[475] Hippisley Collection, Catalogue, No. 169.

[476] O. C. A., p. 469.

[477] This extravagant idea has been long ago exploded, and need not be rediscussed. See, however, Julien Porcelaine Chinoise, p. xix., and Medhurst, Transactions of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong, 1853.

[478] O. C. A., p. 470.

[479] Bk. 93, fols. 13–15.

[480] O. C. A., pp. 474–83.

[481] Bushell applies the phrase pan tzŭ to the bowls and renders it “of ring-like outline.”

[482] Bushell renders ju-i in the general sense, “with words of happy augury”; it is, however, applied to ornaments of ju-i staffs and to borders of ju-i heads.

[483] See vol. i., p. [225].

[484] Bk. i., fols. 1 and 2; see Bushell, op. cit., pp. 3–6.