Title

Chinese painting, (1898). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Chinese painting, (1898). 'Figs 1-5 and 9-13: borders; Figs 6-8: continuous patterns of painted China vases, the greater part of which are to be found in South Kensington Museum [Victoria & Albert Museum, London]. In Fig 1 an inclination towards Persian manner is to be observed in composition and character. The yellow colour, used in Figs 4, 6 and 10, is gold on the original objects...The principal native plants used for decorative patterns are the leaves and flowers of the tea-shrub, roses, camellias, melons etc'. Plate 11 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

Credit line

Photo12/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G33_323

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,2Mb (3,9Mb) / 12,8in x 19,4in / 3852 x 5829 (300dpi)

Keywords

interior arts painting country pattern China art Chinese book color design decorative ceramic location ceramics century inside floral interior design literature pottery vase vases stylised flowered interior decoration Colour Patterned 19th century Indoors nineteenth century The Print Collector lithograph chromolithograph Unknown Dolmetsch BT Batsford E. H Historic Styles of Ornament B. T. Batsford Batsford B. T. BT B T B.T. B.T. Batsford B T Batsford H. Dolmetsch Heinrich Dolmetsch H. Heinrich H Dolmetsch E. Hochdanz Hochdanz E Hochdanz Hochd chromolithograph lithograph