There are, however, many other imitations of Chün ware in which the body is not of tell-tale white porcelain. The _Po wu yao lan_, for instance, written at the end of the Ming dynasty, states that "in the present day among the recent wares all this type of ware (viz. the Chün type) has the sandy clay of Yi-hsing[263] for its body; the glaze is very similar to the old, and there are beautiful specimens, but they do not wear well." Yi-hsing is the place where the red stoneware tea pots, often called Chinese "buccaro," were made, and we know that a Yi-hsing potter, named Ou, was famous at the end of the Ming dynasty for his imitations of Ko, Kuan, and Chün glazes.[264] A bowl in the British Museum seems to answer the description of Ou's ware. It has a hard red stoneware body, and a thick undulating glaze of pale lavender blue colour, the comparative softness of which is attested by the well-worn surface of the interior. The "Yung Chêng list" includes yet another type based upon Chün ware. It is called "Chün glaze of the muffle kiln," clearly a low-fired enamel rather than a glaze, whose colour is between the Kuangtung ware and the added[265] glaze of Yi-hsing, though in surface-markings, undulations and transmutation tints it surpasses them. This appears to be the "robin's egg" type of glaze,[266] to use the American collector's phrase, a thick, opaque enamel of pale greenish blue tint flecked with ruby red (see Plate 128). The manufacture of glazes of the Chün type has continued at Yi-hsing since the days of Ou, and what is called Yi-hsing Chün is still manufactured in considerable quantity, the streaky lavender glazes being of no little merit. When applied to incense burners and vessels of archaic form, they are capable of being passed off as old, though the initiated will recognise them by their want of depth and transparency and by the peculiar satiny lustre of their surface. [Illustration: PLATE 38 Chün Wares Fig. 1.--Bowl of eight-foil shape, with lobed sides, of Chün type. Sung dynasty. Close-grained porcellanous ware of yellowish colour. Height 1⅞ inches. _Alexander Collection._ Fig. 2.--Pomegranate-shaped water pot of "Soft Chün" ware. Probably Sung dynasty. Height 3½ inches. _Alexander Collection._ Fig. 1 Fig. 2 ] Another ware which has a superficial resemblance to Chün yao has been made for a long period at the Kuangtung factories,[267] if it does not actually go back to Sung times. A typical specimen, shown in Plate 51, is a vase of baluster form with wide shoulders strengthened by a collar with foliate edge, and small neck and mouth, ornamented with a handsome lotus scroll in relief. The body is a buff stoneware, and the glaze is thick, opaque, and closely crackled, and of pale lavender grey warming into purple.