Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain, in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries : with a description of the manufacture, a glossary, and a list of monograms (1850)
Marryat, Joseph · London : J. Murray · leaf 159
d of the reign of thatEmperor of the Ming dynasty. Theseinscriptions serve to prove how verystationary the art has been in China, aspieces of the eighteenth century exhibitno difference in material, glazing, andcolouring, from those of the fifteenth. The ancient sea-greenporcelain has sometimes the… … Fig. 50. Striped Bottle,white and brown. Chinese.(Coll. Marryat.) until a late period, a large figure of adragon was carried in procession, beingconsidered an emblem of heresy. Thedevil, it will be recollected, is frequentlycalled the dragon in Scripture. Theprevalence of dracontic ornaments…
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