[Footnote 48: In a paper by Sir C. Hercules Read in the fifteenth number of _Man_, a publication of the Anthropological Institute.] [Footnote 49: See p. 130.] [Footnote 50: See A.W. Bahr, _Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China_, Plate IV.] [Footnote 51: At P'ing-yang Fu, at Ho Chou, and elsewhere (see p. 97).] [Footnote 52: _Ruins of Desert Cathay_, vol. 11., fig. 197.] [Footnote 53: Mr. C.L. Freer has in his collection in Detroit a vase of hard reddish ware with a freely drawn lotus design in brown under a pale green glaze, with parts of the flower in dry reddish brown slip or pigment over the glaze. It has the characteristic T´ang base and appears to belong to that period.] [Footnote 54: The small rosettes which commonly occur In the inlaid Corean designs recall these stamped T´ang patterns. Indeed the analogy between the Corean patterns in general and those found on T´ang pottery is most significant.] [Footnote 55: It is now in the collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer.] [Footnote 56: Yesdijird III., after his overthrow by the Arabs In 641, fled to Merv, and there appealed for aid to the Chinese Emperor. He does not appear to have fled for refuge to China, as has been sometimes asserted.] [Footnote 57: The classical prototype is seen in a vase In the Fourth Vase Room (Case C) in the British Museum, on which we find two similar figures in relief surrounded by a grape vine scroll.] [Footnote 58: Since writing the above note my attention has been drawn to a delightful article in the _Neue Rundschau_ (Oct., 1913, p. 1427) by F. Perzynski, entitled _Jagd auf Götter_. Mr. Perzynski describes his hazardous journey to an almost inaccessible cave temple on a mountain top near Ichou in Chihli, and there is little doubt that this is the place from which our wonderful figure came. He speaks of the hill as the Acthlohanberg, implying a tradition of eight of these figures of Lohan, which had apparently been concealed in this and other caverns for safety during a period of iconoclasm, such as occurred in the ninth and the thirteenth centuries, when thousands of Buddhist shrines were wrecked. He found the shrine bare of the Lohan, except for a few fragments. The rest had been pillaged, and several of the figures had evidently been broken in the attempt to remove them through the narrow aperture of the caves, or to conceal them afterwards. Parts of them, and a sadly damaged Lohan, were actually shown to him in the neighbourhood; and he afterwards succeeded in obtaining a complete figure and a torso, which were exhibited by him in Berlin. On the altar of the shrine he found an incense burner of glazed ware, which he attributed to the Yüan dynasty, and there was a tablet recording the restoration of the altar in the reign of Chêng Tê (early sixteenth century). It is interesting to note that Mr. Perzynski assumed at once that these figures are of T´ang date. Incidentally, he mentions