Chinese pottery and porcelain vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain

Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain

Transcriber's Notes: 1. Items marked wth an asterisk (*): Pieces mentioned here from the British Museum collection. 2. The items marked with two asterisks (**) are stated to have been copied from old specimens in the palace collections.] Covered Jar or Potiche, painted with coloured enamels on the biscuit. Eight petal-shaped panels with flowering plants, birds and insects on the sides; with a band of smaller petals below enclosing lotus flowers, and borders of red wave pattern and floral sprays. Base unglazed. Early part of the Kang Hsi period (16621722) Assistant in the Department of British and Medival Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum. Author of the Catalogne of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medival Antiquities of the British Museum; Porcelain: Oriental, Continental, and British; Worcester Porcelain; etc; and Joint Author of Marks on Pottery. As we have already discussed, so far as our imperfect knowledge permits, the various potteries which are scattered over the length and breadth of China, we can now concentrate our attention on the rising importance of Ching-t Chn. From the beginning of the Ming dynasty, Ching-t Chn may be said to have become the ceramic metropolis of the empire, all the other potteries sinking to provincial status. So far as Western collections, at any rate, are concerned, it is not too much to say that 90 per cent. of the post-Yan porcelains were made in this great pottery town. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68762
Author: Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
Release Date: Aug 16, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Cassell and Company, Ltd.
Publication Date: 1915
Publisher Country: United Kingdom