[347] There are some fine examples of orange yellow monochrome in the Peters Collection in New York. The colour was also used with success in the Ch’ien Lung period, the mark of which reign occurs on a good example in the Peters Collection.
[348] Bushell, O. C. A., Plates xxv. and lxxxiii.
[349] See Monkhouse, op. cit., fig. 22. The crackle on the mustard yellow glaze is usually small, but there is a fine specimen in the Peters Collection with large even crackle. Sometimes this yellow has a greenish tinge, and in a few instances it is combined with crackled green glaze.
[350] Second letter, section vi.
[351] See Père d’Entrecolles, second letter, section xiii.: “L’argent sur le vernis tse kin (tzŭ chin) a beaucoup d’éclat.”
[353] The blue of the cobalt is sometimes clearly visible in the fracture of the glaze; and in other cases the black has a decided tinge of brown.
[354] d’Entrecolles, loc. cit., section viii.: “Le noir éclatant ou le noir de miroir appellé ou kim” (wu chin).
[355] d’Entrecolles declares that it was the result of many experiments, apparently in his own time. See p. [194].
[356] Second letter, section xi.