A history and description of Chinese porcelain (1901)
Monkhouse, William Cosmo, 1840-1901, Bushell, S. W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908 · London [etc.] New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited · leaf 108
-chen, and overthree hundred kilns in full activity, the fires of which at PLATE VII. Svudl Scmg-de-hoeuf Vase. The rich crimson glaze, as describedon p. 56, shoals into a flame colour at the neck of thevase and through a ruby-red to a brownish red (like redsherry) at the base. Its crackled texture… … HISTORICAL. 43 night so illuminated tlie hills surrounding the plain in which the town stood that it seemed as some vast city abandoned to the flames. And bird-like poise on balanced wingAbove the town of King-te-cbing,A burning town or seeming so,—Three thousand furnaces that glowIncessantly, and…
Pottery -- China History
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