The beginnings of porcelain in China
A 1917 anthropology publication by Berthold Laufer, issued by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, tracing the early history of Chinese porcelain and pottery for museum and scholarly readers. The photographed plates show black-background views of Han-period stoneware jars with incised bands, handles and applied relief, while the line drawing shows a potter turning a vessel on a wheel, useful to a designer seeking ancient ceramic silhouettes, banded surface texture and earthy glaze tones.
