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The Hong Kong Naturalist,
Vol. III, Nos. 3 and 4.
Plate 36.
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Fragments 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
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The paste of these pots shows different make-up in which a noteworthy element is the presence of granules of some substance capable of vitrification. This usually appears as speckles in the interior of the pot, e.g., in fragments 17, 20, 22, 38; in 33 these show as rusty spots whereas usually they are dark blue or green (hornblend?). On the pot which we reproduce as Plate 33, figure 2 this substance is present as larger blobs which have vitrified on the exterior and are to be seen on the plate as large stains. It may be noted that Corean ceramics of the early centuries A.D. shew a kind of glaze occurring thus in smears and probably due to the accidental contacts of the wood-ashes in the kiln ( (2) p. 113. Fragments 11, 21, 26, 30 are reddish in colour, 22, 23, 31, 21 being deep red and brickish-soft like the typical ra above.
35 are grey in the interior, buff outside, except 35 which is very bleached. 25, 36 are deep brown within and reddish outside. It may be said in general that there is always a tinge of purple like that of the prevalent laterite soil around Hong Kong. Most are of hard stone ware, of well levigated clay.
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As to the levels at which the ware of this 1.h type is found. provide only a few indications; fragment 32 at 3 feet; a piece of 36 was found at 28 inches; a piece like fragment 23 at 23 isches; a neck which seems to be exactly the same ware (perhaps the same pot) as fragment 32 at 22 inches: a piece very like fragment 36 at 23 inches; a neck apparently that of fragment 27 at 1 foot; a piece like fragment 30 in pattern but evidently not the same pot as the ware is grey in the interior, at 2 feet; a piece resembling 26 in clay and pattern at 1 foot. Most interesting, though it arrived too late richest vein but for photography were fragments found away from the
feet deep.
These were of a hard reddish clay of good levigation but showing a very rude form of the "double F", centre-ribbed, almost upright, with very poor drawing in which the second limb from the top was longer than the top branch and all the lines were very stiff although it had well marked fangs. For the present, all that can be said is that this ware comes down to the most recent occupation of the site in ancient times but does not go
down to he greatest depths (five to six feet) of the cultural level.
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The field is now clear for what seems to me the most interesting question in the present article and which may lead to some indication of the date. First it must be remembered that to illustrate fully what follows is impossible with the means available, though I must here thank Dr. Herklots for his great generosity in time and expenses for the production of this article. He has himself prepared the photographs as may be learned from the note he has appended and he has sketched many of the figures and he has gone as far as possible in providing space and illustrations.
Briefly the thesis here proposed may be stated as follows; the 1.h. (Double F) series is developed from a bronze motive that can be found on Chinese vessels of bronze dating certainly from the Pre-Han period or more nearly from a Li yü bronze motive that is usually attributed to the Ch'in period (second half of the third century B.C.). The further implications of this we may leave to the closing article of this series.
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Fragment 16 is the same as the piece reproduced in the tone blocks in Plate figures and In the one case it has undergone the preparation described by Dr. Herklots in his note at the end of this article, (appendix 2,
December 1932.
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