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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
-chuo lii, or “ peacock- green,” by the modern Chinese, although it is also known in books as fei-tsui, from its resem¬ blance to the blue plumes of the kingfisher, which are used in jewelry, is prepared by com¬ bining copper with a nitre flux. The chieh pi tzii, or “ aubergine-purple,” is derived… … Fig. 213. — Garniture of Three Jars and Two Beakers, with reserve panels, decorated in colors, relieved by a coffee-brown ground. as it does, considerably over a hundred pieces, some magnificent specimens of which, with bronze mounts by Gouthiere, and which are attributed to the reign of K'ang-hsi,…

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

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