Excerpt from Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries: Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Selected Examples AT the request Of the Committee of the Japan Society, when the SO ciety's exhibition of Sung pottery was determined upon, the Asiatic Institute inaugurated investigations in China and Corea, and commis sioned Mrs. Rose Sickler Williams, in Peking, to make researches into native and foreign sources and to formulate a report. The Oh j ect aimed at was to bring together more knowledge Of the subject than was con tained in any hitherto published consecutive document, to free facts earlier presented from irrelevant material, to add, by researches on the ground, something not previously known to us, and to arrange the whole in a clear form. Chinese books, collections, kiln Sites, and shards have been examined, and Chinese and foreign works compared. Of the result, as embodied in the accompanying Report, it may be said that what is true in the existing Chinese and foreign works on the sub ject of Sung Dynasty pottery has been found out, and a quantity of what is untrue has been detected. Consideration has been given to the true artistic taste and genuine antiquarian instincts of the Chinese con noisseurs, allowance has been made for what is called the unscientific knowledge of Asiatic authorities, and care has been taken in weighing the evidence of Chinese literature and in accrediting the work of for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.