Formerly the possession of His Excellency Chang Yinhuan. D. 6 inches." Specimens of this type, with greenish and brownish yellow crackle glaze, have been found in Borneo, where they have been reputed to be of enormous age; there are several examples in the British Museum. The Hirth collection in the Gotha Museum includes four high-footed bowls of brownish yellow colour which seem to belong to this class.] [Footnote 145: As explained in the _T´ao lu_ (bk. ii., fol. 10 verso): "At Ching-tê Chên there is no special factory devoted to the imitation of Ko yao, but the manufacturers of crackled wares make it in addition to their own special line, and that is why they have the general name of Ko yao houses (_Ko yao hu_). Formerly, the manufacturers were acquainted with the origin of the word, but nowadays those who imitate Ko yao only copy a fixed model without knowing why it is called Ko yao."] [Footnote 146: The Hsiang-hu wares were imitated at Ching-tê Chên in the Imperial factory about 1730. T´ang Ying himself gives the following note on them in the _T´ao Ch´êng shih yü kao_, written about this time: "Twenty _li_ south-west of Ching-tê Chên is a waste place called Hsiang-hu [Chinese], where there were formerly the foundations of Sung kilns. It used to be easy to find porcelain (_tz´ŭ_) fragments of old vessels and waste pieces. The material was very thin, and the ware was evidently millet-coloured (_mi sê_) and pale green (_fên ch´ing_)." The memoir of Chiang (1322) states that "the ware was beautiful and lustrous, but not greatly prized at that time." See _T´ao lu_, bk. viii., fol. 12, and bk. v., fol. 2. For Chi Chou ware, see p. 98.] [Footnote 147: See _Chinese_, _Corean_, and _Japanese Potteries_, New York, Japan Society, 1914 No. 307.] [Footnote 148: Bk. ii., fol. 4.] [Footnote 149: Bk. vi., fol. 5 verso.] [Footnote 150: See above, p. 61.] [Footnote 151: See _Burlington Magazine_, May, 1909, "Wares of the Sung and Yüan Dynasties," Plate iii., fig. 11.] [Footnote 152: Quoted in the _T´ao lu_, bk. ix., fol. 9.] [Footnote 153: Celadon green; see p. 82.] CHAPTER VI LUNG-CH´ÜAN YAO [Chinese] IN discussing the celebrated Lung-ch´üan celadons, we are able to build our structure on a more solid basis. For one group of them, at any rate, is so familiar that we should be tempted to abandon the difficult Chinese descriptions and construct an essay on the ware from actually existing specimens, were it not that in so doing we should miss our chief opportunity of applying a living test to the Chinese phrases.