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CHAPTER XI.
THE PORCELAIN OF JAPAN.
Corean Porcelain.—Katosiro-ouye-mon.—The Province of Idsoumi.—Styles prevailing in Japan.—Marks.—Japanese Blue.—Indian Porcelain.—Dutch East India Company.—Egg-shell and Crackle.—Mandarin China.—Kaga Ware.—Satsuma Ware.—Japanese Art.—The Philadelphia Exhibition.
OF porcelains from the island of Corea but little is known, and all our statements are made with doubt. It is believed by some that from Corea came the first porcelain-makers into Japan. In New York, Mr. Hoe and Mr. Avery have each pieces which are peculiar, being bolder in decoration and cruder in color than the Chinese or Japanese, but which may have been made in Japan.
So, too, with Persian porcelain: there is about it much vagueness and uncertainty. There seems to be testimony to prove that porcelain was made in that country.