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 9
in martabdni , and value it very highly from its fancied property of detecting poisoned food by changing color. The name comes from Martaban, one of the states of ancient Siam ; and Prof. Karabacek, of Vienna, has lately tried to prove that it is not Chinese, basing his theory mainly upon a passage… … Fig. 1x8. — Ch’ien-lung Vase, of transmuta¬ Sultan of Egypt to Lorenzo was sent in 1487 by the tion (Yao-pien) glaze, exhibiting the char¬ tioned about the same time acteristic splashes of purple, and deep crim¬ de’ Medici, and it is men- son flecked with pale blue. Barcelona as one of the in the…
Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery
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