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 69
. The blue is the ‘ Mohammedan gros bleu', the Hui-hui ta citing of the period, brilliant and dazzling to the eyes. The upper ring of circles is interrupted by a line of six characters, not much larger than mosquito claws, but perfectly clear, written in blue, Ta Ming Hsiian te nien chih, the mark… … dynasty. The glaze is as translucently white as Fig. 152. — Large K'ang-hsi Vase, one of a pair, with mutton fat or fine jade, rising in millet tubercles, relief decoration in white slip or touched with blue, upon a celadon background; European mounts. and the blue is deep and clear, painted in the…
Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery
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