Pair of Famille Jaune Ovoid Jars with Peacocks and Pheasants, Plate, 1911

Printed in color in London in 1911 for Bernard Quaritch, this original antique plate shows a pair of ovoid jars on a rare yellow ground. One jar shows two peacocks on green rocks under bamboo with prunus and peonies with golden pheasants; the other has two golden pheasants, peonies under flying finches and guelder rose. A green band of foliated godroons borders each neck. Gorer and Blacker describe them as early Kang-he period and record them in the collection formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L.; height 11 1/2 inches (29 cm), diameter 10 inches (25 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 top left corner.

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