Note 56 — Chapter VII · THE PORCELAIN OF CHINA—(continued).

A predecessor of his as viceroy and superintendent at King-te-chen was Lang Ting-tso, from whom the famous Lang yao, the sang de bœuf, had its name, though this derivation is not absolutely certain. It could only have been quite in the last days of the latter viceroy’s rule that much good work was turned out from the kilns.