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 161
is a jar with an outer casingwhich is pierced.* The most remarkable 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 broAvn, turquoise (drapery), black, old gold, andcrimson.… … Fig 22.—old yellow crackle vase(.Mi-si). DESGBIPTIVE. 67 with cracks. According to the Tao Shuo (see Hirth, p. 33),Kiian-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 truite, from…
Pottery -- China History
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