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No. 171. M. Jaccjuemart calls this a gargoulette, but it
more probably is a cuspiclore. Gargoulettes are in use all over
the East for cooling water, and are generally made more in the
shape of a bottle with a handle.
No. 172. water-holder. that of the
Narghili Being part
which contains the water which the tobacco-
narghili through
smoke is drawn by the smoker.
Nos. 173, 174. Arab
cups.
No. 175. Persian bowl.

COLOURS.

The of its hues must ever be one of the chief charms
brilliancy
of Chinese porcelain. The colour is applied in three different
—
ways under the glaze, as in blue and white ; mixed with the
glaze, as in celadon ; over the glaze, as in most of the poly-
chrome sections, when it may be either plain or mixed with a
—
glaze in the latter case, it stands up on the surface, and is
known as enamel. The of is not
history King-te-chin very
lucid on the of colours, and the Chinese seem to have
subject
worked slow to the brilliant we
up by very degrees pigments
are accustomed to find on their At times the
porcelain. progress
was even backwards instead of forwards, and the glazes in early
dates were probably of doubtful colours that it was difficult to
define.
Unfortunately, we have little to guide us in arriving at the
order in which the Chinese found themselves able
successfully
to use the various colours in the decoration of their or
porcelain
the dates of the different discoveries; but it is now generally
conceded that green, similar to jade in one or more of its
various shades, was probably, in the shape of celadon-ware, the
first colour satisfactorily employed in the decoration of
porcelain.
The second should fall to blue, but the first
place probably
distinct mention we of shade is that the
get any particular
"
selected the blue of the
Emperor Chin-tsung (954-900) sky
after rain' as the colour for china-ware to be used in the