Page 21 - Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day

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87. Ivory White Fukien Porcelain

—Fig. 1. Libation Cup. About 1700. British Museum.
—Fig. 2. Cup with sixteenth century mount. Dresden Collection.
—Fig. 3. Incense Vase and Stand. About 1700. British Museum.

88. Two Examples of the underglaze red (chi hung) of the K'ang 120

Hsi PERIOD (1662-1722), sometimes called lang yao.

(Colour)

—Fig. 1. Bottle-shaped Vase of dagoba form with minutely crackled

sang-de-bceuf glaze with passages of cherry red. The glaze ends in
an even roll short of the base rim, and that under the base is stone-

—coloured and crackled. British Museum.

Fig. 2. Bottle-shaped Vase with crackled underglaze red of deep crushed
strawberry tint. The glaze under the base is pale green crackled.

Alexander Collection.

....in the British Museum
89. Three Examples of K'ang Hsi Blue and White Porcelain

(Colour) 132

—Fig. 1. Ewer with leaf-shaped panels of floral arabesques, white in blue,

enclosed by a mosaic pattern in blue and white : stiff plantain

—leaves on the neck and cover. Silver mount with thumb-piece.

Fig. 2. Deep Bowl with cover, painted with " tiger-lily " scrolls. Mark,

—a leaf.

Fig. 3. Sprinkler with panels of lotus arabesques, white in blue, and
Aju-i shaped border patterns.
diaper of small blossoms on the

neck. Mark, a leaf.

90. Covered Jar for New Year Gifts . . . (Colour) 138
142
With design of blossoming prunus (mei hua) sprays in a ground of
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deep sapphire blue which is reticulated with lines suggesting ice 142

cracks ; dentate border on the shoulders. V. & A. Museum.

....91. Blue and White K'ang Hsi Porcelain
—Fig. 1. Triple Gourd Vase, white in blue designs of archaic dragons and

—scrolls of season flowers. Dresden Collection.

Fig. 2. Beaker, white magnolia design slightly raised, with blue back-

—ground. British Museum.

Fig. 3. " Grenadier Vase," panels with the Paragons of Filial Piety.

Dresden Collection. ....

92. Blue and White K'ang Hsi Porcelain

—Fig. 1. Sprinkler with lotus design. British Museum.
—Fig. 2. Bottle with biscuit handles, design of graceful ladies (mei

—j'Sn). Fitzwilliam Museum (formerly D. G. Rossetti Collection).

Fig. 3. Bottle with handles copied from Venetian glass. British Museum.

......93. Blue and White Porcelain
—Fig. 1. Tazza with Sanskrit characters. Ch'ien Lung mark. British

Museum.

— WanFig. 2. Water Pot, butterfly and flowers, steatitic porcelain.

—Li mark. Eumorfopoulos Collection.

Fig. 3. Bowl, steatitic porcelain. Immortals on a log raft. K'ang

Hsi period. British Museum.