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At- its
fact Pe.chili.

.pared to

:;rly treatise on tea-
v production was the
vince of Szechuen.

ng by a poet of the

ht yet solid that the
;

he brilliancy of snow,

! that of jade. ere is,

ppose that the Shu-yao

greatly as to indicate any

mic art. It was probably

One other ware deserves to

be included in the catalogue of Tang productions ;

the Tsin-yaot manufactured in the province

,

Kiang-su. Bowls and cups alone are said to have

a .produced. They are described as pure white,

pattern incised in the W^/Afeshion^ of decoration

that

The closing years of the Tang dynasty being only

eleven centur rant from the present time, it

might reasonably be expected that some specimens

Onof the wares of that age should still survive. the

other hand, if the conclusions reached above be cor-

rect, no great inducement can have existed for pre-

serving such wares as objects, of attractive art or

Aremarkable technique. few, however, are to be

found in the ha; Chinese collectors, and there

is no apparent reason to doubt their authenticity.

They support in <ect the views thus far ex-

Their ery carefully manipulated,
/

irk colour, ^rain, and although nearly

: -lie-ware belongs rather

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