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Today,

(June 13.)

Aquatics—V.B.C. Night Feté, 9.16 p.m. VISA MERMA

Lawn Bowls First Division: Craigengoware. Kowloon Docks, Kowloon B.G.C. v. Kowldon: C.Q.. Recreio, Police, Taikoo v. Civil Bervice. Second Division: Yacht Club Taikoo, Kowloon 0.0.0. | Craigongower, Civil Borvica v. Be- creio, Hong Kong, Electria v. Kow- loon B.G.C.

COLLECTING CHINESE

PORCELAIN.

III-SOME FACTS ABOUT THE MING PERIOD.

HINTS FOR HONG KONG COLLECTORS.

The word Ming and dealers alike is nearly as bless ed a word as Mesopotamia was Lawn Tennis A" Division: South China M.B.K., Indian to a certain old lady. How often R.O... Kowloon. C.C.. Chinese does not a collector who has an R.C.. Hong Kong CC.. "B" Division: M.B.K. v. Recreio, In-placed pot labol it as Ming" diad C. v. Kowloon 0.0., Nippon in order to satisfy a truly laudable Club Craigongower, Chinese desire to possess something made R.C, University U.S.R.C. v. Civil Service, Division: Ro. during this period, or a dealer creio . Y.M.C.A., Craigengower. guarantee a piece as "Old Ming" Kowloon C.C., Civil Service out of sheer ignorance or a wish South China, Army T.C. v. Kow-

to mako, illicit profiť? Again the loon Indians, Hong Kong C.C. t. Indian R.C.

very word "Ming" has gained a) romantic flavour due partly, no doubt, to those mystery stories whose plot centres round the dis appearance of Ming jat, and partly to the very sound of the word itself: which seems to possess a certain glamour. If only a tenth of all were Ming which is offer ed as such at the New Year Fair, our cabinets would soon be over flowing!

Queen's Theatre: The Lottery Bride."

World. Theatre: "The Cock-Eyed World"

Star Theatre: "Wild Company." King's Theatre: "Laughtor." Central Theatro: "It Pays to Advertise."

Danoes-Ten Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and Hotel Cecil,

European Mails Outward: Europe in Suez (Katori Maru). 9.30 am.; Europe via Siberia (Pro sident Jefferson) 5 p.m.

Bunday.

(June 14.)

End Aitor Trinity, Queen's Theaire: The Lottery Bride."

World Theatre: "Holl's Angels." Star Theatre: The Last of the Duanez."

The Princess

King's Theatre: and the Plumber."

Danere: Tea Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel.

Monday.

(June 15.)

Peak Tamway Company Meeting, H.K, Hotel, 11 a.m.

Chinese Chamber of Commerce Meeting, 2 p.m.

P.W. Auction Sale of Crown Land/3 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Lottery Brids."

World Theatre: "Hell's Angels." Star Theatre; "The Last of the Duanes,"

collectors to the rougher and thicker ones. made for export or common use." The glazes are usually thick, often, marked by pin-hole flaws, and fre- quently, of a peculiar shining ap- pearance as though the vessel had just been dipped in water. In a great many of the Ming products we find a marked disregard for the niceties of finish which mark those of the Ching Dynasty. Often. a piece was made in two sections and the join is discernible both to the eye and finger. In many cases, especially in the stouter wares, the shape is not exact, due no doubt to shrinkage when the piece was fired. The foot rim is usually left in rather a rough form (though the grain of the porcelain is fine and smooth to the touch) and it frequently has a little of the sand on which it stood in the kiln, adhering to it. In the larger wares the whole of the base is some. times left unglazed and the paste had been burnt a brown owing to the presence of iron This dis- regard for finish and shape does not apply to the finer wares, but

Colours and Decorations

The Ming Dynasty was native Chinese and, having overthrown in 1308 the Mongols who had been in power for nearly a hundred years, ruled the country until it was Dusted by the Manchus in 1844, It warmly daring, this period the ordinary collector is hardly that the factories at Ching-Te-likely to come across these. Chin-rosa into prominence and soon became the great centre of ceramic production in' Chind. The older factories which, daring the Sung and Yuan Dynasties, had made high-fired monochromes, quickly fell into disreputs as the newer fashions introduced by the Mings made headway. The new type of decoration consisted of pictorial designs in under glaze blue or coloured ennzuela on the white, glazed porcelain. There is some evidence to show that these types had been made earlier but that they

as inferior. were regarded.

Ming Shapes and Technique. The shapes of the wares made dur- ing this long period are typical: King's Theatre: "The Princess the more important being baluster and the Plumber."

yases with high shoulders, covered Water Pold First Division: jars of potiche form, large is Kowloon Chinese Athletic, bowls with almost straight sides, p.m.; Second Division: 31st Heavy saucer-like dishes, bottles with Battery, R., v. Argyll and bulbous and long, narrow-neck, or Sutherland Highlanders, 6.30 p.m. made in the form of a double Both matches at V.R.C. Bath.

gourd, beaker-shaped vases with Fencing: Hong Kong Fencing tall neck, wide mouth and often Club Meat, 5.15 p.m.

pair of handles on the neck, etc.

The Ming wares range from this very fine examples made with ar tonishing skill for Imperial use

Dances: Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

The favourite Ming type and the one most largely produced was bluo and white. The blue used was cobalt and most of it was import- ed from abroad, probably Persia! The mineral was also found in China, but when the native colour was used along the result was a dull greyish blue. This was due to inability to refine it, for this same native mineral was alone used for the wonderful. Kang Hei wares of the nexs Dynasty. Usually the imï- ported blue was mixed-in propor- tions with the, native according to the quality of the articles. The blues of the Ming period naturally. Very much over such a long period but the following points apply the later producta. The design is generally to the greater number of thickly outlined and the blue is painted on in fint washes (quite the opposite to the K'ang Hei method) and it often shows a tendency to run a little Sometimes the colour has been varied by points of darker tone which gives it rather a speckled appearance.

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