Black Ground Brocade Vase with Bird Panels, Antique Color Plate 1911

Printed in color in London in 1911 for Bernard Quaritch, this original antique plate shows a cylindro-ovoid black ground vase covered with a fine brocade of flowers on green glazed scrollwork. Two long panels show a finch on prunus and a golden pheasant on a dead tree above peonies, with smaller reserves of insects, cocks and, on the shoulder, gold and red carp. Leaf shaped panels on the neck hold landscapes. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Late Kang-he period and record it in the collection of G. R. Davies; height 17 3/8 inches (44 cm), diameter 7 5/8 inches (20 cm).

Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker brought out Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones in 1911 through Bernard Quaritch, the New Bond Street bookseller, in an edition of one thousand numbered copies. The two volumes carry two hundred and fifty four color plates, each a full page photographic reproduction of a single piece or group, with a tissue guard and a facing description in English and French. The plates are color collotypes, and the book records that it was produced and printed by the Menpes Printing and Engraving Company of London and Watford.

The plates were made while large collections of Chinese porcelain were being formed in Britain and America, and the text names the collections that held many of the pieces illustrated, among them those of P. A. B. Widener, George Salting and Richard Bennett.

Even age toning. A few small foxing spots in the margin. All four corners complete.

This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.