Pair of Cylindrical Vases with Court Ladies, Famille Verte, Plate 1911

An original antique color plate from Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, this sheet shows a pair of cylindrical white-ground vases with large panels of court ladies. Large panels show court ladies, their hair in glossy black enamel, playing with a child, a cat or a white rabbit in gardens with pavilions and balustrades, on a ground of flowering trees in pots. The shoulders carry diaper borders with floral rosette panels. Gorer and Blacker describe them as Kang-he period and record them as from the collection formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L.; height 18 1/8 inches (46 cm), diameter 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. Handling soiling along the bottom and left edges. A few small foxing spots in the margin. All four corners complete. One larger brown mark.

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