Illustrated Catalogue Of The Noteworthy Collection Of Beautiful Old Chinese Porcelains And Other Oriental Treasures

Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Noteworthy Collection of Beautiful Old Chinese Porcelains and Other Oriental Treasures: Formed by the Late Herbert G. Squiers, Formerly Secretary of the United States Legation at Pekin, and Later, United States Minister to Cuba Deep shape white Ta Ch'ing porcelain; decoration in varied delicate overglaze col ors, presenting a garden terrace and a Manchu boy, who is about to catch a rooster. The accessories include red peony flowers, and rockeries in overglaze blue. Seal mark in blue: made era of Ch'ien-lung (1736 - 1795) of the Ta Ch'ing dynasty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.