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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 92

An illustration from 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, leaf 92
decorated in soft enamel colors with bands of floral scrolls, relieved by a bright enameled ground, and defined by lines of gild¬ ing. These are inscribed with an ode of his own composition, celebrating the virtues of tea, the rhyming verse being signed Chia-cking in two small panels of round and… … yellow enamel which covers the rest of the ground. The accompanying superscription is taken from the interior of one of the little fluted dishes of this set; and it is followed by an attempt at a literal version of the simple verse, which consists of four stanzas of ten characters, each stanza…

Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery

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