Page 184 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE XXXIII

Fig. i. Bulb-bowl of oblong rectangular form with four cloud-
scroll feet. Grey porcellanous ware with purplish opalescent
glaze on the outside showing prominent " earth-worm

marks (see p. 8). The inside has a clair de lune glaze with
the body showing through where the glaze is thin.

The base is washed over with a greenish brown glaze, and

has the usual ring of spur-marks and the numeral shih (ten)

incised.

Chun ware. Sung dynasty. L. 71".
In the possession of Mr. F. N. Schiller.

Fig. 2. Bulb-bowl, circular, with three cloud-scroll feet ; of
shallow bowl-shape with grooved band below the lip outside

and a row of studs. Grey porcellanous ware of fine grain
with thick opalescent glaze, mottled grey inside with prominent
" earth-worm " marks ; on the outside the glaze which runs
in thick welts on the lower part is purple streaked and splashed
with fiocculent grey. The characteristics of the base will be
seen on the next plate. With regard to the form, the Po wu
yao Ian remarks " of these (Chun) wares, the sword-grass
bowls and their saucers alone are refined." It would appear

that the flower-pots, such as that of Plate XXXV, are the

sword-grass bowls, and that shallow bowls like the present
one were originally used as saucers or stands for the flower-

pots. They would, and indeed did, also serve separately as

bowls for growing bulbs.

Chun ware. Sung dynasty. D. 95".
In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos.