[63] Bushell (_T’ao shuo_, p. 142) gives the misleading version, “bowls enamelled with jewels” and “jewel-enamelled bowls,” omitting in his translation the note in the text which explains their true meaning as _pao shih hung_ or ruby red. [64] [chch 2] _ts’ao ch’ung_ can equally well mean “plants and insects” or “grass insects,” i.e. grasshoppers. In fact, Julien translated the phrase in the latter sense. [65] _Chin hui tui_, lit. brocade ash-heaps. [66] Not as Bushell (_T’ao shuo_, op. cit., p. 143), “medallions of flower sprays and fruits painted on the four sides”; _ssŭ mien_ (lit. four sides) being a common phrase for “on all sides” does not necessarily imply a quadrangular object. [67] _Shih nü_, strangely rendered by Bushell “a party of young girls.” [68] The dragon boats raced on the rivers and were carried in procession through the streets on the festival of the fifth day of the fifth month. See J. J. M. de Groot, _Annales du Musée Guimet_, vol. xi., p. 346. A design of children playing at dragon boat processions is occasionally seen in later porcelain decoration. [69] Cf. the favourite design of children under a pine-tree on Japanese Hirado porcelain. [70] Op. cit., figs. 38, 49, 55, 56, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 76. [71] [chch 2] Bushell has translated it “diffused colours,” but _fu_ is also used for “applying externally” in the medicinal sense, which seems specially appropriate here. [72] [chch 2], lit. “fill up (with) glaze,” the colour of the glaze being specified in each case. Cf. _lan ti t’ien hua wu ts’ai_ (blue ground filled up with polychrome painting), a phrase used to describe the decoration of the barrel-shaped garden seats of the Hsüan Tê period. See p. 17. [73] Fig. 63, a cup in form like the chicken cups (_chi kang_). [74] [chch 2] _ch’i shang._ [75] Op. cit., Plate ii. [76] See E. Dillon, _Porcelain_, Plate xviii. [77] See E. Dillon, _Porcelain_, Plate vii. [78] See _Cat, B. F. A._, 1910, H 21, I 7. [79] [chch 2] [80] [chch 2] [81] [chch 2]. [82] [chch 2]. [83] Op. cit., No. 42. [84] [chch], delicate, beautiful. [85] [chch 2]. [86] [chch 2]. [87] Vol. ii., p. 277. [88] See vol. i, p. 154. [89] See p. 12. [90] This account is quoted from the _Shih wu kan chu_, published in 1591. [91] See p. 12. [92] See Hirth, _China and the Roman Orient_, p. 179. [93] The converse is equally true, and Chinese porcelain of this kind is frequently classed among Persian wares. Indeed, there are not a few who would argue that these true porcelains of the hard-paste type were actually made in Persia. No evidence has been produced to support this wholly unnecessary theory beyond the facts which I have mentioned in this passage, and the debated specimens which I have had the opportunity to examine were all of a kind which no one trained in Chinese ceramics could possibly mistake for anything but Chinese porcelain.