Note 41 — Chapter III
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No doubt this mortuary pottery was made locally to supply local needs, and there is no occasion to refer it to any of the better known pottery centres, though we do find mention of an imperial order for sepulchral ware sent to the potters at Hsin–p´ing (the old name for the district town of Ching–tê Chên) in the T´ang dynasty. See T´ao lu, bk. viii., fol. 2, quoting from the Hsiang ling ming huan chih.