From this passage it appears that "blue and white" may be added to the types of ware made in the Yüan period.
The third factory, at Chien–yang in Fukien, has already been discussed at some length. It was chiefly celebrated for the dark–coloured wares (wu–ni yao) and the "hare's fur" and "partridge" tea bowls.[372]
These names by no means exhaust the list of factories which were active in the Yüan period. Others have been incidentally mentioned elsewhere under the headings of Yüan–tz´ŭ, P´êng ware, Hsin Ting ware, etc.[373]
The Ko ku yao lun enumerates certain pottery forms which, it asserts, were not in use before the Yüan period. As usual, the Chinese descriptions are exceedingly difficult to visualise, and in many cases are open to several interpretations, and are not easy to reconcile with established facts. However, I quote the passage as it stands: "Men of old when they drank tea used p'ieh[374] (? bowls with curved sides), which were easy to drain and did not retain the sediment. For drinking wine they used cups (chan); they had not yet tried cups with handles (pa chan[375]), and in old times they had no ch'üan p'an.[376] The Ting ware ch'üan p'an which one sees nowadays are the brush washers (hsi) of olden times. The men of old used 'decoction vases' for pouring wine, and did not use ewers (hu p'ing) or bowls with contracted lip or tea cups (ch'a chung) or dishes with rims.[377] These were all forms used by the Mongols. The men of China only began to use them in the Yüan dynasty. They never appear in old Ting or Kuan wares."[378]
CHAPTER XIV
KUANGTUNG
