[201] See p. [131]. I have seen a single specimen of a bowl with carved design and creamy white glaze inside and all the appearances of a Ting ware, but coated on the exterior with a lustrous coffee brown monochrome. But without any other example to guide one's judgment, I should hesitate to say that this piece was older than the Ming dynasty.
[202] Hsü Tz´ŭ–shu, author of the Ch´a Su, a book on tea, quoted in the T´ao shuo, bk. v., fol. 15 verso.
[203] The potteries in the Chên–ting Fu district were active up to the end of the Ming dynasty, at any rate (see p. [199]); and no doubt many of the coarse t´u ting specimens belong to the Ming period, but as their forms are archaic it is almost impossible nowadays to differentiate them.
[204] Julien, op. cit., p. 21, places this town in Kiang–nan, but this is clearly an error.
[205] In contrast with these there were specimens with "green mouth," ch´ing k´ou which were "wanting in richness and lustre."
[206] The date of Chou Tan–ch´üan is not given, but he is mentioned in the Ni ku lu, a mid–sixteenth–century work.
[207] A well–known type of bronze incense burner of the Shang dynasty. See the Shin sho sei, bk. i., fol. 2; and Hsiang's Album, fig. 1, where a Ting ware copy is illustrated.
[208] Julien, op. cit., pp. xxxiii.–xxxv.; the reference in the T´ao lu is bk. viii., fol. 5.
[209] Perhaps the celebrated "white Ting censer" described on p. [92].
[210] Bk. ii., fol. 9 verso.