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100 Chinese Pottery and Porcelain
ing specimen in the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin, which bears
on this question. It came from Japan, where it had been treasured
as a Chinese tea bowl of the Sung period, and it has a brownish
green crackled glaze painted in dark blue with the characters
O mi Vo fo (Amitabha Buddha), which was sometimes written in
this way as a charm against evil.
