Pair of Rouleau Vases, Famille Verte, with Landscape Panels, Gorer 1911

An original color plate of 1911 from Gorer and Blacker's book of Chinese ceramic art, this sheet is given over to a pair of cylindrical club-shaped rouleau vases with reserved panels on brocade grounds. The large panels show horsemen on a bridge with ladies in a pavilion and men in a sampan, and a mountain scene with two friends by a house. The two vases differ in their grounds; one has small panels of a carp leaping from waves and of Po Ku objects on an apple-green brocade. Gorer and Blacker describe them as Kang-he period and record them in the collection of G. R. Davies, Esq.; height 18 1/2 inches (47 cm), diameter 7 1/2 inches (19 cm).

Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones appeared in 1911 under the imprint of Bernard Quaritch, 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, London. Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker illustrated two hundred and fifty four pieces across two volumes, every one of them given a full page color plate printed from a photograph. Volume I, from which this sheet comes, runs from Plate 1 to Plate 135. 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 printed in color from photographs of the pieces, so the black and green grounds, the iron red and the white of the porcelain are recorded directly rather than drawn by an artist. A plate from this book reads as a record of an object rather than as a decorative picture of one.

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.