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blue over the At the back of the there is a
glaze. plate
deeply indented groove, showing that it was intended to fit on
to the of a vase, which, without doubt, was made at the
lip
same time.
"
It is marked Chia the name of the hall, and
Shang Tang,
Fu Koo Chih revival of the
antique (see No. 41, Franks' book).
It to the of the
unquestionably belongs early part Kang-he
era."
Compare this with No. 312.
Famille Verte with Blue under the Glaze.
Nos. 509, 510, 511. Jar. 10
Height, inches, or including
13 inches. No mark.
top, Unglazed base. To all appearance
this is a of famille verte with the
very good example early
blue under the glaze, but it has a rim of coffee glaze on the
edge of the neck where the top fits on. Now, writing in 1722,
"
Pere d'Entrecolles There
says : is another kind of varnish,
called Tsi kin that is, varnish of burnt
yew, gold ; but I should
rather call it varnish of the colour of cast brass, or coffee, or
of a dead leaf. To make this varnish, which is a new inven-
tion, etc." The term " new invention " might mean pretty
well in China. came to the throne
anything Still, as Kang-he
in 1661, some fifty years is rather a wide margin, and this is
one of the many difficulties that beset the collector. The
coffee glaze seems very well preserved, and may have been
added at a latter date, or the itself have been made
piece may
to order towards the end of the seventeenth some
century by
one who preferred the early style to the later productions of
this and the on the vase shown in No. 510
reign, Mang
seems to favour this latter as it probably denotes
supposition,
the rank of the for whom the was made, while the
person jar
quality is superior to most of this class. As far as the coffee
it does not, however, do to attach too much
glaze goes, impor-
tance thereto, because Dr. Bushell, writing in the Journal of the
Peking Society, tells us, at p. 117, quoting from the third book
of the Fao Shuo, how a brown or coffee colour was made
"
during the reign of Wan-li, and goes on to say : Pere
d'Entrecolles is therefore mistaken in stating this to be a
new invention in his time." Whenever the colour came in, it
does not seem to have been used on the of
generally edges
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