This set of portfolios entitled “Oriental Ceramic Art, illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W.T. Walters” contains one hundred and sixteen gorgeous chromolithograph plates created by Louis Prang. Prang (1824-1909) was a German immigrant who ran a highly successful printing firm in Boston during the late nineteenth century.
The publication features objects from the collection of successful businessman and art collector William Thompson Walters (1820-1894), which later formed the basis of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD.
Each plate in the portfolios is accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. In this post, we show you Plate 1 from Volume I with the guard sheet as well as the beautiful illustration of a porcelain vase underneath. Sang-de-boeuf is a deep red colored glaze that first appeared in Chinese porcelain at the start of the 18th century. The term is French, meaning “ox blood.”
Plate 1. Lang Yao Beaker.
Beaker-shaped vase (Hua Ku), 16” high, enameled with the crackled glaze of the sang-de-boeuf mottled tints of the celebrated Lang Yao. The interior is coated with the same rich red glaze.
Oriental ceramic art : illustrated by examples from the collection of W. T. Walters : with one hundred and sixteen plates in colors and over four hundred reproductions in black and white
Author / Creator: Bushell, Stephen W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908.
New York : D. Appleton, 1897.
10 v. in portfolios (v, 429 p., 96 col. leaves of plates)
English
HOLLIS number: 990041622660203941
Porcelain Kiln is opening, peach red, willow green, all colors are coming.瓷窯開,桃紅柳綠,萬般顏色著將來。
Welcome to visit our store https://quanronggallery.com/, especially the auction on 4/8/2023 https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/277940_chinese-art-auction/ for your favorite art items.
Thee en varkens, ik had nog nooit over de combinatie nagedacht. Maar waarom niet. #pig #pigsofinstagram #tea #porselein #chineseporcelain https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp97buUMh4W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Composed of coins compacted by time in a rectangular form, the wood case having disintegrated; the whole retaining traces of archeological verde gris patination now mounted on iron stand
New gaiwans available tomorrow. If you are still thinking a gift for friends, please visit our tea shop at Vancouver Chinatown. #gaiwan #chineseporcelain #chineseteaware #chinesepottery #gongfucha #kongfutea #teaculture #teatime #teashopvancouver #chineseteashop #teavancouver #teaceremony #porcelaingaiwan #christmasgifts (at The Chinese Tea Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmgHFxtOmai/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Check out these amazing porcelain pieces that can easily be turned into BEAUTIFUL planters for any garden. Follow the links below to browse even more!!
Contar una historia como la guerra de Troya en una crátera o un deseo de salud y prosperidad para el nuevo enlace matrimonial supone todo un ejercicio de síntesis. En las artes visuales empleamos la iconicidad y la simbología como recursos para trasladar una historia a lo pictórico. Es lo que en la historia del arte se denomina planificar y desarrollar un programa iconográfico ¿Os imagináis
contar las aventuras del Lazarillo de Tormes sobre un plato? ¿Y si quisiéramos relatar la Transición española en una jarra de vino? ¿Cómo contarías El señor de los anillos en una pieza contenedora
tradicional como la jarra de jengibre china (la ginger jar)? ¿Podemos recitar un poema de García Lorca en un cuenco de té a modo de haiku?
Para abordar este proyecto hemos realizado un primer ejercicio de visualización y traslación del tema que queremos contar a la narrativa visual a través de una herramienta muy útil y muy sencilla: el árbol genealógico del proyecto.
Para explicarlo, he realizado un supuesto, un jarrón chino tipo "plum vase" para hablar de la esperanza en las nuevas generaciones para frenar el colapso ambiental.
This is our second post from “Oriental Ceramic Art, illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W.T. Walters” (1897) to share some of the beautiful chromolithograph plates that we simply cannot get enough of. Yellow seems to be the right color to brighten a wintery day in New England especially after such stormy weather with strong wind and heavy rain yesterday.
Chromolithography is a method for making multi-color prints. This type of color printing stemmed from the process of lithography and involved the use of multiple lithographic stones, one for each color. The initial chromolithographic technique produced high quality results but was extremely expensive. As you can see in these plates, the colors are quite vivid, and the print quality is superior to 4-color process and halftones printing. (Summarized from Wikipedia)
This series has been reprinted in paperback, and you can also view digitized images from volume 2 of this set on the Internet Archive.
Plate V. Imperial Yellow Jar.
Jar (Kuan), nine inches high without the cover, enameled with a monochrome glaze of imperial yellow. The faint horizontal line in the middle indicates that the jar was originally fashioned upon the wheel in two pieces. There is a “mark” underneath, written in underglaze cobalt blue in large, bold characters, Ta Ch’ing K’ang-his nien chih – i.e., “Made in the reign of K’ang-his (1662-1722), of the great Ch’ing [dynasty]”
Oriental ceramic art : illustrated by examples from the collection of W. T. Walters : with one hundred and sixteen plates in colors and over four hundred reproductions in black and white
Author / Creator: Bushell, Stephen W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908.
New York : D. Appleton, 1897.
HOLLIS number: 990041622660203941
Yue Fei(岳飞) was a Chinese military general during the Southern Song dynasty and considered a national hero of China. #chineseart #art #asianart #chinese #china #chinesepainting #painting #chineseculture #chineseartist #artwork #contemporaryart #chineseantiques #artist #chineseporcelain #modernart #antiques #porcelain #chineseceramics #auction #interiordesign #japaneseart #artoftheday #inkpainting #qingdynasty #antique #fineart #chinesestyle #ceramics #chinesecalligraphy #watercolor (在 Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co9a9XgoyoZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=