This book is based on the Chinese porcelain from the eighteenth century. It is based on the Salting Collection held in the Victoria and Albert Museum found in the U.K. This guide is the first of a new series dealing with the various branches of pottery and porcelain represented in the Department of ceramics. Chinese porcelain of the later period is particularly well represented in the Salting Collection, and the present guide will serve to illustrate the finer examples in the series which is perhaps the best of its kind in existence. The scope of this volume, which is concerned with porcelain alone, does not include the earthenware and stoneware which continued to be made in China in the eighteenth century, particularly in Kuang-tung province and at Yi-hsing in Kiang-su.Theses are reserved for consideration in a guide dealing wit the types of the Ming Dynasty.