[387] Such a piece from the British Museum collection is figured in the Burlington Magazine, January, 1910, p. 218.
[388] See Burlington Magazine, January, 1910, p. 220.
[389] I am indebted to Mr. A.W. Bahr for much information on these and the Yi–hsing Chün imitations.
[390] Three beautiful examples were exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1910, (Cat., K 20, 23 and 41), on the last of which the lavender tints on the sides passed into a glassy pool of brilliant peacock blue.
[391] There is an interesting example of this crystalline glaze in Mrs. Potter Palmer's collection. It is a bowl of coarse grey porcelain, with blue glaze on the exterior. Inside is a crimson red glaze of Canton type, in the centre of which is a pool of amber glass. The explanation seems to be that we have here a bowl of coarse export porcelain treated at a Canton factory with their crystalline glaze.
[392] Richards, Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire, 1908, p. 210.
[393] Richards, op. cit., p. 209. "Considerable trade is carried on in tea, porcelain, etc."
[394] S. Wells Williams, Commercial Guide to China, 1863, p. 13. Speaking of pottery the author says: "The charges for freight forbid it to be carried far, and manufactures of it are numerous; that for Canton is at Shih–hwan." No doubt this is Shih–wan
