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CHINESE PORCELAIN IN WEST

ymages a 1'environ et de 1'autre cote a une ymage de Saint

Pol et est environne de perles tout autour et y faillent quatre

pierres.

Un tableau de pourcelaine quarre ou d'un cote est I'yrnage

Nostre-Dame et xij apostres en tour et de 1'autre cote a plu-
sieurs ymages et a 1'environ xij grosses perples, y esmeraudes

et y rubis d'Alexandre.

Uns petits tableaux quarres de pourcelaine, enchassiez eu
or, ou est au dos un demi ymage de Nostre-Dame.

Uns petits tableaux quarres de pourcelaine, ou est entaillie
un crucifiement, Nostre-Dame et Saint Jean, sans nulle

garnison.

INVENTAIRE DU Due DE BERRY (1416).

Un grand tableau de bois ou il y a au milieu un ymage

de Nostre-Dame de pourcelaine et plusieurs autres ymages
de pourcelaine autour de la vie Nostre Seigneur et de Nostre-
Dame, garny d'un des cotes a 1'entour d'argent, dore, a 1'euvre
de Damas.

Not one of these descriptions seems applicable to a

keramic specimen, whereas every one of them may

easily be associated with the idea of work in mother-

of-pearl. If, however, M. du Sartel's conclusions

appear to have been carried too far in one direction,

they can scarcely be traversed in respect of the fact

that glazed pottery or stone-ware was certainly repre-

sented in these early collections. Thus in the Duke

of Anjou's inventory (13601368) is found "une

escuelle d'une pierre appelee pourcellaine" and in that of
Queen Jeanne d'Evreux (1372), " un pot a eau de
Bowls and pots of " a stone
pierre dpeorpcoeulracienla"inec.a" n only be interpreted in one
called

sense. It may therefore be confidently concluded

that as early as the Yuan dynasty (12601367) Chi-

nese keramic ware found its way to Europe and was