Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . er type withrough stoneware or earthen body covered with a crackled, greyishwhite enamel of putty-like surface on which enamel colours arecoarsely painted. The typical jar which the island natives so highlyprize is of the ovoid form with a number of loop handles on the ^ Kochi, the Japanese name for Kochin China, seems to have been used in avague and comprehensive sense for Southern China, and we understand by Kochiijaki the old pottery shipped from the coast towns of Fukien and Ku
Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . er type withrough stoneware or earthen body covered with a crackled, greyishwhite enamel of putty-like surface on which enamel colours arecoarsely painted. The typical jar which the island natives so highlyprize is of the ovoid form with a number of loop handles on the ^ Kochi, the Japanese name for Kochin China, seems to have been used in avague and comprehensive sense for Southern China, and we understand by Kochiijaki the old pottery shipped from the coast towns of Fukien and category in Japan seems to include not only a variety of earthenware withcoloured glazes—green, yellow, aubergine, turquoise, and violet—but the coarser,yellowish white wares of the fu ting (see p. 90) type. See Brinkley, op. cit., vol. 29. PLATE 53 Vase with chrysanthemum handles: buff stoneware with chrysanthemum design outlined in low relief and coloured with turquoise, green and pale yellow glazes in a dark purple ground. About 1500 Height I9h inches. Eumorfopoulos put TILi Miscellaneous Potteries 193 shoulder and dragons in relief.^ An unusually ornate example isshown on Plate 49. It has a cloudy green crackled glaze withdragons of both the ordinary and the archaic kind, besides storksand a bat in low relief, and there are touches of dark blue andyellow, white and brown in the glaze. It is probably of Cantonmake and not older than the seventeenth century. In moderntimes jars are made in Borneo itself by the Chinese in the coasttowns. A certain amount of Chinese pottery found its way, like theceladon porcelains in early times, by the caravan routes intoTurkestan, India, Persia, and Western Asia. Such wares wouldbe more naturally drawn from the potteries in Honan, Chihli, andthe north-western provinces, and it is not surprising that the frag-ment found by Sir Aurel Stein in the buried cities of Turkestanshould have included the brown
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