We can only mention in passing a few of the innumerable subsidiary uses which porcelain is made to serve in China, taking the place of so many other materials, above all of metal:--fittings for furniture, especially for the bedstead, frames for the abacus, or calculating-table, knobs for walking-sticks and hanging scrolls, boxes of various shapes and sizes for cosmetics, buttons, bracelets, and hair-ornaments. Finally, the very fragments, what we should call pot-sherds, of the oldest wares, especially when fine in colour, may be found mounted in gold or silver and worn as personal ornaments. * * * * * We started our sketch of Chinese porcelain with a rough historical division into three classes. We are now concerned only with questions of glazes and decoration, and we shall find that the apparently innumerable varieties of Chinese porcelain fall, with few exceptions, under one or other of the following heads:-- 1. White, or nearly white, ware, which may be glazed or unglazed. 2. Single-glaze wares, either true monochromes or, if of more than one colour, the variety of colour arising from changes brought about in the single glaze during the firing. 3. Porcelain decorated under the glaze. Chiefly blue, less often blue combined with red, or red alone. 4. The decoration given by painting with glazes of more than one colour, probably always on the biscuit. We may call this the class of polychrome glazes. 5. The decoration painted over the glaze with enamels more fusible than the glaze on which they rest. PLAIN WHITE WARE.--The white ware made at Ting-chou, a town in the province of Chihli, to the south-west of Pekin, as early as Sung times, served as a type for all the many kinds of similar ware made in later days at King-te-chen. We have seen (p. 68) that there was a variety, of the earlier ware, of creamy tint covered with a soft glaze containing lead; this is the _Tu-ting_, of which there are several specimens in the British Museum. It was, however, the pure white variety, the _Feng-ting_, that was afterwards copied. The colour of this ware, when not a pure white, tends to blue and greenish tints, and it is often finely crackled. This ware, especially the thin, translucent, egg-shell variety of the time of Yung-lo (1402-25), is much sought after by Chinese collectors.