Note 405 — Chapter XV

See T´ao lu, bk. vii., fol. 11 verso: "(Ou ware) was made in the Ming dynasty by a man of Yi–hsing ... who took the name of Ou, and everybody called it Ou's ware. It included wares which imitated Ko ware in crackle, Kuan and Chün wares in colour. Ou's bright coloured glazes were very numerous. The wares consist of flower dishes, stands for boxes, etc. The glazes with red and blue markings are particularly choice. At Ch´ang–nan the factory of T´ang used to imitate them." The last sentence refers to the celebrated T´ang Ying, who supervised the Imperial factory at Ching–tê Chên from 1728–1749. The statement that Tang's factory imitated them is no doubt based on the oft–quoted list given in the Chiang hsi t´ung chih of wares made at the Imperial factory about 1730, which include "glazes of Ou. Imitations of the old ware of the potter named Ou, including two kinds, that with red and that with blue markings."