LIST OF IMPERIAL PORCELAINS SUPPLIED IN THE THIRD YEAR OF T’UNG CHIH (1864) VASES (_cho ch’i_) 1. Quadrangular vases with apricot medallions and two tubular handles with Chün glaze. [For the shape see Plate 123, and for the glaze see p. 1.] 2. Vases of the same form with Ko glaze. 3. Quadrangular vases with the Eight Trigrams (_pa kua_), and Ko glaze. [The form is quadrangular body with round neck and foot, moulded in relief with the trigrams; for the Ko glaze see vol. i., p. 71.] 4. Vases in form of jade ewers (_yü hu ch’un_) with _chi hung_ (or copper red) glaze. 5. Vases of the same form, with blue and white decoration and raised threads. [Bushell explains that the surface is divided into patterns or sections by raised rings.] 6. Vases of the same form, with blue and white decoration with balcony (_lan kan_). [Bushell explains, “garden scenes enclosed by railings.”] 7. Paper-beater (_chih ch’ui_) vases with the _t’ai chi_ symbol and the glaze of the Imperial factory decorated in colours. [The form is the club-shape or _rouleau_; and the symbol is apparently the _yin-yang_, the Confucian symbol for the Absolute.] 8. Quadrangular vase with elephant symbol of great peace (_t’ai ping yu hsiang_, a rebus meaning “augury of great peace”). [These are apparently square vases with two handles in form of elephant (_hsiang_) heads.] ROUND WARES (_yüan ch’i_) 9. Medium-sized bowls with dragons in purple brown (_tzŭ_). 10. Medium-sized bowls with _chi hung_ glaze. 11. Large bowls (_wan_) with Indian lotus (_hsi lien_) in blue. 12. Five-inch dishes (_p’an_), similarly decorated. 13. Medium-sized bowls with storks and Eight Trigrams (_pa kua_). 14. Wine cups with narcissus flowers (_shui hsien hua_) in enamels. 15. Wine cups with spreading rim painted with dragons in red. 16. Dishes (_p’an_) a foot in diameter decorated in blue with a pair of dragons filling the surface. 17. Soup bowls (_t’ang wan_) with incised dragons under a dark yellow monochrome glaze. [These, according to Bushell, are smaller and shallower than rice bowls.] 18. Medium-sized bowls, barrel shaped, with dragons engraved under a yellow monochrome glaze. 19. Yellow monochrome tea cups. 20. Medium-sized bowls with dragons engraved under a yellow monochrome glaze. 21. Medium-sized bowls with the three fruits in groups (_pan tzŭ_[481]) painted in blue. [The fruits are peach, pomegranate and finger citron.] 22. Soup bowls with expanding rim and dragons incised under yellow monochrome glaze. 23. Six-inch bowls with a pair of dragons in blue. 24. One-foot dishes painted in blue with silkworm scrolls (_ts’an wên_) and longevity characters.