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Porcelain and its Beginnings 151
wares, is practically indistinguishable from the creamy white Ting
Chou porcelain.
The whole question of these interesting porcelains is complicated
by the fact that the Coreans were admittedly indebted to the Ting
Chou potters for many of their designs ; ^ and by the fact that
while close intercourse between China and Corea existed the Coreans
fnay well have imported Chinese wares and deposited some of them
in the tombs. An authentic find of these porcelains in a Chinese
tomb would give important evidence on this point, but so far there
is no evidence of their being found in China beyond the statement
of traders, and it is quite certain that they have been found in
Corean tombs. It may be added that the Japanese class them
as hakugorai or white Corean ware, and stoutly support their Corean
origin.
* See passage from Hsu Ch'ing's notes, p. 39.
