330 BEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



described by Hsiang Tzu-ching — was white in color, with the orna- 

 mentation faintly engraved in the paste. Plates, bowls, etc., are said 

 to have borne the characters sku-fu, "the palace," inscribed on the 

 interior on the foot. Hsiang Tzu-ching^ says that this shu-fu porce- 

 lain was copied from the Tingchow ware of the Northern Sung 

 dynasty, and the vase in his own collection he considers altogether 

 like a Ting piece in its form, in the color of the paste, and in the 

 engraved design. 



The details given by native writers regarding the productions of 

 this period are scanty in the extreme. They mention, however, that 

 at Lungch'uan celadons were produced on the model of the Chang 

 ware, but the clay used was coarse and dry, and failed to give the fine 

 color which had characterized the older productions. 



At Ho-chow, in the Kiangnan province, P'eng Chiin-pao produced, 

 as already stated, some excellent porcelain, known as New Ting-ijao 

 and from the name of the district in which it was produced, Ho-yao or 

 ware of Ho, and closely resembling the older ware from Tingchow. 

 Made from fine, white, plastic clay, it was very thin and celadon in 

 color. Other varieties mentioned are: 

 The Hsuanchovj-yao^ from the department of that name in Kiangnan 



province, very thin and white in color. 

 The Linch^iian-yao^ from the district of that name in the department 

 of Fuchow, Kiangsi province, was a porcelain made from soft 

 white clay. It was thin, and generally white, with a light yellow 

 tinge; but some bore flowers coarsely painted. 

 The Nanfmg-yao^ from the district of that name in the department of 

 Chienchang, Kiangsi province, was a somewhat thick porcelain, 

 in many cases ornamented with flowers in blue. These two latter 

 kinds appear to have been very famous under the Yilan dynast}', 

 and to have been much preferred to the productions of Chiugte- 

 chen. 

 The HutHen-yao^ manufactured in the neighborhood of Chingte-chen, 

 was either a j^ello wish-black, or, if white, had a tint of that color. ^ 

 No specimens of these wares have, however, so far as I am aware, 

 survived to the present day, and among those which Chinese connois- 

 seurs now declare to be red products of the Yiian dynasty one seldom 

 sees any but such as are of a uniform whitish purple with deep red 

 splashes. 



MING DYNASTY, 1368 TO 1649. 



Under the Ming dynasty the ceramic art made great progress, both 

 in the fineness of the ware and in the excellence of the decorative 

 workmanship. It would appear that under the Yiian dynasty imperial 



' S. W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain before the Present Dynasty, No. 21. 



* S. Jiilien, L' Historic et la Fabrication de la Porcelaine Chinoise, pp. 23, 24, 86. 



