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 8
nese to that of the rind of a cucumber. The vases, modeled in the form of the sacrificial bronze vessels of the period, have usually mask handles fashioned in the shape of monsters' heads, and are ornamented with encircling bands worked in relief in the paste under the glaze. These bands are… … feudal devotion, the virtuous heroines of ancient story and Fic. 341. — Showing the other side of the vase illustrated in Figure 328. the paragons of filial piety, that have so often supplied motives for the decoration of porcelain in more modern days. One of the stone slabs figures the felicitous…
Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894 · Pottery, Chinese · Pottery, Japanese · Pottery, Korean · Pottery
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