Page 368 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE LXXIX

Vase with slender ovoid body and small neck with spread-
ing lip. Greyish stoneware with coating of white slip through

which the design is carved so as to expose the body. An almost

transparent glaze, minutely crackled, covers the whole so that
the design in cream-white shows up against a mouse-coloured

ground. The ornament is in four belts : (i) a foliage band
on the neck ; (2) a broad belt of bold floral scroll next

(3) overlapping leaf design in a ground sprinkled with small
circles ; and (4) lowest, a band of oblique leaf pattern bordered
by small circles.

Tz'u Chou ware. Sung dynasty. H. 14- 6".
In the possession of Mr. C. Rutherston.