[152] Quoted in the T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 9.
[153] Celadon green; see p. [82].
[154] See T´ao lu, bk. vi., fol. 4. A factory of inferior reputation is supposed to have existed at the neighbouring village of Chin–ts´un (see Hirth, Ancient Chinese Porcelain, p. 38). And the T´ao lu (bk. vii., fol. 6) describes a factory at Li–shui Hsien in the Ch´u–chou district, whose productions were also known as Ch´u ware.
[155] In the T´u shu, bk. ccxlviii., section Tz´ŭ ch´i pu hui k´ao, fol. 13, we are told that the brothers Chang worked beneath the Han liu hill at Lung–ch´üan in the Sung and Yüan dynasties.
[156] T´ao shuo, bk. ii., fol. 12 recto.
[157] Ts´ui has already been explained as meaning "kingfisher: a bird with bluish green plumage." That it also connotes the idea of a green colour is shown by the expression ts´ui yü, which is rendered in Giles's Dictionary, "emerald green jade."
[158] Author of the Ch´un fêng t´ang sui pi, quoted in the T´ao shuo, bk. ii., fol. 12.
[159] Bk. vii., fol. 24 verso.
[160] Two examples in the Gotha Museum were figured in the Burlington Magazine, June, 1909, Plate iv.
[161] See T´ao lu, bk. iii., fol. 12 verso.