Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day
A 1915 London and New York survey of Chinese ceramics by R. L. Hobson, written for collectors and students of the potter's art from prehistoric times onward. The three plates show blue-and-white porcelain jars and vases, sixteenth-century ware, and carved or painted bird figures, reproduced as sepia and grey halftone photographs on cream paper. A designer could take from them the cobalt-blue scroll and lotus pattern repeats, the bulbous vessel silhouettes, and the naturalistic bird forms.
