[4] Bk. vii., fol. 25 recto.

[5] Or, perhaps, “greenish black,” taking the two words together.

[6]

lit. “omit body.” A slightly thicker porcelain is known as pan t’o t’ai, or “half bodiless.”

[7]

ts’ai chui. These words seem to have been taken to mean “decorated with an awl”; but they are better translated separately to mean “bright coloured” and “(engraved with) an awl,” the suggestion being that ts’ai refers to enamelled porcelain.

[8] Bk. ii., fol. 8 verso.

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