Chats on Oriental China

CONTENTS

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PREFACE	5
SECTION I CHINESE PORCELAIN
CHAPTER
I.	INTRODUCTORY	21
II.	HARD PASTE	29
III.	RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY	35
IV.	A SKETCH SHOWING PORCELAIN CLASSED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE COLOURS AND GLAZES	43
V.	THE FOUR CHIEF FABULOUS ANIMALS AND TWO GODDESSES	51
VI.	A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF PORCELAIN	89
VII.	THE MING DYNASTY AND ITS PRODUCTS	95
VIII.	THE TSING DYNASTY, KANG-HE PERIOD	103
IX.	THE YUNG-CHING PERIOD	109
X.	THE KEEN-LUNG PERIOD	119
XI.	MANDARIN PORCELAIN, YUNG-CHING PERIOD AND LATER	131
XII.	KEA-KING, TAOU-KWANG, AND THE LATER EMPERORS	139
XIII.	CHINESE WHITE PORCELAIN	147
XIV.	SINGLE OR SELF-COLOUR GLAZES	153
XV.	CHINESE CRACKLE	175
XVI.	BLUE AND OTHER COLOURS UNDER THE GLAZE	181
XVII.	CLOBBER WARE OR REDECORATED PORCELAIN	201
XVIII.	RETICULATED PORCELAIN	203
XIX.	DECORATED WITH COLOURED ENAMELS	211
	A. THE BLACK FAMILY—"FAMILLE NOIRE"
	B. THE GREEN FAMILY—"FAMILLE VERTE"
	C. POWDERED AND MAZARINE BLUE WITH ENAMEL COLOURS
	D. THE GREEN AND YELLOW FAMILY—"FAMILLE JAUNE"
	E. CORAL RED GROUND—"ROUGE DE FER"
	F. THE ROSE FAMILY—"FAMILLE ROSE"
	G. OTHER ENAMEL COLOURS
XX.	PORCELAIN OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY	285
XXI.	IMITATIONS OF ORIENTAL PORCELAIN	291
XXII.	SYMBOLICAL DESIGNS	297
	A. EMBLEMS IN ANIMALS
	B. EMBLEMS IN TREES
	C. EMBLEMS IN FLOWERS
XXIII.	DATE MARKS ON ORIENTAL PORCELAIN	307
XXIV.	SYMBOLICAL MARKS AND ORNAMENTS	323
XXV.	THE IMMORTALS OR CHENS	337
XXVI.	THE DRESDEN COLLECTION	345
SECTION II JAPANESE PORCELAIN AND POTTERY
XXVII.	JAPANESE PORCELAIN AND POTTERY	349
	IMARI, ARITA, OR HIZEN
	HIRADO
	NABESHIMA
XXVIII.	SATSUMA	357
	KYOTO
	AWATA
	MARKS, FIRST SET
XXIX.	BIZEN OR IMBE	367
	KUTANI
	KENZAN WARE
	YEIRAKU WARE
XXX.	KISHU	375
	BANKO
	SOMA
	SANDA
	SHEBA
	VARIOUS
	MARKS, SECOND SET
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