Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing PorcelainHobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
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Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain
Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
Porcelain, Chinese; Pottery, Chinese
Yung Chêng mark, ii. 217
Yung Chêng monochromes, ii. 216
Yung Chêng wares, ii. 169, 200–226
Yung-Chou, i. 136
Yung-ho Chên, i. 98, 99
Yung Lo bowl, ii. 86
Yung Lo wares, ii. 3–6, 9, 12, 224
Yunnan, ii. 29
Zanzibar, i. 86, 87
_Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, the, i. 8
Zengoro Hozen, ii. 6
Zimmermann, E., i. 87, 145; ii. 5
Zinc, i. 168, 182
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] See vol. i, p. 153.
[2] _fêng huo_. Bushell renders “blast furnaces.”
[3] [chch 2] _lan kuang_, lit. “burn tube.” Omitting the radical [chch]
(_huo_, fire) in both cases, Bushell takes the characters as _lan_
(blue) and _huang_ (yellow). Possibly Bushell’s edition had variant
readings.
[4] Bk. vii., fol. 25 recto.
[5] Or, perhaps, “greenish black,” taking the two words together.
[6] [chch 2] lit. “omit body.” A slightly thicker porcelain is known
as _pan t’o t’ai_, or “half bodiless.”
[7] [chch 2] _ts’ai chui_. These words seem to have been taken to mean
“decorated with an awl”; but they are better translated separately to
mean “bright coloured” and “(engraved with) an awl,” the suggestion
being that _ts’ai_ refers to enamelled porcelain.
[8] Bk. ii., fol. 8 verso.
[9] [chch 3] _Ya shou pei_, lit. “press hand cups.”
[10] “Made in the Yung Lo period of the great Ming dynasty.”
[11] The reading in the British Museum copy is [chch] _pai_ (white),
which seems to be an error for [hch] _ssŭ_ (four): taken as it stands,
it would mean written in white slip.
[12] [chch] _hua_, lit. “slippery.” The meanings include “polished,
smooth, ground,” etc., from which it will be seen that the word could
equally refer to a glazed surface or an unglazed surface which had been
polished on the wheel.
[13] This conical form of bowl was by no means new in the Ming period.
In fact, we are told in the _T’ao shuo_ that it is the _p’ieh_ of the
Sung dynasty, the old form of tea bowl. See vol. i, p. 175.
[14] There are several others of this type in Continental museums; cf.
Zimmermann, op. cit. Plate 23.
[15] _Cat._, F 6.
[16] Bk. v., fol. 5.
[17] Bk. ii., fol. 8.
[18] _pa pei_, lit. handle cups. This type, as illustrated in
Hsiang’s Album (op. cit., No. 54) is a shallow cup or tazza on a tall
stem which was grasped by the hand.
[19] An example of the figure subjects on Hsüan Tê blue and white is
given in the _T’ao shuo_, “teacups decorated with figures armed
with light silk fans striking at flying fire-flies”; see Bushell’s
translation, op. cit., p. 136.
[20] “Citron dishes” are specially mentioned in the _Wên chên hêng
ch’ang wu chi_ (_T’ao lu_, bk. viii., fol. 4).
[21] _Ch’ang k’ou_, lit. “shed mouth.”
[22] Lit. “pot-bellied.”
[23] Lit. “cauldron (_fu_) base.”
[24] _an hua_, secret decoration (see p. 6).
[25] “Made in the Hsüan Tê period of the great Ming dynasty.”
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