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15S Chinese Pottery and Porcelain

(of the local ware), and after examining them he could say that,
" compared with the red porcelain {hung tz'u) of Ting Chou,^ they
were more fresh and brilliant in appearance." It will be remem-
bered that an echo of this last sentence occurred in the Memoirs

of Chiang.

A passage in the Po wu yao Ian ^ might be taken to mean that

blue-painted porcelain, " blue and white," was made at Ching-te
Chen prior to the Yiian period, but as the remainder of the sentence

seems to be based on the Ko ku yao lun, and no evidence is given
for the words in question, too much importance need not be at-
tached to a phrase which may be a confusion arising from the

ch'ing pai of earlier writers.

1 See p. 92.

2 Bk. ii., fol. 8 verso. " The body was thin and glossy (Jun), the colour white,
the ornament blue (or green) (-{£# liua cli'ing), and compared with Ting ware it was

little inferior."