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Excerpt from Spolia Zeylanica, 1907, Vol. 4: Issued by the Colombo Museum, Ceylon It is by the foregoing standards then that Sinhalese pottery should be judged, and not by others which are applicable to Chinese porcelain or Greek painted vases. This reminder is needed, lest the reader should feel a mistaken scorn for the rough homeliness and simplicity of the common earthenware I speak of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.