Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares — John Shaqi
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
Fig. 2.--Tea Bowl with purplish black glaze shot with golden brown.
_British Museum._
43. THREE EXAMPLES OF "HONAN _temmoku_," PROBABLY T´ANG DYNASTY 132
Fig. 1.--Bowl with purplish black glaze, stencilled leaf in golden
brown. _Havemeyer Collection._
Fig. 2.--Ewer with black glaze. _Alexander Collection._
Fig. 3.--Covered Bowl, black mottled with lustrous brown. _Cologne
Museum._
44. EARLY TRANSLUCENT PORCELAIN, PROBABLY T´ANG DYNASTY 150
Fig. 1.--Cinquefoil Cup with ivory glaze clouded with pinkish buff
stains. _Breuer Collection._
Fig. 2.--Vase of white, soft-looking ware, very thin and translucent,
with pearly white, crackled glaze powdered with brown specks.
_Peters Collection._
45. T´ANG AND SUNG WARES 150
Fig. 1.--Square Vase with engraved lotus scrolls and formal borders.
_T´u-ting_ ware, Sung dynasty. _Peters Collection._
Fig. 2.--Ewer with phœnix head, slightly translucent porcelain with
light greenish grey glaze with tinges of blue in the thicker parts;
carved designs. Probably T´ang dynasty. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._
46. TING WARE AND YÜAN PORCELAIN 162
Fig. 1.--Bottle with carved reliefs of archaic dragons and
_ling chin_ funguses. _Fên ting_ ware, said to be Sung dynasty.
_Eumorfopoulos Collection._
Fig. 2.--Bowl with moulded floral designs in low relief, unglazed
rim. Translucent porcelain, probably Yüan dynasty. _Eumorfopoulos
Collection._
47. VASE OF BUFF STONEWARE (_Colour_) 170
With scroll of rosette-like flowers in relief: thick flocculent
glaze of mottled blue with passages of dull green and a substratum
of brown. Kuantung ware, seventeenth century. _Benson Collection._
48. KUANGTUNG WARE 172
Fig. 1.--Dish in form of a lotus leaf, mottled blue and brown glaze.
About 1600. _British Museum._
Fig. 2.--Vase with lotus scroll in relief, opaque, closely crackled
glaze of pale lavender grey warming into purple. (?) Fourteenth
century. _Peters Collection._
Fig. 3.--Figure of Pu-tai Ho-shang, red biscuit, the draperies
glazed celadon green. Eighteenth century. _British Museum._
49. COVERED JAR OF BUFF STONEWARE 172
With cloudy green glaze and touches of dark blue, yellow, brown
and white; archaic dragons, bats and storks in low relief;
border of sea waves. Probably Kuangtung ware, seventeenth
century. _Eumorfopoulos Collection._
50. YI-HSING STONEWARE, SOMETIMES CALLED _Buccaro_ 176
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