Page 420 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE XCII

Bowl with rounded sides and low, narrow foot. Buff-grey
stoneware with wash of white slip and a transparent cream-

white glaze with a tendency to crackle. Outside, the glaze is
thin, and ends in an irregular line short of the base as is seen
in the side view of the bowl. Inside it forms with the under-
lying slip a fine cream-white surface on which a beautiful
design is painted in red, green, and yellow enamels. In the
centre is a mirror-shaped panel with spray of peony ; around
this is a band of red key-fret pattern between plain bands of

red and green. The designs are outlined in red.

A similarly painted bowl, bearing a date equivalent to 1203

a.d., was illustrated in the Kokka, November, 1921. The
enamels are of great interest on so early a specimen. The red

is a rich, tomato colour showing signs of iridescence ; the

green is a strong leaf-green and the yellow a rather muddy

and brownish colour ; both the last colours are frosted over to

a great extent by decay. The enamels have, as one would
expect, clear affinities with those used on Ming porcelain.

{ Tz'u Chou ware. Sung dynasty. D. 8-6".
In the possession of Mr. O. C. Raphael.