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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 140

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that the colour is curiously mottled,and that the glaze is crackled (which is not the case withany other red). Another mark of true Lang-yao is a mathe-matically correct line of pure white glaze round the rim andanother round the foot, which is a feature not found onlater pieces. To produce the… … Fig. 19.—fouk-legged censee, withcovee, of tuequoise CEACKLE. DESGBIPTIVE. 57 bottom of true pieces of Lang-yao are glazed with applegreen, or rice colour, or pure white. There are many shadesof sang-de-boeuf, from light to dark. Several of them arechromo-lithographed in the catalogue of the…

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