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Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain

Note 366 — Chapter XI · K’ANG HSI MONOCHROMES

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Ku chin t’u shu, section xxxii., vol. 248, fol. 15. In this way, we are told, were produced (1) the thousandfold millet crackle and (2) the drab-brown (ho) cups. The colour of the latter was obtained by rubbing on a decoction of old tea leaves. The former is a name given to a glaze broken into “numerous small points.”

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