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NOTES
1. It was included in the comments reported under 1942.9.526,
p. 46, note 2.
2. Tichane 1985, i.
3. There is a difference of opinion about when the langyao type
of copper-red glazes (described in the essay on ceramic tech-
niques) was first made. Jenyns says, "It is improbable that many
of the K'ang Hsi red monochromes appear before 1700" (Jenyns
1951, 23). Medley states, "By the end of the seventeenth century
[the technique] was securely established and some very fine
examples are found" (Medley 1976, 251). Because of the lack of
precise information, the oxblood pieces in this collection are
classified broadly as early eighteenth century. Certain examples
such as this vase, however, could have been made after 1700.
4. All three can be compared to one in the collection of
Cheung Ling, Hong Kong; see Min Chiu 1977, no. 3. Hobson
1925-1928, 5: plates 43 (no. £247) and 53 (no. £249) illustrate
two sold at auction in London on 30 May 1940. The Peking
Palace Museum has a beautiful example: Palace Museum 1962,
pi. 81. The Yale University Art Gallery owns one: Lee 1970, no.
349, repro. Fine pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
the British Museum are noted in the entries on 1942.9.527 and
1942.9.528. A similar vase was sold at Important Chinese
Ceramics and Works of Art, sale, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 25
November 1981, lot 365. The National Palace Museum, Taipei,
has one, illustrated in Sekai tdji zenshu 1975-1985,15: color pi. 23.

REFERENCES
1907 Bushell and Laffan: 132, no. 737.
1947 Christensen: 34.

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