Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day
Robert Lockhart Hobson's 1915 Cassell survey of Chinese pottery and porcelain, from prehistoric times to his own day, was written for collectors and students of Chinese ceramics. Its plates photograph whole vessels against plain grounds: a bronze-form vase with stud rows and key-fret bands, a pale porcelain jar with incised floral decoration, and grey earthenware pots with applied patterning, lit flatly so the shapes, glaze sheen and surface relief read clearly for designers studying form.
