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 152
ng-hsi period grandly painted in colours,relieved by a black enamelled ground. It is coveredwith a floral decoration of tree peonies, magnolias, peachtrees, and lilies, with an open-work rockery underneath,on which are perched two pheasants. The black groundis characteristically of somewhat… … DESCRIPTIVE. 63 pass under the name of sang-de-bceuf (see ante), as well asa number of bottles and vases called crimson, whicli looklike single colours at a little distance, but of which, on closerexamination, the colour is seen to be produced by a combin-ation of small blue and red spots or…
Pottery -- China History
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