Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . y, orchannelled or even pierced a jour. The spaces between the out-lines are filled with coloured glazes which are fired, in the case ofporcelain, in the cooler parts of the biscuit kiln. These are theglazes de demi-grand feu, according to the French definition, and they 1 A little flask in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Case 24, No. 809, 1883) of thistype of ware with a green glaze was obtained in 1883 in the neighbourhood of a portion of this group comes from one
Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day . y, orchannelled or even pierced a jour. The spaces between the out-lines are filled with coloured glazes which are fired, in the case ofporcelain, in the cooler parts of the biscuit kiln. These are theglazes de demi-grand feu, according to the French definition, and they 1 A little flask in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Case 24, No. 809, 1883) of thistype of ware with a green glaze was obtained in 1883 in the neighbourhood of a portion of this group comes from one of the Canton factories, but it is thekind of ware which might have been made in any pottery district, and there are quitemodern examples of the same type of glaze and biscuit in the Field Museum of Chicagowhich were manufactured at Ma-chuang, near Tai-yiian Fu, in Shensi. PLATE 54 Vase with lotus handles: buff stoneware with lotus designmodelled in low relief and coloured with aubergine, greenand pale yellow glazes in a deep turquoise ground. About 1500 Height 18 inches. Grandidier Collection,
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