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Title: Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941
Subjects: Pottery -- China History
Publisher: New York : Funk and Wagnalls
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aucers, literally means bottom or base. Hirthreads it, Those which have bottoms like the flower pots in which sword-grass is grownare considered the most excellent ; and Julien appears to have quite misunderstoodthe application of the passage. The original is ifc^fiifl^jiS^I&ft®- The shallowsaucers in which the deep flower pots stood are often included among the bulbbowls. See Plates 37 and 40. * See the excellent account of the Chun wares by Mrs. Williams in the introductionto the Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Chinese, Corean, and Japanese Potteries heldby the Japan Society of New York, 1914. * Shrivelled glaze is sometimes seen on the Chun types of pottery. Probably thiswas at first, at any rate, an accidental effect ; but it is the prototype of the dragon PLATE 35Flower pot of Chun Chou ware of the Sung Dynasty. Grey porcellanous body : olive brown glaze under the base and the numeral shih(ten) incised. Height (without the wooden stand) 5; inches. Eumorfopoulos Collection.
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PU Chiin Wares and Some Others 113 gate the surface of the Chiin wares have been noticed by Chinesewriters as hares fur marking and flames of blue. ^ Others,which appear to be irregular partings in the colour of the glaze,have been named chiu ying wen or earthworm marks. Theselast rarely appear except on the finer type of Chiin wares, and,like the tear stains on the Ting porcelains, they are regardedas signs of authenticity. Though the beautiful Chiin wares of the tzil fai group will alwaysbe rare and costly, Western collectors have been fortunate in secur-ing a fair number of specimens, and a wonderful series of themwas brought together in March, 1914, in the exhibition held by theJapan Society of New York. The forms of the flower pots varyconsiderably. Some have globular body with high spreading neckand wide mouth ; others are bell-shaped like a deep cup ; othersare deep bowls with sides shaped in six or eight lobes like the petalsof a flower ; others are of quatrefoil form ; and ot

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