Ssŭ Chou,[213] too, another place in Anhui, had a pottery dating from Sung times, which made wares of Ting type, and "persons who liked a bargain often bought them in place of Ting porcelain." In the same district, during the Yüan and Ming periods, a thin white ware with "earthen" body was made at Hsüan Chou,[214] which was evidently of _t´u ting_ type. Brinkley[215] speaks of a pottery of this kind which is greatly esteemed by the Japanese under the name of Nyo-fu ware[216]; and a little wine cup with a slight engraved floral decoration in the British Museum is possibly an example of this class. It has an earthy looking body, and creamy white glaze, and is thin and very light to handle. Under the base are engraved the words [Chinese] _han hsing_ ("to contain fragrance"). [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Plate 23.--Ivory white Ting Ware, with carved ornament. Sung dynasty. Fig. 1.--Bowl with lotus design. Diameter 8½ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._ Fig. 2.--Dish with ducks and water plants. Diameter 8¾ inches. _Alexander Collection._] [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Plate 24.--Sung and Yüan Porcelain. Fig. 1.--Ewer, translucent Porcelain, with smooth ivory white glaze. Sung or Yüan dynasty. Height 6 inches. _Alexander Collection._ Fig. 2.--Vase of ivory white Ting ware with carved lotus design. Sung dynasty. Height 11½ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collin._] [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Plate 25.--Ting Ware with moulded designs, Sung dynasty. Fig 1. Plate with boys in peony scrolls, ivory white glaze. Diameter 7¾ inches. _Peters Collection._ Fig. 2. Bowl with flying phœnixes in lily scrolls, crackled creamy glaze; _t´u ting_ ware. Diameter 6 inches. _Koechlin Collection._] [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Plate 26.--T´u ting Ware, Sung dynasty, with creamy crackled glaze. Fig. 1.--Brush washer in form of a boy in a boat. Length 7⅛ inches. _Rothenstein Collection._ Fig. 2.--Figure of an elephant. Length 10½ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._] [Illustration: Plate 27.--Vase of bronze form with row of studs and moulded belt of _k´uei_ dragon and key-fret patterns. "Ostrich egg" glaze. (?) Kiangnan ware, of Ting type; Sung dynasty. Height 17⅝ inches. _Peters Collection._] [Illustration: Plate 28.--Vase of bronze form with two bands of raised key pattern. Thick creamy glaze, closely crackled and shading off into brown with faint tinges of purple. (?) Kiangnan Ting ware. Fourteenth century. Height 15½ inches. _Koechlin Collection._] In Kiangsu, the western portion of Kiang-nan, is the "white earth village" Pai-t´u Chên,[217] where potteries existed from Sung times, making a ware of the local clay, very thin, white and lustrous, beautiful in form and workmanship. Thirty kilns were worked, chiefly by families of the name Tsou, under the direction of a headman, the potters numbering several hundreds.