Chinese Art, Volume 2H.M. Stationery Office, 1914 |
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ancient bands birds blue Books bowls British Museum brocaded bronze Buddhist Bushell Collection CANTON ENAMEL carved celadon CENTURY A.D. ceramic ceramic art Ch'ien Lung champlevé character CHIH China Chinese art Chinese pictorial art Ching Chou CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL copper Decorated in colours dish emperor Emperor Ch'ien Lung ENAMEL COLOURS encyclopædia FAMILLE ROSE famille verte figures floral flowers glass gold grand feu green ground Han dynasty Hsien Hsüan illustrated in Fig imperial inscription jade K'ang Hsi Kuan Kuang landscape lotus mark medallions Ming dynasty ornamental PAINTED IN ENAMEL painters pair panels Peking peony period petuntse pieces PORCELAIN VASE pottery province prunus reign relief Salting Collection scenes scrolls seals shade Shih shou silk silver-gilt SNUFF BOTTLE sprays style Summer Palace Sung symbols T'ang dynasty Taoist tint Ts'ai turquoise under-glaze UNIL WAN LI ware Wên WHITE PORCELAIN woven yellow Yuan Yung Chêng
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Page 65 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 65 - As blue as the sky, as clear as a mirror, as thin as paper, and as resonant as a musical stone of jade.
Page 103 - ... m'a fallu oublier pour ainsi dire tout ce que j'avais appris, et me faire une nouvelle manière pour me conformer au goût de la nation : de sorte que je n'ai été occupé les trois quarts du temps qu'à peindre, ou en huile sur des glaces, ou à l'eau sur la soie, des arbres, des fruits, des oiseaux, des poissons, des animaux de toute espèce ; rarement de la figure.
Page 86 - Wei dynasty, presented five rolls of brocade, with dragons woven upon a crimson ground, to the reigning Empress of Japan, who sent an embassy to the Chinese Court in that year.
Page xv - England by the adoption of the word "china" as equivalent to porcelain; and even in Persia, where Chinese porcelain has been known and imitated for centuries, the only country to which an independent invention has been plausibly attributed by some writers, the word chini has a similar connotation.
Page 55 - ... glaze of Chinese porcelain always contains lime. It is the lime which gives it a characteristic tinge of green or blue, but at the same time conduces to a brilliancy of surface and a pellucid depth never found in more refractory glazes which contain no lime. This has been proved, moreover, at Sèvres, and it is interesting to note that, according to M.
Page 69 - The art of enamelling seems to have been invented at a very remote date in Western Asia, and to have penetrated to Europe, as far west even as Ireland, in the early centuries of the Christian era, but there is no evidence of its having traveled eastwards to China till much later.
Page 86 - Bullion is more safely carried in this way, than as the shoe-shaped ingots in a purse tied to the girdle, and pieces can be easily snipped off as occasion requires. All objects of this kind are made of pure metal without any alloy. The jeweller stamps the name of his shop inside the ring or bangle and thus binds himself, by guild law and custom, to buy it back at any time by weight, without questioning the quality of the material. "For jewellery of a more decorative character the Chinese employ most...
Page 55 - The finest petuntse, called yu kuo or "glaze essence," and the purified lime, called lien bui, separately made with the addition of water into purees of the same thickness, are afterwards mixed by measure in different proportions to make a liquid glaze. This glaze is finally put on the raw body with the brush, by dipping, or by insufflation. T'ang Ying tells us that in his time the glaze of the highest class of porcelain was composed of ten measure of the petuntse puree with one measure of the liquid...
Page 96 - It is not embroidery, though so very like it, for tapestry is not worked upon what is really a web, having both warp and woof, but upon a series of closely set, fine strings.