Note 84 — Chapter III

For example, in the Li t´a k´an k´ao ku ou pien, a modern work, we find: "As to what they call at present Yüan and Chün wares, these in material, colour, sound, and brilliancy are similar to Ch´ai yao, but they differ in thickness, and are perhaps the common folk's imitation wares, and not the Imperial Shih Tsung ware. But we are not yet able to say. If the ware has sky blue colour, clear and brilliant on a coarse yellow brick–earth body, and rings like bronze, it must be Ch´ai ware. As to Chün ware ... the specimens have in every case red colour and variegated surface...."