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Ching-te-chen, and that in ore! produce the

ferrug- in other white porcc :\e bottom

m, in daily. This is one of the chief

character; nd one of the tests applied by the

in looking for accidental patches or

. the enamel for some reason or other

]i t

cd the raw paste to leak out, these spots

irward against the intentions of the manufac-

turer, since they reduce the value of the vessel if
;

the colour of these patches is genuine, like that of

it helps to increase the confidence in its age,

:ich, in ail must be of a date prior to the

cl( f the factories at Lung-chuan and Ch'u-

ch< It must not by any means be assumed, how-

r, that specimens of Lung-Chaun-yao, even though

they present the characteristics enumerated here,

date from the Sung era. The vast majority

o; RtteiJsetWieK IQLA. i: i ed

\

on^Hy- Buusshheeiil's collection, , the ,ossass ion of Liu Yen-tin*.) Hai gh,.

(See- page 34J At t,he .

ieed, always at the same place. beginning

the Ming dyn , they were moved to Chu-

chou-fu, a town on the same river as Lung-chuan,

but about 7 Jj miles farther down, and thus situated

half way between J and chow.

Here i at the

productions lost their old manner
ef manipulating the pore
quality
adually the glaze

the factory i mediately precedir ..- the
hou-fu, th
>ted IT; o reprodn.'