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41. Chun Chou Ware 128

—Fig. 1. Dish with peach spray in relief. Variegated lavender grey

glaze with purplish brown spots and amethyst patches, frosted in

—places with dull green. Sung dynasty. Freer Collection.

Fig. 2. Vase and Stand, smooth lavender grey glaze. Sung or Yiian

dynasty. Alexander Collection. 130

42. Two Temmoku Bowls, dark-bodied Chien yao of the Sung

.........Dynasty

—Fig. 1. Tea Bowl (p'ieh), purphsh black glaze flecked with silvery

—drops. Freer Collection. 132

Fig. 2. Tea Bowl with purplish black glaze shot with golden brown.
British Museum.

43. Three Examples of " Honan temmoku," probably T'ang

.........Dynasty

—Fig. 1. Bowl with purphsh black glaze, stencilled leaf in golden brown.

Havemeger Collection. Cologne

—Fig. 2. Ewer with black glaze. Alexander Collection.
—Fig. 3. Covered Bowl, black mottled with lustrous brown.

Museum.

44. Early Translucent Porcelain, probably T'ang Dynasty . 150
150
—Fig. 1. Cinquefoil Cup with ivory glaze clouded with pinkish bull 162
—stains. Breuer Collection. 170

Fig. 2. Vase of white, soft-looking ware, very thin and translucent,

with pearly white, crackled glaze powdered with brown specks.

Peters Collection.

.......45. T'ang and Sung Wares
—Fig. 1. Square Vase with engraved lotus scrolls and formal borders.
—T'u-ting ware. Sung dynasty. Peters Collection.
Fig. 2. Ewer with phoenix head, slightly translucent porcelain with

light greenish grey glaze with tinges of blue in the thicker parts
;

carved designs. Probably T'ang dynasty. Eumorjopoulos Collection.

.....46. Ting Ware and Yuan Porcelain
—Fig. 1. Bottle with carved reliefs of archaic dragons and ling chih fun-
guses. Fin ting ware, said to be Sung dynasty. Eumorfopoulos

—Collection.

Fig. 2. Bowl with moulded floral designs in low relief, unglazed rim.
Translucent porcelain, probably Yiian dynasty. Eumorfopoulos

Collection. (Colour)

.....47. Vase of Buff Stoneware

With scroll of rosette-like flowers in relief : thick llocculent glaze of
mottled blue with passages of dull green and a substratum of brown.
Kuantung ware, seventeenth century. Benson Collection.

48. KuANGTUNG Ware . . . . . . . .172

—Fig. 1. Dish in form of a lotus leaf, mottled blue and brown glaze.
—About 1600. British Museum.

Fig. 2. Vase with lotus scroll in relief, opaque, closely crackled glaze

of pale lavender grey warming into purple. (?) Fourteenth cen-

—tury. Peters Collection.

Fig. 3. Figure of Pu-tai Ho-shang, red biscuit, the draperies glazed

celadon green. Eighteenth century. British Museum.