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office holders; such as the celebrated Tch'aï-yao, "the porcelains of Tch'aï" (which was the name of the family of the Emperor Chi-tsong); and the Kouan-yao, or "Porcelains of Magistrates." Much more rarely the names refer directly to the material or artistic peculiarity of porcelains, — as Ou-ni-yao, the "black-paste porcelains," or Pi-se-yao, the "porcelains of hidden color." The word khi, sometimes substituted for yao in these compound names, means "vases"; as Jou-khi, "vases of Jou-tcheou"; Kouan-khi, "vases for Magistrates."
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