CHAPTER V.

CHINA.

Art Different from that of Europe or America.--How it must be Viewed.--Religion.--Legend.--Hoang-ti the Inventor of Pottery.--The Leading Points of Religious System.--Personified Principles.--Lao-tseu, Confucius, and Buddha.--Kuan-in.--Pousa or Pou-tai.--Dragons.--Dog of Fo.--Ky-lin.--Sacred Horse.--Fong-hoang.--Symbols.--Meaning of Colors and Shapes.--POTTERY: When First Made.--Céladon.--Crackle.--How Made.--Porcelain Crackle.--Decorations on Crackle.--Household Vessels.--Stone-ware.--Licouli.--Tower of Nankin.--Pipe-clay.--Boccaro.--Colors and Decoration of Pottery.--Colors on Crackle. PORCELAIN: When Invented.--King-teh-chin.--All Classed as Hard, Exceptions.--Old Porcelains.--Kouan-ki.--Blue-and-white.--Persian Styles.--Turquoise and other Blues.--Leading Events of Ming Dynasty.--Egg-shell.--Tai-thsing Dynasty.--Mandarin Vases.--Families.--Old White.--Jade.--Purple and Violet.--Liver Red.--Imperial Yellow.--Chinese Ideas of Painting.--Soufflé.--Grains of Rice.--Articulated and Reticulated Vases.--Cup of Tantalus.....109

COREA.

Geographical Position.--Successive Conquests.--Its Independent Art.--Confused Opinions regarding it.--Its Porcelain.--Decoration.....154