Editing Celadon (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Boddhisattva Guanyin, China, Ming dynasty, 1300-1400 AD, porcelain - Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm - DSC09644.JPG|thumb|Ming shrine, the figure left unglazed in the "biscuit" state]]
The term "celadon" for the pottery's pale [[jade]]-green glaze was coined by European connoisseurs of the wares. The most commonly accepted theory is that the term first appeared in [[France]] in the 17th century and that it is named after the shepherd Celadon in [[Honoré d'Urfé]]'s [[French culture|French]] pastoral romance ''[[L'Astrée]]'' (1627),<ref>Gompertz, 21</ref> who wore pale green ribbons. (D'Urfé, in turn, borrowed his character from [[Ovid]]'s ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' V.144.) Another theory is that the term is a [[corruption (linguistics)|corruption]] of the name of [[Saladin]] (Salah ad-Din), the [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubid]] Sultan, who in 1171 sent forty pieces of the ceramic to [[Nur ad-Din Zengi]], Sultan of [[Syria]].<ref>[http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/why_throwing.htm Dennis Krueger. "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203065817/http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/why_throwing.htm |date=2007-02-03 }} from Ceramics Today</ref>