+------------------------------------------------+ | Note: | | | | Chinese characters are labeled [Chinese]. | | Bold surrounding =text=. | | Italics surrounding _text_. | | | +------------------------------------------------+ CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN _This Edition is limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is_ _No 669_ [Illustration] [Illustration: Statue of a Lohan or Buddhist Apostle, T'ang dynasty (618-906 A.D.) Height with stand 50 inches. _British Museum._ ] CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN AN ACCOUNT OF THE POTTER'S ART IN CHINA FROM PRIMITIVE TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY BY R.L. HOBSON, B.A. Assistant in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum. Author of the "Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities of the British Museum"; "Porcelain: Oriental, Continental, and British"; "Worcester Porcelain"; etc.; and Joint Author of "Marks on Pottery" _Forty Plates in Colour and Ninety-six in Black and White_ VOL. I Pottery and Early Wares CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1915 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION xv BIBLIOGRAPHY xxvii 1. THE PRIMITIVE PERIODS 1 2. THE HAN [CHINESE] DYNASTY, 206 B.C. TO 220 A.D. 5 3. THE TANG [CHINESE] DYNASTY, 618-906 A.D. 23 4. THE SUNG [CHINESE] DYNASTY, 960-1279 A.D. 43 5. JU, KUAN, AND KO WARES 52 6. LUNG-CH´ÜAN YAO [Chinese] 76 7. TING YAO [Chinese] 89 8. TZ´Ŭ CHOU [CHINESE] WARE 101 9. CHÜN WARES AND SOME OTHERS 109 10. MIRABILIA 136 11. PORCELAIN AND ITS BEGINNINGS 140 12. CHING-TÊ CHÊN 152 13. THE YÜAN [CHINESE] DYNASTY, 1280-1367 A.D. 159 14. KUANGTUNG [CHINESE] WARES 166 15. YI-HSING [CHINESE] WARE 174 16. MISCELLANEOUS POTTERIES 184 17. MARKS ON CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN 207 LIST OF PLATES STATUE OF LOHAN OR BUDDHIST APOSTLE, T´ANG DYNASTY (618-906 A.D.). _British Museum_ (_Colour_) _Frontispiece_ PLATE FACING PAGE