[241] The supplies of porcelain earth in the immediate district of Jao Chou Fu were exhausted by this time.

[242] The others were the Ch’ing-yün factory at Ssŭ-tu, and the Lan-ch’i factory in the Chien-ning district. The latter district was mentioned in vol. i., p. [130], in connection with the hare’s fur bowls of the Sung period.

[243] See vol. i., p. [17].

[244] Tê-hua was formerly included in the Ch’üan-chou Fu, but is now in the Yung-ch’un Chou.

[245] See vol. i., p. [131].

[246] Bk. vii., fol. 13 verso.

[247] Loc. cit.

[248] According to de Groot, Annales du Musée Guinet, vol. xi., p. 195.

[249] Brinkley, China and Japan, vol. ix., p. 274.

[250] See W. Anderson, Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum, p. 75.