the large group of porcelain obtained in the white from Ching-tê Chên and painted at Canton precisely in the style of the Canton enamels (see vol. ii., p. 243). This is no doubt what the author had in his mind. The sentence about the unsightly flaws can apply to either the enamels or the Kuang yao, but more particularly to the latter. For the rest, "T´ang's factory" is the Imperial factory at Ching-tê Chên, which was under the management of the celebrated T´ang Ying between 1728 and 1749.] [Footnote 381: From its supposed resemblance to the colour of the sea-snail (_namako_).] [Footnote 382: _Cat. B.F.A._, 1910, K 43. Like so many Chinese dates, this was cut in the ware after the firing, but there is every reason to suppose that it indicates the true date of the manufacture. Sir Arthur has since presented this tray to the British Museum.] [Footnote 383: Op. cit., vol. ii., p. 15.] [Footnote 384: Modern English potters produce flocculent glazes of the Canton type by means of zinc, and Mr. Mott, of Doulton's, showed me a specimen illustrating the effect of zinc which was remarkably like the glaze of Plate 47 both in the blue dappling and the greenish frosting. Possibly the use of zinc was known to the Kuangtung potters and gave them their characteristic types of glaze. Other effects resembling the Canton glazes were produced by Mr. Mott by both zinc and tin in the presence of cobalt and iron.] [Footnote 385: _Japan and China_, vol. ix., p. 261.] [Footnote 386: See p. 90.] [Footnote 387: Such a piece from the British Museum collection is figured in the _Burlington Magazine_, January, 1910, p. 218.] [Footnote 388: See _Burlington Magazine_, January, 1910, p. 220.] [Footnote 389: I am indebted to Mr. A.W. Bahr for much information on these and the Yi-hsing Chün imitations.] [Footnote 390: Three beautiful examples were exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1910, (_Cat._, K 20, 23 and 41), on the last of which the lavender tints on the sides passed into a glassy pool of brilliant peacock blue.] [Footnote 391: There is an interesting example of this crystalline glaze in Mrs. Potter Palmer's collection. It is a bowl of coarse grey porcelain, with blue glaze on the exterior. Inside is a crimson red glaze of Canton type, in the centre of which is a pool of amber glass. The explanation seems to be that we have here a bowl of coarse export porcelain treated at a Canton factory with their crystalline glaze.] [Footnote 392: Richards, _Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire_, 1908, p. 210.] [Footnote 393: Richards, op. cit., p. 209. "Considerable trade is carried on in tea, porcelain, etc."]