14 ON THE OLDER FORMS OF 



eaves tiles, the imbrex in this case having a supplementary 

 flange, which flares above (fig. 15). 



Photographs of streets in Pekin show a roofing-tile not 

 unlike the usual ft)rm seen in Shanghai. A modern tile 



Fig. 15. 



of hard, white stone-ware, richly glazed is said to be Chi- 

 nese. It is a modern production (fig. 16), in Museum of 

 Fine Arts, Boston. 



COCHIN CHINA. 



In the Colonial Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, a build- 

 ing was erected representing a type of the Cochin China 

 house, in fact the entire building was brought from Ton- 

 quin. The roofing-tiles as shown in this structure difiered 

 in no respects from those found in China proper (fig. 17). 



