Oriental ceramic art : illustrated by examples from the collection of W.T. Walters : with one hundred and sixteen plates in colors and over four hundred reproductions in black and white (1897)
Bushell, Stephen W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908, author, Laffan, William M., writer of preface, L. Prang & Co., lithographer, D. Appleton and Company, publisher · leaf 29
ted in China. The exact date of the invention, however, is wrapped in mystery ; it is, in fact, hardly likely that it will ever be definitely set¬ tled, as it must have been by a gradual progress in the selection of materials, and in the perfection of processes of manufacture, that porcelain was at… … composed of more hetero- geneous materials than Fig. 19. — Large Ewer, for iced syrup, enamelled that fabricated in European factories, and may even with a finely crackled purple glaze of aubergine tint, K’ang-hsi Period, Louis XVI mounts. be reduced in some cases to a mere layer of true porcelain…
Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery
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