Sun Wo Da Tai Enthroned, Rare Ming Porcelain Figure, Antique Plate, 1911

This antique color plate is Plate 78 of Gorer and Blacker's Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, 1911. It shows a large seated figure of Sun Wo Da Tai on a throne. The apple green robe is an engraved brocade of dragons with the sacred jewel among clouds and flames, bordered with yellow waves. The biscuit face has a third eye of wisdom, and a coiled snake on a tortoise is modeled between the feet. Gorer and Blacker describe it as Ming period, very rare, and record it in the collection of G. R. Davies, Esq.; height 17 inches (43 cm), width 10 1/4 inches (26 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.