Lotus Form Bottle Vase with Altar Flower Baskets, Famille Verte Plate 1911

An original antique color plate from Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, this sheet shows a bottle-shaped famille verte vase whose body is modeled as an inverted eight-petaled lotus. Four white petals each frame an altar basket of flowers, alternating with seeded green petals painted with butterflies and flowers. The neck has erect leaves in green, aubergine and yellow touched with gold beneath lily buds, and the flower-shaped lip has a prunus ground. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Late Kang-he period and record it as from the collection formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L.; height 11 inches (28 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. All four corners complete.

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