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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

—Class II. Painted in Colors. Continued.

Section B. In overglaze colors.
1. Iron red.

2. Sepia.

3. Gold.

" 4. Two or more colors.
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C. In underglaze and overglaze colors combined.

D. Single colored grounds decorated in colors.

1. In white slip (over blue and brown).

2. In gold (over blue, black, and red).

3. In mixed enamel colors on crackled or

monochrome grounds.

4. In medallions of diverse form.

Class III. Special Fabrications.

Section A. Etched patterns and embossed designs.
Open-work or reticulated.
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B. —Open-work filled in with glaze ("grains of rice").

" Imitations of other materials agate, marble,
C.

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D.

and other stones, patinated bronze, veined

wood, carved cinnabar lac, etc.
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E. Lacque burgautee.

Class IV. Foreign designs.

Section A. Plain white.

B. Painted in blue.
" C. Painted in enamel colors.
" D. Decorated in Europe.

The productions of the Sung dynasty come entirely

under Class I. of the above Table, being covered gen-

erally with glazes of single colors, either, of uniform or

mottled tint, and exhibiting either plain or crackled

surfaces. Among the monochrome glazes are found

whites of various tones, grays of bluish or purplish

tints, greens from pale sea-green celadon to deep olive,

browns from light chamois to dark shades approaching

black, bright red, and dark purple. Especially no-

table are the pale purple, often splashed over with red;

the brilliant grass-greens of the Lung-ch'iian porcelain,

called ts'ung-lU, or "onion-green" by the Chinese;
the yueh-pai, or "
clair de lune," a pale gray-blue, and

the deep purple, or aubergine {ch'ieh tiu), of the Chiin-

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