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minstrel figures in relief enclosed in circles, which on the whole are the only things I have seen in the least suggesting the technique on the incised stones referred to by M. Pelliot, of which the Louvre, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fischer collection at Cologne contain examples.
In addition M. Vigner showed me some pottery which he said had been excavated under the personal supervision of his brother in Rajes, Persia, which I should have classed with [[underline]]T'ing[[/underline]] [[undeline]]Yao[[/underline]] associated by me with Korea in the Korai dynasty and by others with China under the Sungs.
If his idea of the [[underline]]provenance[[/underline]] of this example is correct, it is of the utmost importance, and bears adversely on my ascription of this ware to The Korean peninsula. For on the whole such a piece is much more likely to have been exported to Persia or India from China than from Korea, at that period or any other.
In addition I saw some good Sung white pottery and a few moderately good Korean pieces of the so-called "Korai celadon" type. A terra-cotta-colored bowl, supposed to have been found in Korea, was only the sixth of the sort which I had seen up to that date. (1)
At the rooms of M. and Mme. Meyer-Reifstahl I saw

(1) Since that time I have seen at least ten other specimens of this red ware, in private collections and the Museums of Korea and Europe. I have also found in China a ware so closely resembling it, made at the present time, that my present opinion is inclined to the theory of a Chinese origin and its appearance in Korean graves as an "importation" during the Korai dynasty.