Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . •oi. ?oe THE NL . L LENOX Cations -£NOX2- DATION* The Tang Dynasty, 618-906 o- forerunners of the so-called tiger-skin porcelains of the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries—and the single colours already men-tioned, instances have been identified on the principles alreadyindicated of wares with a full yellow glaze and a streaky, brownishyellow. An interesting piece (Plate 8) in the EumorfopoulosCollection is covered with a deep violet blue glaze on a fine whitebody. Others,
Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . •oi. ?oe THE NL . L LENOX Cations -£NOX2- DATION* The Tang Dynasty, 618-906 o- forerunners of the so-called tiger-skin porcelains of the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries—and the single colours already men-tioned, instances have been identified on the principles alreadyindicated of wares with a full yellow glaze and a streaky, brownishyellow. An interesting piece (Plate 8) in the EumorfopoulosCollection is covered with a deep violet blue glaze on a fine whitebody. Others, again, have a dark chocolate brown glaze on areddish buff body, and a rare ewer in the British Museum isdistinguished by a deep olive brown glaze flecked with tea green,which seems to anticipate by a thousand years the tea dust glazes of the Chien Lung period.^ Another variety of Tang glaze, of which I have seen oneexample, was an olive brown v\dth large splashes of a light colour,a greyish white, but with surface so frosted over by decay thatits original intention remained in doubt. One might say that thisw
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