'ai) porcelain.
26. Copies of Ch'eng Hua enamelled (wu ts'ai) porcelain.

27. Porcelain with ornament in Hsiian Te style in a yellow ground.

28. Cloisonne blue (fa ch'ing) glaze.* " This glaze is the result of recent
attempts to match this colour (i.e. the deep blue of the cloisonne
enamels). As compared with the deep and reddish chi ch'ing, it is
darker and more vividly blue (ts'ui), and it has no orange peel or
palm eye markings."

29. Reproductions of European wares with lifelike designs carved and
engraved. " Sets of the five sacrificial utensils, dishes, plates, vases,
and boxes and the like are also decorated with coloured pictures in
European style."

1 The Chinese is kua yu ^fji. lit. hanging, suspended or applied glaze. The
Yi-hsing stoneware was not usually glazed ; hence the force of the epithet kua

applied).

2 The gold-flecked turquoise has yet to be identified.
3 Bushell says this is the sapphire blue (pao shili Ian) of the period.