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whole trip in the rest of Europe and in China.  From Mr. Eumorphopoulos himself I gained many illuminating suggestions and some almost decisive answers to questions which had been puzzling me.  Although he arrogated to himself no authority for final judgements on these questions, I consider his connoisseurship in the matter of Oriental ceramics to be surpassed by no one in Europe or China, and to be equalled (in the matter of Sung pottery alone) only by that of Mr. Chun Ch'ik Yu (alias Chun Tong) whose collection I visited at Macao.  The attempts of Mr. Eumorphopoulos at determining the significance of the incised numbers found on many of the finer examples of [[underline]] Chun yao [[/underline]] lead him to believe that they indicate special sets and sizes.  He is in constant communication on this subject with European and Chinese collectors and before long hopes to have additional material which will substantiate or disprove his present hypothesis.  It is to be hoped alsi that the independent investigations that Mr. E. Hamilton Bell is carrying on in Japan may result in important data.  
In Mr. Eumorphopoulos' large collection of [[underline]] Chun yao [[/underline]] and other ceramics, the individual piece which impressed me most was a modelled water cup in flower form.  Among the examples that I saw in China only two are to be compared with this, and they are both in the possession of Mr. Chun Ch'ik Yu; one the [[underline]] Kuan yao [[/underline]] boat-shaped vessel, and the other an incense box (?) in the form of two lotus leaves (See P. )
Mr. Eumorphopoulos is anxious to keep in touch with the work of our School in connection with Chinese ceramics, and was intersted even in the sparse date with which I could

Transcription Notes:
Line 3: "judgments," not "judgements" Line 7: "Chun yao" add umlaut (also in second paragraph) last line: "interested"