Cylindrical Vase, Mottled Green Ground with Prunus and Bamboo, Plate 1911

This antique color plate is Plate 36 of Gorer and Blacker's Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, 1911. It shows a cylindrical vase on a fine mottled green ground with prunus and bamboo rising from rocks. Aubergine prunus branches mingle with green bamboo above elaborate rocks, with white blossoms on the side away from the rocks and birds perched and in flight. A yellow brocade border runs round the shoulder, sweet flag leaves rise on the neck, and colored godroons sit above the base. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Ming period and record it in the Salting Collection; height 19 3/8 inches (49 cm), diameter 7 7/8 inches (20 cm).

The sheet is a plate from Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, published by Bernard Quaritch in 1911, written by the London dealer Edgar Gorer with J. F. Blacker and printed in color by a photo mechanical process. The work ran to two volumes and two hundred and fifty four plates in an edition of one thousand numbered copies. 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.

In Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones every piece or group is given a whole page to itself, so each plate is a complete image on its own, set in a wide margin, with the printed plate number as the only lettering on the sheet.

Even age toning. A few small foxing spots in the margin. Slight wear at the bottom left corner. Several larger brown marks.

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