[455] Shên tê t’ang and ch’ing wei t’ang. See vol. i., p. [220].
[456] See Burton and Hobson, Marks on Pottery and Porcelain, p. 151.
[457] Op. cit., pp. 116–175.
[458] T’ao shuo, op. cit., pp. 7–30 and O. C. A., ch. xv.
[459] The Lowestoft factory started about 1752, but its earlier productions were almost entirely blue and white, often copied, like most of the contemporary blue and white from Chinese export wares.
[460] A curious instance of imitation of European ornament is a small bowl which I recently saw with openwork sides and medallions, apparently moulded from a glass cameo made by Tassie at the end of the eighteenth century; and there is a puzzle jug with openwork neck, copied from the well known Delft-ware model, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
[461] Rotterdam was captured by the Spaniards in 1572; but those who are interested in the anachronism of Chinese marks will observe that these plates have the date mark of the Ch’êng Hua period (1465–1487).
[463] Op. cit., p. 207.
[464] An interesting example of an early eighteenth century service with European designs is the “trumpeter service,” of which several specimens may be seen in the Salting Collection. It has a design of trumpeters, or perhaps heralds, reserved in a black enamelled ground.