in the Yang–chou Fu, in Kiangsu, there were factories which supplied wine jars, etc., to the palace at Nanking in the early years of the Ming dynasty; and in the seventh year of Chia Ching (1528) supplies of similar vessels were sent from Ning–kuo Fu
in the south–west of Anhui.[438] The latter place is mentioned elsewhere[439] under its earlier name of Hsüan Chou
as producing a thin white ware made of "plastic clay" in the Yüan and Ming periods. A verse of Wang Shih–chêng (1526–1593) speaks of the "snow white porcelain of Hsüan Chou."[440] The T´ao lu enumerates factories which began in the Ming dynasty and continued to the nineteenth century, and apparently produced an inferior type of porcelain, and probably pottery as well. They were located at Huai–ch´ing Fu
, I–yang Hsien
, Têng–fêng Hsien