Abstract
THOUGH this important work, by two of our foremost authorities and connoisseurs of Oriental ceramics, is more concerned with artistic results than with the somewhat uncertain history of scientific progress in porcelain-making, the work is still of considerable interest from the technical point of view. It describes the achievements of the workers at the most important Chinese pottery-centres during the period when fine porcelain, as we know it, was first in process of evolution, and then the orderly progress from the earlier varieties of earthenware and stoneware with which pottery-making begins in every region of the world where it has ever flourished.
The Art of the Chinese Potter from the Han Dynasty to the End of the Ming.
Illustrated in a Series of 192 Examples, Selected, Described, and with an Introduction by R. L. Hobson and A. L. Hetherington. Pp. xx + 21 + 153 plates. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1923.) 147s. net.
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BURTON, W. The Art of the Chinese Potter from the Han Dynasty to the End of the Ming. Nature 113, 524–525 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113524b0
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