By gracious permission of His Royal Highness, these four plates are reproduced from the volume reviewed on pp. 209–212. The captions and the following notes are derived from this work.

IX. This is Plate 1 in the volume. The frieze encircling the middle of the vessel “consists of three horizontally broadened t'ao-t'ie masks, each composed of two elongated animals facing one another. The frieze is bordered on either side by a single row of rings. The sunken lines of the relief were filled with a substance which now shows black. In places where this filling has disappeared the bottom is yellow in colour from some shiny pale golden substance. There is no inscription”.