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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...in a dark gray-green ground: the details throughout are finely etched in the paste. The cover has radiating scrolls inlaid in white. Spur-marks beneath. Corean: Korai period. H. 7 in. D., with spout and handle, 8K in. 288 Wine pot with oval, melon-shaped body, plain spout, grooved handle with twig-shaped ring, and lotus-pattern cover. Gray porcelanous ware with inlaid ornament in white and black under a smooth greenish gray glaze of bluish tone. Lotus and chrysanthemum designs alternate on each lobe: below is a border of carved leaf and tongue pattern, and on the shoulder is a band of petal ornament inlaid. Corean: Korai period. H. Syi in. D., with spout and handle, %4 in. 289 Bottle with pear-shaped body, tall tapering neck, and spreading mouth. Gray porcelanous ware with inlaid ornament in white and black under a smooth greenish gray celadon glaze of bluish tone, sparsely crackled and frosted in places by decay. On the body are four medallions of lotus and chrysanthemum designs: between them are pendants of small circles hanging from a band of similar circles, the spaces filled with chrysanthemum sprays. Below is a border of lotus petals, and above a band of chrysanthemum flowers. On the neck are four tapering scrolls and a wave border. Corean: Korai period. H. 14 in. D. 8 in. 290 Bulbous bottle with short neck and two small ring handles; of grayish porcelanous ware turned red in firing, with incised formal design and ribbed body covered with transparent celadon glazo. Corean: Korai period. H. 6 in. D. 6X in. 291 Bottle in the form of a floating duck; dark gray paste reddened in the fire, covered with white slip in which.'ie lines of the feathers and wings have been incised, the whole covered by a beautiful gray-green glaze, finely...

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