[36] Loc. cit., p. 808.
[37] De Groot, loc. cit., p. 809.
[38] De Groot, loc. cit., p. 717.
[39] Loc. cit., p. 718.
[40] Who visited China about 1280.
[41] No doubt this mortuary pottery was made locally to supply local needs, and there is no occasion to refer it to any of the better known pottery centres, though we do find mention of an imperial order for sepulchral ware sent to the potters at Hsin–p´ing (the old name for the district town of Ching–tê Chên) in the T´ang dynasty. See T´ao lu, bk. viii., fol. 2, quoting from the Hsiang ling ming huan chih.
[42] See A Glossary of Reference on Subjects Connected with the Far East, by H.A. Giles, Shanghai, 1900. "The practice among Chinese women of cramping the feet is said by some to have originated about 970 A. D. with Yao Niang, concubine of the pretender Li Yü. The lady wished to make her feet like the new moon. Others say that it was introduced by Pan Fei, the favourite of the last monarch of the Ch´i dynasty, 501 A. D."
[43] See the Toyei Shuko (Illustrated Catalogue of the ancient Imperial Treasure called Shoso–in, by Omura Seigai, Tokyo, 1910), Nos. 154, 155 and 156.
[44] Another common characteristic of the T'ang base is a central ring, or one or two concentric circles incised on the wheel.
[45] Laufer (Jade, p. 247) sounds a note of warning about the reconstruction of many of the T'ang figures. They were very frequently broken in the course of excavation, and when a head was missing its place was commonly supplied from another find. Another and more serious warning is given by F. Perzynski in the Ostasiatischer Zeitschrift, January to April, 1914, p. 464, in an article describing forgeries of coloured T'ang figures, and vases and ewers with mottled green and yellow glazes, in Honan Fu.