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Excerpt from Oriental Ceramic Art, Vol. 9: Collection of W. T. Walters The standard work on ancient jade is the Kn t'on p'u, Illustrated Description of Ancient jade, in 100 books, with more than 700 full-page woodcuts. It was compiled by an imperial commission, composed of the notorious Lung Ta-yuan and eighteen other members, including one writer and four artists, appointed by the second emperor of the Southern Sung dynasty, and it was completed in the year 1176. A manuscript copy was pur chased for the Imperial Library in 1773: the Emperor C/z'ien-inng ordered it to be printed in the palace, and it appeared in 1779, with a preface dedicating it to the emperor. Some doubts have been expressed by native scholars as to the authenticity of the book, but on more or less slender grounds, and we may accept the imperial imprimatur as a sufficient warrant. The genuine character of many of the objects figured may be more justly criticised; there is cer tainly no ground for the remote antiquity that is ascribed to some of the inscribed pieces. 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.