Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early waresHobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
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Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares
Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
Porcelain, Chinese; Pottery, Chinese
[Footnote 170: [Chinese] A phrase which the author of the _T´ao lu_
considers to be a mistake for the homophone [Chinese] (_tung yao_ or
Eastern ware). He also quotes another misnomer for the ware, viz.
[Chinese] _tung ch´ing ch´i_ (winter green ware). This Tung ware is
constantly alluded to in other works as _tung ch´ing_ [Chinese].]
[Footnote 171: [Chinese] lit. duplicated kingfisher green. Bushell, in
his translation, renders it literally "kingfisher feathers in layers," a
metaphor from the well-known jewellery with inlay of kingfisher feathers,
which would suggest a turquoise tint. On the other hand, we find in
Giles's Dictionary the phrase [Chinese] _Yüan shan t´ieh ts´ui_, "the
distant hills rise in many green ranges" (the two forms of _t´ieh_ being
alternatives), a phrase recalling the "green of a thousand hills," which
is used in reference to early green wares. See p. 16.]
[Footnote 172: Bk. ii., fol. 9.]
[Footnote 173: Bk. iii., fol. 12.]
[Footnote 174: Quoted from the _Yün tsao_ (a selection of verses) in the
_T´ao lu_, bk. ix., fol. 3.]
[Footnote 175: See _Recueil des lettres édifiantes et curieuses_. The
above passage occurs in a long letter dated from Jao Chou, September 1st,
1712. See Bushell, _Chinese Pottery and Porcelain_, Appendix, p. 206.]
[Footnote 176: The only example which I have seen of an inlaid celadon
which might be taken for Chinese is a dish in the Stübel Collection in the
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Dresden. It has a faint design, apparently inlaid, in
a brownish colour.]
[Footnote 177: In the _Oesterreichische Monatschrift_, January, 1885,
and succeeding numbers, A.B. Meyer's _Alterthümer aus dem Ostindischen
Archipel_, etc. etc.]
[Footnote 178: The _Chu fan chih_, the author of which was Imperial
inspector of foreign shipping, etc., in the province of Fukien. See
Hirth, _Ancient Chinese Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediæval Industry
and Trade_, Leipsig, 1888; and the translation of the _Chu fan chih_,
published by Hirth and Rockhill, 1912.]
[Footnote 179: Where Marco Polo (see Yule, bk. ii., p. 218) states that
"they make vessels of porcelain of all sizes, the finest that can be
imagined ... and thence it is exported all over the world."]
[Footnote 180: See A.B. Meyer, op. cit.; Ling Roth, _The Natives of
Borneo_; Carl Bock, _Head Hunters of Borneo_; Fay-Cooper Cole, _Chinese
Pottery in the Philippines_, Chicago 1912.]
[Footnote 181: A thirteenth-century writer, one of whose works is
translated by Barbier and Maynard, _Dictionnaire Géographique de la
Perse_. See p. 240 of this book. Fragments of celadon porcelain were found
on the ninth-century site of Samarra on the Euphrates. (See p. 148.)]
[Footnote 182: Much of the celadon found in Egypt would seem to be as late
as the early part of the sixteenth century, to judge from the general name
given to it by Egyptian merchants, "_baba ghouri_," after the sultan who
reigned at that time.]
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