Fig. 1.--Wine Jar with pierced outer casing, horsemen and attendants, rocky background. Fifteenth century. Total height 19½ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._ Fig. 2.--Tripod Incense Vase, dragons and peony designs and a panel of horsemen. Dated 1529 A.D. Height 22 inches. _Messel Collection._] [Illustration: Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Plate 56.--Miscellaneous Pottery. Fig. 1--Jar with dull green glaze and formal lotus scroll in relief touched with yellow and brown glazes. About 1600. Height 12 inches. _Guff Collection._ Fig. 2--Beaker of bronze form, soft whitish body and dull green glaze. (?) Seventeenth century. Height 16½ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._ Fig. 3.--vase of light buff ware with dull black dressing, vine reliefs. Mark, _Nan hsiang t´ang_ (see p. 219). Eighteenth century. Height 11½ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._] At Yi-chên [Chinese] in the Yang-chou Fu, in Kiangsu, there were factories which supplied wine jars, etc., to the palace at Nanking in the early years of the Ming dynasty; and in the seventh year of Chia Ching (1528) supplies of similar vessels were sent from Ning-kuo Fu [Chinese] in the south-west of Anhui.[438] The latter place is mentioned elsewhere[439] under its earlier name of Hsüan Chou [Chinese] as producing a thin white ware made of "plastic clay" in the Yüan and Ming periods. A verse of Wang Shih-chêng (1526-1593) speaks of the "snow white porcelain of Hsüan Chou."[440] The _T´ao lu_ enumerates factories which began in the Ming dynasty and continued to the nineteenth century, and apparently produced an inferior type of porcelain, and probably pottery as well. They were located at Huai-ch´ing Fu [Chinese], I-yang Hsien [Chinese], Têng-fêng Hsien [Chinese], and Shan Chou [Chinese] in Honan; at Yi Hsien [Chinese] and Tsou Hsien [Chinese] in Yen-chou Fu in Shantung; in the Lung Shang [Chinese] district in Shensi, and at Hêng-fêng [Chinese] in Kiangsi. The last-mentioned factory was established by a man named Ch´ü Chih-kao from Ch´u-chou Fu in the early Ming period. In the Chia Ching period (1522-1566) it was transferred to the I-yang [Chinese] district to a place called Ma-k´êng, not many miles south of Ching-tê Chên. Both the Lung-shang and Ma-k´êng wares are described as very coarse.