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[87] Vol. ii., p. [277].

[88] See vol. i, p. [154].

[89] See p. [12].

[90] This account is quoted from the Shih wu kan chu, published in 1591.

[91] See p. [12].

[92] See Hirth, China and the Roman Orient, p. 179.

[93] The converse is equally true, and Chinese porcelain of this kind is frequently classed among Persian wares. Indeed, there are not a few who would argue that these true porcelains of the hard-paste type were actually made in Persia. No evidence has been produced to support this wholly unnecessary theory beyond the facts which I have mentioned in this passage, and the debated specimens which I have had the opportunity to examine were all of a kind which no one trained in Chinese ceramics could possibly mistake for anything but Chinese porcelain.