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xxx PREFACE.

run the risk of allowing their ceramic treasures to visit a
photographer's studio, when the illustrations have had to be
taken in rooms where the light was not suitable. This
it is will tend to disarm criticism which
explanation, hoped,
in itself no doubt would be just.
The to into a moderate sized handbook a
attempt squeeze
account of Chinese resulted
comprehensive porcelain naturally
in the crowding out of much that is interesting, so in this
volume the opportunity has been availed of to amplify some
that received but notice in the first.
points cursory
Of late years sinologues have adopted new methods of
Chinese names, and our old friends Keen-
spelling Kang-he,
and are as
lung, Kea-king hardly recognizable K'ang Hsi,
Ch'ien Lung, and Chia Ch'ing, but not being a Chinese
scholar the writer may be pardoned in thinking that for the
sake of and the convenience of the reader,
continuity, probably
unless where quoting from writings of modern sinologues, it is
better here, as in the first volume, to adhere to the style of
spelling adopted by Sir Wollaston Franks.
A little time after the publication of that volume the
writer received, from Mr. Thomas Lindall Winthrop, the
account of the Trenchard bowls which will be found on
277. Since then a more or less has
p. correspondence regular
resulted, many extracts from which will be found in these
to the interest thereof, for Mr.
pages, adding greatly Winthrop
seems for years to have studied the subject, and evidently
examines he comes across with the trained
any specimens eye
of a connoisseur. In kindly giving his consent to these letters
made use of in this volume, Mr. stated that
being Winthrop
had been written in a and with no idea
they generally hurry
of their ever made The reader must in
being public. keep
mind that Mr. Winthrop sometimes wrote from the Isle of
Wight and sometimes from Boston, U.S.A.
The writer has been fortunate in the aid
equally securing
of Mr. Geo. R. Davies, who has not most
only kindly supplied