[245] The link is strengthened by the presence of the black painted bands which border the main designs. See also Burlington Magazine, loc. cit., August, 1911, "On Some Old Chinese Pottery."
[246] On a few specimens, the date of which is by no means certain, a design of leaves is executed by a peculiar process, in which an actual leaf seems to have been used as a stencil, being stuck on to the ware while the slip was applied, and afterwards removed, leaving a leaf–shaped pattern in reserve. A somewhat similar use of leaf stencilling is described on p. [133].
[248] Bk. vii., fol. 14. Some authorities seem to have considered that the Hsü Chou factories go back to Sung times.
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[250] The T´ao lu was written at the end of the eighteenth century.
