sauce vessels, rice bowls, wine and rice cups, spoons, bird-cage pots, mortars, candlesticks, crucibles and lamps" from the Pak-hoi district. [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Plate 48.--Kuangtung Ware. Fig. 1.--Dish in form of a lotus leaf, mottled blue and brown glaze. About 1600. Diameter 8¼ inches. _British Museum._ Fig. 2.--Vase with lotus scroll in relief, opaque, closely crackled glaze of pale lavender grey warming into purple. (?) Fourteenth century. Height 7⅞ inches. _Peters Collection._ Fig. 3.--Figure of Pu-tai Ho-shang, red biscuit, the draperies glazed celadon green. Eighteenth century. Height 8¼ inches. _British Museum._] [Illustration: Plate 49.--Covered Jar of Buff Stoneware. With cloudy green glaze and touches of dark blue, yellow, brown and white; archaic dragons, bats and storks in low relief; border of sea waves. Probably Kuangtung ware, seventeenth century. Height 33 inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 379: The _T´u shu_, Section xxxii., Part viii., section entitled _T´ao kung pu tsa lu_, fol. 1 verso; quoting from the _Ling piao lu i_ [Chinese], by _Liu Hsün_, of the T´ang dynasty.] [Footnote 380: Bk. vii., fol. 16. "This is the ware which was first made at Yang-chiang Hsien [Chinese] in the Chao-ch´ing Fu in Kuangtung. It is, in fact, an imitation of the _Yang-tz´ŭ_ ware. Consequently, the Records of the Province state that the productions of Yang-chiang in Kuangtung include 'porcelain wares' (_tz´ŭ ch´i_). I have seen incense burners (_lu_), vases (_p´ing_), cups (_chien_), plates (_t´ieh_), bowls (_wan_), dishes (_p´an_), pots (_hu_), and boxes (_ho_) of this manufacture. They are very ornamental and bright, but in taste, fineness, elegance, and lustre they are not equal to porcelain wares. Nor have they been able to avoid the occurrence of flaws exposing the body, which are unsightly. Still they are imitated at T´ang's manufactory, the imitations being admirable in their elegance and lustre, and excelling the Kuang yao. These, like the Tz´ŭ-Chou and Hsü-Chou types of ware, are none of them made of porcelain clay." The _T´ao chêng chi shih_ states: "He (i.e. T´ang Ying) imitates singularly well the Kuang yao glaze, being particularly successful with the spotted blue (_ch´ing tien_ [Chinese]) kind of glaze. Following this author, imitations were also made of the copies produced at T´ang's factory." The greater part of this passage seems to contain a confusion of ideas. _Yang-tz´ŭ_ [Chinese] or "foreign porcelain" was the name given to the painted Canton enamels which are described on the next page of the _T´ao lu_ under that heading. The passage beginning "I have seen" and ending "equal to porcelain wares" is taken almost verbatim from the sections which deal with Canton enamels and cloisonné enamels. The remark on "imitation of the Yang-tz´ŭ ware" could by no stretch of imagination be applied to the mottled Kuang yao; but it does apply to