which has passages of marbling in black and brown, and small black rosette ornaments inlaid in Corean fashion. The variety of decorations used on this group of wares seems to be inexhaustible. It has already been hinted that other factories were at work on the same lines as Tz´ŭ Chou, and as we have no means of identifying their peculiarities, it would perhaps be safer to use some such formula as "Tz´ŭ Chou type" in the ascription of doubtful pieces. Po-Shan Hsien, in Shantung, was mentioned in a note on p. 103, and the _T´ao lu_[248] gives a short account of another factory at Hsü Chou,[249] in Honan, where the _tz´ŭ_ stone (see p. 101) was also used in wares which were both plain white and decorated. This factory was active in the Ming dynasty, and it is stated that its wares were superior to the "recent productions"[250] of Tz´ŭ Chou. A reference to porcelain figures in Honan in the Sung dynasty may be quoted in this connection. It occurs in the _Liang ch´i man chih_, an early thirteenth-century work by Fei Kuan, and runs as follows: "In Kung Hsien (in the Honan Fu) there are porcelain (_tz´ŭ_) images called by the name of Lu Hung-chien. If you buy ten tea vessels you can take one image. Hung-chien was a trader who dealt in tea--unprofitably, for he could not refrain from brewing his stock. Hung-chien formerly was very fond of tea, and it brought him to ruin." Possibly the images of Hung-chien, which were given away with ten tea vessels, were made at Tz´ŭ Chou or Hsü Chou. Figures are still part of the stock-in-trade of the former factory. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 230: See _T´ao lu_, bk. vii., fol. 13 verso.] [Footnote 231: _Hsiu hua_, lit. "embroidered ornament," but see p. 91.] [Footnote 232: For incidental reference to Tz´ŭ Chou vases and wine jars in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, see p. 128.] [Footnote 233: See Bushell, _O.C.A._, p. 164.] [Footnote 234: See Brinkley, _Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Boston Museum of Arts_, 1884; also _Burlington Magazine_, August, 1911, p. 264.] [Footnote 235: The pottery found in Sung tombs near Wei Hsien, in Shantung, in 1903, includes a few examples of this type of ware with sketchy brown designs. Laufer (_Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty_, Appendix ii.) has illustrated this important find, though he is inclined to think that it may have been made at the neighbouring potteries of Po Shan Hsien. If this is so, we must reckon with the fact, in itself not at all surprising, that other factories besides Tz´ŭ Chou were working on the same lines. See p. 107.] [Footnote 236: It would appear that the Tz´ŭ Chou potters were capable of producing these lustrous brown passages in the black glaze intentionally, for the floral design on Fig. 1 of Plate 34 is expressed in this manner.] [Footnote 237: At Wei Hsien. See note on p. 103.]