[91] This colour is quite distinct from the turquoise of the demi–grand feu, a more lightly fired colour familiar on the later porcelains.
[92] Mr. Burton's practical experiments and the beautiful results obtained by following out his conceptions of Chinese methods are well known to all admirers of the Lancastrian pottery.
[93] A late sixteenth–century work, published with translations by Dr. S.W. Bushell, 1908, under the title of Porcelain of Different Dynasties.
[94] I have already had occasion to criticise the inconsistencies in the colouring, etc. of this work. See Burlington Magazine, April, 1909, p. 23.
[95] Quoted in the T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 9 verso. We gather from this passage that Ju Chou potters were summoned to the Imperial precincts at K´ai–fêng Fu; for Ju Chou itself is some distance from the capital.
[96] The Liu ch´ing jih cha—a Ming work quoted in the T´ao shuo—describes it as "in colour like Ko ware, but with a faint yellowish tinge"; and the more modern T´ao lu (bk. vi., fol. 2) speaks of it as having "clay fine and lustrous like copper."
tan ch'ing, according to the Ko ku yao lun.