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you buy ten tea vessels you can take one image. Hung-chien
—was a trader who dealt in tea unprofitably, for he could not refrain
from brewing his stock. Hung-chien formerly was very fond of
tea, and it brought him to ruin." Possibly the images of Hung-
chien, which were given away with ten tea vessels, were made at
Tz'u Chou or Hsii Chou. Figures are still part of the stock-in-
trade of the former factory.
