Cantonese trees, Cantonese rocks and tea­houses, Cantonese renderings of Taoist orna­ment, Cantonese flowers differ from Nankin floral patterns, just as Canton Willow pattern porcelains differ from the same design painted in Nankin in the olden time, or as the Nankin design called " Fitzhugh" pattern differs from others more crudely drawn. In the weavings of the Shantung Province, de­signs adopted by weavers in all the other parts of the Empire have been copied, and in rugs bearing the name of Tien-tsin all styles seem to have been gathered up and exported under the general name of that port; just as in Japan, when from the port of Imari every­thing made at Arita and in the Hizen Prov­ince was shipped to Europe, the name of the port was given to wares that were never made there, but were only shipped from that place.

It is therefore easy to understand the diffi­culties in the way of those handling the products of the past about which no records can be found. The face value of objects, and that only, can possibly avail.