Page 17 - Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day

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Covered Jar or Potighe . . . (Colour) Frontispiece

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 K'ang Hsi period (1662-1722). British Museum,

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59. White Eggshell Porcelain Bowl with Imperial Dragons 4
FAINTLY TRACED IN WhITE SlIP UNDER THE GlAZE .

Mark of the Yung Lo period (1403-1424), incised in the centre in archaic

characters.

— —Fig. 1. Exterior. Fig. 2. Interior view.

......60. Reputed Hsuan Tb Porcelain
British Museum.

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—Fig. 1. Flask with blue decoration, reputed to be Hsiian TS period.

—British Museum. (?) Chang Ch'ien on
Fig. 2. Brush rest. a log raft partly biscuit.
;

Inscribed with a stanza of verse and the Hsiian TS mark. Grandidier

Collection.

61. Porcelain with san ts'ai Glazes on the Biscuit .. 8
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—Fig. 1. Wine jar with pierced casing, the Taoist Immortals paying court 24
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to the God of Longevity, turquoise blue ground. Fifteenth century.

—Eumorfopoulos Collection.

Fig. 2. Screen with design in relief, horsemen on a mountain path, dark

blue ground. About 1500. Benson Collection. (Colour)

....62. Barrel-shaped Garden Seat

Porcelain with coloured glazes on the biscuit, the designs outlined in

Aslender fillets of clay. lotus scroll between an upper band of

clouds and a lower band of horses in flying gallop and sea waves.
Lion-mask handles. About 1500 a.d. British Museum.

.........63. Baluster Vase

With designs in raised outline, filled in with coloured glazes on the biscuit
;
dark violet blue background. About 1500. Grandidier Collection

(Louvre). ...

64. Fifteenth Century Polychrome Porcelain

—Fig. 1. Vase with grey crackle and peony scrolls in blue and enamels.

—Ch'fing Hua mark. British Museum.

Fig. 2. Vase with turquoise ground and bands of floral pattern and

winged dragons incised in outline and coloured green, yellow and

—aubergine. S. E. Kennedy Collection.

Fig. 3. Box with bands of fu-i clouds and pierced floral scrolls ; tur-
quoise and yellow glazes in dark blue ground. Grandidier Collection.

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