statement, bought for forty ounces of silver the tripod, which filled him with admiration, and placed it in his collection beside the original as though it were its double. In the Wan Li period (1573-1619), Tu-chiu, of Huai-an, came to Fou-liang. Smitten with a deep longing for T´ang's old censer, he could think of nothing else, and even saw it in his dreams. One day he went with Kien-yu, the _T´ai ch´ang's_ nephew, and after much importunity he succeeded in getting from him for a thousand ounces of silver the imitation made by Chou, and returned home completely happy." Other examples of Ting imitations in the late Ming period, described in the _Po wu yao lan_, include "magnolia blossom cups; covered censers and barrel-shaped censers with chain-armour pattern, ball and gate embroidery and tortoise pattern mingled together in an ornamental ground." But we gather that though these have been confounded with Chou's work they were inferior both in material and workmanship to his early masterpieces. At any rate, it is certain that besides these conspicuous craftsmen whose names have become historical, there were many nameless potters at Ching-tê Chên who devoted their skill to the imitation of _pai ting_ porcelain in the Ming and Ch´ing dynasties. Very beautiful wares of this class are occasionally seen which have a "slickness" of decoration and a mechanical refinement of finish characteristic of an art which is already crystallised and has lost its freshness and spontaneity. These are, no doubt, the work of later copyists. Indeed, we are expressly told in the _T´ao lu_[210] that at the end of the eighteenth century there were still potters at Ching-tê Chên who made a specialty of _pai ting ch´i_ or white Ting wares. These, moreover, were makers of curiosities and ornamental wares (_wan_), and they sometimes painted their wares with underglaze blue. Among the provincial wares of the Ting type the _Ko ku yao lun_ mentions Hsiang yao, which "has crab's claw crackle. When rich and lustrous it is highly esteemed, but when yellow and of coarser material, it is of little merit or value." Another work[211] gives this ware a flattering mention in stating that the Ting ware resembled Hsiang yao in colour. The locality of its manufacture is left in doubt, but it was probably Hsiang-shan, in the Ning-po prefecture of Chekiang. The _T´ao lu_ names a good number of producers of white ware, some definitely described as of Ting type, among the lesser factories. Su Chou,[212] for instance, in Anhui, in the modern prefecture of Fêng-yang, had a pottery dating from the Sung period. Its productions resembled Ting ware in colour, and had a considerable reputation. In fact, when the Ting porcelain became scarce the Su Chou ware was largely bought in Northern China as a substitute, though in reality it was far from equal to the genuine Ting.