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sapphire-coloured glaze; red glaze, of the colour of the Japanese pear-blossom; aubergine glaze; green, or plumcoloured, glaze; and horses' lung glaze.
Farther on, in the same catalogue, it is stated that, while excavating at a place called Shang-hu, about five miles (English) from Ching-tê-chên, the remains of an old pottery of the Sung dynasty were found. Pieces of the ware manufactured there were picked up. Their glazes were of two colours, light green (céladon) and rice-white, or bluish white.
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