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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

made in 1741 as an ex voio offering for a Taoist temple

near Peking by T'ang Ying, the celebrated director of
the imperial porcelain manufactory at Ching-te-chen.

"Reverently made by T'ang Ying of Shen-yang, a Junior Sec-
retary of the Imperial Household, and Captain of the Banner, pro-
moted five honorary grades, Chief Superintendent of Works in the
palace Yang Hsin Tien, Imperial Commissioner in charge of the
three Customs stations of Huai, Su, and Hai, in the province of
Kiangnan, also Director of the Porcelain Manufactory, and Com-
missioner of Customs at Kiu Kiang, in the province of Kiangsi;
and presented by him to the Temple of the Holy Mother of the
God of Heaven at Tungpa, to remain there through time everlast-
ing for offering sacrifices before the altar; on a fortunate day in
the spring of the sixth year of the Emperor Ch'ien-iung."

S. W. B.

Ravensholt, Harrow-on-the-Hill,
20 November, 1906