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 202
^<i.—Celeitial Blue Snuff-Bottle. *six-mark, and many attach an added vahic to tliis evidence; but itdoes not seem to indicate greater perfection : many of the finest pieces CELESTIAL BLUE. 103 I have seen have no potters mark. AVithin the last twenty-live yearsa very active desire for these… … Fio. 110.—Po^ in Boston Art Museum. ent thing from the ordinary Canton blue of trade. It is probable thatsome of this blue dates back to the Ming dynasty. The color wasmostly painted under the glaze. This luminous blue is nothing like the turquoise, which also theChinese carried to great…
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