Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . sh Museum. In addition to the characteristic iemmoku we have now quitea large family of bowls, dishes, jars, and vases with thick purplishblack glazes more or less diversified by golden brown and tea-dustgreen, which are at present grouped with the Chien j^ao pendingsome more precise information as to their origin. They are, how-ever, distinguished by a coarse porcellanous body of greyish whiteor buff colour, and I understand that many of the bowls have comefrom excavations in Hona
Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . sh Museum. In addition to the characteristic iemmoku we have now quitea large family of bowls, dishes, jars, and vases with thick purplishblack glazes more or less diversified by golden brown and tea-dustgreen, which are at present grouped with the Chien j^ao pendingsome more precise information as to their origin. They are, how-ever, distinguished by a coarse porcellanous body of greyish whiteor buff colour, and I understand that many of the bowls have comefrom excavations in Honan ; and there are features in the orna-ment and in the ware itself which suggest that they date back asfar as the Tang period. Fig. 3 of Plate 43, for instance, with itslarge brown mottling on a black glaze, is analogous in form andmaterial to the white-glazed Tang wares and in the mottling ofthe glaze to the typical Tang polychrome. The bowls, which areusually small and shallow with straight sides, wide mouth, andvery narrow foot, or with rounded sides slightly contracting at the ^ The Lin cliiivj jili
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