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 93
China in 1223. Tamikichi was sent to Hizen in 1804 to study the processes of fabrication there. It is said that he found the secrets of the manufacture so jealously guarded at the various potteries, that it was not until his marriage with the widow of an Arita potter and the birth of his child… … Fig. 398.— Large Dish of “old Imari ware," painted in underglaze blue in combination with enamels and gilding in the typical chrysanthemo-fionienni style. hastened back to Seto to impart his knowledge to his old comrades, whom he rejoined in 1807, after nearly four years’ absence. He was rewarded…
Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery
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