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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 20

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 20
ed by them at the time from Western Asia under the name of “Mohammedan blue.” The process of decoration in enamel colors combined with a lead flux, which were painted on over the white glaze and fixed by a second firing in the muffle stove, came in later. Blue was the leading color in the… … the heading of chin, “brocades,” and hsin, “embroideries,” the former of which were woven on the loom, the latter worked by hand with the needle. It includes an account of the designs used in different dynasties, in which there occurs a curious notice of five rolls of brocade with dragons woven…

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

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