Author: American Art Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528525565
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Noteworthy Collection of Beautiful Old Chinese Porcelains and Other Oriental Treasures: Formed by the Late Herbert G. Squiers, Formerly Secretary of the United States Legation at Pekin, and Later, United States Minister to Cuba Deep shape white Ta Ch'ing porcelain; decoration in varied delicate overglaze col ors, presenting a garden terrace and a Manchu boy, who is about to catch a rooster. The accessories include red peony flowers, and rockeries in overglaze blue. Seal mark in blue: made era of Ch'ien-lung (1736 - 1795) of the Ta Ch'ing dynasty. 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.