, lit. "exhort dishes." Bushell renders "rounded dishes." They were probably flat–bottomed shallow bowls, used as saucers.

[377]

t'ai p'an, lit. "terraced dishes."

[378] Ko ku yao lun, bk. vii., fol. 25 verso.

[379] The T´u shu, Section xxxii., Part viii., section entitled T´ao kung pu tsa lu, fol. 1 verso; quoting from the Ling piao lu i

, by Liu Hsün, of the T´ang dynasty.

[380] Bk. vii., fol. 16. "This is the ware which was first made at Yang–chiang Hsien