[232] The T’ao lu (bk. ix., fol. 17 verso) quotes an infallible method for fixing the gold on bowls so that it would never come off; it seems to have consisted of mixing garlic juice with the gold before painting and firing it in the ordinary way.

[233] Loc. cit., and Bushell, O. C. A., p. 268.

[234] See p. [75].

[235] See T’ao shuo, bk. iii., fol. 10 verso.

[236] See p. [55].

[237] e.g. The Chieh tzŭ yüan ma chuan of the K’ang Hsi period, mentioned by Perzynski, Burlington Magazine, March, 1913, p. 310.

[238] Bushell’s translation, op. cit., p. 71.

[239] Ku chin t’u shu chi ch’êng, section xxxii., bk. 248, section entitled tz’ŭ ch’i pu hui k’ao, fol. 13 verso.

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