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 76
t \\ pints] of wine,(L. 6 in.) ^ 37. Tea-cup. Cha Pei of Ming Dynasty Hstian-te (1426-1435)porcelain. Of rounded form, swelling beloAv, modelled probablyfrom a jade wine-cup of the Han Dynasty. Painted in bluewith a fir tree, the gnarled trunk like a coiled dragon, with life-like orchids and fungus… … Fig. 9.—IMPERIAL DRAGON FISH-BOWLOF THE AVAX-LI PERIOD, DE-CORATED IX COLOURS. HISTORICAL. 29 the pencil evidently of a celebrated landscape painter. Theglaze is transparent and white as mutton fat, the blue brilliantand dazzling, from Mohammedan blue enamel of the firstquality. I bought four of…
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