Author : Alfred Edward Hippisley
Release : 2016-08-18
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis A Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China by : Alfred Edward Hippisley
Download or read book A Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China written by Alfred Edward Hippisley. This book was released on 2016-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China: With a Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains Is. W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain before the Present Dynasty, Nos. 33, 80, 18, With the sole exception of the Nanfeng ware, and a portion of that from Linch'uan, produced during the Yilan dynasty, none of which seems to have survived to the present day, but which is described as having been decorated with owers coarsely painted under the glaze, 1 can find nothing in the works of Chinese writers on this subject to justify the concession of a greater antiquity than the early part of the Ming dynasty that is, the first half of the fifteenth century - to the ornamentation of vases with arabesques and scroll work, with land scapes, historical scenes, or genre paintings in several colors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."