The study of Chinese pottery and porcelain owes almost everything to the labors of two English scholars-to Dr. Stepehen W. Bushell, whose great knowledge of the language , customs, and mythology of China especially fitted him for the pioneer work embodied in the many pages of his Oriental Ceramic Art; and to Mr. R.L. Hobson, whose monumental Chinese Pottery and Porcelain is virtually definitive so far as the later porcelain is concerned.