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exchanging products with the Middle Kingdom.
Without assuming that these specimens in the Shoso-
in collection are to be regarded as chefs d'ceuvre of
Chinese keramists during the eighth century, it will
at all events be justifiable to infer that the general
character of the ware produced at the time was fai-
ence of mediocre quality, and that the favourite
colour was green, a conclusion already established, as
stated above, by examination of specimens that Chi-
nese connoisseurs refer to the 'Tang dynasty.
