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io6 PORCELAIN. CHINA.
No. 3.
No. i. No. 2. Branches.
Stems. The Five Elements.
Kia
Wood.
Correspond to
I
Yih )
ih
*-t>
Ping
\ng
3. \ Fire.
ing
Ting )
Wn \
Vn
Earth.
a
6 Ki )
Keng
Metal.
Sin }
Jen 9
Water.
Kwei ,}

All these inscriptions may be known as dates by the characters
: Nieti, year ; and
which usually terminate the inscription tchi^ to
make, form, or fashion.

Sometimes other characters are used : Nien-tsaou, made in the
year indicated.
"
Wo-*hin-men Leang-ki~shoo. Painting of Leang-ki
The
in the Wo-skin year." fifth year of the seventy-
fifth cycle, A.D. 1808.

A wine CU
P- Wine jug.