[367] See Bushell, T’ao shuo, loc. cit., p. 195.
[368] The Tao lu (see Julien, p. 214) informs us that the sui ch’i yu (crackle ware glaze) was made from briquettes formed of the natural rock of San-pao-p’êng. If highly refined this material produced small crackle; if less carefully refined, coarse crackle. In reference to sui ch’i in an earlier part of the same work, we are told that the Sung potters mixed hua shih with the glaze to produce crackle. Hua shih is a material of the nature of steatite, and Bushell (O. C. A., p. 447) states that the Chinese potters mix powdered steatite with the glaze to make it crackle. It is, then, highly probable that the “white pebbles” of Père d’Entrecolles and the rock of San-pao-p’êng are the same material and of a steatitic nature.
. Another name of this official, Yen kung, is mentioned in the T’ao lu, bk. v., fol. 11 verso.
[370] Situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze.
[371] Loc. cit.
[372] Silvering the entire surface (mo yin), as opposed to merely decorating with painted designs in silver (miao yin), appears to have been a novelty introduced by T’ang Ying.
[373] i.e. porcelain services painted with European coats of arms.