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The Allen collection of Corean Pottery

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Can some of them be Chinese?
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The types of colored glaze is Seiji green becoming grayer & grayer until it passes into the yellowish group. But there is no suggestion of tr[[??]] or te[[??] or Sung mottling.

The other type of glaze color is the white pieces, almost porcelain in hardness. Generally brilliant, not very creamy, of great [[?]] of [[?]]ddling]]/

Some of these whites are translucent. Design is incised, and of rapid [[??]], seems cloud like almost feather [[??]]. 
The stroke begins with a cuneiform attack

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the curve feeling is not like Chinese, but is like Corean.

The glaze of these is [[almost?]] bluish.
 
More creamy or dull is No. 29, which look more like Sing white.

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of these fine Seiji several have the most exquisite flowers falling modeled in low relief - cut out of the surface, under the glaze.

The finest is an intertwist of a design of a hibiscus, most beautiful decoration in the mold. No [[?]] not crackled? 20.
The next best is [[????]], both of them [[??]]
The lg Chinese rim at bottom, not fully glazed
20 lg Chinese rim, fully glazed

Another, which [[??]] between [[??]] has lost the [[rim??]] at bottom  [[??]] in kiln on 3 outside points. It is grayer in tone, and crackled