Chats on oriental china
Chats on Oriental China is a 1908 New York guide to Asian ceramics by J. F. Blacker, published by F. A. Stokes for general collectors and readers interested in porcelain. Its plates photograph vases on wooden stands: a tall square vase with a crowded black-ground landscape, a baluster vase with a bird on blossoming branches within panels, a white meiping with dragons among clouds, and a gourd-shaped vase with scrolling floral cartouches. Designers can draw on the dense repeating patterns, panelled layouts and dragon-and-cloud motifs.
