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A CATALOGUE OF
is finer in paste and technical perfection, and possesses a gradation and
palpitating quality of color which particularly gives it a charm that one
may miss in older types.
The blue of cobalt differed in its shades at different periods in China,
as appears by statistics; and it requires an acute color sense to define the
niceties and distinctions of one kind from another, without taking into
account the different pastes or glazing as well as forms. Each period
has varied certain shapes, and this variation, however slight, is sufficient for
the Western cormoisseur to place the provenance of an object in
accordance.
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