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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] 386.

as the [[underline]] li [[/underline]] 鬲 (pl. 52, fig. 1).  The [[underline]] ting [[/underline]] calls for little comment or description; it was (and is) essentially a bowl raised on three solid, cylindrical, and sometimes rather tall legs.  The [[underline]] li [[/underline]] was likewise a tripod ([[underline]] c.f. [[/underline]] pp. 170 [[underline]] sq. [[/underline]] and note 163); but its legs were hollow and bulbous, and formed extensions of the interior cavity of the vessel.  The [[underline]] li [[/underline]] was in fact a particularly widespread and common type of vessel during the Chinese Neolithic stage except apparently in the northwest; and its shape, like that of the [[underline]] ting [[/underline]], has survived, both in earthenware and in bronze, until later and even modern times.
       Before we leave the subject of this coarse gray pottery, we may add that there seems little doubt that it was the common domestic ware during the Neolithic period in much if not all of northern China, and of adjacent regions to the north and east as well.

[[underline]] The Reddish-Buff Ware. [[/underline]]
       Polychrome ware of various local types has long been known from many sites in western Asia.  During the past two decades, pottery of this class has also been found at numerous points along the great transcontinental migration-routes through central and eastern Asia, from Chinese Turkistan right across northern China proper, and so on up to southern Manchuria (on this, [[underline]] cf. [[/underline]] page 265).
    This Chinese painted pottery occurred, as already indicated, at Wa Cha Hsieh, where it proved unusually rich both in quantity and in the multiplicity and variety of its forms ([[underline]] cf. [[/underline]] pls. 55-57, inclus.).  Among these were cups, bowls, and large cylindrical jars, some of the latter nearly a meter in height but rather slender in proportion, with everted rims and pointed bottoms.  There were also graceful flasks with well-marked necks and flaring trumpet-shaped mouths.  Some shards bore evidence in their forms---which could be reconstructed in part---of belong-