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permitted to study and the illuminating comments of Mr. Chun were of more value to me than any other single experience with ceramics in the East. 

The following were the main observations which I was able to note concerning the collection. It is impossible to give in words an adequate idea of the experience to eye and hand of examination under the direction of so experienced a connoisseur.

[[underline]] Four-sided Chun yao cusped dish [[/underline]] with four feet of darker clay than the body. Numbered 7 on the bottom. Magnificent purple and plum color and claret red outside, greyish blue inside. Glaze had characteristic "worm-tracks", unpitted and unctuous. Slight true "craze" only on bottom and up the inside to a very distinct water line. Body clay clear greyish white and fine. Perfect control of glaze on foot. 

[[underline]] Hexagonal Chun yao cusped dish [[/underline]] with three feet, perfect [[underline]] Chun [[/underline]] [[underline]] yao [[/underline]] type. Plum and claret reds and blue glaze. "Worm-tracks", no pits, unctuous, crazed on used parts only. Feet of darker coarser clay than body. Numbered on bottom.

[[underline]] Purple Ting yao platter [[/underline]] with scolloped edge. The only example which I have ever seen or heard of. It seems to be the ware that Bushell translates as "brown". (1) The color is called by the Chinese "color of the egg plant flower" which Mr. Chun says describes it exactly and is entirely different from the fruit or aubergine. More than forty years ago an official tried to buy this piece for tls. 10,000. as a wedding present for the Emperor, but the owner reported it as "lost".

(1) S.W. Bushell, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, P. 39.