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begin to collect in different small centres and to avoid each other.

[[Underline]]True Ch'ai (blue sky after rain) flat plate[[/Underline]]. By far the finest example I have seen. The final proof to my mind that the phrase "blue of the sky after rain" is not a mere poetical effusion, but a close approximation to an accurate description. Silver grey clouds parting to show a "rainwashed" blue of surprising clearness. The translation should never be "blue of the sky after rain" but "blue sky after rain"--as both the light grey clouds and the clear sky are shown. Glaze unpitted and unctuous, body clay white and sonant.  Crazed only on used portions below well defined waterline.

[[underline]]Kuan Yao boat[[/underline]], (official or Imperial Sung.) Extremely delicate boat shaped vessel with comparatively thin walls. Glaze color of the darker variety of mutton fat jade, and in consistency as cold and smooth, without high gloss. The oval base is a delicate ridge of bare clay an eighth of an inch wide and the same height. The glaze comes flush to it and stops with a controlled ripple. Where the glaze is thin--on the gunwales--is brownish fawn which suggests a white body clay. In spite of its soft appearance it is sonant when struck like hard homogeneous porcelain. The sparse "crab claw" craze is unevenly distributed and of different colors according to the age of the cracks. "Cold" like jade, but at the same time unctuous as tallow.

[[underline]]Kuan Yao [[/underline]]seal wax box, in the form of two lotus leaves, one for box and one for cover. The ridges where the glaze runs thin show delicate fawn brown--the "bones" of the
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