[261] O. C. A., p. 302.
[262] Quoted in the Franks Catalogue, p. 8.
[263] O. C. A., p. 302 footnote.
[264] See also Hippisley, Catalogue, p. 346, where another version is given which makes this Lang actually a Jesuit missionary, a version which Mr. Hippisley afterwards abandoned when research in the Jesuit records failed to discover any evidence for the statement.
[267] Op. cit., Section ix. The paragraph in the first letter runs: “Il y en a d’entièrement rouges, et parmi celles-là, les unes sont d’un rouge à l’huile, yeou li hum; les autres sont d’un rouge soufflé, tschoui hum (ch’ui hung), et sont semées de petits points à peu près comme nos mignatures. Quand ces deux sortes d’ouvrages réüssissent dans leur perfection, ce qui est assez difficile, ils sont infiniment estimez et extrêmement chers.”
[268] There is a very beautiful glaze effect known as “ashes of roses,” which seems to be a partially fired-out sang de bœuf. It is a crackled glaze, translucent, and lightly tinged with a copper red which verges on maroon.
[269] The Emperor K’ang Hsi was specially concerned to encourage industry and art, and in 1680 he established a number of factories at Peking for the manufacture of enamels, glass, lacquer, etc. Père d’Entrecolles mentions that he also attempted to set up the manufacture of porcelain in the capital, but though he ordered workmen and materials to be brought from Ching-tê Chên for the purpose, the enterprise failed, possibly, as d’Entrecolles hints, owing to intrigues of the vested interests elsewhere.
[270] Bushell, op. cit., p. 3.