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bamboo band BASIN birds Bizen ware blue ground branches of flowers brown glaze centre Chinese eggshell porcelain chrysanthemum clouds coarse colours with gilding compartments Corean covered CUP AND SAUCER CYLINDRICAL decorated Diam diaper dragons dynasty eight immortals emblem enamelled in colours enclosing flowers engraved European design figures flowering plants four medallions enclosing gilt glazed Japanese pottery gold green glaze Grey Japanese Hizen imitation inscription inside interrupted by four Ivory white Chinese Jacquemart Japan Japanese porcelain Japanese stoneware Keen-lung Kiôto ware Kutani Kutani ware lady landscape Longevity low relief maker's name Ming Ming dynasty moulded narrow border neck nien OCTAGONAL ornaments oval painted in blue painted in colours PAIR pale period Ching-hwa plants growing Plate probably prunus quatrefoil Raku Raku ware rocks Satsuma ware SAUCER DISH scrolls seal character side specimens sprigs spur marks stamped storks symbols TEA BOWL tree VASE white Chinese porcelain Yellow glazed Japanese
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Page vii - PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Since the publication of the first edition of this book, "Definitions of Electrical Terms...
Page 241 - Occasionally five bats are found in combination. They symbolise the five blessings, namely, longevity, riches, peace, love of virtue, and a happy death. 19. — The eight trigrams, known as the Pa-kwa. "They consist of combinations of broken and entire lines, each differently placed. The entire lines represent the male, strong, or celestial element in nature, and the broken, the female, weak, or terrestrial. Each group has its own name, and even the dishes at a feast are arranged in accordance with...
Page 245 - Japanese mume), though not properly an emblem of longevity, is indirectly connected with it, as the philosopher Lao Tsze, the founder of the Taoist sect, is said to have been born under a plum tree. It forms the decotation of the porcelain erroneously termed " may flower " or
Page xvii - Many other notices from travellers of the 14th and loth centuries might be cited. It was probably through Egypt that it reached Europe ; at any rate a present of porcelain vases was sent by the Sultan of Egypt in 1487 to Lorenzo de' Medici. To the Portuguese is no doubt due the first direct importation of Chinese wares into Europe, in which they were followed by the various India Companies of Holland, England, France, Sweden, &c. It maybe convenient shortly to describe the mode of making porcelain...
Page 235 - THE Dresden Collection of porcelain is probably the most ancient in Europe as far as the Oriental portion is concerned. According to its learned Director, Dr. Theodore Graesse, it was chiefly brought together by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, between the years 1694-1705. These specimens were afterwards made use of to decorate the Dutch, or, as it was subsequently called, the Japanese, Palace. After being for many years stored away in the vaults of the Palace, they have...
Page 115 - Lucidus, which grows at the roots of trees. When dried it is very durable, whence it has been considered by the Chinese as an emblem of longevity or immortality. Large specimens of the fungus itself, or imitations of it in gilt wood, are preserved in the temples, and representations of it frequently occur in pictures of Lao Tsze and the Immortals. It may also be seen in the mouth of deer.
Page 244 - ... or Ky-lin, which is at once a symbol of good government and of longevity, its term of life being supposed to extend to a thousand years. Mr. Franks notes that most of the animals commonly but erroneously called Ky-lin are other monsters, especially the fabulous lion of Korea, the true Ki-lin having the body and hoofs of a deer, the tail of a bull, and a single horn on his forehead. The deer (/«^) is also an emblem of longevity.
Page 242 - While a magistrate of the district of Teh-hwa, he is said to have encountered Han Chung-le among the recesses of the Lu Shan, from whom he learnt the mysteries of alchemy and of the elixir of immortality. He was exposed to a series of temptations, ten in number, and having overcome them, was invested with a sword of supernatural power, with which he traversed the empire, slaying dragons, and ridding the earth of divers kinds of evil for upwards of four hundred years. His emblem is a sword (keen).
Page 244 - ... Japanese, Roku) is also an emblem of longevity. A white stag frequently accompanies the god of longevity. It sometimes carries in its mouth another emblem, the fungus. A deer however is also used as a symbol of official emolument or prosperity, having the same sound as the word for the latter (Luh).
Page 237 - I propose, therefore, only to notice such as occur more commonly. SYMBOLS. [PLATES A, B.] The first to be noticed are the peculiar figures which have been termed symbols, and which are more usually found on Chinese than on Japanese porcelain. These symbols are generally eight in number, although the individual forms are apt to vary.