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 23
, and since that date, and especially since the accession of the reigning Manchu dynasty, his worship as the God of War has been firmly established. The porcelain figure presented in Fig. 343 is Kuan Ti, the Chinese God of War, as he sits enshrined upon the altar in the gateway or front hall of… … Fig. 349. — Dagaba Shrine, decorated in enamel colors, of movement. A pen- cil- brush is wielded in with gilding of the Ch’ien-lung period. his uplifted right hand, and he holds a square cup of ink in his other hand, or a cake of ink silver ingot. The fish-dragon ( yu-limg ), which is his special…
Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery
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