FOOTNOTES:
[1] In the Kuei ch´ien chih quoted in the T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 10.
[4] In the Ai jih t´ang ch´ao, quoted in the T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 18 verso.
[5] The pi sê, or "secret colour," is used as a general term for glazes of the celadon type, among which the writer in question includes all the celebrated wares of antiquity from the T´ang "green (ts´ui) of a thousand hills," the Yüeh ware, the Ch´ai "blue (ch´ing) of the sky after rain," to the Sung Ju, Kuan, Ko, Tung–ch´ing, and Lung–ch´üan wares.
[6] e.g. the K´ao Kung chi, a relic of the Chou dynasty (1122–256 B. C.).
[7] T´ao shuo, bk. ii., fol. 1. See S.W. Bushell, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, being a translation of the T´ao shuo, Oxford, 1910, p. 34.
[8] A work of the fifth century B. C., quoted in the Ching–tê Chên T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 1.
[9] Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, Leyden, 1909, pp. 10–14.