Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares

by R. L. Hobson

[442] See the T´u Shu, section T´ao kung pu hui k´ao, fol. 7 verso.

[443] It was completed in 1430, and destroyed by the T´aip´ing rebels in 1853.

[444] In the section T´ao kung pu hui k´ao, fol. 9.

[445] Catalogue spécial de la Collection Chinoise, op. cit., pp. 10–12. The exhibits from Amoy included "carreaux de pavage, tuiles pour toitures."

[446] See Catalogue B.F.A., 1910, L. 1.

[447] See Dr. Voretzsch, Catalogue of Chinese Pottery.

[448] See T'ao lu, bk. viii., fol. 14 verso (quoting the I chih): "In the sixteenth year of K'ang Hsi the district magistrate, Chang Ch'i–chung, a man of Yang–ch'êng, forbade the workmen of Ching–tê Chên to inscribe on the porcelain vessels the nien hao of the Emperor or the handwriting (tzŭ chi

) of the holy men, to prevent their being broken and injured."

[449] See Catalogue B.F.A., 1910, E 4.