Pair of Hexagonal Yellow Ground Vases and Covers with Black Bowl, Plate, 1911

This is Plate 64 from Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original 1911 color plate of Chinese porcelain showing a pair of hexagonal yellow ground vases with covers, and a black ground bowl. Each hexagonal panel of the vases shows a bird on a flowering aubergine tree, with a molded green lotus border on the shoulder and a flower-form knob on each cover. The bowl reserves four flower panels, including lotus with a crane and prunus with a pheasant, under green glaze on black, and has a yellow ground inside. Gorer and Blacker describe all as early Kang-he period and record the bowl in the collection of G. L. Bevan, Esq.; vases height 12 inches (30 cm), width 4 1/2 inches (12 cm); bowl height 3 3/8 inches (9 cm), diameter 7 5/8 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. Scattered light foxing 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.