How to identify old Chinese porcelain
| Author(s): | Willoughby Hodgson |
| Category: | Ceramics |
| Publisher: | London: Methuen & Co.,Ltd |
| Publish date: | Jan 1, 1920 |
| ISBN: | 0009900000047 |
| Number of pages: | 318 |
This little work is not put forth in any sense as a finished history and description of Chinese porcelain, but is written solely to help the amateur to make a beginning in the study of the most interesting and difficult branch of Ceramic Art. Whilst there are many ex- haustive and expensive works which afford help and pleasure to the connoisseur, there isat present no book to assist the mere tyro or the ordinary collector who may be the owner of valuable china, and who, even if he be the fortunate possessor of some fine work upon Chinese porcelain, may find considerable diffi- culty in understanding it.
Table of contents
HOW TO IDENTIFY OLD CHINESE PORCELAIN
PREFACE
PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHITE
SINGLE COLOURED GLAZES
VARIEGATED GLAZES
CRACKLED PORCELAIN
HOW TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE
UNDERGLAZE BLUE
OTHER COLOURS USED UNDER THE GLAZE
BLUE AND WHITE "NANKIN" SERVICES
ENAMELLED IN COLOURS OVERGLAZE
FAMILLE VERTE FAMILLE NOIRE CORAL RED
FAMILLE ROSE
OTHER VARIETIES OF PORCELAIN DECORATED INCOLOURS
GRAVIATA OR PEKIN WARE
FEN-TING, SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN
CHINESE PORCELAIN WITH EUROPEAN DESIGNS
CHINESE PORCELAIN DECORATED IN ENGLAND
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
SOME DYNASTIES AND PERIODS
MYTHICAL PERSONS
FABULOUS AND OTHER ANIMALS
SOME DATE-MARKS EXPLAINED
SOME SYMBOLS
HAN AND TANG WARES
PORCELAIN OF THE SUNG DYNASTY
GLOSSARY
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
SALE PRICES IN 1905
SOME DATE MARKS
MARKS IN THE FORM OF DEVICES
INDEX
EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF THE FIRST EDITION
