Illustrated catalogue of Mr. Thomas B. Clarke's remarkable gathering of rare plates of many nations and beautiful old textiles (1916)
American Art Association, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F · New York : American Art Association · leaf 179
Fourth Afternoon … No. 635 PAIR CHINESE PORCELAIN PLAQUES (K'ang-hsi) Diameter, 15 inches Blue and white. Clear, sonorous hard paste, in circular deep-dish form. Penciled in fine precision with graceful lotus scrolls in two tones of clear cobalt blue, one transparent, one deepening toward sap- phire hue, on a pure…
Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
