Bottle Vase in Famille Verte Brocade with Landscape Panels, Plate 1911

Printed in color in London in 1911 for Bernard Quaritch, this original antique plate shows a bottle-shaped famille verte vase with four brocade grounds and landscape panels. Two large square panels of landscapes and round panels of flower sprays sit on grounds of green sharkskin with dragons, yellow with dragons on the neck, red sharkskin over the base and a floral shoulder. Bands of godroons, ju-i heads, diaper and palmettes divide the zones. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Kang-he period and record it as from the collection formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L.; height 16 3/4 inches (42 cm).

Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones was issued in London by Bernard Quaritch in 1911, in two large quarto volumes limited to one thousand numbered copies. Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker wrote the text, which runs in English and French, and the two hundred and fifty four plates were printed in color from photographs of the pieces themselves rather than drawn by hand. This sheet is one of them. 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.

Gorer and Blacker chose the showpieces of the trade: tall black ground vases, green ground beakers, figures and animals, many of them from named private collections in Britain and America. The plates are a record of Western taste in Chinese ceramics in 1911 as much as of the objects themselves.

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.