Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early waresHobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
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Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares
Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart)
Porcelain, Chinese; Pottery, Chinese
Among the miscellaneous potteries I should
add that Ka-shan,[447] in Chekiang, is reputed to have been noted in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for a fine porcellanous stoneware
with opaque, camellia-leaf green glaze minutely crackled.
[Illustration:
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
Fig. 3 Fig. 4
Plate 58.--Miscellaneous Pottery.
Fig. 1.--Jar with lotus design in green, yellow and turquoise glazes in an
aubergine ground. About 1600. Height 6½ inches. _Hippisley Collection.
_Fig. 2.--Vase of double fish form, buff ware with turquoise, yellow and
aubergine glazes. (?) Seventeenth century. Height 5¾ inches. _British
Museum._ Fig. 3.--Roof-tile with figure of Bodhidharma, deep green and
creamy white glazes. Sixteenth century. Height 10⅞ inches. _Benson
Collection._ Fig. 4.--Bottle with archaic dragon (_ch´ih lung_) on neck,
variegated glaze of lavender, blue and green clouded with purple and
brown. (?) Eighteenth century Yi-hsing ware. Height 10 inches. _Peters
Collection._]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 409: S. Wells Williams, _Chinese Commercial Guide_, 1863, p.
132.]
[Footnote 410: Op. cit., p. 114.]
[Footnote 411: A coarse blue and white porcelain, often decorated with
dragons which overlap the rim and are continued on the reverse of the
bowls and dishes, seems to belong to one of these provincial factories.
The glaze is thick and bubbly, and the blue of the decoration rather
dull and dark; but these pieces have a certain age, and belong to the
first half of the eighteenth century, for they were copied at Worcester
and Lowestoft. They often have marks "of commendation," such as _hsi yü_
("western jade"), etc.]
[Footnote 412: The _Ch´in ting ku chin t´u shu chi ch´êng_, section viii.,
subsection named _T´ao kung pu hui k´ao_, fol. 15.]
[Footnote 413: [Chinese] _sung hsiang_, rendered "turpentine" by Bushell,
_O.C.A._, p. 264.]
[Footnote 414: [Chinese] _wu ming i_, "nameless rarity," the designation
under which cobalt was imported in the Sung dynasty. (See Bushell,
_O.C.A._, p. 439.)]
[Footnote 415: _Chau Ju-kua_, translated by F. Hirth and W.W. Rockhill.
St. Petersburg, 1912.]
[Footnote 416: _Ancient Chinese Porcelain_, op. cit. See also p. 86.]
[Footnote 417: See _Chau Ju-kua_, Introduction, p. 9.]
[Footnote 418: e.g. gusi, rusa, naga, tempajan, blanga.]
[Footnote 419: _Chinese Pottery in the Philippines_, by Fay-Cooper Cole,
with a postscript by Berthold Laufer, Field Museum of Natural History,
Publication No. 162, Chicago U.S.A., 1912.]
[Footnote 420: _Ibidem_, p. 14.]
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