Two Famille Verte Cylindrical Vases with Shaped Panels, Antique Plate 1911

This is Plate 112 from Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original 1911 color plate of Chinese porcelain showing a group of two cylindrical famille verte vases with grounds broken by shaped panels. One vase has a sharkskin ground with chrysanthemums and panels of fish, lions, finches, fowls, prawns and ducks; the other a seeded green flowered ground with panels of a crane on a peach tree, a feng-huang on rocks with peony, birds and a fisherman. Gorer and Blacker describe both as Kang-he period and record them as from the collection formed by Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L.; heights 17 3/4 inches (45 cm) and 18 1/8 inches (46 cm), diameters 7 1/2 inches (19 cm) and 7 1/4 inches (19 cm).

Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker brought out Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones in 1911 through Bernard Quaritch, the New Bond Street bookseller, in an edition of one thousand numbered copies. The two volumes carry two hundred and fifty four color plates, each a full page photographic reproduction of a single piece or group, with a tissue guard and a facing description in English and French. 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 made while large collections of Chinese porcelain were being formed in Britain and America, and the text names the collections that held many of the pieces illustrated, among them those of P. A. B. Widener, George Salting and Richard Bennett.

Even age toning. Handling soiling along the left edge. A few small foxing spots in the margin. Slight wear at the top left corner. One larger brown mark.

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