14 MAY 1921, Page 23

The Pottery and Porcelain Factories of China. By A. L.

Hetherington. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6d. net.)—Collectors will be interested in this list of Chinese potteries arranged according to provinces and to dynasties,and still more in the accompanying map on which the factories are marked in green, red, or brown according to their age. The map, of course, fails to emphasize the supremacy of Ching-te-chen, which has been the Potteries of China for the best part of a thousand years, and which has produced most of the finest porcelain. On the other hand, the map shows how many smaller factories there were, especially in the northern and eastern provinces, and to a less extent in the south, where Canton was a pottery centre in the earliest times.