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A history and description of Chinese porcelain (1901)

Monkhouse, William Cosmo, 1840-1901, Bushell, S. W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908 · London [etc.] New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited · leaf 50

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have something like trustworthy evidence that porcelainwas made during this Dynasty, if not before. We have Chinese records of two kinds of ware made underthe Sui Dynasty (581-617) which may have approached verynearly to porcelain—(1) a green porcelain manufactured underHo Chou, or Ho-Kuei-lin,… … Fig. 6.—shou hsing, god oflongevity. HISTORICAL. 15 and (2) a ware produced by a man named Tao-Yti, which wasHke jade (a semi-transparent stone like semi-opaque glass).The reputed name of the workman means pottery jade, andis probably the name of the ware and not of its maker, unlessit was a…

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