Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876
CHAPTER X.
THE PORCELAIN OF CHINA.
Difficulties.--The Porcelain Tower at Nanking.--First Making of Porcelain.--Kaolin and Pe-tun-tse.--Marco Polo.--Portuguese Importation.--The City of King-te-chin.--Jacquemart's Groups.--Symbolic Decoration.--Inscriptions.--The Ming Period.--The Celestial Blue.--The Celadons.--Reticulated Cups.--The Crackle.--Various Periods.--Individualism. --Marks and Dates.....175