Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 (1878)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 185
but not more; for no two Chinese quiteagree as to what this most flexible writing may mean. As to dates ontlie pieces, some certainty seems to have been reached; and such isvaluable. I have added to this article marks and dates as now under-stood by the best authorities in England, and as ari-anged… … Fio. 90.—/oM-tei, The God of Contenty Pou-tai—the God of Content. He is described as corpulent, hischest uncovered, mounted upon or leaning on the wine-skin whichholds his terrestrial goods; his face, with half-closed eyes, beaming with an eternal laugh. His image, done in porcelain, is f(»und in…
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