is an alternative form of
.
[252] Bk. ii., fol. 7 verso. In discussing the glazes with mixed colour, the author says: "Of these wares, the sword–grass bowls and their saucers alone are refined. The other kinds, like the garden seats, boxes, square vases, and flower jars, are all of yellow sandy earthenware. Consequently, they are coarse and thick, and not refined." The first sentence is difficult, and has given rise to much discussion. The word ti, which Bushell has (rightly, I think) rendered saucers, literally means "bottom" or "base." Hirth reads it, "Those which have bottoms like the flower pots in which sword–grass is grown are considered the most excellent"; and Julien appears to have quite misunderstood the application of the passage. The original is
. The shallow saucers in which the deep flower pots stood are often included among the bulb bowls. See Plates 37 and 40.
[253] See the excellent account of the Chün wares by Mrs. Williams in the introduction to the Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Chinese, Corean, and Japanese Potteries held by the Japan Society of New York, 1914.
[254] Shrivelled glaze is sometimes seen on the Chün types of pottery. Probably this was at first, at any rate, an accidental effect; but it is the prototype of the "dragon skin" glazes which the Japanese made at a later date. There is a good example in the Eumorfopoulos Collection of a bowl with thick grey Chün glaze, with a patch of reddish colour, and which is shrivelled in the most approved fashion, the glaze contracting into isolated drops and exposing the body between them.
[255] See T´ao shuo, bk. ii., fol. 15 verso, quoting the Liu ch´ing jih cha. In the case of the former (t´u ssŭ wên) some confusion has been caused by a variant reading
