Transcriber’s Notes: 1. [chch] = Chinese character. [chch 2] = 2 Chinese Characters, etc. 2. Items marked wth an asterisk (*): Pieces mentioned here from the British Museum collection. 3. The items marked with two asterisks (**) are stated to have been copied from old specimens in the palace collections.] CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN _This Edition is limited to 1500 copies, of which this is_ _No._ 669 [Illustration: Covered Jar or Potiche, painted with coloured enamels on the biscuit. Eight petal-shaped panels with flowering plants, birds and insects on the sides; with a band of smaller petals below enclosing lotus flowers, and borders of red wave pattern and floral sprays. Base unglazed. Early part of the K’ang Hsi period (1662–1722) Height 25 inches. _British Museum._] CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN AN ACCOUNT OF THE POTTER’S ART IN CHINA FROM PRIMITIVE TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY BY R. L. HOBSON, B.A. Assistant in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum. Author of the “Catalogne of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities of the British Museum”; “Porcelain: Oriental, Continental, and British”; “Worcester Porcelain”; etc; and Joint Author of “Marks on Pottery.” _Forty Plates, in Colour and Ninety-six in Black and White_ VOL. II Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1915 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 1. THE MING [chch] DYNASTY, 1368–1644 A.D. 1 2. HSÜAN TÊ [chch 2] (1426–1435) 7 3. CH’ÊNG HUA [chch 2] (1465–1487) AND OTHER REIGNS 22 4. CHIA CHING [chch 2] (1522–1566) AND LUNG CH’ING [chch 2] (1567–1572) 34 5. WAN LI [chch 2] (1573–1619) AND OTHER REIGNS 58 6. THE TECHNIQUE OF THE MING PORCELAIN 91 7. MISCELLANEOUS PORCELAIN FACTORIES 107 8. THE CH’ING [chch] DYNASTY, 1644–1910 117 9. K’ANG HSI BLUE AND WHITE 128 10. K’ANG HSI POLYCHROME PORCELAINS 145 11. K’ANG HSI MONOCHROMES 176 12. YUNG CHÊNG [chch 2] PERIOD (1723–1735) 200