A history and description of Chinese porcelain (1901)
Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840-1901, Bushell, Stephen W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908 · London [etc.] New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited · leaf 163
able and celebrated example of this kindof decoration is an image of the Goddess Kuan-yin in a Buddhisttemple at Peking, glazed over biscuit with various colours—yellow, red brown, turquoise (drapery), black, old gold, andcrimson. CLASS II.—CHINESE CRACKLE PORCELAIN. The term crackle or crackled,… … Fig 22.—old yellow ckackle vase(Mi-si)- DESGBIPTIVJE. 67 with cracks. According to the Tao Shuo (see Hirth, p. 33),Kuan-yao porcelain has a large and irregular crackle called crabs claws, and Ko-yao a small crackle called fish-spawn.This smaller kind is called by the French truitd, from itslikeness…
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