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bamboo band basket of flowers birds blue and white blue ground BOWL branches of flowers brown edges centre a medallion China Chinese eggshell porcelain chrysanthemum chrysanthemum flowers circular colours with gilding compartments CUP AND SAUCER dark blue decorated deep Diam diaper dragons eight enamelled in colours engraved European design floral pattern flowering branches flowering plants fluted foliations formal flower four medallions enclosing gilt edges glaze History of King-te-chin indented inscription interrupted by four Ivory white Chinese Jacquemart Japan Japanese porcelain Japanese pottery Kutani landscape Ming dynasty moulded narrow border nien OCTAGONAL Oriental porcelain ornaments painted in blue painted in colours PAIR OF BOTTLES pale pencilled in black period Ching-hwa phoenix pink plants growing Plate pottery probably prunus quatrefoil pattern red and gold rocks SAUCER DISH scalloped edges seal character side SNUFF BOTTLE specimens stiff stoneware stork symbols tang tree Tsing ware wavy edge white Chinese porcelain yellow
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Page xv - 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.
Page 88 - It is evident, therefore, that in China porcelain was made for exportation from designs furnished by Europeans, and if this was the case at King-te-chin, we should naturally find that the factory at Shaou-king Foo to the west of Canton must have made still more. Abbe* Raynal, in 1774, mentions this factory, and states that the porcelain known in France under the name of " porcelaine des Indes
Page 6 - Reformation — the cup of Archbishop Warham, at New College, Oxford — is of this kind. By the Persians and Turks it is termed mertebani, and it is much valued by them as a detector of poisonous food. Specimens of this porcelain were sent to Lorenzo de' Medici, in 1487, by the Sultan of Egypt.
Page 123 - ... 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 these diagrams. They are said to have been first published by Fuh-hi, the legendary founder of the Chinese polity, who is stated to have lived BC 2852 to 2738, and to whom they were revealed by a dragon-horse. By...
Page xvi - Hwa-chi (steatite)is employed, sometimes mixed with the glaze, as well as sometimes with the paste of the porcelain. Any colours which will bear to be highly fired and are required to cover the whole surface are mixed with the glaze before it is applied. There is considerable difficulty in distinguishing glazed vases of Chinese pottery from true porcelain, as the coloured glaze in many cases conceals the material, and the thickness prevents their being translucent, a distinguishing quality of porcelain...
Page 13 - ... crackled ground." A different mode of making the crackles is described in another Chinese work, and is as follows : — " After covering the vases with glaze, they are exposed to a very hot sun, and when they have become hot, they are plunged into cold water for a moment. On being baked they appear covered with innumerable cracks.
Page 8 - Lang yao tz(, porcelain from the Lang furnace. The Lang family were a family of famous potters who possessed the secret of this peculiar glaze and paste. They became extinct about the year 1610; and their pottery is highly esteemed, and fetches great prices at Pekin. The Chinese have never been able successfully to imitate this ware.
Page 89 - Moreover, the porcelain with armorial bearings is probably far more common in England than in Holland, and our country had no direct communication with Japan. There are also many specimens which can be traced to families connected with China, or which are known to have been made to order in that country. While, however, the "India China" has on one hand been attributed to Japan, it has on the other, and by a still more singular hallucination, been ascribed to Lowestoft in England. There can be no...
Page xii - The troubles of the later Emperors of the Ming dynasty, who succeeded one another rapidly, and were constantly at war with the Tatars, probably caused the porcelain works to fall into decay ; we hear at any rate nothing of their productions, nor have any dated specimens been seen.
Page 6 - ... desires to form any just estimate of the progress of the keramic art. Alone among European authors, Mr. AW Franks, of the British Museum, with his wonted judgment, discerned something of the truth when he wrote in the preface to his well known Catalogue : — " Among the simple colours (of Chinese ware) the first place must be assigned to the bluish or sea-green tint, termed by the French celadon. It is probably of considerable antiquity, and it is remarkable that one of the earliest...