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[162] Tzŭ chin. Golden brown with reddish tinge (tzŭ chin tai chu), accurately describes one kind of stoneware tea pots made at Yi-hsing (p. [177]); but it is not stated whether Hao’s imitations were in stoneware or porcelain.
[163] An allusion to the celebrated orchid pavilion at Kuei-chi, in Chêkiang, the meeting place of a coterie of scholars in the fourth century. The scene in which they floated their wine cups on the river has been popularised in pictorial art. See Plate [104] Fig. 1.
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[165] The K’ao p’an yü shih.
[166] Bk. vi., fol. 16 recto.