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Note 448 — Chapter XVII

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See T'ao lu, bk. viii., fol. 14 verso (quoting the I chih): "In the sixteenth year of K'ang Hsi the district magistrate, Chang Ch'i–chung, a man of Yang–ch'êng, forbade the workmen of Ching–tê Chên to inscribe on the porcelain vessels the nien hao of the Emperor or the handwriting (tzŭ chi ) of the holy men, to prevent their being broken and injured."

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