Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain

Transcriber's Notes: 1. Items marked wth an asterisk ( ): Pieces mentioned here from the British Museum collection. 2. The items marked with two asterisks ( ) are stated to have been copied from old specimens in the palace collections.]
CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN
This Edition is limited to 1500 copies, of which this is No. 669
Covered Jar or Potiche, painted with coloured enamels on the biscuit. Eight petal-shaped panels with flowering plants, birds and insects on the sides; with a band of smaller petals below enclosing lotus flowers, and borders of red wave pattern and floral sprays. Base unglazed. Early part of the K’ang Hsi period (1662–1722)
Height 25 inches.
British Museum.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE POTTER’S ART IN CHINA FROM PRIMITIVE TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
R. L. HOBSON, B.A.
Assistant in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum. Author of the “Catalogne of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities of the British Museum”; “Porcelain: Oriental, Continental, and British”; “Worcester Porcelain”; etc; and Joint Author of “Marks on Pottery.”
Forty Plates, in Colour and Ninety-six in Black and White
VOL. II
Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain