Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 213
Fig. 10.—ORIENTAL VASES. College, Oxford—is of this kind. By the Persiansand Turks it is termed Mertebani, and it is muchvalued by them as a detector of poisonous food.Specimens of this porcelain were sent to Lorenzo green celadon, which harmonises perfectly withthe colour of the gold. Three large… … Fig. 11.—JAPANESE VASES. de Medici in 1487 by the Sultan of Egypt. Thebowl in the Wilkie Room has massive Louis XVImounts. More elaborately mounted in the styleof the same period is the subject of Fig. 0,which has a pierced trellis cover of great elegance. mounts with dragons and masks in the style…
