. Another name for Canton pottery is Shakwan ware, which is probably a variant of Shih–wan.

[395] Catalogue spécial de la Collection Chinoise à l'Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878, pp. 10–12.

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[397] By Chou Kao–ch´i. See Bushell, O.C.A., p. 635.

[398] F. Brinkley, Japan and China, vol. ix., pp. 355–63.

[399] Op. cit., figs. 45 and 46.

[400] A tael is about one Mexican dollar and a third, i.e. approximately thirty pence.

[401] Four of the most celebrated names, however, are incidentally mentioned in the T´ao lu (bk. vii., fol. 11 verso), viz. (1) Shih Ta–pin