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CHINA

For while the former, in the vast majority of cases,

unless its decorr t purely conventional or

geometrical t -gured by an aspect of patch-

work c on the latter are invaria-

bly tht 'land, and leave little to be

tion o: tion.

infrequently r

;d fidelity that recall

Japanese keranr There are

e, especially when the painter*

rnal, as tht

But the rule,

in, may be accepted

d. It also holds, though

ith regard to the second

cla.v egg-shell" nd-white porcelain. This

is nothing more than hard-paste porcelain of exce<

felNE-PUT OF CHUN-YAO.

eM^ifc ^ ^ betweenconceiving the
Sung- dynasty. Aubergine- purple glaze (cVuh-tzu) with design in relief. (Catalogue of H'siang.)

1 65 ' ( B at all

^ftif

the inner and outer coats of glaze. To obtain a pure,

brilliant tone of blue in the d re

is quite beyond the cc< at the most

skilled expert. The Chinaman, however, succeeded

perfect. able to stove his cups

and tlv

to

ng

r ed with
st on

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