Plate 10.--T'ang Pottery. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._ Fig. 1.--Dish with mirror pattern incised and coloured blue, green, etc.; inner border of _ju-i_ cloud scrolls on a mottled yellow ground, outer border of mottled green; pale green glaze underneath and three tusk-shaped feet. Diameter 15 inches. Fig. 2.--Ewer with serpent handle and trilobed mouth; applied rosette ornaments and mottled glaze, green, yellow and white. Height 10⅝ inches.] [Illustration: Fig. 2 Fig. 1 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Plate 11.--T´ang Wares. Fig. 1.--Cup with bands of impressed circles, brownish yellow glaze outside, green within. Height 2⅝ inches. _Seligmann Collection._ Fig. 2.--Cup of hard white ware with greenish white glaze. Height 2⅜ inches. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._ Fig. 3.--Melon-shaped Vase, greyish stoneware with white slip and smooth ivory glaze. Height 4 inches. _Breuer Collection._ Fig. 4.--Cup of porcellanous stoneware, white slip and crackled creamy white glaze, spur marks inside. Height 3¼ inches. _Breuer Collection._] The truth is, our knowledge of T´ang pottery has only just begun, and now that the ware is esteemed in Europe at its proper worth, the choicer specimens which have been treasured in China are finding their way westward. Every fresh arrival tells us something new and surprising, and it only wanted such a piece as Fig. 1, Plate 10, to establish the identity of the specimens whose T´ang origin we had before only ventured to conjecture. Here we have a form of dish which is found among the tomb wares of the T´ang period, made of the typical T´ang white-body and finished in characteristic fashion and decorated with engraved designs of the most advanced type, filled in with coloured glazes, in addition to bands of mottling in green and white, and yellow and white. There are, besides, other specimens of similar make but with simpler, though scarcely less interesting, design of a mirror-shaped panel formed of radiating lotus leaves engraved in the centre with a stork in white and green, all in a deep violet blue ground. The coloured glazes used in the T´ang polychrome pottery are light and translucent lead glazes of the kind which reappears on the Ming and Ch´ing pottery and porcelain, and, as on the later wares, they are covered with minute accidental crackle. In their splashed and mottled varieties they have, as already noted, a resemblance to the glazes of the eighteenth-century Whieldon ware of Staffordshire, and it is interesting to note that the T´ang potters also used another form of decoration which was much fancied in Staffordshire about a thousand years later. This is the marbling of the ware, not merely by mottling the glaze as in Fig. 2 of Plate 9, or by marbling the surface, but by blending dark and light clays in the body as in the "solid agate" ware of Staffordshire. It only remains to prove that painting with a brush was practised by the T´ang potters, and though one is loath to accept such