Famille Verte Rouleau Vase with Lady and Children, Antique Plate 1911

An original color plate of 1911 from Gorer and Blacker's book of Chinese ceramic art, this sheet is given over to a cylindrical or club-shaped vase in famille verte enamels with panels on a mosaic ground. Two large panels show a lady and children in a walled garden with rocks, bamboo and cockscombs, smaller leaf and fruit shaped panels hold Po Ku emblems, and chih-lung dragons run through a black mosaic ground. The neck has landscape panels on an octagon mosaic. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Kang-he period and record it in the collection of General Brayton Ives; height 19 inches (48 cm), diameter 7 5/8 inches (19 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. Scattered light foxing in the margin. All four corners complete. Several larger brown marks.

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