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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 186

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-bloom shades, andceladon, with a hleu fouette ground. The celadon partsand the white reserves are worked in slight relief, withengraved details. The decoration consists of the PaHsien, the Eight Genii of the Taoist cult, disporting inthe clouds, and holding up the attributes by which theymay be… … DESCRIPTIVE. 77 2, 3, and 28) basins \dt\\ flanged edge, which are speciallyreferred to in the introduction to the catalogue as correspondingin many respects to what we are told of the porcelain of Yung-lo.(1) They are very thin (eggshell is said to have been invented inthis reign); (2) they have…

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