Triple Gourd and Baluster Vases with Reserved Scrolls, Plate 1911

Printed in color in London in 1911 for Bernard Quaritch, this original antique plate shows a triple gourd vase and a baluster vase, each with white floral scrolls reserved on brilliant apple green enamel. Chrysanthemum scrolls are reserved in white, outlined in black and covered with clear glaze, with white bands dividing the three bulbs of the gourd. The baluster has similar scrolls on the body and stiffer upright flowers on the neck. Gorer and Blacker describe them as early Kang-he period and record them in the collection of G. L. Bevan; gourd vase height 11 1/4 inches (29 cm), diameter 5 3/4 inches (15 cm); baluster vase height 10 5/8 inches (27 cm), diameter 5 1/4 inches (13 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. All four corners complete.

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