Note 125 — Chapter V
Reading edition
An early sixteenth–century work, the Tu kung t´an tsuan (quoted in the T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 8 verso) tells of a Chinese sybarite Li Fêng–ming, who held a "lotus flower banquet. There were crystal tables twelve in number, and on them a series of vessels, all of Kuan porcelain, a display of elegance rarely seen at any time."